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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702839Author Dave MalloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881455366Author Elaine LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams)...

Brian and Donna's son is nine years old and he's struggling. That's what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. But Brian and Donna - recently separated - never liked school, never liked teachers. An explosive triple confrontation that...

First published in 1938, this book forms the second part of a two-volume edition of the Oresteia. The first volume contains the original Greek text of the Oresteia with a facing-page English translation, notes and a detailed introduction. This second...

Anyway. I was just wondering if you had any jobs at all? . . . Yeah . . . like . . . media. Something to do with media stuff . . . Where am I based? Well, currently Herefordshire but . . . sorry . . . that's too far away . . . too far away from what? . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739141127Author Emma BloorFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Nielsen BooksPublisher Nielsen BooksWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 21mm

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning, the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death like all the young brides before her. But she has one...

First published in 1938, this book forms part one of a two-volume edition of the Oresteia. This first volume contains the original Greek text of the Oresteia with a facing-page English translation and notes. A detailed introduction is also provided. The...

Fires are becoming something of a problem. But Biedermann has it all under control. He's a respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, so surely nothing can get to him. The great philanthropist is happy to meet his...

THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018)Euripides' Medea, the brutally powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the centuries, has been brought to fresh and urgent life by one of our best...

When Alice falls down a mysterious rabbit hole she stumbles upon a magical fantasy world where anything can happen . . . Take tea with the Mad Hatter, meet the White Rabbit, grin with the Cheshire Cat, and play croquet with the Queen of Hearts, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530097Author George Bernard ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 172mm * 106mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555540142Author Maria Irene FornesFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

'Because Christmas. Well... That's when they say people come home.' Andy loves nostalgic television, pints down the pub, and listening to the whole album from beginning to end. His daughter, Maya, wears good shoes, likes good arguments, and has a...

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and...

Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play - one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns...

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters? When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift...

Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000324Author David PibworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'There's your first problem. No Civil War movie ever made a dime. Or ever will.' Hollywood, 1939: semi-independent mogul David O.Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - his megabudget version...

On a reality television show, six remarkable - and remarkably young - geniuses are competing for the coveted Golden Brain trophy and the title 'Britain's Brainiest Child'. As the contestants battle it out round after round, the pressure mounts, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018329Author William NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761058Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

We've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, 'Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their...

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

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.' Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the second in a series of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573699078Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Roy Williams has a deserved reputation as one of the most exciting young writers whose plays have electrified the sort of audiences most theatres rarely see: streetwise urban youth. 'His plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the...

The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family started by Long Day's Journey into Night. James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jnr is a hard-drinking Broadway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132797Author Neil GaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573618284Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner...

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018.Alex and Sara are worried. Their daughter Lee starts school soon and they think her best friend Ernie is going to be a...

How far would you go for what you believe in? Kat gets up one morning, leaves her family behind and travels to London to carry out an act that will change her life and, she hopes, everyone else's. Raw, disturbing and compassionate, James Fritz's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887549267Author Wajdi MouawadFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaPublisher Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaWeight(grams)...

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage. As a child, the orphaned Jane Eyre is taught by a succession of severe guardians to stifle her natural exuberance. A part of...

Packed full of games, activities and exercises, this book is designed to be a drama teacher's best friend. Written by a drama teacher with over twenty years' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary school, GCSE and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613050Author Jean-Paul SarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer. Scorching heat. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When her boyfriend is attacked on the street, feisty eighteen-year-old Katie is thrust on a white-knuckle ride through one extraordinary evening...