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The Good Companions focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party between the World Wars. It was arguably Priestley's most famous novel, written in 1929, and the work which established him as a national figure. This 1931 stage adaptation was...

"This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: 'On the authority of what gods' the white aliens rupture the world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda...a masterpiece of 20th century drama" (Guardian) Elesin Oba, the...

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's...

A country house is thrown into chaos as an innuendo-obsessed inspector disregards conventions and upsets everyone in thisfast-paced, uproarious satire. Murder. Mystery. And pipes. This spoof thriller requires no set.2 women, 3 menBook InformationISBN...

A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War. 1942. The Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast. RAF bomber pilot Teddy is celebrating a reunion with his...

In one of the poorest cities in America - Reading, Pennsylvania - a group of factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on the playwright's extensive...

Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the wife's confession is anything but convincing and the unexpected guest decides to help. Remarkably, the...

This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.David Hare Plays 3, containing Skylight, Amy's View, The Judas...

These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and issues of power, sex and corruption...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573693199Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

This play can be performed with any number of characters, and with simple settings. Inspired by the true stories of a young offender from Glasgow, a 15 year old who had committed a violent crime, this short play was part of the National Theatre's "New...

New York, summer 1954 Criminal Courts Building A man is dead The life of another is at stake A "guilty" verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the...

A poignant new play explores exactly what it means to dice with death when being alive proves to be painful.A poignant new play explores exactly what it means to dice with death when being alive proves to be painful.About the AuthorRoy Smiles' other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707308Author David CaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573611261Author Robert PatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and...

'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued scholars, readers and play-goers for over four hundred years: What happened next? Prince Lear tackles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363150Author Steven SaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

You'll never keep me locked up, white man. This is one nigga you don't get to keep, white man. Cos I'm gonna bark every time you come near. D'you understand?Christopher has been confined to a psychiatric ward for a month. He wants out. The problem is he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838462413Author Irvine WelshFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ZANIPublisher ZANI

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Family, food, music and mourning. Gloria is gravely sick. When her time comes, the celebration begins; the traditional Jamaican Nine Night Wake. But for Gloria's children and grandchildren, marking her death with a party that lasts over a week is a...

Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you...

These plays are set in the cruelest decades of 20th-century Europe. Their characters survive, or succumb, with more or less honor, as history plays out around and through them. Includes: White Seam, A Break in Berlin and Partisans. Roger Howard is the...

In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881455977Author Peter UllianFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

'I want the world to change shape.' 'I'm not sure theatre can do that.' 'Well then where am I meant to take that impulse because I'm very serious about the endeavour?' A young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain...

It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. Superstition makes things work in the Discworld, and undermining it can have consequences. It's just not right to find Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say 'Ho Ho Ho...' It's the last...

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the...

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573701597Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Evening Standard Award - Most Promising Playwright 1977 and Plays & Players Award 1977 and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 1978 and Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award...

The Lehrstucke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809005420Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295g

Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group...

"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old,...

Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights. Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain. It's four in...

Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and...

This Student Edition of Brecht's classic satire on the rise of Hitler features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study...