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Charlie has stopped sleeping. His neighbour's cat has been dismembered. And worse, he's being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy. A wild hallucinogenic mystery, Run The Beast Down is an...

Frank recognizes the voice of the GPO speaking clock as that of his long-lost wife. Determined to get her back, he forces his way into the inner sanctum of the Authorities to demand her release. Underlying the light-hearted story is a satiric comment on...

For at least the last half-century, Strehler has been an influential and integral part of European theatrical life; today he is most closely associated with the Teatro Piccolo in Milan, Italy's foremost repertory theatre. Outside Italy, Strehler is best...

Two amateur drama groups become joint winners of a play festival. A tie-break involves the groups performing an extract from their own entry and then an excerpt from the opposing team's play, but the pieces are very different. They compete again with...

Somewhere near you there is a band of brothers fighting for justice. Seeking to rid the land of evil and return hope to the poorly treated. They are lean, mean, trained justice fighting machines! Armed with whatever comes their way, nothing is as it...

"Glorious!" is based on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins, the legendary New York heiress and socialite who wanted to be a great operatic diva despite having one of the worst signing voices in history, and who used all her money, charm and unstoppable...

'You western-backed goats, They forced us into slavery and killed millions. Now they want us to accept the sinfulness of homos. It shall not work.' In 2014, Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexuality Act. This short, startling play looks at what lies behind it...

A fast, furious, funny and action-packed modern verse drama, "Two Graves" is a bloody tale of murder, revenge and retribution, set in an East End underworld of betting-shops, back-room gambling, debt collection and working-class skulduggery. Jack Tops...

When Missus produces fifteen puppies, Cruella is enraptured and has the Badduns kidnap the litter. Distraught, Pongo and Missis enlist support on the Twilight Barking and encounter many adventures before rescuing their own pups - and a great many more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410008Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 234g

Fifteen-year-old Kim brin's twenty-year-old Mick back to the family caravan where he rapes her and leaves her pregnant. Her older sister Kelly falls for the'same man, and rushes into marriage when'she too becomes pregnant, only to miscarry. The girls'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526160Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 113g

'Listen. You're a patriotic Englishman. Highly respected. Been here for years. A wide circle of influential friends. It is important that we have our man in Havana, Mr Wormwold.' Jim Wormwold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in...

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that moulded the evolution of philosophy and baffled his...

When a reverend disapproves of his daughter's suitor, he manipulates the church in an effort to discourage their union and find a more favorable partner. It is a drastic decision that effects those inside and outside of the congregation. Rev. William...

The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the...

Victorian women were exhilarated by the authoritative voice and the professional opportunity that, uniquely, the theatre offered them. Victorian men, anxious to preserve their dominance in this as in every other sphere of life, sought to limit the...

Arrangements have been made for Prince Simon to marry Princess Camilla. The King and Queen are nervous because - let's face it - Camilla is plain! It is decided that a beautiful maid will impersonate Camilla until the wedding. The Prince hears of...

2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Technical Presentation WINNER 2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Children and Young People's Show NOMINEE Sam McTannan is just a typical 15 year old, with one exception. Sam is a Superhero! He can literally turn...

During the nineteenth century, British theatre developed into an industry with considerable importance in the economy, diversified by whole new forms of entertainment - first music hall then cinema - evolving alongside the dramatic stage. This...

A poignant new play explores exactly what it means to dice with death when being alive proves to be painful.A poignant new play explores exactly what it means to dice with death when being alive proves to be painful.About the AuthorRoy Smiles' other...

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Daniel and Oliver are about to have their first baby. With their best friend, Priya, acting as surrogate, they've turned the study into a nursery and the bottles are sterilised. All that's missing is the bundle of joy they've been pining for. But when...

Based on extensive archival research, this is a comprehensive study of theatre in the Third Reich. It explores the contending pressures and ambitions within the regime and the Nazi party, within the German theatre profession itself and the theatre-going...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144270Author Friedrich DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Set against a background of Soho strip clubs, sexual fantasy and loneliness, Strip is the story of a stripper and her relationship with her sado-masochistic lover. Snapshots is a powerful look at the institutional violence wrenching at the experience of...

This provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. In the court of the Austrian Emperor Josef, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time:...

"Although his mainstream career has recently included major work for the RSC and the National, the five new pieces collected here show just how close playwright and director Neil Bartlett has stayed to the radical queer cultural roots that first...

Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or 'thought'. These plays have been treated with embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of...

Roger Parsley and Andy Graham have streamlined the well-loved Jane Austen novel and produced a fast-moving, easy to stage adaptation, which retains all the delicate irony, spirit and romance of the original. Left in straitened circumstances when their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802126993Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

His delightful dramatization of Pinocchio's transformation from puppet to real boy has all the charm and delightful characters of the original tale. It is easy to stage with any size company; many music and production suggestions are included for...

The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions and personal animosities. The Critic satirises the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784351595Author Marian FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Max Reinhardt (1873-1943), one of the major theatre figures of the twentieth century, was among the first to establish the importance of the director in modern theatre. His fame outside Germany rests somewhat unfairly on his distorted image as producer...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528144Author Elias CanettiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

A wife whose husband takes her for granted finds romance with a dashing man, but has misgivings when the husband offers to be caught in a compromising situation with his secretary to give her grounds for divorce.3 women, 2 menBook InformationISBN...

Julia Gibbon, a junior minister, is thrown into turmoil by the conflict between private and public morality. Her affair with Penelope Wright, a frank and forthright journalist, very much a thorn-in-the-side of the Establishment, forces Julia to confront...

The first volume of plays by one of Britain's leading playwrights and screenwriters.The first volume of plays by one of Britain's leading playwrights and screenwriters.About the AuthorCharles Wood was born in Guernsey in 1932. He served in the army...