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Drama as a process-centred form is a popular and valued methodology used to develop thinking and learning in children, while theatre provides a greater focus on the element of performance. In recent years, offering drama and theatre as a shared...

The central situation of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is an incestuous love between brother and sister, and it is hardly surprising that critics have differed widely in their interpretation of the exact meaning and significance of the play...All the love...

In the family of passions none is more patient than hate. This masterpiece of the Elizabethan stage, first published in 1607, is a study of debauchery, deep offense, and the high cost of revenge. It is often compared to Hamlet for its relentless tension...

These five plays provide an excellent introduction to Kaiser's vision of the regeneration of man, which he illustrated in his works by a total paring down of detail, penetrating to the core of the matter and revealing man's true potential. In From...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. Thomas Heywood's play A Woman Killed with Kindness...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price An intense and powerful drama, set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. Elizabeth Holroyd is an educated woman with refined sensibilities, struggling to make a good home for her two...

A bitter-sweet comedy spanning five decades of frustrated philandering. Volume includes Duologue, a play for one actress, originally written for television and never published before.Book InformationISBN 9781848421653Author Terence RattiganFormat...

"In Scribe's Le Puff (1848) - translated here as Believe It or Not - an honourable cavalry officer returns to Paris after five years abroad to find his countrymen happily addicted to exaggeration, dissimulation and downright lying. Can he find happiness...

This title contains four plays by the distinguished Scottish-based writer Stanley Eveling, long associated with Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. In "The Strange Case of Martin Richter", a group of men with a terrible past act out a fantasy in a...

L'Avare (1666) is Moliere's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser's family and servants. First performed at the Festival Theatre, Chichester...

"Remarkable playExtremely funny" - The GuardianBook InformationISBN 9781840025255Author Roy SmilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

When a journalist is sent a flash-drive containing critical evidence of illegal government activity, he is duty-bound to publish the story. But with the nation destabilised and divided, a sinister power is eroding the rule of law. What price will he pay...

Sam is a good person. But what makes someone a good person? How far would you go to convince others you are? When your mind can't differentiate between the truth and a lie, facts become irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the story you...

Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics is an edited collection that covers the areas in which the series has generated the most academic interest: performance and technology; gender and reproduction; biopolitics and community. Chapters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783209071Author John NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760621872Author Tom LycosFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Chekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine. Arkadina, a famous actress, and her lover, a famous novelist, are spending the summer on her country estate, but...

Snookered probes into the lives of young Muslim men and their fragile masculinity, burdened by cultural expectations yet charged with personal dreams. In a volatile political climate, Ishy Din opens a timely window into a strand of British Muslim life...

Four essential classic plays with an introduction by the editor The comedies of Plautus and Terence are all that survive to us of a great age of Roman comedy theatre. Collected here are four important plays that offer a unique insight into everyday life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816606672Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Scenography - the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment - is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874404906Author L Frank BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 4mm

Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015137Author Stan BarstowFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Is morality just what the majority say? Is that all it is? If I don't vote, I'm not part of that discussion. Rob Drummond returns to the National with a new show about democracy. The Majority charts Rob's journey as he navigates the Scottish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051422Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941704158Author Terry BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Exit PressPublisher Exit PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 20mm

An odyssey of pain, blood, love and loss. An unreal journey through two disturbed minds, and the unfolding events leading up to the self crucifixtion of their father in the front room. Enter the insane world of siblings Michael and Michelle. Debris is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762680Author John A. PenzottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Tiffany's mum got hit by a Birdseye truck on the M25. There's family to call and a coffin to order, but first she has to talk to her dad - and for some reason that's the toughest thing on her to-do list. On the doorstep, an oozing paper bag holds a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662831775Author J C RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Mill City Press, IncPublisher Mill City Press, IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

"Extraordinarily powerful...it is a privilege to attend such a theatrically excellent event."-Independent "Taut and beautifully written...an inspiration."-Observer Four very different one-act plays that study the effect of war on very different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760622442Author Suzie MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 7mm

This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling. Tiffany Stern's comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the author's career and gives a history of the play...

During the summer holidays of 2009 Corey dreams of nothing but hanging around with his friends while ordering as much Morley's as possible... until Jodie comes along. Meeting her makes Corey realise the changes that are happening within his beloved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132902Author Lorna FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

When Bella Baird an isolated creative writing professor at Yale begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become...

Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some times grimly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy. Professor Styan explains...

A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money. Though Amy and Simon have the money and children that life has so far denied Nick and Rachel, their friendship forged years ago has remained constant. But when they hand their less fortunate...

Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderellais the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein's most beloved songs including "In My Own Little Corner " "Impossible/It's Possible" and...