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Beatie returns for a holiday to her fenland farm home trying to impose on her stolid family the ideas of a young Jewish intellectual, Ronnie, whom she believes will marry her. But, awaiting his arrival, slowly Beatie realizes he will never come and her...

An exciting classroom playscript based on Terry Pratchett's best-selling novel Dodger. Dodger is a sewer scavenger who spends his days sifting through the murky underbelly of Victorian London. But when he rescues a young girl from a vicious assault, he...

On a remote livery yard in rural England, Jim arrives 'home' after eight years away, in need of work. It didn't end so well last time, but he's sure that this time it'll be different... Sam, as old as the fixtures and fittings themselves, reluctantly...

'It's a matter of perception. The hands of time turn at the same speed for everyone. Yet a child waits what seems to be an eternity for summer, whilst an old man watches a year pass in the blinking of an eye.' It's 1984, and as France play Yugoslavia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050206Author Robert BoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"Oh do not jest thy doom" The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his enemies so that they plot against each other. It is an...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111235Author Moira BuffiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

After opening to sometimes bewildered reviews at the National Theatre in 1978, David Hare's wildly ambitious play Plenty established itself as a landmark modern classic in its 1982 New York production, which transferred to Broadway with Kate Nelligan...

WHO will the handsome Wickham seduce next? HOW will the Bennet sisters live with no income or home after their father dies? WILL anyone ever mention there's a war on? The Bennet family has more daughters than income and more income than sense. When an...

A new play from an award-winning playwright, published as part of the innovative Abbey Theatre playscript series On the day of her father's funeral, Eva - a young woman - is still haunted by the betrayal she witnessed from her childhood haven - the...

Lenny Henry's playwriting debut is a poignant, hilarious portrait of a life affected by the terrible injustice of the Windrush Scandal.Yu see me? I was eight years old when I come to H'Inglan' - I travel on my mother's passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two...

'Today is going to be the same.' For Charly, every day is the same. Things used to be different, when there was Clo, but now there isn't Clo, and Charly doesn't want to dwell on that. She just wants to chug coffee, blast Beastie Boys and deal drugs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114328Author Professor Richard TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

From 1997 Shakespeare's Globe flourished once more on London's South Bank after an absence of 400 years. The playhouse is now a major attraction for theatregoers, scholars, tourists, teachers and students of all ages who come to experience Shakespeare's...

In 1988, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out to one another: Edward as gay; Peter, even more daringly, as an ABBA fan. Nearly thirty years later, they meet again - and take a chance by forming the world's first ABBA tribute band in drag...

The second collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel In Conversations on a Homecoming, Michael returns from America to Ireland for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863728Author George Bernard ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015847Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Sir Percival Glyde is being hounded for money by his old friend, the sinister Count Fosco, so his marriage to the heiress Laura Fairlie is for one reason only: her fortune. As events unfold, Glyde's efforts to secure the money - and also to remove the...

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David is gay, disabled and profoundly horny. He can't eat, drink or shower by himself - or wank. Totally inexperienced, he embarks on a sexual and romantic odyssey, armed with a fierce brain, and dick pics that he has to get someone to take. Can he...

"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman) Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace...

The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573701597Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This psychological thriller about revenge centers on the interlocking triangular relationship between Dee, a successful television playwright; Hallet, a detective superintendent; and Stone, a humorless, prissy man. Dee arrives at Stone's flat, having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312423087Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Suggested by the author's earlier play, Local Affairs. This is a fast-paced and very funny play set in the back gardens of feuding neighbours. It is the night of Michael's and Roma's fancy dress house-warming party. The evening looks set to be a lively...

When Morris and Jean win the National Lottery their lives are irredemably changed - the question is, for better or worse? The cracks in their marriage widen, Jean keeps on winning and Morris takes off to Amsterdam with an old flame, but will his prophesy...

Six interlinked plays set in a National Health hospital during visiting hour. Alternately funny and sad - with elements of tragedy and comedy in each - your audience will be reaching for the Kleenex one minute and rolling in the aisles the next!-4 women,...

Four millennials looking for sex, love and a well-located flat find themselves caught in a complex game of rivalry, desire and seduction. As the cost of happiness soars, how can they negotiate the new rules of modern relationships and win the game of...

Flora Thompson was born in an Oxfordshire hamlet in 1876. She left school at 14 and went to work as a clerk in a small village post office until her marriage to John Thompson. She is perhaps best remembered for her semi-autobiographical trilogy which...

Joe and Anna have been together for nine years, and as far as he is concerned will stay together for another ninety. But the minute they set a date for the wedding, Anna panics. A new dating agency promises to scan the online persona of everyone in the...

The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of...

'You weren't moving. Your hair was soaked. We saw you.' Alice and Michael met six years ago. Three years later their daughter Lily was born. Now, in a Yorkshire meadow, just past midnight, they're having an argument. Because Alice is cold, she's...

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'Excellent.' New York TimesHanif Kureishi has been writing about the tensions between Islam and the West for over twenty years. In recent times the argument has evolved from one of constructive discussion to one of a refusal to engage - where the bomb...

A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright. Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, the plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical,...