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In the mid-1970s a group of young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Twenty-five years later only one, Jackie Flavin,...

'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802132208Author Clifford OdetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Three Sisters, set in a rural backwater of Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, is a play about dreams, hope, work and love. The sisters of the title dream of returning to Moscow, where their lives, they are certain, will be happier; in the...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written. The City of London in the seventeenth century. Harry Horner wants to...

'The only words are to do with adoption. But that's not what happened to us. What happened to us was something quite different.' Being a young mum is supposed to be hard - but for Hanna, the only thing she's ever been brilliant at is raising her...

A new version of a world classic by one of Britain's best-known contemporary playwrights After Miss Julie relocates August Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first...

An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War. 1915. Jack Twigg, twenty-one years old, enlists in the London Regiment and goes on a journey he never imagined - nor did the rest of the world. On his way, he meets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802136367Author Richard GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas - with a mysterious guest. With copious booze flowing, acid-tongued barbs flying, and the threat...

Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100192Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Breezeblock Park is set on a northern council estate and takes a look at the suffocating effect of possessions and possessiveness: "Trenchantly observed...hilarious, upsetting and somewhat seditious." (Variety); Our Day Out is about a school coach trip,...

Quiz Show: Welcome to False!, the quiz show where there are no questions, only statements, where every statement is a lie, and where the prize is nothing less than the truth. Everyone's favourite quizmaster, Daniel Caplin, gives tonight's gifted...

'When I walk into a room, in my uniform. There is a look that gets thrown my way. When I walk into a room, in my uniform. It's as if for second everything stops.' Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants. They're here for...

This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese...

Looking for a whizzpoppingly wonderful collection of plays for your whole class? Want some ready-made, delumptious lesson plans to accompany them? Biffsquiggled at the thought of how to stage these pieces? Well, look no further because this is a...

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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:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645425748Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement) Offending the Audience is "a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre." Self-Accusation is "a...

The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour.London,...

"British Theatre's antic visionary" (Guardian) "We're doing three David Hare plays all on one day, you see and we're calling that a trilogy - The Hare Trilogy - So if we had yours on, it would seem like trilogies were in the wind." (Richard Eyre to Ken...

This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century.Co-edited by a feminist critic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573621741Author Arthur KopitFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707230Author Roberto Aguirre-SacasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This volume contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. They are seminal works in the development of the 'in yer face' theatre that emerged in Britain during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989408684Author Sue TabashnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Passion Spirit Dreams PressPublisher Passion Spirit Dreams PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151636Author Vaclav HavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

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...

The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. By using its peculiar viability as a forum for his...

Sabrina Mahfouz has been called 'theatrical dynamite' by The Independent and '[one of] our most interesting playwrights' by Lyn Gardner in The Guardian. As a recent elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a playwright, poet, essayist,...

Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for order and control, speaks most directly to the modern audience. This edition is the first to use the...

New revised 2020 version It's Christmas. Tammy and Chris, cousins and best mates, are both thrilled to get cool new bikes. Give or take the odd unworn cycle helmet everything is great... that is until one morning when Chris has a puncture and Tammy...

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and...

Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.About the AuthorPedro Calderon de la...

There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting . . . You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn't funny anymore. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116988Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom. The five plays in this volume look at the impact and influence that women have today. In Acting Leader by Joy...

This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters. My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a...