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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015557Author Harold PinterFormat 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 9780573611155Author John ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years. 1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457094Author Eric BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 104g

In Ladies Who Lunch, commissioned for the BT Biennial 1998, Amelia, Rachel and Joane, wives of three of the world's richest men, meet regularly to do charity work. In order to increase the charity's turnover Amelia thinks up a scheme to play the stock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787373501Author James ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievment In An Affiliate Theatre. A world away from you, but a world right on your doorstep. A powerful story of the terrifying complexities of sex trafficking today based on real experiences...

"Man Across the Way" is a dazzling, anarchic new work about surveillance, tap-dancing and the new world order. Fraser and Dougie are cops carrying out surveillance on the man across the way. They suspect him of involvement in the recent terrorist attack...

'I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.' - Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143501Author Karl SabbaghPage Count 384Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Drama / Character: 4 male, 4 female Scenery: Interior Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, returns to his Swiss chateau to escape a terrible pursuer. No one can shake free the dark secret that terrifies him: not his mother, nor his fiancee,...

What happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theatre world as the progenitor of a new...

A vivid and compelling thriller about belief and retribution. Mustafa is in prison for the death of a teenage boy during an exorcism. Racked with guilt at the loss of an innocent life and isolated in a world where his beliefs are constantly...

"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Eileen and her grandson Matty, 16, travel to Russia to stay with scientist Pavel and...

Flora and Edward invite the match seller into their home. The match seller is silent; faced with this silence, Edward destroys himself while Flora gains strength, until finally Flora turns Edward out with the tray of matches. The midsummer's day which...

In this funny, fast-moving sequel to Second from Last in the Sack Race, we see the beginnings of Henry Pratt's career in journalism. Living with his severe cousin, drinking with journalists and providing copy with headlines such as "Chiropodist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573691317Author Johnnie MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Ben Seaton is the new rector of Wychcombe Magna and is slowly gaining acceptance with the locals. His wife Diana feels decidedly out of place and even rather threatened as a strange woman, Jessy, keeps walking into the house without any invitation and...

Hero longing for heiress. Obstacles in the way. Marriage eventually secured. It sounds simple. But the lasting appeal of this, one of the most performed and discussed of all Restoration plays, lies in Congreve's sophisticated grasp of plot, back-story,...

Albert Perkins is blessed with a loving wife, Muriel and cursed with a fearsome mother-in-law, Boadecia. When his friend Hilary Armitage writes to him reminiscing about the good times they used to have, Boadicea reads the letter and determines to remove...

Based on a true story, The Elephant Man tells the tale of John Merrick, a 19th-century Londoner who became a star of the travelling freak show circuit. When the renowned Dr Teves comes across Merrick during one of his performances, he takes him into his...

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer) This volume includes four plays: Spokesong 'A dazzling play that combines warmth of sentiment with great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573164354Author John MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Focusing on the love story between Jane and Rochester, the play begins as Jane arrives in 1846 to take up the post of governess to Rochester's ward, Adele, at Thornfield Hall. Jane and Rochester fall in love but their happiness is jeopardised by the...

A sharp, dark comedy that explores the inescapable difference between feeling 19 and being 19. Lou is getting on with her life, carefree and without ties. But this abruptly comes to a halt when her 19-year-old god-daughter Minnie moves in to take up a...

Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the...

Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors. He wrote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573692314Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Little Voice (LV) lives alone with her mother Mari, whose sole purpose in life is to find a man. When Mari's latest catch - Ray -hears LV's impersonations of famous singers, he rushes to exploit it, and the result destroys LV. Finally, however, LV...

In English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama, first published in 2003, Mary Floyd-Wilson outlines what we might call 'scientific' conceptions of racial and ethnic differences in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writing. Drawing on...

The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial...

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Do algorithms and machine learning set us free, or trap us forever? Roger hates technology, but when his daughter gives him an Isla device for Lockdown 2020, he finds himself opening up to the virtual assistant device. What happens when the only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132254Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Ever Feel Like you're constantly disappointing people? Meet Rumi. Rumi is a British Pakistani woman who's referred to as a 'Coconut' (brown on the outside, white on the inside). Born and brought up as a Muslim, Rumi spends more time enjoying fine wine...

In your quest for respectability I think we can say you have been talking out of both corners of your mouth. One corner talks to your rich backers, the other to your street-fighters. 1931. Hans Litten is one of the most celebrated lawyers in Berlin,...

A sly, gentle dig at society's conventions and preconceptions. John Brown arrives at a country nursing home with a case of money expecting hotel-style service. He's a kind of dropout bound to puzzle a profession geared to treating the sick. He's not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720793Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Written by award-winning playwright Paddy Campbell (Wet House), Day of the Flymo looks at the lives of young people deemed to be chaotic, a brother and sister struggling to cover up the cracks and the mechanisms that swing into action when social...

While providing a critical introduction for the student of Samuel Beckett's work and for other readers and theatre-goers who have been influenced by it, this study also presents an original perspective on one of the twentieth century's greatest writers...