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The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now. Knives in Hens is a brutal fable set in a timeless spartan rural community. First staged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573703225Author Lolita ChakrabartiFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Perfect for enjoying in school or at home, Bug Club is proud to present a series of plays to get kids reading, sharing and interacting at KS1. Presented by celebrated children's author Julia Donaldson, each play features engaging stories, beautiful...

Written by an international team of experts, this book brings together the fruits of recent research into all areas of Russian theatre history. Of particular interest are the chapters written by senior Russian academics, who not only reveal previously...

This adaptation of Longfellow's poem into a fast-moving spectacle of dance and rhyme had a very successful run at the National Theatre. All actors are called upon to perform the fast, athletic dancing, mime and percussion that makes this play an exciting...

An engaging classroom playscript. Daniel has never known the outside world. Raised in a dark, secluded room by his reclusive mother, his only comfort is a beautiful doll's house, a replica of his mother's childhood home. However, the unexpected arrival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364935Author Enda WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Dion Boucicault was a prominent playwright and prolific translator and adapter of foreign plays and novels for the Victorian commercial theatre for over forty years. Born in Dublin, he achieved his first West End success with London Assurance in 1841. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010422Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762291Author Gill AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Two hard-hitting plays linked by the theme of retribution, exploring the media's fascination with serial killers, and the fall-out from infidelity in marriage Talk about the Passion: A young child is horrifically murdered; the autobiography of the serial...

George and Linda Harper's 17 year marriage has gone stale, but George doesn't seem to be aware of it. When confronted with the problem, he gets a vasectomy, which solves nothing, so he moves out. Linda rearranges her life by enrolling in self-improvement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365956Author Caryl ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702426Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premieres in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Traverse Theatre Company productions The...

This is an amusing, subtle parody of the backstage goings-on of an amateur dramatic society. While N.J. Warburton's play Don't Blame It On the Boots centred on the onstage difficulties of the amateur dramatic society's production of Hamlet, here we see...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785433498Author Ben JonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365673Author Caryl ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

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Bubbemeises Noun. Yiddish; a grandmother's story, a tall story, an old wives' tale. Nick Cassenbaum invites you into the warmth of the Canning Town Schvitz, East London's last authentic bath house. Amongst the steam and ritual Nick will take you on...

Histories of British theatre between 1918 and 1939 have tended to marginalize the commercial and mainstream in favour of the literary or the politically motivated. This volume brings together a collection of essays that reflect both a far more complex...

Jim Watt runs the London office of a stock exchange firm and is hosting dinner for the International Director and his wife, Bill and Nancy McGregor, members of the anti-permissive society group. As Bill strongly disapproves of unmarried couples living...

One of two Shakespearean ham actors touring the provinces has a dubious and shady past.Book InformationISBN 9780573020940Author Terence RattiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Benito Mussolini has persistently been described as an 'actor' - and also as a master of illusions. In her vividly narrated account of the Italian dictator's relationship with the theatre, Patricia Gaborik discards any metaphorical notions of Il Duce as...

Joyce has the thankless task of organizing the teas for the Floral Art Club. Thankless, because Mrs Cowper-Jones can only criticize others' efforts. And, true to form, Mrs Cowper-Jones arrives in full fault-finding flow, complete with large floral...

To be sane or not to be sane, that is the question - and if not, then be mad and all that follows. Edward Bond takes from the Greek and Jacobean drama the fundamental classical problems of the family and war to vividly picture our collapsing society. ...

Donald, a weary Chartered Surveyor, is retiring from the company he's devoted himself to for the last 35 years. Margaret is his unmarried secretary who has devoted herself to Donald. On his last day, Donald plans to do whatever he wants to do. But Mimi,...

It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although there were a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the play dramatises - were not widely infected by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785438776Author Thomas MiddletonFormat PaperbackImprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 132g

A brand new comedy about science and ethics by "a new young dramatist of exceptional wit and promise for the future" - Daily Telegraph "No, really, who needs evolution when you have plastic surgery?" Malibu, California. The present...

This brilliant adaptation of the classic novel by a well-known writer uses seven actors to play all of the roles. The fluid setting moves easily from one simply suggested location to another.-Flexible castBook InformationISBN 9780573019746Author Declan...

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary...

Collected together for the first time are four works by young British playwright Thomas Eccleshare, whose plays have been performed to national and international acclaim over the past decade. Plays One includes Pastoral (winner of the Verity Bargate...

A truly outstanding, genuinely funny play, with a wry twist at the end. Frank has erected signs for a commercial letterer for twenty-five years. With trainee Alan, he attempts to spell 'Forshaw's' - the letters collectively forming the play's third...

An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry: In 1769, when David Garrick staged the first theatre festival to celebrate the life of Stratford's...

"This is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare, forked basics" (Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard) The Censor is "a gripping brief encounter between a pornographic film actress and the man with the licensing scissors. A...

This 2006 introduction aims to share with readers the author's enjoyment of the turbulent 240-year history of a theatre that tried, often against the odds, to be 'modern'. In each of its five parts, it deals successively with history and cultural...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573610042Author Sir Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955156663Author Raman MundairFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications