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'Cause when you win, we all win. So you have to keep "winning". Even if you feel like you're losing losing yourself' Ade is a successful writer, or so it seems. She has everything she ever wanted: her career is flying, she's (kinda) moved out of her...

Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111174Author Denise DeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before -but like Let's Be Modest About It Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes.Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh...

'Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.' The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The...

'Everyone lived like we did! Well maybe not everyone, everyone. But... I wasn't any worse than anyone else.' The near future. The climate emergency is gathering pace, and our generation is being judged. The jurors are children. But are they...

'You forget I knew you were a queer long before I knew you were a fascist.' 1974, a public lavatory. Nicky shaves his head, watched by an older man. Publicly, Nicky is a skinhead. And a neo-Nazi. But right now, in this place, that doesn't matter. This...

Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play - one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns...

I'm older now. I'm stronger. How do you know I haven't sorted out some natural equilibrium all on my own? Maybe we should try it, just for a bit.Diagnosed with a severe mental illness as a child, Anna was prescribed a cocktail of pills. Now a young...

Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless...

What were the origins of commedia dell'arte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over time and as it spread from Italy? How did its relationship to the ruling ideology of the day change during the Enlightenment? What is its legacy today? These are...

'There's your first problem. No Civil War movie ever made a dime. Or ever will.' Hollywood, 1939: semi-independent mogul David O.Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - his megabudget version...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018329Author William NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your...

Nominated for Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024 I'd fallen in love with the idea of living... because we don't do what we want to do, do we? We do what we have to do and pretend that it's what we want to do. Shirley Valentine is the joyous,...

We've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, 'Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their...

When Dr Stockmann makes a disturbing discovery about the healing waters in his local baths, he holds the future of the whole town in his hands. But doubt spreads faster than disease, and those with everything to lose refuse to accept his word. Soon, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714503615Author Peter WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Roy Williams has a deserved reputation as one of the most exciting young writers whose plays have electrified the sort of audiences most theatres rarely see: streetwise urban youth. 'His plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the...

"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619491755Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887549267Author Wajdi MouawadFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaPublisher Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613050Author Jean-Paul SarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UK's most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development material and visual documentation.Queer performance is expected to live a brief, bright life without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132292Author Simon ReadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A complete account of my search for my father would take a lifetime to tell because that’s how long I’ve been looking. Spurs and Scotland star John White was one of the best footballers of the 1960s. However, in July 1964 he was struck by lightning and...

This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with...

But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . ...

Professor John Halder is a 'good' man. But 'good' men must adapt to survive. As the world faces its Second World War, Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Good is a story about a liberal-minded university...

There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful.Alex's story, spoken directly to the...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Taming of the Shrew is a...

The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones. Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling collision of empire, history and family. Ella Hickson's explosive play drills...

'I have no name for the thing which is in my head. It is not envy. It is more than envy. It does not scare me. I must look close enough to look at what it is.'A ploughman and his wife live a simple existence in a pre-industrial time until they, along...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016134Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787800892Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - GuardianTeechers: "In a class of its own ...Godber...

Mizzis Horrocks' class of seven year olds is about to perform their nativity play at Flint Street Junior School for the proud mums and dads - and the occasional social worker. Squabbles arise when Gabriel wants to play Mary, the Star grumbles he's not a...

It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone...You were the glimmer. At the end of the...

`Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced...