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John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250767332Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 336g

Sophie is about to become a single mum - a third-generation one - and she's terrified. How will she afford to feed her baby? Or a Deluxe Snuggle Pod? Can she hold on to her job? What if she's crap at parenthood? Surely she can count on her own mum and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573610257Author Georges FeydeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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Set amongst the whores, alcoholics, cynics and doss house dreamers of a Russia on the brink of revolution, The Lower Depths is a harrowing, violent and uncompromising portrayal of the human spirit at its lowest ebb, with destitution and death an ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528267Author Peter GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016073Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Karl Hendryk is a brilliant professor who, with his wife and her cousin, has fled persecution in his homeland and finds himself ensconced in London. The play concerns itself with the relationships the professor has with the women in his life. His wife,...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon.Four couples gather in a suburban London home for a night of wine, cheese, and more intimate pleasures. Some are curious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573062308Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761294Author Arthur SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the Hotel Coq d'Or in Montretout.5 women, 9 menBook...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of...

This hilarious and heartbreaking play was seen at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1999. It is set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature; a future where TV daytime soaps are performed by android actors emotionally...

Collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays.Book InformationISBN 9780802132376Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Avalon Travel PublishingPublisher Avalon Travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111204Author Don W. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899747009Author Alistair McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Upstart Crow PublicationsPublisher Upstart Crow Publications

Full of warmth, understanding and humour, this is an affectionate and appealing portrait of an ordinary family struggling with change, bereavement and the generation gap. On his graduation day in 1978, John looks back over his teenage years, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486266879Author Richard Brinsley SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent...

"Doug Lucie is perhaps the only young British dramatist with a truly distinctive voice and in Fashion, it is at its most splendidly scornful, bilious and charmless." Benedict Nightingale (The Times) Doug Lucie is one of Britain's most acerbic...

Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work for the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him tackling major monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser by Moliere and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov. Miser,...

Music hall routines with clever and ribald lyrics highlight this British hit about an army entertainment unit in post World War II Malaya.1 woman, 10 menBook InformationISBN 9780573113475Author Peter NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel...

Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical...

A servant girl persuades her mistress to write to a man who made her pregnant during a brief romantic interlude. Only after the wedding does the young man discover it is the letter writer he loves.-4 women, 2 menBook InformationISBN 9780573015540Author...

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Ghosts is Ibsen's haunting study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie. Osvald Alving has returned from Paris to his mother's home, carrying with him a dreadful secret. His mother's delight at having him home soon turns to horror and grief...

Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night.Book InformationISBN 9780573018022Author...

August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power - both written in the summer of 1888 - in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton. Miss Julie begins as a flirtatious game between the daughter of a wealthy landowner and...

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Mag lives in a rustic cabin in the Canadian wilds, far from neighbours and further from her past. It's an unremarkable life, save for the enormous bear carcass on the kitchen table. But when her estranged daughter Beth turns up on the doorstep having...

A bitterly ironic portrait of Nigeria after Biafra Madmen and Specialists is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra. Set in the 'surgery' of a doctor, the play is populated by mendicants...

A touching and very funny playwright, Bennett manages to combine the satiric, cold-eyed sharpness of Flaubert with an embracing human compassion.Book InformationISBN 9780573132247Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Samuel French...

The original version of Wesker's imaginiative reworking of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. With notes and commentary by Glenda Leeming.The original version of Wesker's imaginiative reworking of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. With notes and...

As the Great War gathers pace, Agnes and her sister Edith revel in their new-found independence and prosperity as Barnbow lasses. Not only does their danger money buy them a new life of confidence, men, work and politics but the thrill of a new future,...

There are no less than eight intimate exchanges in this ingenious tour de farce and each has two different endings; you can see Intimate Exchanges sixteen times and not see the same play twice! And one actor and one actress play all 10 characters. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050374Author Willis HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

First performed in 1908, How the Vote Was Won is a one act play by actress Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John. Set in England during the early 18th century, How the Vote Was Won uses comedy to tell a story in support of women's suffrage. In this...

Comedy / Characters: 10 male, 16 female Scenery: 3 interiors A great success in New York and London. Mrs. Bennett is determination to get her daughters married. Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia are likely looking girls in a period when a woman's one possible...