Drama

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in County Mayo in the West...

The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997. 'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily Telegraph Valene...

April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be...

'The foreign devils will be entranced by our performance and line our path back to Shandong with gold and cherry blossoms…' 1917. Shandong Province, Northern China. Times are tough in Horse Shoe Village. Old Six and Second Moon struggle to earn enough to...

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13. Immediately playable, they offer strong, varied roles for female casts, while also providing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690389Author Howard BrentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957238442Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Kiwi PublicationsPublisher Kiwi PublicationsDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur Cyrano de Bergerac is all these things, but none of them makes him happy. What he desires above all is the love of the beautiful Roxane. But his problem is as plain as the nose on his face. Surely he is too ugly...

When Lilian Baylis was badly hurt after a car accident, someone at the scene called out, 'It's Miss Baylis. Miss Baylis of the Old Vic.' In spite of her injuries, Baylis drew herself up and imperiously corrected them, 'And Sadler's Wells.' But Baylis was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000317Author Carl GroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573152405Author David FoxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions. Contents: At the Sign of the Rupture...

A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642435Author Frank KermodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 573g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110757Author Camilla WhitehillFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Stories of real women, from cultures as varied as Palestine, Senegal, Jordan, Libya, St. John's Wood, and the English Midlands. All came to the United Kingdom as refugees, or married refugees. After 9/11, the world they loved there vanished almost...

The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and MEASURE...

David Goodyear's approach to railway photography has always been to capture the context of the railway within the landscape in which it finds itself. The railway train itself embraces each scene, providing the soul and atmosphere where it may dominate or...

Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing and performed by Dominic Cooke's Pericles and The Winter's Tale Company, Roy Williams' Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. Two young soldiers join their friends to...

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens up a little-known aspect of her writing, and demonstrates her remarkable...

A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002 Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas eve shift;...

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2021 This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael Coveney - a...

'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving beyond the conventional binary of black and white. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458732Author Dan O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Drama / 10m, 4f, extras This evocative play charting the rocky romance between headstrong farmgirl Laurey and cocky cowhand Curley in a tale of early America during the settlement of the midwest was the basis of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein...

The Thrie Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a...

The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler. One sunny day in Paris, Gustave Alland, famous artist and philanderer, visits Louise Strandberg - convalescing in her brother's studio...

This textbook provides a modern introduction to linear algebra, a mathematical discipline every first year undergraduate student in physics and engineering must learn. A rigorous introduction into the mathematics is combined with many examples, solved...

In Valparaiso, a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo, a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and...

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history...

This domestic comedy explores the drama of a teenage marriage and the effects on a working-class British family. By the author of Alfie, this 1960's Broadway hit was made into the film The Family Way which starred John and Hayley Mills.4 women, 7 menBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110733Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon - Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives. Life After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131748Author Frances E. DolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy? If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a limit to how many characters she / he / they are entitled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Tony Award - Best Play 1980 and Drama Desk Award - Outstanding New Play 1980 and Laurence Olivier Award - Play of the Year 1981 and Outer Critics Circle Award -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150875Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways-a hardcover volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital edition ideal for in-class use. Students can access the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874401189Author Edward MurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 47g