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'When am I going to wake up and be different?' Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a whole world of men. In this funny, unapologetic play, three twenty-something women figure out how they really feel about sex, their bodies and each other. With...

'People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next: if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.' The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne, the playwright behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, breathes new life into Georg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 1982 and Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780906399309Author Nell DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count...

"Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to...

Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and...

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 includes A Chorus of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110160Author Mike LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and...

One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and...

'Retired people are like nuclear power stations. They like to live by the sea.' Two ageing nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request. Lucy...

"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018237Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction...

J M Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers all of Synge's plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The...

This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. It includes the plays Dealing with Clair, Play with Repeats, Getting Attention and The Treatment, and is...

'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between freedom and responsibility, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573080647Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wonder what will happen when it reaches my heart.When a woman tells a lie to her...

Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut. 2020. Delroy is arrested on his way to the hospital. Filled with anger...

As violence sweeps the city, a couple escape to an isolated Nordic research facility. On the brink of discovering a cure for the devastating disease, cracks in their marriage start to appear. The outside world grows increasingly hostile and the couple...

Ed and his sister Roo are faced with the most boring half-term holiday in history: five days spent in the company of their elderly neighbour Miss Filey, and her ancient, smelly cat. But when they find a box of birthday candles in a cupboard in Miss...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486268675Author Oliver GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and...

A brand-new ancient-history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel. 'I'd rather walk in blood than walk a slave For he your Emperor!' AD 61, Britannia. On the furthest outreaches of...

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.They haven't set eyes on each other since.Now, years later, she's found him again.Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to...

Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new...

Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in...

'I'm thirty-six, I'm a comedian, and I'm about to kill my boyfriend.' A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right - and then does everything wrong. Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132346Author Geraldine AronFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group...

A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997. For more than seventeen years, the Pennington family has never been together in...

Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken...

'I wonder what I have to do for people to recognise me as a threat. Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a mark?' Irina takes erotic photos of average-looking men. Always behind the...

It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing - in plain sight - the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714507637Author Anthony ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen. Georgie is thirty with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Leah is fifteen with teenage dreams. She practices her cum face and Veets. A lot...

It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant...

Franco's Bastard looks at nationalism/terrorism; Lola Brecht at the situation in the Balkans; The plays travel the world in search of answers to questions like: how can justice be less than absolute? what makes us settle for less than the least we should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113208Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd