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'You can't pick your family but if you could I'd still pick you.' Sisters Connie and Ursula were once everything to each other. Years on, they're almost strangers. When a family bombshell is dropped, Connie is forced to retrace forty years of...

Set in the Malayan jungle, this critically acclaimed play is tough, realistic and full of comedy. Its characters are British soldiers who look upon their duty in the jungle with a marked lack of enthusiasm until they discover that soldiering is something...

October 31st 1978. Thomond Park, Limerick. The mighty New Zealand All Blacks, oin an Irish tour, take on the none-too-mighty Munster team - and, to everyone's surprise, they lose 12-0. From this piece of Irish sporting history John Breen has fashioned a...

A new play from the Abbey Theatre, directed by Conor McPherson, author of The Weir Billy and Breda haven't had a night out together in years. Tonight, Breda's lost the weight and gained a babysitter and a new outfit and is ready to sweep Billy off his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115585Author Katy BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A whimsical day by the sea in a British resort. An emerald necklace has been stolen and the Inspector has to investigate an extraordinary mix of characters. Part of the triple bill The Rule of Three which also features The Rats and The Patient.-5 women,...

Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a major transformation took place in British dramatic culture. At the heart of that transformation was the controversial emergence of an illegitimate theatre, and a cultural struggle between London's patent...

For Pat, recently widowed, this year's charabanc trip to Whitby is tinged with sadness, but she is determined to enjoy herself. Phil and Edna provide entertainment with old-time dancing. Phil, too, is trying to enjoy herself, despite being trapped in a...

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'What if I look down at my baby and I don't know who they are? Just some... entity. Alien to me. Staring back. A nothing. Or worse, look down and all I see is Ed Sheeran.' Two couples each invite a stranger into their homes in the hope of sparking new...

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"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987...

This lively and highly innovative book reconstructs the texture and meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry. Integrating theories of language and social action with close reading of contemporary sources, Peter Bailey provides...

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Dan, a bell hop who arrives at the Bramson bungalow, has already murdered one woman and there is little doubt that he will soon murder another: the aged Mrs. Bramson herself. He skillfully insinuates himself into her affections while attempting to seduce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573618239Author Anthony ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126386Author Jessica HischeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391g

A fierce and excoriating portrait of British racism, Roy William's Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads premiered in 2002 at the National Theatre. Set in a south-west London pub during the 2000 England vs. Germany match, tempers are running high. As...

"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)Book InformationISBN 9780413686107Author David StoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 226g

It's time you realised that your show is a thing of the past. It's dead. A fragment of history. This is the future and I need you to come on board. Their choice? To die onstage - or off it. Beautiful and bonkers - it's the clown show about...

Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called...

In this late Restoration comedy Vanbrugh not only pushes the unhappily married couple, which had been good for no more than a raucous subplot in earlier comedies of manners, centre-stage - he also makes the audience sympathise with the wife: The only...

Anyone can learn maps and battles. Geezer, I feel it! I live it! I'm giving everything to this beautiful, wild, absolutely pure British thing. Like, do you know what it took to get here, man? Stevie is a disillusioned academic who once wrote an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033841Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016370Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Laughing. Talking. Hours in cafes drinking coffee. Chatting about boys. Girls. Romance. Sharing a plate of chips. It was one of those friendships...I don't know how to explain...like...Love.Cabaret singer Foxie O'Hara vanished two weeks ago from Mrs...

Butley 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically defeatist and hurtful is its ability to be funny. The stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, the skeptical view of the teacher-pupil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019395Author Marie JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 61Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A new edition of House of America, playwright Ed Thomas's obliquely structured account of a dysfunctional Welsh Valleys family living on the edge of an open-cast mine whose loss of self-worth and sanity is fatally accelerated by the imported dreams they...

Britannia calls a meeting, to listen to her people. Caledonia, Cymru, East Midlands, North East, Northern Ireland and the South West bring the voices of their regions. The debate is passionate and opinions divided. Can there ever be a United Kingdom?In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of An Leabhar Neo-fhicsein as Fhearr (Duais Dhomhnaill Meek) / Best Non-fiction Book (Donald Meek Prize) 2021 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781906841416Author Michelle...

It's 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and it's tricky being Fiz. She's thirteen, she's got no money, her sister's pregnant and her mum thinks she's a waste of space... Rick remembers what it's like to be a teenager. So he thinks it won't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573052514Author Mark RavenhillFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level. Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching in KFC, discussing apartments and making plans for the...

'Not bloody likely' Ever since Pygmalion opened in London in April 1914 it has proved a very controversial play, from the (then) shocking language, to arguments about its correct ending. Critical interpretations have been similarly disputatious,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110504Author Paddy CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This volume presents two plays written for Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and not yet staged in English.The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema rewrites Euripides' Phoenician Women. As Thebes braces itself for civil war, a group of terrifying...

This is Jean McConnell's fourth volume of Deckchairs plays, each with a cast of two women and requiring only a simple setting. Two are comedies, two dramas, and all display Jean McConnell's keen-eyed view of human nature and of the foibles and fancies of...

The latest collection of David Storey's plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. Introduced by the author This third volume of David Storey's plays contains The Changing Room (Royal Court 1971): "If The Changing Room is...

The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses...