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'I dunno. Like...I think I just wanna do something different, I don't wanna do things the way everyone else is doing them but I don't know how and I don't know what I even mean.' It's the middle of the night, and Peebs and Epi are the only students...

The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four...

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A collection of screen and radio plays including: Cigarettes and Chocolate "one of the best radio plays I ever heard...profoundly original" (Financial Times); Hang Up "an intense and brilliantly realised study of a love affair"...

In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus. ...

'A scared playwright won't write a good play. We're going to have to try to find a bit more steel.' - Telegraph Ryan Craig is not afraid of controversial topics. Described as a 'playwright with the ability to become one of the best of his...

He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible.Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. It's about the second when the guard ...

He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible.Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. It's about the second when the guard ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761461Author Lucy GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.Alan Bennett Plays 1 includes Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy.About the AuthorALAN BENNETT has...

Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems - and that, though they may be together, they have never...

'We are all the authors of our own love story.' Casey's new boyfriend Brett is handsome, romantic and devoted - a dream come true. He writes poetry! He makes quiche! For once in her life, Casey is in a relationship with a man who attends to her every...

Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this...

A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre At The Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland...

'We should have brought a gift.' 'We've brought a gift. It's called twenty-two thousand pounds.' Purchased from Russia. Developed in India. Delivered to the UK. A global transaction over nine months that offers 'a lifetime of happiness' for all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522861386Author Steven SuttieFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and...

A book packed with one hundred monologues, aimed at young performers from pre teens to young adults. The book has been written by a drama teacher with over twenty years' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary...

Young Marx is a comedy set in 1850's London, where Karl Marx, is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke and restless, the play portrays the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary as a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and...

Patrick Marber's blackly comic play about a hard-nosed and successful Jewish showbiz agent dealing with a mid-life crisis follows his Dealer's Choice and Closer to complete a loose trilogy set in contemporary London.Howard Katz, Patrick Marber's bleakly...

Act Normal includes 31 contemporary monologues from Too Much Punch For Judy, Hard To Swallow, Missing Dan Nolan, I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die, Game Over ... and many more of Mark's plays and musicals. Written with young performers in mind...

Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical...

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the laconic means and compassionate ends of...

Science and religion go head to head in David Baddiel's debut play: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers. When physics student Edie seems to prove, scientifically, the existence of God, it has far-reaching effects. Not least for...

The clocks are set. The line is drawn. They've got a chance to be champions. But at what cost? When Ann joins Sophie's running club she's thrown into a world of regimented training and pure focus. The two girls couldn't be more different, but soon...

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's Kerry Jackson's pride and joy.Wearing her working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry must navigate the...

A modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is a single dad hanging on tight. Julie is fighting to follow her dream of studying at Cambridge. Two Welsh teens raised a few streets apart - but from entirely different worlds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128557Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153g

An engaging classroom playscript. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumbling, cold-hearted, shrivelled old miser who deplores the warmth and merriment of Christmas. One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the chain-bound ghost of his old...

An engaging classroom playscript. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumbling, cold-hearted, shrivelled old miser who deplores the warmth and merriment of Christmas. One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the chain-bound ghost of his old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018404Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his...

"Club toilets have taught me more about sisterhood than any book." Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories of bathroom encounters. Drunken heart-to-hearts by dirty sinks,...

"Club toilets have taught me more about sisterhood than any book." Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories of bathroom encounters. Drunken heart-to-hearts by dirty sinks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573614965Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at...

Gloriously raucous rites-of-passage drama set in Romford Market 'You've got to talk to them son. Listen to them. Look for a way in. You're a handsome bloke - they'll love you. Give me a year and I'll teach you everything I know.' There's an art to...

When Dame Beatrice is given a mink stole by her maid, she is reminded of the maid's shady past and immediately suspects that it was stolen from the the next flat. A former army officer and other lodgers endeavour to return the stole. The plan is devised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985297388Author John VanbrughFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Sometimes you crack.Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that.Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it outAnd sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you've healed.This is a new day.Shedding a Skin is a story for our times. It's a play...