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"It's not just the choice It's never just the choice Choice is a fairytale." Tattoos are forever. Almost. And at Noodle Soup Tattoo there are strict rules: No names unless they're dead. Nothing on the face. Nothing you might get sued for later. ...

Ciara's younger sister, Sinead, arrives at her door on Friday evening all set for what Ciara thinks will be a weekend of respite from caring for their mother, Eileen. However, unbeknownst to Ciara, Sinead has alternative ideas about how the weekend will...

Featuring four new plays written and devised in collaboration with groups of secondary school children, this collection examines immigration to and emigration from the UK. A theatre-in-education project coordinated by Tamasha theatre company and The...

Farce / Characters: 4 male, 3 femaleScenery: Unit set The sequel to Run for Your Wife finds the bigamist taxi driver John Smith still keeping his two families in different parts of London, both happy and blissfully unaware of each other. However, his...

An ingenious set greets the audience of this award winning play: the cross section of a Victorian house that has been divided into three flats. The owner, a fastidious, elegant executive named Barbara, contentedly occupies the ordered, male free ground...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015878Author Brian ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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10 characters. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code H This prelude to Shakespeare's most famous tragedy imagines Hamlet as a restless teenager frustrated by the limits of his role and furious at his father's warmongering ways. It provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013072Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Play something kitty-cat-ish . . . sweet. Imagine I've died and you're galloping through fields.As their thirtieth wedding anniversary approaches, Alice and Edgar are locked in a bitter struggle. They've driven away their children and their friends...

I saw the streets, the lights, the cars, the people -Everything moving in different directions at the sametime. . .I wanted to make the map alive.In December 2008, an entrepreneur leaves a tech conference in Paris. As he stands on the street, unableto...

Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragi-comedy from the acclaimed writer of Knives in Hens, one of Scotland's most talented new playwrights A documentary maker returns to the city of his birth. His task, to film his impressions. An old man...

Philip Ashley travels to Italy to find his cousin Ambrose has died suddenly and Rachel, Ambrose's wife, has gone. Philip returns to England convinced Rachel was responsible for Ambrose's death, hoping to inherit his possessions. When Rachel arrives in...

April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze!Jumpy'The funniest new play the West End has seen in ages. It's not only funny,...

Two guides in a gallery - Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain - Two hearts beating 8,000 miles apart - Translations - Transactions - And a transplantation. "England" is the story of a search for a new heart. It's a story about a life saved and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573152221Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128571Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 138g

A short play about death by Caryl Churchill. A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Where is he now? Is his heart lighter than a feather? How did he die? And what happens to his friends? Caryl...

'Let him kill a lion with a pestle, husband; let him kill a lion with a pestle.' So exclaims the Grocer's wife who, with her husband and servants, is attending one of the London's elite playhouses where a theatre comany has just begun to perform. Peeved...

A mobile phone is something that gives you the whole world at the touch of your finger - but this book is even better. Magic Mobile is a collection of thirty 'pre-loaded' new text files in a no-fuss, non-digital entertainment system. In a volume that...

New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell. But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to exploit. Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire, The...

Fully annotated student edition of a modern classic Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal,...

Dazzling and sequin-studded, Kiss Me Quickstep is a play about the world of ballroom dance, taking us behind the fixed smiles and fake tan to look at the real lives of those for whom ballroom dancing is everything. Justin and Jodie have finally made...

The Seventh volume in the Coward Collection. On Quadrille: "Miss Fontanne plays the madcap Marchioness with the crackle and sheen of a five-pound note. Her eyes mock marvelously, her voice cuts like a knife into a wedding cake, and the scene in Act...

This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs is an adaptation of the famous South African writer's diaries and deals with solitary confinement and loneliness - "a remarkable, persuasive picture...

This hilarious play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark. The fun begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll. The wedding itself is quite high spirited too with half the guests, including the...

Macbeth on the Loose is a humorous play aimed at Key Stage 3 students. It is a fun, accessible introduction to Shakespeare which can either be read in class or performed on stage. Activities are provided to help with exploration of the text. They have...

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How do I even start? It's a mental story. Ah know, Ah know, everyone says that - 'ma life's pure mental'. But honestly - a guy drowns, a man eats a live pigeon (though Ah might no have time for that), a woman gets set on fire, right before my eyes! ...

"The only time I feel like dusting down the term 'genius', in the pure sense of an influential demonic character, is when I'm confronted by a great Ken Campbell show." (Michael Coveney, Observer) "Campbell is conducting us on a guided tour...

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time. Strange Fruit is a powerful study of a black family caught between two cultures; Where There is Darkness examines the plight of a West...

Texas Fried Chicken, abject misery and a one-way Ryanair ticket. Everyone hates Iona. Everyone except Pingu. Fitting in is hard when one of you can't shut up and your silent best friend wears a tuxedo to school every day. Sick of the ceaseless bullying...

'My parents are here. In the walls and the floorboards and the bricks of this house. This is not only your street with only your stories.' On a residential street in South East London, reclusive siblings Peppy and Daniel live in a house stuffed full...

Set in 1910, this tells the story of one family's fight for physical and moral survival in the poverty and squalor of the dockland slums of Tyneside. At the centre is the apparently impossible love affair between rugged docker John O'Brien and Mary...

I want to know what the other trees know Go where the other trees go Where do they go? Writer Hannah Khalil collaborates with Shakespeare's Globe in London in this magical re-imagining and re-wilding of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale...

With Black Plays, Yvonne Brewster clearly demonstrated the need for a regular anthology to record the vitality of Black playwriting. For her second volume she has selected The Dragon Can't Dance, adapted from a novel by Earl Lovelace in which the...

'I'm thirty-six, I'm a comedian, and I'm about to kill my boyfriend.' A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right - and then does everything wrong. Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far...

'The short play - very traditional to Irish theatre - is a little jewel of a structure, a lightning flash on a different world, the illumination made all the more acute by brevity' Deirdre Kinahan Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright and...

An engaging classroom playscript. Blending science fiction with the dangers of human ambition, this is a story of scientific discovery turned nightmare. There are many whispered questions when medical student Griffin arrives at a small village wrapped in...

"I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves. They're...