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The Theatre of E. E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings's long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930), and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935). In HIM, a creatively blocked artist and his...

The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. 'The White Devil' depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while 'The Duchess of Malfi' tells the macabre...

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance...

Join Lola on her backstage adventure in the first picture book created with the National Theatre.It's showtime! Lola is a little actor with big dreams. But when disaster strikes on opening night and an important prop goes missing backstage, can Lola save...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362672Author Craig LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, Teenage Dick reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his...

'A beguiling memory play of such subtle and elusive beauty, you feel it might disintegrate if you were to put your finger on it. But the action forms a delicate tissue of loss and regret as the bewitching Hazel causes Mr Berry to reflect on the wife he...

Prepare for the Cambridge IGCSE Drama 2022 syllabus with an approach that helps to create a varied, stimulating and enjoyable learning environment that enables students of different confidence and ability levels to flourish. Exam Board:...

Rose Heiney's debut play Elephants is a sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most. 5.53 p.m. Christmas Eve. Richard and Sally are waiting for their friends and...

Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath...

"Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey...the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the social environment and the texture of people's lives." This...

M2 F4. A living room. Fee code M Comedian and national treasure Dave Thursby has died, and on the day of his funeral, friends and colleagues gather beside his coffin to pay their last respects. There's Harvey, who wrote Dave's material; Vi, Harvey's...

"Its aggressive high-octane style is like a shot of caffeine straight in the veins" - Lyn Gardner, Guardian Angel Cruz, a poor Puerto Rican, isn't sure why he's in jail after shooting Reverend Kim, the born-again Christian who brainwashed his best friend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361477Author Mimi Gisolfi D'AponteFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group...

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An...

This collection brings together Philip Ridley's one-act plays for young people, known as The Storyteller Sequence, ideal for teenagers to either watch or perform. Karamazoo is a fifteen-minute monologue about one of the coolest, most popular kids in...

Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats. When his parents are kidnapped, he...

The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban. Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762437Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting...

The Roman comic playwright "whose every word delights."Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies-first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BC-imaginatively...

'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,...

Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we...

It's 1955 and the Pallas Players, an all-female theatre company, are putting on a play: Whisky Galore. They transport us back to 1943 on the Scottish islands of Great and Little Todday, where the whisky supply has dried up because of the war, leaving...

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113550Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604444032Author James HiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113185Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Jim Becker and his unlicensed drivers take the people of Pittsburgh Hill District where regular taxi cabs won't - healing old wounds and tearing new ones as they pass the time in a condemned taxi rank between pick-ups. August Wilson's groundbreaking...

A young actress meets a powerful film producer in his hotel suite. A revolutionary leads an attack on a colonial club in India. A bereaved mother defends herself against charges of infanticide. Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives...

A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life, from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. Three sisters in a remote fishing village, trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at The New Electric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613975Author Philip BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110634Author Gail YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a young woman's determination to change her life.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787199804Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 250g

Set in late 19th century London, the film tells of Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), a popular American magician, with his British mentor Harry Cutter (Michael Caine) and girlfriend and assistant Olivia (Scarlett Johansson), who is in a friendly rivalry with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874402964Author Judy Elliot McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's Plays

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging...

Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flora's sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India.The...