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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802157713Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Two never-before-published works. The Devil Inside Him, written in 1950, is a melodrama with a poetic edge about a Welsh boarding house, lorded over by a self-righteous, religious bigot of a father. Personal Enemy, written with Anthony Creighton, is set...

An evocative, heart-warming story of unfulfi lled dreams and unrequited love. Based on the hit film screenplay by Charles Dance starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and on the original short story by William J. Locke, Ladies In Lavender tells the tale...

Four short plays for young actors The Blue Ball is an imaginative investigation of the experience of Space researched by the playwright among the astronauts themselves. This ambitious play questions the politics of a culture in which the wondrous is...

Back in the good old, bad old days, Michael and Ray were East End villains, working together on a series of lucrative crimes. Today Michael is living a comfortable life in Spain with his younger second wife Francine while Ray, married to sharp-tongued...

Who is more unfaithful in love, men or women? This is the crux of Marivaux's lean story of love, desire, betrayal, and passion, a cautionary tale about the danger and intrigue of seduction. First performed by the American Repertory Theatre to critical...

"Heartbreakingly powerfula wonder of grace and beauty' - London Herald"Heartbreakingly powerfula wonder of grace and beauty' - London HeraldAbout the AuthorDouglas Maxwell is one of the most popular and produced playwrights in Scotland. His other plays...

A story about the legacy of Black classical music in Britain and the life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure.The colour of the sonicBlack notesvoice meeting voicepiercing through timeAt a prestigious music college,...

A pantomime with a difference and one which is truly a laugh a minute, with plenty of opportunity for a large female chorus for Greek Chorus, Nymphs and Cheerleaders, as well as the principal female roles which include the Three Fates, Wanda, and Venus...

Britain in 1956: the Suez Crisis. Prime Minister Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as 'half mad baronet and half beautiful woman', is faced with the terrible possibility of leading his country into war. His health is collapsing. His friends,...

"I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy..." Sodom. The day before the city's total annihilation. Among the grimy tables of a run-down cafe, an angel tells Lot that God wants him to flee,...

This collection features four new plays about war, tyranny and discrimination by Eastern and Central European writers. Includes the plays The Body of a Woman as a battlefield in the Bosnian war by Matei Visniec, Cordon by Nebojsa Romcevic, When I want to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573606588Author Maxim GorkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This title features M19, F10, and Extras. This play can by played at various simple settings. Lord Vetinari wants to overhaul the banks of Ankh-Morpork so he appoints former con-man Albert Spangler, aka Moist von Lipwig, to the position of Mater of the...

Barbara Love is a famous TV star who, just before her Christmas party, is threatened by a chilling voice on her answering machine and then receives a macabre present boxed in a miniature coffin. Not so much a 'whodunnit' but more a 'who's going to do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307475206Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 74gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety" (Guardian) A journalist disappears while covering a protest at Sellafield. When his wife sets out to find him two weeks later, she stays at the same...

Sauchiehall Street. The busiest street in Glasgow. In a sprawling top floor office, Dorothy Darvel, actors' agent extraordinaire, is one of the busiest women on the street. Busy shaping the careers of her hopeful young clients, busy trying to stem the...

'Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018...

This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily...

An adaptation of the classic novel on the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth. With echoes of the illness and loss that wracked Bronte's own life, both novel and play explore the redemptive power of love and the uncertainty of holding on to it...

"Afghanistan continues to be the most important focus of British, European and American foreign policy, and will do so for a long time to come no doubt. The Great Game: Afghanistan features an extraordinary sequence of short plays, written by some of...

Clamber aboard the mighty Argo to join heroic Prince Jason, plucky Princess Medea, Hercules and all the gang for a lively re-telling of the greatest adventure story ever told! Our heroes must overcome monsters, tricksters and tempests if they are to...

Blackthore is a darkly comic new play about the clash between the newcomers with their expectations and the way of life a Welsh farmer holds dear . In In the Pipeline Gary Owen opens the doors to three of the residents in the port of Milford Haven, who...

As he waits to be scourged for his part in Becket's murder, King Henry II retraces his entire relationship with the saint, once his dearest friend and mentor. His catastrophic mistake was to create Becket Archbishop out of political expediency for Becket...

Your inheritance is not the thing that come down to you, it's the things you can't get rid of. Foley is the last of his family, among the last Protestants in the Republic of Ireland, "the end point of all that evolution and fruitcake". He...

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Mr Whatnot is Mint, a piano tuner, summoned to the stately home of Lord and Lady Slingsby-Craddock. Once there he falls in love with their daughter, Amanda, elopes with her, fails to save her from marriage to Cecil but wins through in the end. With...

David Langton, a young man in his mid-twenties returns home, clearly in a state of great agitation. When he hears his parents Joan and Richard, returning from a dinner dance he lies and tells them he has been in all evening. Then his eighteen year old...

A play that challenges our understanding of mythology, and forces us to ask vital questions about military occupation. 'They ask us. When we sign up. We all get asked. "What do you want to do for the Capital State?" And we reply. "Fight. Help. Assist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997408423Author Mary ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lighthouse Plays, LLCPublisher Lighthouse Plays, LLCWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

The Nguyen family are nursing deep wounds and secrets. Escaping war-torn Vietnam has left scars that no one is willing to talk about. As the family gradually integrates into their new life in Britain, the youngest daughter Mai turns to photography, her...

A thousand people. Meeting each other. Making friends. Having babies. Sharing their lives. But whether they know it or not, they all share something else: the same father. Maud Dromgoole's play Mary's Babies is inspired by the true story of Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573611926Author SchnitzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will learn lessons in love: first love and forbidden love, maternal love and platonic love, ridiculous love and last love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365772Author Lucy KirkwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Theatre Communications GroupPublisher Theatre Communications GroupWeight(grams) 113g

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When Eileen Dodds sent her husband out to get a portion of chips and two pickled eggs, she never suspected he would run off with the shop owner and not be seen for five years - but that's exactly what happened! Thirty years later, Eileen has decided to...

Cranford is a small country market town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. But domestic...

A second collection of plays from one of Britain's most original dramatists This second volume of plays includes Vampire: 'The height of comedy, a manic, hellzapoppin of invention, sliding from verbal frolics to pure slapstick' (The Times); The Glad...