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'I'm not angry with you, Zack, I'm angry in general. I'm an artist, that's my job.' Ivan is a struggling actor who hasn't yet achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when, one afternoon at the zoo with his friend...

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This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018695Author Ben EltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The Witch (1615/16?), categorised by its author as 'a tragi-comedy', pits the intrigues of a group of Italian aristocrats against the malevolent practices of Hecate and her witches' coven, leaving the audience with the impression that human malevolence...

Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh...

All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilisations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the...

Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, Jack Gould, who has made his way...

Dolly and Clara arrive at Castle Drackenberg, unaware that danger lurks behind every corner, for the castle's owner, Count Drackenburg, is a vampire! This play combines every traditional element of the vampire horror genre - including a sinister...

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Sad single teachers get together. Drink tequila, get very pissed and reveal secrets and then stagger home at four in the morning, with some dim light in your brain saying "Shit. Year seven first lesson."' David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky premiered at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551747Author David GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apart from a surprising change of heart and bid for sympathy at the final momen's of this version of the classic story, Todd glories in his villainies throughout and gleefully slaughters right and left until the cast is almost eliminated. Commendably,...

With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413538208Author Tony MarchantFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 138g

Newly acquired BA gowns hang heavy on the shoulders of Jane and Timothy. Having got this far, what on earth do they do next? They could get married, of course (so they do), but how can they make a living? In a London park one breathlessly warm summer day...

A chilling yet deeply human story about the limits of devotion. Adele and her parents have always been close. But recently, that closeness has been tainted by an increasing sense of mistrust. Tonight, a visit from a stranger will force them to...

The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997. 'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily Telegraph Valene...

April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690389Author Howard BrentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573023460Author David CamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur Cyrano de Bergerac is all these things, but none of them makes him happy. What he desires above all is the love of the beautiful Roxane. But his problem is as plain as the nose on his face. Surely he is too ugly...

When Lilian Baylis was badly hurt after a car accident, someone at the scene called out, 'It's Miss Baylis. Miss Baylis of the Old Vic.' In spite of her injuries, Baylis drew herself up and imperiously corrected them, 'And Sadler's Wells.' But Baylis was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573152405Author David FoxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions. Contents: At the Sign of the Rupture...

A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110757Author Camilla WhitehillFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Stories of real women, from cultures as varied as Palestine, Senegal, Jordan, Libya, St. John's Wood, and the English Midlands. All came to the United Kingdom as refugees, or married refugees. After 9/11, the world they loved there vanished almost...

David Goodyear's approach to railway photography has always been to capture the context of the railway within the landscape in which it finds itself. The railway train itself embraces each scene, providing the soul and atmosphere where it may dominate or...

Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing and performed by Dominic Cooke's Pericles and The Winter's Tale Company, Roy Williams' Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. Two young soldiers join their friends to...

A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002 Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas eve shift;...

The Thrie Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a...

This domestic comedy explores the drama of a teenage marriage and the effects on a working-class British family. By the author of Alfie, this 1960's Broadway hit was made into the film The Family Way which starred John and Hayley Mills.4 women, 7 menBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110733Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon - Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives. Life After...

If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy? If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a limit to how many characters she / he / they are entitled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150875Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874401189Author Edward MurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 47g

I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can't make me feel guilty.Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many...

At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento - 1900...