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Mickey and his team of cornermen never seem to have much luck in the boxing world. The fighters they manage always end up losing and, after a disastrous last outing, no one wants to work with them. All that changes when they sign Sid, a young boxer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363846Author Tony KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735271637Author Maravillas LencinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Valmar BooksPublisher Valmar BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573703010Author Madeleine GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre...

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve prime ministers in a weekly audience at BuckinghamPalace, a meeting like no other in British public life. It is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said.The...

Stage adaptation of the latest Discworld blockbuster Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see...

Here in this tear, are love and truth and friendship, those qualities alone can build a new world today and must build a better one tomorrow. It is 1945. A young airman jumps to certain death from his burning aircraft. His last words are to a girl he has...

A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part sacred rite, Annie Baker's play The Antipodes asks what...

Two hapless understudies occupy their time backstage, trying to understand art, life, theatre and their precarious existence within it. Described as "delectable" by The New York Times and "gleefully absurd" by Time Out New York this hilariously witty...

Snake in the Grass"A terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable... In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class." Yorkshire PostIf I Were You"A blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113123Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.' 1981. Hollywood. Sue Mengers, the first female 'superagent' at a time when women talent agents of any kind are almost unheard of, invites you into her Beverly Hills home for an evening of dish,...

It is 1999. Hannah is sixteen. She loves karaoke and her bloke Bullfrog; she hates her home town of Margate and the Kosovan asylum-seekers who have come to live there. Hanna is also sixteen. She loves karaoke, loves Margate - and is one of the...

Americans Zack and Abby are bright, young and recently married. He's a doctor combating infant disease. She's an actress, also teaching yoga. It's just before Christmas and they're living the expat highlife in bohemian Belleville, Paris. It's all a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573021763Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739302016Author Joe MeloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Beercott BooksPublisher Beercott Books

In 1953 a man wrote a play about waiting. In 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform it. It's 2022 and we're still waiting. Since Samuel Beckett's ground-breaking Waiting for Godot first hit the stage in 1953, countless men across the world have...

Edited from seven sensational days of High Court transcripts, witness the case of Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney unfold in their own words. A story stranger than fiction that blurs the boundaries of tabloid scoop, court case and soap opera, this trial...

A Tempest is Aime Cesaire's anti-colonialist refashioning of Shakespeare. Alongside The Tragedy of King Cristophe and A Season in the Congo, it completes a 'triptych' of plays that examine the effects of colonialism. This translation premiered at The...

The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions.Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn...

This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney. The collection is introduced by...

A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II. Based on one hundred and fifty letters and interviews with original Land Girls, along with songs from the period, Lilies on...

Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. The Children of Heracles holds a mirror up to contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927010Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Andre and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual. A bunch of flowers arrive, but who sent them? A woman from the past turns up, but who is she? And why does Andre feel like he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573614248Author William LinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence. A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils...

'We - artists, thinkers, creators - have a responsibility to communicate the truth of the climate emergency. The world is shape-shifting and our culture must too.' This book is a guide to one hundred brilliant plays addressing the most urgent and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927003Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822210696Author Edna FerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger PlaysWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

Kate, Sam and Pete are stuck. The town they live in doesn't have much going on. But they don't really care about that when they've got cheap cider and their whole lives ahead of them.And they're going to break away anyway. Someone's about to get a car...

A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West. Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is taken away as the...

The women you've seen play today, we are more than football players, more than athletes and sportspeople of the very highest degree. We are heroines or heroes - or however you wanna say it - and we should be taking our place on posters and platforms and...

This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa-many published here for the first time-delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of...

Three generations of the Blake family have assembled for Thanksgiving in Brigid and Richard's ramshackle pre-war apartment in Lower Manhattan. Whilst the event may have a slightly improvised air, the family is determined to make the best of its time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927027Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers, but hers is a diminishing world. Her vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her...

When Rob was twelve, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their Grandma. As Rob donned wigs and played Mary Poppins, Ariel, Mickey Mouse and Belle, their Dad doubled as Stage Manager, Sound Technician and Goofy. Unfortunately,...