Anthologies

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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942281443Author Maksym KurochkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint LaertesPublisher LaertesWeight(grams) 492gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 165mm * 25mm

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern...

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

An anthology of new Scottish plays selected by Ian Brown (former director of the Traverse theatre) and Mark Fisher (Editor of Theatre Scotland) The Cut, by Mike Cullen is "A real discovery, an explosive thriller...Cullen's dialogue is demotic,...

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...

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for IndieFab awards (Anthologies) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9781566564694Author Salma Khadra JayyusiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076154Author Eric LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Included in this volume are Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom, about witchcraft in the seventeenth century; Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, an account of the lives of four young women by Pam Gems; Louise Page's Tissue, about breast cancer; and Aurora Leigh, adapted...

Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.It includes four annotated plays: Timour the Tartar by Matthew G. Lewis, The Battle of Waterloo by J. H. Amherst, Mazeppa by Henry M. Milner, and The Whip by...

"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...

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 9780393283501Author J Ellen GainorFormat PaperbackPage Count 1856Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Palestinian theater today is drawing increasing interest throughout the Arab world and beyond, as theaters and universities in the English-speaking world are becoming familiar with companies like the Freedom Theatre, Al-Kasaba Theatre, Ashtar, Al-Rowwad,...

Includes: It Folds by Brokentalkers and junk ensemble; LOVE + by MALAPROP Theatre; The Windstealers by Jane Madden; Our Island by Barry McStay; Tryst by Finbarr Doyle and Jeda de Bri; Half Light by Mollie Molumby; Briseis After the Black by Dylan...

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,...

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...

This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the Sixties The Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a...

DARK TALES IN WINTER adapted for the stage by Matt Beames & Hannah Torrance A mysterious door that will not close... A haunted railwayman at his lonely post... A chilling presence haunts a quiet household... A black cat reveals a grim secret... A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361446Author Paula VogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

This volume contains these four plays: Resort 76 by Shimon Wincelberg Will the relentless oppression of the starving workers in a ghetto factory destroy their faith in God? Their love of life? Their ability to resist? If a cat is more valuable than a...

Foreword by Stanley Elkin Flirtations -- La Ronde -- Countess Mitzi, or The family reunion -- Casanova's homecoming -- Lieutenant Gustl.Book InformationISBN 9780826402714Author Arthur SchnitzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Continuum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312337148Author Coleman a JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111524Author Phil ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111524Author Phil ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

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...

Four superlative stage adaptations by contemporary playwrights, giving bold new interpretations of classic novels This volume, relaunching the Frontline Intelligence series, contains stage adaptations by contemporary dramatists of well-known, well-loved...

Four superlative stage adaptations by contemporary playwrights, giving bold new interpretations of classic novels This volume, relaunching the Frontline Intelligence series, contains stage adaptations by contemporary dramatists of well-known, well-loved...

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) 380g

This second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays that acknowledge the theatrical forms...

Here are blank verse translations of ten of the best tragedies by French dramatists contemporary with Corneille and Racine, and two by the most noted successors. No great dramatist can be properly understood and appreciated without some knowledge of the...

Four plays from the rich theatrical world of Catalan drama. Since the early 1990s, Catalonia has proven to the world that its rich heritage and artistic tradition are worthy of focus and study. The plays in the volume reflect the post-Franco era during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994708151Author Allan Kolski HorwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Botsotso PublishingPublisher Botsotso PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645564877Author Anjanette FennellFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Southern Key PressPublisher Southern Key PressWeight(grams) 431g

The third volume in an anthology series of the most original and exciting new plays for the nineties Europe, set in an international rail station linking several countries examines the cultural shifts of the post Berlin wall years and is "a fierce,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578198910Author Martin BlankFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint American Ensemble BooksPublisher American Ensemble BooksWeight(grams) 159g