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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413470805Author Howard BrentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 132g

In 1928 a journalist asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Everest. Mallory said, 'Because it's there.'Joe Simpson's memoir Touching the Void, international bestseller and BAFTA-winning film, charts his struggle for survival on the perilous Siula...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644405Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468140101Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477704Author Nick PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111358Author Alan PlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently...

Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. Devised and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it...

Romantic Meg. Shy Beth. Wilful Amy. And, of course, passionate and fiery Jo. Little Women tells the story of the March sisters growing up in genteel poverty against the backdrop of the American Civil War. This timeless tale of four sisters' adventures...

Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas...

A playwright known for dazzling structural inventiveness combined with emotional intelligence and wit, James Fritz is a unique voice in British theatre. His work, reflected in these six plays covering the first decade of his career, confronts the fault...

'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785433139Author Edmund SpenserFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Rediscover the Battle of Hogwarts as seen in the Harry Potter films in this beautiful book, complete with an invisible ink pen with UV light (shaped like the Elder Wand), fold out pages and fun movie trivia! The Battle...

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday Times'The direct simplicity of this new translation .....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013256Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost...

Richard Lloyd's hilarious new pantomime "Sinbadaladdin!" adds elements of the tale of Sinbad the sailor to the traditional story of Aladdin. The result is a bumper pantomime offering parts for two principal boys and two genies - the slave of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413703507Author Ron HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 78g

Irish Blood, English Heart is an exploration of how memories, real and imagined, can shape our lives. Ray is a charming, enigmatic and successful comedian turned author. His brother Con is a London taxi driver struggling to keep his family together...

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Melodrama / Casting: 8m, 3f / Scenery: Simple ints./exts. In this version of the old melodrama, Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities: his wife was abducted and raped by the Judge and his daughter abandoned, while he himself was deported on...

'Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, If greater falsehood ever has been done' The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed...

When Mr Fox steals one chicken too many from a local farm, the farmers' decide the only cure is to rid themselves of Mr Fox by any means possible. Outwitted at every turn, the farmers' ploys backfire, and all the animals celebrate a feast at their...

Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary. Laugh and cry in equal measure as Emma Bovary chooses the wrong...

A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, Scorch was inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'. For those who feel they're not living the right life, online is a place to be yourself. 'More real...

One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018404Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Since Dad died, Mum has carried on the family business and profits have increased two-fold. Keeping a tight rein on her three sons, Mum's plans for an anniversary celebration (despite her late husband's absence) bring out rebellion among the sons and her...

A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful. Jane and Bella are best friends. They're starting a revolution. But they're falling out of step. Toby dreams of babies, buggies, and home improvement. But...

'They say Pericles caught democracy from you in bed.' Today, Socrates is revered as the founding father of Western philosophy. But in 399 BC Athens, he was a pain in the neck. The plague is over, democracy is (just about) restored, and everyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872868394Author Brian ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781719094443Author Steven SuttieFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Imagine being told to leave your home... Imagine American soldiers occupying your house and land... Imagine being 12 and angry, with only a cat to tell your secrets to... Well it all happened (most of it anyway) in Slapton Sands, Devon, in 1944...

'Ever had the feeling you're going round in one big circle? It's like I can't stop recycling my ex-boyfriends. Ten years back and forth between a trio of arseholes and nothing to show for it except a baby, an Argos ring and a beat-up nose.' Marnie is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113185Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This volume of Conor McPherson's collected plays, covering a decade of writing, celebrates a fascination with the uncanny which has led him to be described as 'quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation' (New York Times). In Shining City,...

'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore...Pushing theatre to its limits, McDonagh is making a serious point...a work as subversive as those Synge and O'Casey plays that sparked Dublin riots...