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A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016. Included here are his first big success,...

The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. An ordinary, working-class family who lived in a north London council house became the centre of one of the most famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458923Author August StrindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams)...

"A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter...

The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the...

"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The Stage ...

I used to work in PR, if you're going to kill yourself let's make it an event . . . You can own this, Sam. For the first time in your life you. Could be. In charge. Things are getting tough for Sam. No job, benefits stopped and stuck in a tiny flat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150561Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 204g

Foreword by Kwame Kwei-Armah How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by...

Six aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work. Among them are writers of historical romances and children's literature who are finding it difficult to start writing, and a crime writer who can't stop. A creator of extremely...

A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are...

When Josie dies in an old people's home, her grandchildren gather to share their memories of her, and her fellow residents feel the effects of her death as her funeral takes place. Is the gulf between the young and old as wide as it feels, or are we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113659Author Clifford WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This work contains three plays from one of New Yorks' hottest young writers, produced to great acclaim off-Broadway.Three plays from one of New York's hottest young writers, produced to great acclaim.About the AuthorNoah Haidle is a graduate of Princeton...

A new play from an award-winning playwright, published as part of the innovative Abbey Theatre playscript series On the day of her father's funeral, Eva - a young woman - is still haunted by the betrayal she witnessed from her childhood haven - the...

The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen never-before-published one-act dramas reveal some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017384Author Emlyn WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2014 festival, which takes place across the UK and finishes up at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018947Author William NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays.Includes The Nativity , The Passion and Doomsday , with an Introduction by Tony Harrison which places these...

This area is gone to the fucking dogs. Gary returns home from college to confront age-old rivalries, bitter disputes, and bin bags that just won't stop falling from the sky. As Gary and his old friend Martin fight to find their place in the...

This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern...

I do not accept there is anything wrong with me.Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer's. Years later she's offered a genetic test. But if she's got the gene does she really want to know?Megan,...

"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over. He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on."An inexperienced teacher is given the...

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...

It's 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and it's tricky being Fiz. She's thirteen, she's got no money, her sister's pregnant and her mum thinks she's a waste of space... Rick remembers what it's like to be a teenager. So he thinks it won't...

Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space. ...

Patricia has spent a year recovering from an abusive relationship. But when she bumps into her ex on the street, she accidentally agrees to go to dinner with him that night. Now she's got some big decisions to make. What to wear? What to say? And.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868194035Author Louis NowraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 8mm

A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End. While the men are fighting Hitler and the bombs are falling on London, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015502Author Bill NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

It was a very hot day - dazzling sunshine! - and Mum - she was wiping sweat from her neck. No, not wiping. Dabbing . . . Dab . . . Dab. Mum was a beauty. Not like me. And don't tell me I am because you'll be lying and I won't thank you for it. Not today...

Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams.His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and...

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond...

'[Williams's] plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' ObserverSucker Punch: 'As usual with Williams, the dialogue is crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is just black and white.' The TimesJoe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013317Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The hit stage play behind major BBC TV drama series Mood. Sasha Clayton is twenty-four and living with her mum, stepdad, and irritating little sister, in Plaistow, East London. She's gone from being the most popular girl at school, to spending most of...

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...

This play version of the H.E. Bates novel centres on the Larkin family, who live in Kent "somewhere at the end of a rainbow". When an ernest young tax official turns up one hot May afternoon in 1957 to investigate Pop's income tax contributions, he is...