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Subject(s): African American men Louisiana New Orleans Drama.Book InformationISBN 9781849430364Author Beau WillimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world. Michael, a married man running a small business, accompanies a squabbling delegation of...

Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. Written with his fellow student, Philip Heimann, while they were both at Oxford, First Episode shows an infatuated undergraduate, Tony,...

"April 1793, the French Revolution is four years old and the Committee of Public Safety under Robespierre finds threats to national liberty at home and abroad. When Gamelin, an ambitious and idealistic young magistrate, joins a group of old friends for a...

"Having moved to Dublin to start a new life, the young Romanian, Madalina, finds herself working in a kebab shop...until her boyfriend Voicu suggests a more lucrative, if not altogether savoury, line of work. Her new career brings her into contact -...

"A hilarious rendition of paranoia" - The New York Times"A hilarious rendition of paranoia" - The New York TimesBook InformationISBN 9781840024975Author Logan BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.Book InformationISBN 9781840024647Author Howard BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Includes the Time Out Best Play Award 1987 'The Garden Girls'Includes the Time Out Best Play Award 1987 'The Garden Girls'Book InformationISBN 9781840025248Author Jacqueline HolboroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher...

A third collection of plays by South African writer, Gail Louw. Includes the plays The Ice Cream Boys, Being Brahms, A Life Twice Given, and Killing Faith.Book InformationISBN 9781786829597Author Gail LouwFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Oberon...

"Settlers wanted for alternative living community in South America, all welcome to apply, unless you're a prick." _x000D_ The world premiere production of acclaimed new Welsh theatre company Motherlode in their London debut following a Welsh...

Meet Hunch. The Superhero. Coming to the rescue when you've splinters on your arse from sitting on the fence. Making decisions to save the lives of others, she must start calling the shots to save her own. Hunch is a new dark comedy about the power of...

Jonathan Munby's explosive revival of Shakespeare's epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre. Performed by a celebrated cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered monarch in a fractured kingdom. ...

You self sabotage. You're always on your phone. You procrastinate. Your bathroom has mould on the shower. You don't exercise regularly. You don't eat your recommended five a day. But it's not too late - it's never too late! Things can be different! You...

There's A Room brings together three works by Third Angel: Where From Here, Presumption and What I Heard About the World. Taken chronologically, these shows turn their attention outward, from the intensity of personal relationships and our domestic...

Cursed with the looks of a clown, he weaves his secret longing into love letters of exquisite beauty that he will never dare to send. All he needs is a perfect nose to match his perfect prose. The handsome Christian has also fallen for Roxane - but while...

To be like this. All the swagger and front, deals and deadlines, and keep you head down and your mouth shut might just one day bring him nearer to this. Different worlds. Matthew and Naomi await the arrival of Ryan and Kelly. They'll meet for one night...

I will NOT be denied. I AM a volcano! And this is MY night. Britain in the 1970s: a time of strikes, blackouts and free love. But Philip's frustrated. While his wife Angela thinks he's past it, he wants to share a whole lotta love with Catherine...

Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical...

I can still hear them, I hear them in my head all the time. Those songs I sang. But I don't sing them anymore. Alfie keeps hiding Beth's gardening gloves. She's got lots to do and it's just not funny anymore. Why won't he realise that gardening is...

I like you, you know that? I know we've only just met, but you're my favourite abortionist. Maz and Bricks is a passionate, angry, funny and touching play which tells the story of two young people who meet over the course of a day in Dublin. Maz is...

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067994Author Clementine Bogg HargrovesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067925Author Stephanie DicksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm

Governor General's Literary Award-winning author and playwright Anosh Irani's critically acclaimed one-man performance Buffoon is a masterclass of tragicomic theatre. Born to circus folk who prefer trapezing over parenting, Felix quickly learns to turn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573606694Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackImprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 95g

We are what we do; what we do can never be undone; our acts have ripple (or explosive) effects long after the act itself; women and men are entirely equal; individual and state violence to other human beings is unforgiveable. In After the Ball we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067857Author Jodie IrvineFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 3mm

Camelot: The Shining City is a modern re-telling of the myth of King Arthur, by award-winning playwright James Phillips. Developed in collaboration with Slung Low, specialists in spectacular theatrical experiences, and Sheffield People's Theatre,...

She could teach more folk round 'ere about what's bloody well important in their lives - when it comes down to it. What matters . . . That precious bit of you that gets buried in shit, and she's there clearin' it all away. Delie is special and she's...

I don't know a girl who hasn't been groped on a train. There's always someone trying to cop a feel. Might as well get paid for it. On Jingu Bridge in Tokyo, teenage girls dress in cosplay outfits for fun, fashion, and the fantasy of being someone...

Your father has been charged with the murder of Ashleigh Richardson, back in 1995. Summer 1995, the Great Barrier Reef. Police divers hover over the reef, looking for traces of Ashleigh by torchlight. Meera is eleven. It's her first sleepover with Lily...

The authoritative edition Love's Labor's Lost from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.At first glance, Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labor's Lost simply entertains and...

Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9781557835871Author Ben HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 744Imprint Applause Theatre Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760622084Author Alana ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915533005Author Abigail HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 9mm

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote...

In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions. This is a detailed exploration of the 'scene of seduction' - the challenge, the...

The Performance Arts in Africa is the first anthology of key writings on African performance from many parts of the continent. As well as play texts, off the cuff comedy routines and masquerades, this exciting collection encompasses community-based...

Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. If Sedaine speaks today to literary history, theatre history and opera studies, it is because he possessed...