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It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book. Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton...

Four dogs lie in cages in an animal shelter. A Dog's Life depicts the moment when a woman comes to the shelter and has to choose between the dogs - a choice that literally means life or death to the oldest, Ben. This compassionate drama, easy to stage -...

It is life's great aim. To find a way to be honest with oneself, even as the world pretends around you.Dashing soldier Anastasius Linck has no intention of falling in love, but a chance encounter with the rebellious Catharina Mulhahn changes everything...

We need to start at the start. Yes, yes, we do or the Neurotypicals will be confused. There was something off about the new guy. But now he's dead, and the sirens are fast approaching. Who to trust - what was it he told you that time on the pedalo? ...

The Night Season'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573025068Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War. The play was first performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 1932.Book InformationISBN 9780573114670Author W Somerset MaughamFormat...

Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night, he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the...

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The second play by a "writer of terrific promise" (Time Out) is a comedy of family intrigue and secrets Interwoven events from the past and present blend together in this touching comedy spanning two generations of a family. Secrets that refuse to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804913Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

This play takes the subject of a doting mum who finds it hard to accept that her son is leaving the fold to get married. Betty, a passionate 50-something housewife from Leeds, is this women. On the morning of her son Mark's wedding, she retreats to the...

Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431840Author Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out With a dead cat stuffed through a letterbox, a soupcon of mindless violence and...

Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't . . . William Carlisle has the world at his feet, but its weight on his shoulders. He is...

One bathroom. Two people. One day. A relationship witnessed in minute, devastating detail. A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love, Jack Thorne's play Mydidae exposes the private and disturbing moments a couple share, and explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787377950Author John FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

"I do not organise the ticket queue, it is up to the people in the ticket queue to organise themselves. Have I made myself clear?" Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2022 One final night. One last chance. Five people queue for a ticket to...

'Shisha lounges are an essential part of the Muslim experience, bruv, like the Fillet-O-Fish.' Chunkyz Shisha Lounge is a home away from home for Jihad, Rashid and Asif, a space where community whispers are heard, jokes are told, and new hustles are...

Quarantined in his aunt and uncle's stuffy flat because his brother has measles, Tom is restless and bored. Intrigued by a grandfather clock, Tom is startled one night to hear it strike 13. Going to investigate, Tom discovers a Victorian garden of the...

'I think it's queer. And it's about to get queerer...' Edward II wanders on to the empty stage, bloodied and confused. He has no idea where he is, or how he got here, but he does have an ominous feeling that something is wrong. As that feeling grows,...

For more than 25 years, York Notes have been helping students throughout the UK to get the inside track on the written word. Firmly established as the nation's favourite and most comprehensive range of literature study guides, each and every York Note...

'Place like this - you know this - place like this gets in your blood. Once it's in your blood, you can't get it out.' One night under Cardiff skies, four lost souls go looking for answers. After dark, when the world is quiet, their paths weave and...

A dramatic adaptation of the celebrated Anglo-Saxon epic poem in which a wandering hero comes to the aid of a nation held in terror by a savage monster.Book InformationISBN 9781408520024Author David CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Nelson...

Looking at Edward Gray's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person. It is also impossible not to laugh at the results hilariously portrayed in this early play by...

The Actress dramatises the events backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her emotional farewell performance. Various people from her life invade her dressing room to say their goodbyes, declare their love, roar with laughter, spit insults,...

Jacq and Kas's boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin that his investment is toast is only the start of the evening. Cash, class, identity and infidelity are all on the menu. As the last...

Comedy / 4m, 14f / Int. Coward's tribute to theatre is set in a retirement home for actresses, all former stars. Jealousies abound, especially between Lotta and another who was also married to her former husband. A tragedy brings them to their senses and...

"No talent at all when it comes to cooking - as you will discover - but when it comes to pissing off my children - immense talent - Olympian talent." Newbury, 1997. Sal is attempting to cook dinner for the family. She and husband David have pulled off...

This place is about to blow.A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and strangers begin to appear on their doorstep, seeking shelter from the floods...

Rose and Bert rent a room that might almost be a paleolithic cave; the outside is terrifying and unknown. Rose never goes out, Bert only goes to drive his van with furious aggression. A young couple call, and then a blind black man. Bert comes home,...

A man schemes to murder his wealthy wife for the love of another woman the sister, an actress friend or the au pair? Victim and victimized become intertwined in this startling drama.-4 women, 5 menBook InformationISBN 9780573014529Author Francis...

"[A] lively provocative play. . . . This is the work of a writer with a future."-Guardian[A] lively provocative play... This is the work of a writer with a future.' GuardianAbout the AuthorAtiha Sen Gupta has written short plays, long plays and...

Jesus didn't die so we could be reborn, lady, the stars did. The writer leads his followers towards the end of this world and the start of a new one. The book he's written predicts it all - the equations, the black hole, all the words we'll speak till...

I NeanderthalPrince of the PlainsI saw EdenIt wasn't muchI sawThe treeThe gatesRustyBut stillIntactI sawThe triple lockThe jack bootThe size of an oakI retreatedWiselyGod they WereUgly Marina Carr's iGirl premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in...

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing - a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a Thamesmead housing estate, Babies is based on the...

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing - a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a Thamesmead housing estate, Babies is based on the...

Orphan Mary Lennox, snobbish and aloof, is sent to stay with her reclusive uncle at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire. She makes friends with Dickon, who understands animals and nature, and discovers a secret garden that she can tend. As the garden is...