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We've got no money but we're still in Waitrose twice a day.Because going to Tesco just makes life not even worth living.Viv has lost a shoe. They're her work shoes, her weekend shoes, her only pair of shoes, and she doesn't know what to do. The curtains...

Inua Ellams has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in British and international theatre. Collected together for the first time are four of Ellams' acclaimed plays, including The 14th Tale, Untitled, Black T-Shirt Collection and...

In Killology, players are rewarded for torturing victims, scoring points for "creativity". But Killology isn't sick. In fact it's marketed by its millionaire creator as a deeply moral experience. Because yes, you can live out your darkest fantasies,...

A collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre. These eight short plays by some of the most exciting new Irish playwrights around were commissioned and staged by the Abbey...

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This clever, disturbing, and controversial play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle aged couple whose only daughter, Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetable following a car accident. Suddenly, a polite, helpful and clean cut but satanic...

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone is an investigation into what happens when we discover that our parents are flawed human beings and that at some point, sooner than we think, they are suddenly going to disappear from our lives. Intimate and funny,...

Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier by Somalia Seaton - a racially-motivated attack on a student forces her teacher to confront the uncomfortable truth lurking beneath the community. Fraser Grace's Always Orange, set in the aftermath of the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010774Author W. Somerset MaughamFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This book provides a critical assessment of dramatic literature since 1995, situating texts, companies and writers in a cultural, political and social context. It examines the shifting role of the playwright, the dominant genres and emerging styles of...

This is the third volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1987 and 1991. The contributors are Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale, Brian Cox, Gregory...

This is the first volume in the series Theatre in Europe: a documentary history. The authors have compiled a documentary account of the theatre in Britain during the Restoration and Georgian period, which covers some 120 years of theatrical activity. It...

This volume presents three plays by women that were written in specific household contexts and survive in distinctive handwritten copies dating from their authors' lifetimes. Care is taken in the introductions, notes, and apparatus to make the plays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110207Author Cecil P. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

I am honoured to meet you.You are, as they say, a man after my own heart.And you have lifted mine.My heart, that is.Two men, together, on the edge of heaven. In a strange restaurant, two American giants who revere each other, Groucho Marx and T. S...

Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse,...

"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times). Among Nichols'...

"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of...

One of the most astonishing discoveries of modern times is the immensity of the past mnemonic / ni’monik / adj. 1. assisting or intended to assist memory; 2. of memory A body is found in the ice, and a woman is looking for her father while a man searches...

Thomas Cromwell. Son of a blacksmith, political genius, briber, charmer, bully. A man with a deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'...

John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he...

Mike's dead dad's friend's daughter has asked him to father her child. His boyfriend Bert isn't convinced. Their housemate Sofia has her own fish to fry. She needs to find a man before it's too late, but her dad keeps getting in the middle. A moving and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110597Author Terence RattiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899747108Author Alistair McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Upstart Crow PublicationsPublisher Upstart Crow Publications

Jana is on the cusp of adulthood; she’s started dating her first boyfriend and is getting ready to leave her war-torn hometown, to provide for her family. However, when she wakes up in a basement in Sarajevo, it is clear that life doesn’t always follow...

It's a culture that begins with a joke, a gesture, a throwaway word or a game between friends, and it ends in an act of violence.Jo Mulligan is the first female master in her prestigious college's history. Determined to create a space where everyone...

Henry VIII's court is a stage for love and treachery, where the weapons of choice are sex, marriage – and the executioner's axe. As Henry's mistress, Mary Boleyn is a pawn in her family's lust for power. Queen Katherine of Aragon hasn't produced a male...

Separated into two parts, Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great follows the conquests of an outlaw who slowly rises to power through extreme displays of aggression. When Mycetes, the king of Persia, complains to his brother, Cosroe, about a group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802127716Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761416Author Lucy GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679405832Author Oscar WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm)...

Drawing on his own papers and first published in 1799, this two-volume account traces the colourful life of the actor and playwright Charles Macklin (c.1699-1797). His long career serves as the focal point in a history of the eighteenth-century theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212952Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Characters: 8 male, 4 female Unit set. This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573605727Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361859Author Conor McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9780553213089Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573697500Author Anton ChekovFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'You forget I knew you were a queer long before I knew you were a fascist.' 1974, a public lavatory. Nicky shaves his head, watched by an older man. Publicly, Nicky is a skinhead. And a neo-Nazi. But right now, in this place, that doesn't matter. This...