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Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation.Michael Frayn's hugely popular translation is an AQA recommended text. For this Student Edition Nick Worrall provides expert...

An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son,...

A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering...

It's a culture that begins with a joke, a gesture, a throwaway word or a game between friends, and it ends in an act of violence.Jo Mulligan is the first female master in her prestigious college's history. Determined to create a space where everyone...

'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk...

An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare. June 1944. One man's decision is about to change the course of history. Everything is in place for the biggest invasion ever known in Europe...

'There was a fork in her face. An actual fork. He dug a fork into her face. A fork stood on end in her cheek. A fork.' The smallest tremble. A smashed glass. The ripping apart of space and time. Three couples. Thirty years. Mothers and daughters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019654Author Sarah DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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...

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2020"What people you know can party through all of the earth's elements?"Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history and amongst the pulsating soca, dazzling colour, and endless...

The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787373624Author James ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110917Author Tom KempinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make...

Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham...

Premiered at the National Theatre and winner of both the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play, Alan Bennett's The History Boys confronts issues of education, sexuality, and peer pressure through a group of boys preparing for their Oxbridge exams. ...

Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go...

A new play from the award-winning playwright, published to coincide with its premiere at the Royal Court on 15 June 2001 Although Ben is married to Denise he's still on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right", Ade's with Sandra but playing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156335409Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

- Is this Paradise?- Holiday Heaven.- I remember it all being brighter, somehowEmma and Amy return to the seaside caravan park where they spent their teenage summers. Yet the park has changed, and their childhood now seems a distant memory.Two Sisters is...

Orphan James is sent to live with his aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after his parents are killed in a tragic accident involving a rhino, but the aunts treat him horribly. One day he meets an old man who gives him a bag containing the strongest magic in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019456Author Michael FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 83Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.' Via Dolorosa. In...

A collection of screen and radio plays including: Cigarettes and Chocolate "one of the best radio plays I ever heard...profoundly original" (Financial Times); Hang Up "an intense and brilliantly realised study of a love affair" (Telegraph); What If It's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573051227Author Philip RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy. ...

'Do you love what you do? Because I loved making the photographs. I loved the feeling of taking charge. Putting things in the frame, taking them out again. Writing with my eyes.' During the First World War, seventeen-year-old Elsie Wright fools the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953947Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria...

Love is just sex. And sex is just chance. And chance is just timing. And free will.Come onIt beats swiping right.When B spills coffee down A's shirt, an old spark is rekindled. But in a world of infinite possibilities, monogamy is tough. Straight, gay,...

Art and Eros are always superimposed, don't you find? You cannot separate the two: the model naked in supplication before the artist; the artist exposing himself in trust. The beast of creation is always erect.1964/1967. In a rented cottage in Suffolk, a...

Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to change course and all the things you leave unsaid. Inspired by interviews with hospice workers, conversations with mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a...

An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel. Starving, destitute student Raskolnikov is surrounded by the harsh injustices of the world: the grime of poverty and prostitution, unscrupulous pawnbrokers chasing debts,...

Rona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock explores the complex character of the colourful Stewart King -...

Since her debut in 2008, Lucy Kirkwood has firmly established herself as a leading playwright of her generation, the writer of a series of savagely funny, highly intelligent and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times. ...

It Is Easy To Be Dead tells the story of war poet Charles Sorley's brief life through his work and music and songs from some of the greatest composers of the period. Born in Aberdeen, Sorley was studying in Germany when the First World War broke out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411081Author Odon von HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 368g

A play from the author of Trainspotting Within the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016158Author David McGillivrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close...