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It used to be a magnificent opera house, its stage graced by the leading sopranos and tenors of the age. Now the only divas at the Grand Old Opera House Hotel are the ones checking-in, there are fist fights in the lobby, and there's scarcely a romantic...

The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way...

Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the...

In September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children, their parents and teachers hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and left many dead. Us/Them is not a straightforward account of...

This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's...

Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan Sleeping Around is about love and sex in Britain as we approach the millennium. In a dozen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014031Author Philip KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A deeply provocative thriller set in a blighted landscape where nature is fiercely taking its course, Deluge is a gripping drama from the Papatango Prize-winning author of Coolatully. There's something uncanny going on at Joe and Kitty's farm...

In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical...

Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion...

Nominated for an Olivier Award 2022 "I'll tell you one more thing. I got more songs in my head than I ever told you. I got enough to sing for days..." 1903, Somerset. Rooted in the land where she has lived her entire life, Louie Hooper's mind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406602Author John WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm)...

'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...

The Farndale Avenue ladies attempt lift off with their Dramatic Society's unique production of a sci-fi thriller. Needless to say, high-tech effects going awry and the limited talents of some group members ensure that the cast remains firmly on the...

Freedom has only ever meant Love. And life lived without love Is not life enough. Chess is in prison. Facing a lengthy sentence, her cell mate, Serena, becomes her soul mate. But when Serena is given parole, Chess faces total isolation. Hope...

A dark comedy commenting on the state of television and news reporting in a celebrity-obsessed age.A dark comedy commenting on the state of television and news reporting in a celebrity-obsessed age.About the AuthorSam Peter Jackson's plays include Minor...

This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far,...

Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genet's first play,...

Nicola Barker is in trouble. A video has been made, and she is the unwitting star. In a bid to stop the footage being used against her, Nicola makes a snap decision: to post it online herself. What started as a drunken night in a dirty club ends with...

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...

The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position,...

'No one. No dark knight in shinin armour. Not even someone I'd let fiddle with me on a regular basis. Went through all my twenties thinkin don't worry he'll come. Well, I'm almost forty now, and he still hasn't, has he?' David is in love with King. But...

A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one family's experience of the NHS. A month after stating "we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care", the government launched the biggest...

A summer evening's barbecue is the setting for a meeting of the Trealaw and District Operatic Society. Next season's play is to be announced but Nick, the society's business manager, has promised a different show and the plum roles to four different...

'She made some very poor decisions. You tried to warn her. You love her yet, and that's a credit to you, but you need to think about what's best for Scotland...' It's 1567. James Melville is an intelligent, charismatic and skilled diplomat - and also...

'Feel the rhythms Of your own heartbeat As I tell you a story My story' A woman, shaken by a broken relationship, finds herself discovering love in the last place - and with the last person - she ever expected. Based on Jade Anouka's own...

David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent...

Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the...

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. But...

The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an affair. If only her son were to break-up with his...

A comedy based around the battle of wills between Hobson, a hard-headed and domineering cobbler and his daughter Maggie, who defies him by marrying his most talented but timid and downtrodden worker, Will. She helps Will to develop his potential and...

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841126Author John HodgartFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010798Author G.Martinez SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

'Know what? If you're a Kanye West fan, you're not a fan of me - you're a fan of yourself.' Annie's not really a fan of herself. But what if everyone thought she was someone else? Someone different. Someone better. Sam Steiner's Kanye the First is...

Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's "Best Play for Young Audiences" Award (2022) "Don't you ever get sick of it?" "Being the only one?" "Yeah. Being the Ambassador of Blackness?" Abeni is new to college. She's putting purple...

He can't help himself and he plunges into the forest. until the moment it dawns on him: night has fallen and he is completely lost.Pierre finds himself at a turning point, tormented by the conflicting demands of family, career and sexual desire. His...

Every Good Boy Deserves FavourA dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the...

'Do you know what it's like to be the person who's actually sticking the knife in here? Or here? You stick a knife in close to an artery, boy do you know it. Then you're in tiger country.' Nina Raine's Tiger Country is a hospital play that follows a...

A powerful and faithful dramatisation of the events in the diary of Anne Frank who, with family and friends, hid for two years from the Nazis before being discovered and sent to a concentration camp. An excellent play in itself, it also forms an active...