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A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where there's more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762659Author Robert FarquharFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013546Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Based on more than a decade of practice, Playing for Time Theatre Company presents the reader with a rich and invaluable resource for using theatre in criminal justice contexts, exploring ideas of identity, community, social justice and the power of the...

The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically...

In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images...

For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573695094Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them.Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world...

Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly modern play. The story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman military discipline and acute social deprivation is told in splintered dialogue and jagged episodes, which are as shocking and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802276657Author Keith RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Keith RogersPublisher Keith RogersWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

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 ...

'There's a knock at the door.' Fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling marriage, leaving her family behind, she's back with an urgent request. Lucas Hnath's funny, probing and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen's...

We will fix it. We will mend it...In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality,...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...

Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer's...

Adapted for the stage by the author, Takin' Over the Asylum is a hilarious, updated and profoundly moving adaptation of Donna Franceschild's Bafta-winning BBC TV-series. Set in a Scottish mental institution, the play reveals hope and joy in the fragile...

This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights. In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married...

A funny and tender drama that explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America. In South Boston you're starting on the wrong side of the tracks - it's tough just making ends meet. So...

Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair.John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573619731Author #N/AFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 4mm

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)...

'When am I going to wake up and be different?' Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a whole world of men. In this funny, unapologetic play, three twenty-something women figure out how they really feel about sex, their bodies and each other. With...

An uproarious new version of Dario Fo's frenetic farce Can't Pay? Won't Pay! which, although set in Italy, has an all too familiar ring to it. Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters into their own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820471198Author Phyllis M. JappFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 450g

`Okay I'm sorry but I don't want to have a meal. I want to talk and find out a bit more about you and ideally have sex. Or maybe not full sex but - I need to be home by 11 p.m.' Dating again after a complex break-up, Jessie is trying to get her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439196717Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 214mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824813796Author Robert T. RolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams) 709g

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and ambitious young student, discovers the secret of creating life from the remains of the dead. But elation at his triumph is replaced by horror when he sees his monstrous creation. Abandoned by the one who made him,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420975284Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

'bless this country, God bless karaoke and God save the Queen.'It's karaoke night at The Albion, a proper East End boozer and the unofficial home of the English Protection Army. Paul runs the pub, girlfriend Christine rules the roost, and little brother...

Alex and Rupert aren't a conventional match, but a caffeinated meeting on the Underground ignites a spark. Skip forward to them fighting over baby names, nursery colours and ways to save money. All the signs of a normal family in waiting. Then Alex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486268774Author Sir YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm)...

Rita, Sue and Bob Too by Andrea Dunbar; A State Affair by Robin Soans When it first came out, Rita Sue and Bob Too caused a sensation for it's frank portrayal of child sexuality in a Northern Town; the fact that the play was based on the writer's own...

No one's any right to be what father is - never questioned, never answered back... First staged in 1912 and described as "the most powerful play produced in England in this decade," Githa Sowerby's Edwardian classic on family and labour enjoyed huge...

First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin,...

When an unhappy estate agent sells a house to Alice, a charismatic social media influencer, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. But as her obsession with Alice's seemingly perfect world intensifies, the lines between online and reality become...

'I don't know how I became so filled with hate. I find it shocking that I did. Somebody said to me that war affects us in all kinds of ways, and that drinking is only one of them. Perhaps hating people is another. Perhaps sex is too.' 1943,...

Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel - an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide - this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the...