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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573704215Author Christine EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016530Author Emlyn WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In the mid-1970s a group of young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Twenty-five years later only one, Jackie Flavin,...

Set in Penang, Malaysia, and based on a true story, this powerful, gripping and unnervingly funny play focuses on two young Englishmen facing the death sentence for drug-trafficking. Their bewilderment and inadequacy in dealing with the experience, and...

'In the morning they'll shut the streets, roll the tanks in and begin the arrests. Everyone who tries to leave will be taken in for days, weeks, years. If I don't board the flight tonight, I'll be here forever.' Middle-aged, middle-management Dasha is...

Max is planning to murder his wife Janet, collect her life insurance, and enjoy life with his girlfriend when Mary and George arrive on their Greek island with news: Mary and Janet are beneficiaries of a huge fortune. Plans and plots hatch, and soon...

Accessible edition of the play considered to be Marston's masterpiece. This is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. Uses the same authoritative text as the standard Revels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992644529Author Ross DinwiddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Dare DevilPublisher Dare DevilWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 4mm

A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could-or would-change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kurmann is given the opportunity to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573011931Author Dodie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Matt Hartley's moving, funny and charming play, Here I Belong, takes you through decades of history seen through the eyes of one village resident. It's Elsie's ninetieth birthday. Come and join us in the village hall to celebrate. There will be cake. ...

It's the near future and Europe has failed. A domino effect of nationalist, isolationist policies has left the continent's economies on the brink of collapse, and citizens of the countries who closed their borders to immigrants are forced to flee across...

Frank Vickery is the only living Welsh playwrite who can continually fill large theatres with his new plays. He has a loyal audience in south Wales that continue to support and celebrate his unique voice. The plays in this volume represent the 10 year...

Invaluable source material for professional theatre directors and for students of English dramatic literature is provided by this detailed examination of playhouse procedures for Shakespeare's own acting company. In careful analysis, T. J. King reveals...

In a mock Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70 year old Maud and her younger son, forty five year old Mo. She speaks more to the soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums. An attempt to destroy this happy way of life is...

Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762284Author Vanessa BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

A Dramatic Society is assembling on the stage of a church hall to rehearse a production of a mystery-thriller under its somewhat dictatorial director Philip Stephens. Events and strains within the company, however, more than equal those in the play they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531988Author Edmond RostandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 105mm *...

Filmed as The Way to the Stars and set in the 1940s, Rattigan's famous play concerns Patricia's love for a film actor, despite her marriage to Flight-Lieutenant Teddy Graham. Going to the hotel to break with Teddy, followed by Peter, Pat encounters...

This sophisticated, witty take on an extra-marital affair was joint runner-up in the National Drama Festival Association's George Taylor Memorial Award. Caroline is married to dependable Robert, has two children and works in an employment agency. When...

Byron's poetic reputation has been established in his comic epic Don Juan and its cognates Beppo and The Vision of Judgment. Poems lying outside this group are still regarded with some uncertainty. This study demonstrates that some of Byron's most deeply...

A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany. Between 1998 and 2007 a series of killings in Germany, disdainfully styled "doner murders" by the media, were attributed by German...

The See-Saw Tree, an ancient oak, stands on ground which is ear-marked for development into a children's playground by Mr. Jay, owner of the nearby supermarket. A public meeting is called in the village hall to discuss his proposals, which include...

Many people dislike Larry Campbell but none feel more embittered than David Ryder. Ryder pursues his vendetta by nefariously obtaining a key to Campbell's flat to kill him. Deceit, suspicion, blackmail and incrimination are woven into the web of crime...

Forming the first part of the David Hare Trilogy (which also comprises of Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War) Racing Demon focuses on the Church of England. A disparate body, the Church now finds itself attracting unwanted publicity, wracked by the...

The Wedding and The Funeral make up the two parts of this comedy in which we are introduced to the same family, first making preparations for a wedding and subsequently, six months later, returning from the funeral of their Uncle Arthur, a lovable...

In the late Seventies, five students on a drama teaching course at a northern college discover sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Stan, a mature student, and Rich, the local boy-made-good, share a room, as do the girls - upper-crust Charlotte, feisty Helen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110726Author Stephen PoliakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018459Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Every school relies on teachers who informally and voluntarily lead various efforts in the school. These teachers may not be appointed leaders or paid leaders, but they are committed leaders: they see a need and they respond to it. What do these teacher...

The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writers This volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a...

Livia, a romantic short story writer, and her husband Stan, arrive at a country hotel for a "Murder Mystery" weekend. They are joined by Patsy and her husband Ashley, and Vi and Dorothy. Each receives an anonymous "Murder Mystery"...

An amusingly chaotic day in the life of Alec Partridge, Manager of the Thurlow Playhouse. The director of an amateur production of Oklahoma demands real horses in the show; an Arts Council agent arrives to assess the theatre's eligibility for a grant...5...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110054Author James Roose-EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

adapted from the novel by Emily Bronte Drama / Characters: 6 male, 4 female Scenery: Unit set A stunning version of the immortal Bronte novel set amid the bleak beauty of Haworth Moor, where the wild and passionate tale of Heathcliff, a stablehand and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110719Author Peter SouterFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787377530Author John FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Bunthorne is an aesthetic poet struggling with the legitimacy of his work and the female adoration it brings, when one woman suddenly rejects his advances. Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride is a satire of an artistic movement and the superficial pressures...

What would you do if you forgot the last decade of your life? After a blood clot unexpectedly formed in his brain, Michael has been in a coma for three weeks. Watching over him in hospital is his bitter mother Carol and his dull but well-meaning partner...