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Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror story, this dramatic adaptation shows the transformation of the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into the fiendish Mr Hyde. When Jekyll discovers a drug that can transform him, he becomes able to unleash the dark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714503615Author Peter WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change. Through script and photographs this book documents the show I'm a Phoenix, Bitch, Kimmings' personal response to the trauma of having post-natal breakdown. In 2016, Bryony...

Ella Hickson's version of J.M. Barrie's much-loved story puts the character of Wendy firmly centre stage, in an adaptation that is refreshingly modern but never loses the charm of the original. Winter 1908. Snow is falling across London. Wendy Darling...

This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762512Author Chris HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414232Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 75gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420966572Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper. It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211227Author Rhona SilverbushFormat PaperbackPage Count 1092Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804920Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Shelagh Stephenson's daring and thoughtful new play 1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics. 1999 - In a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering,...

'Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?' Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another - if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct. ...

A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners fight for control of Johnny Silver, the latest young...

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...

Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a...

'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with...

An absurd, hilarious and fast-paced comedy by the writer of some of Britain's most acclaimed TV comedies. Flight BA043 has crashed on an island. Stranded, four survivors wait. Surely somebody will find them. Planes don't just disappear, do they? And,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018046Author Keith WaterhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Zara has spent her adult life being two different people. The good Muslim daughter, all set to marry the man her family approves of - and a free-spirited British millennial, who parties as hard as she works. Over one dramatic weekend, the lies she's...

The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are...

The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953466Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh...

Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw remains one of the world's most important and popular writers. His plays are regularly performed around the world, from the boards of Broadway and the West End to regional, community, and college stages. The three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114151Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons - Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, is a modern day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action - the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who are locked in a free for all of competing ambitions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 and Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781559369527Author Jackie Sibblies DruryFormat...

Sarah Daniels is "a writer with a natural talent for disturbance" (Observer) Set in the gutting sheds of the slaughterhouse at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, The Gut Girls shows how the lives of the girls are changed when their...

Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the...

A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir. It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house...

1963. In quiet Lake Charles, Louisiana, the destruction of a Confederate statue might just signal that change is in the air... But, whatever the progress of the civil rights movement, in the Gellman household things seem just the same - for now at least...

Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens' first great tragedian.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought ...

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Complete...

A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them. From the remnants...

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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together...

This powerful one-woman play is a moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century and remains sadly relevant today with racial tensions and allegations of antisemitism continuing to dominate the news. Blending the personal with...

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart. Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer,...