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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413187406Author Victoria WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 170g

'I am the slave ship. Wrecked. Empty. I am a shark, livid with the desire for blood. I am the sea, boiling with fury.' On the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in...

'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed...

And that's the moment when I leave. The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail. This precise moment here, look, see with your ears. The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the...

Cecily Harrington has led a staid and proper existence. After winning a large amount of money in a sweepstake she desperately yearns for a life of adventure. Enter Bruce Lovell, a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps her off her feet. In a whirlwind...

George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power...

An outrageous play about imperialism, cross racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen's circles. Today is the eve of her...

Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889226272Author Michel TremblayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 114g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113659Author Clifford WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer)Book...

Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have...

"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him...

Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. ...

Ben doesn't even like Anna that much. She doesn't take life seriously enough. And then a couple of years go by and he's in absolute floods and she just wishes things could be different. This is a play about gender, the ethical dimensions of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111662Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A seedy lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. He is assigned to defend an innocuous little man accused of murdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife's constant joking and laughing...

This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward...

An intimate, moving and ultimately uplifting new monologue play. Replay is the story of a woman revisiting her childhood, coming to terms with the significant pain of her past and finally realising that she needs to embrace the memory of her brother in...

"Could you put your white best friend on stage and remind them that they're part of the problem? Even if you love them? Even if you never want anyone to feel for even a moment how you feel living in this world every day? Would - could - a white person...

Orphan Flora Poste, heroine of Gibbons's tongue-in-cheek classic novel, likes everything to be tidy and comfortable so when she goes to live with her eccentric relatives at Cold Comfort Farm she tries to alter her surroundings and encourage other to...

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Women are serving community punishment orders and are growing the vegetables for soup kitchens on an allotment. Marcie is convicted of dangerous driving; Norah, a serial shoplifter, hasn't recovered from the death of her daughter thirty years ago; Belle...

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

Teachers' Notes by Anthony Banks Sensation Nation is a vocal group founded and led by the unstoppable DD. Her grand plan is for the group to storm next year's Britain's Got Talent. But first they need a gig, and more importantly a heartbreaking...

A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited. Tia's mouthy attitude and confident swagger mask the vulnerability in a fourteen-year-old girl whose tough start in life draws her to AJ. Older, good-looking and...

Running a Health and Strength Home in a large and somewhat decaying country mansion can be a hazardous undertaking at any time, as Eddie Manchip knows. When one is further beset by a sinister crook to whom one has signed away the deeds of the house...

'One day all you care about is music, fashion and boys. The next day there's no food. Piece by piece your world starts to change so you change with it.' Mostar, Yugoslavia, 1988. Mili, a boy from out of town, dives from the famous Old Bridge. Mina, a...

'We are here to make sense of it all.' From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid's stories of epic impossibilities explore the power of transformation, the resilience of humans, and the wonder of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544504Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British drama Alan Plater's play for the Hampstead Theatre in London is a witty and poignant portrait of Margaret 'Peggy'...

'Searingly topical.' THE TELEGRAPH'Shocking.' HEATA fresh and topical debut thriller where two detectives on a chilling murder case begin a love affair, only for one of them to become a prime suspect.Detective Erin Crane is investigating sixteen-year-old...

This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus. The new introduction by Brian Gibbons explores the plays in the...

In the early sixties two national treasures were the creative force behind one of British cinema's most successful franchises. But the Miss Marple movies were almost never made... Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie didn't want Margaret Rutherford to bring...

A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90s Tea in a China Cup focuses on the differing experiences of three generations of women in a working-class Belfast Protestant family, a tapestry of tales linked by the central...

Gabriel:'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The TimesSilence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award):'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial TimesLoveplay:'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit...

A darkly comic debut play about buried secrets and new beginnings. In three linked scenes, all set in the same terraced house, three ill-matched pairs search for a new beginning - but the past won't let any of them go without a struggle. Teenager...

An evocative, heart-warming story of unfulfi lled dreams and unrequited love. Based on the hit film screenplay by Charles Dance starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and on the original short story by William J. Locke, Ladies In Lavender tells the...

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'It had been a while. I was really nervous. I mean, it's not really like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. ...