Anthologies

The Humana Festival 2017 anthology brings together all nine scripts from the 2017 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 41st annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This compilation features extraordinary...

The first English-language anthology of post-1989 Czech plays exploring once-taboo subjects and new realities. Includes plays by David Drabek, Lenka Lagronova, Jiri Pokorny, Ivana Ruzickova, Egon Tobias, Iva Volankova, and Petr Zelenka.About the...

At a time when so many options exist for access to theatrical entertainments, it is no surprise that theatre practitioners and scholars are often preoccupied with the role of the audience. While space undoubtedly impacts the rehearsal and production...

The first anthology of new Romanian Drama published in the United States, roMANIA after 2000 introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new...

The third volume in the successful Theatre Cafe series contains three contemporary European plays in English translation. All fairly short two-handers, the plays make a great volume for teachers and students looking for suitable material to work on in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804549Author Eric LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 486gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Introduced by Patrick Lonergan, The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays brings together five major works from the Irish dramatic canon of the last sixty years in one outstanding collection. Behan's The Hostage, depicting the capture and death of a...

This is a collection of six extraordinary plays, all of which experiment with form, subject matter, and genre in order to comment on the modern black experience in terms of culture, politics, and performance. It includes: B is for Black, Moj of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960329233Author Tara BraccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Cornerstone PressPublisher Cornerstone PressWeight(grams) 236g

Eric Bentley's Round 2 is a gay version of La Ronde set in New York in the 70s at a time when homosexuals were becoming increasingly visible and confident - in this series of encounters, sex overturns, even if for a short time the social and economic...

The third collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel "James in The Morning After Optimism is literally on the run, a comically exaggerated...

No one in Barker's generation did more to change British Theatre In The Voysey Inheritance, a young man deals with the discovery that the inheritence due to him has been mismanaged by his own parents; A Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain) deals with a...

Each year, the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK's most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. This 2021 pack captures the two new plays written for the 2021...

"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian FrielAbout the...

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) 538gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Plays Six includes some of the most acclaimed work of Edward Bond, one of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, who is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. The collection includes The...

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to...

Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers showcases some of the best plays for young people produced by the UK's leading theatre companies. The plays are ideal for young performers aged 13-25 and offer a diverse range of challenges, styles and...

Nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education Awards A first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277138Author Eric LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help audiences understand the world around them. Since the theatre...

The Routledge Drama Anthology is an original compilation of works from key movements in the history of the modern theatre, from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. This expanded new edition now features twenty new plays and essays. The...

An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...

The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries in over a century.This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of...

One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. The Bundle - "A complex and marvellously written play" (The Times); Jackets - "An...

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage features a wide variety of short pieces and one-act plays written by female and male suffragist writers between 1908-1914. Spanning different styles and genres they explore many issues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830067Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260682Author ZapelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 425g

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the...

Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out Dead White Males: "Triumphant...The neatly lined up ducks of academic absolutism...

Volume 5 in Methuen Drama's highly successful series of Gay Plays provides another outstanding selection by playwright Michael Wilcox. Included here is the George Devine winner, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing: 'deliciously upbeat ...seldom has there...

THE BOMB - A Partial History is a season of plays from leading contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the Nuclear Bomb and its proliferation from 1940 to the present day. FIRST BLAST (1940 - 1992) features plays by John Donnelly,...

'I just need someone to hear these words to know what it's like for me and people like me.' Unmute is an arresting and essential collection of contemporary monologues written by young people, for young people. In the wake of the pandemic the...

"Madness in Valencia, in a version by David Johnston, exploresthe thin divide between sanity and madness in a world where no one is quite what they appear to be. Peribanez and the Comendador of Ocana, in a version by Nick Drake, is the tale of a brave...

A collection of this major 19th century French playwright The Moods of Marianne dramatises Coelio's courtship of Marianne through his go-between friend Octave; Fantasio is set in a fictional Munich and concerns the marriage of a young princess to Leopold...

This is a wide-ranging selection by theatre director Yvonne Brewster Boy with Beer by Paul Boakye is a funny and sexy story of a Guardian-reading gay photographer who finds his fantasy "African Prince" - "Boakye's writing is brash and exceedingly fresh.....

This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of...

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej KlimowskiTwo of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for Edith Piaf. The other five were written for Cocteau's friend, the celebrated actor Jean Marais, to...

To coincide with the centenary of his birth in December 1907, Oberon is pleased to be publishing three volumes of plays by Christopher Fry, one of the most influential playwrights of Britain in the twentieth century. This third volume of Fry's original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361477Author Mimi Gisolfi D'AponteFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group...