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The English Stage tells the story of drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public...

"One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century. Pinter's work gets under our skin more than that of any living playwright." --New York Times Upon its premiere at the National Theatre, Betrayal was immediately recognized as...

This hilarious and unusual play satirizes the ridiculous propensity we often have to show less interest in an artist's work than in meaningless details of his private life, such as his sex life. It begins with Kafka near the end of his life making his...

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a number of major classical actors on how these works can most powerfully be realized for today's audiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811208819Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

The Gothic drama came at a critical moment in the history of the theater, of British culture, and of European politics in the shadow of France's revolution and the fall of Napoleon. It offered playwrights a medium to express the prevailing ideological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016806Author David McGillivrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

He's just your type. But hold on. He's about to tell you he's got HIV. How will you respond emotionally? Brush it aside and practise safe sex? Go on to a deeper relationship? Or do you walk away? In these eloquently interwoven and often funny monologues...

In David Hare's "greatest play" (City Limits) two sisters, Isobel, a serene and good person, and Marion, an ambitious Tory Junior Minister, gather at the home of their late father for his funeral. Katherine, the sisters' young, alcoholic,...

The Controller of a radio-cab firm is trying to contact Driver 274 and get him to pick up a fare at Victoria Station.Book InformationISBN 9780573042256Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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YOU CAN GO PROUDLY. YOU ARE HISTORY. YOU ARE LEGEND. 1936. In villages, towns and cities across Scotland, 549 lives are gradually intertwining. People of contrasting backgrounds, ideologies and religions. Spurred on by their burning passion for...

A re-issue of three plays that ushered in the great age of absurdist theatre There was a riot at the first performance of Ubu Roi on 10 December 1896, when Firmin Gemier, playing Ubu, strode to the footlights and roared: "Merde!" at the...

Louise Underwood's life revolves around "Pippins", the hamburger restaurant where she works, and "Peppermints" night club, where she spends most of her spare time. Then she discovers Judo. This play charts Louise's progress to Black...

Ferndale, Laburnum Grove. A quiet, residential address in one of the newer north London suburbs. George Radfern, decent, respectable citizen and householder spends his Sunday evenings in his greenhouse, listening to Handel on the wireless. But when his...

A nameless narrator meets a sexy boy on a Vauxhall night out, who introduces him to G's pleasures; a club night poster boy gets taken to Old Mother Meth's place by a porn star; Fag Hag Cath is finding the chillouts have become more about the sex; Daniel...

The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eug ne Ionesco is "one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater" (Library Journal). This crucial collection combines...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084315Author Virginia CoxFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1040g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035835Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Hilda is blind, lives alone, and is visited by a carer once a week. Camelia is a young offender looking for her next mark. A surprising and curious relationship sparks into life between the two very different women, both of them searching for...

This ingenious comedy is about two sisters and the choices they make (or have made for them) over a few months. There are four versions that can be done on different evenings, each stemming from one random and one deliberate choice. The story starts with...

Joe, Ross and Ellie used to be in a band. They were pretty good too, making waves in the pubs and clubs across the rugged patchwork of South West England. They even had a song on Radio 2. But that was all a decade ago and the songs, the stories, the...

Three women in the hospital for cancer treatments must cope with the uncertainties of their health and with the inevitable secrets and half truths from relatives and the nursing staff. Marlene, the strongest and most outspoken of them, keeps the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013300Author Jane ArdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Seven exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools with guidance for staging the plays, and other creative responses, either online or live in the...

The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title...

From seduced maidens to adulterous wives, bigamists, courtesans, kept women and streetwalkers, the so-called 'fallen woman' was a ubiquitous and enduring figure on the Victorian and Edwardian stage. Acts of Desire traces the theatrical representation of...

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"A major statement by a major Irish playwright" (Irish Times) Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight. "The macabre business of blight and death, of wakes and murder, of poisoned love and lost...

Family means everything you want it to mean. What a transformative thing it can be to take care of someone else, completely. How it rearranges you. How you might yearn to do it. How you will definitely yearn for a break. It is relentless...

Winner of the 2023 Woven Voices Prize Who do you blame? The woman, the gun, or politics? Berker travels from Britain to Turkey to meet his estranged father, but it's too late: his sister Elif informs him that their Baba has already died. A family...

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a...

This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050350Author Alfred BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374560Author William WycherleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

In a surrogacy clinic in Gujarat, three women meet. It's Londoner Eva's last chance for motherhood. For village girl Aditi, surrogacy is a lifeline out of poverty. For clinic owner and businesswoman Dr Gupta, it's all just another transaction. But with...

Winner of the Tinniswood Award at the 2024 BBC Audio Awards As I walk past the funeral parlour, I see a poster next to their two-for-one offer. It's a wanted poster with my name on it. A completely made-up true story. When the world goes mad, do...

My story is about love... No, it's about loss... No, it's about love and loss and pain and loneliness... But it's funny! Calvin is going to completely revolutionise his life. Escape his abusive boyfriend, detonate his inner sex bomb, see (and shag)...

Beginning from the premise that culture can be analysed as performance, this study approaches Welsh culture as performative practice and explores four distinct cultural areas - the Museum, Heritage, Festival and Theatre - concentrating on how they...