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This volume explores the professional English theatre from 1530 to 1660. The documents collected here, many published for the first time, chronicle the exciting and flourishing world of the theatre through the reigns of Henry VIII to Charles I. These...

Though much beloved and widely produced, Moliere's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theatre? Instead of simply dismissing...

Originally published in 1976, this highly acclaimed, full-scale account of Restoration drama is now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710, the author fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762987Author Robort FarquharFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

The king of Utopia tries to turn his small nation into a more civilized society by implementing six pillars of change led by six Englishmen. Unfortunately, his new and improved rules cause more harm than good. King Paramount plans to make noticeable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881451382Author Naomi WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.Publisher Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762819Author Helen BlakemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

We first meet Roger and Dorothy at the unprepossessing hour of 8 a.m. when Vera wakes them with the early morning tea. We say farewell to them, less than sixteen hours later, as they turn out the lights and go to sleep. But in between there has been more...

Grace and Lily reside in a nursing home with little to do but witness a senile resident impersonating Elvis. Determined to break the tedium, Grace, with the help of Lily, kidnaps care assistant Pansy, for the ransom of gin, a packet of fags and a budgie,...

"I just lit up. I did not burn" In a remote Tibetan village, Deshar, a young runaway has disowned her father Tsering and become a Buddhist nun. In Lhasa, Chinese Commander Deng is working for the future of the country, unable to meet the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763014Author Alan PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Includes two plays by Bruce Adam. In Mary Mary confusion reigns when Terry brings a (decidedly inebriated) new woman named Mary home to meet his mother -- also called Mary. And in When I Snap My Fingers Simon and Maria Moffat agree to undergo hypnosis as...

A new collection of Stephen Poliakoff's plays and screenplays Includes the screenplays Caught on a Train (winner of BAFTA award Best Single Play, 1980), Close My Eyes (winner of the Evening Standard Best British Picture of 1991 and numerous other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100093Author Michael GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Flushed by their successes, the stalwart veterans of the Dramatic Society are poised to conquer yet another dramatic idiom: their current production sails the luxury ocean liner SS Farndale Avenue into the world of thirties musical comedy. The ladies...

Valentine, a 100-year-old human-vampire hybrid, late-night florist living in Putney, is waiting for his full vampiric traits to kick in. He lives with his sister Natalia and is incredibly lonely until the bubbly Hayley wanders into his shop. Things...

Four women arrive at Del Sol on a package tour. They find themselves stranded in a workman's hut on the site of their hotel, which is not even constructed yet. Determined not to let their husbands know that they have been conned, they decide not to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573618741Author Caryl ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016608Author Ted WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The Pocket Dream has Shakespeare, audience participation, dancing penguins, several backstage dramas which actually take place onstage and a cast of six playing twenty-one roles between them (plus a few extra fairies). A thoroughly entertaining broad...

An engaging classroom playscript. Daughter of a Pictish king, Gruach is forced to marry her father's enemy by the new ruler, King Malcolm. Desperate, she turns to the Wyrd Sisters for advice. Meanwhile, Macbeth and Duncan join forces against the King,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785438677Author John DrydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Chekhov's masterpiece, about a Russian family losing its ancestral home, combines a lament for a vanishing past with a hopeful dream of the future. In the century since its first performance, The Cherry Orchard has undergone a wide range of conflicting...

This 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude towards the Edwardians and...

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Unusual among Shakespeare's plays in that it drew theatrical responses from the outset, The Taming of the Shrew continues to inspire adaptations and interpretations that respond to its fascinating, if provocative, representation of a husband's dominance...

A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels There's been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. He didn't mean to be - it was just an accident. But, as William fills his pages with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528700Author Seamus FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre. For four decades, at his school in Paris, Jacques Lecoq trained performers from all over the world...

'I refuse to be a panda. I refuse to go extinct. I want to live, to live well, to live like them.' Bunny, a young woman from the officially designated 'Shangri-La' in the Himalayan foothills of China's Yunnan Province, has witnessed her family's...

"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of...

I want theatre to be sweaty, exciting, unpredictable.... Mike Bradwell is on a mission to revolutionise British theatre. He's sick of fancy plays by dead blokes and wants to tell stories about real people, living real lives. And it doesn't get more...

The trilogy comprises FlatSpin, GamePlan and RolePlay and was first seen at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and later at the Duchess Theatre, London. Each is self contained, the common theme linking them is that the setting is the same London...

Think how many others there are like me, hiding in the shadows, operating in the night like foxes, for fear of rejection and a life of ridicule. I've worked too hard to gain my respect only for it to be taken from me because of something I can't control...

"Awesome perfection" Irish Times Amidst the filth and fury of Dublin 1904, the theatrical event of the century is about to explode...Will the Irish National Theatre of Ireland seize its chance for glory? Fading stars, rebels, whores, and...

The Sleeping Prince: An Occasional Fairy Tale is a 1953 play by Terence Rattigan, conceived to coincide with the coronation of Elizabeth II in the same year. Set in London in 1911, it tells the story of Mary Morgan, a young actress, who meets and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573012020Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does...

Set in York in 1392, this play tells of a performance of the Mystery Plays. For the townspeople the competition is fierce to attract the attention of the Royal Party and to impress them at all costs. But the message of Mystery cycle as performed is...