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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627132Author William FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play... a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play... a classic.' Daily MailForty Years On, as part of a series of gorgeous repackages of Alan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763540Author Pam ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger PlaysDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm *...

The Lehrstucke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an...

Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series, contains: Antigone by Sophocles, translated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999315610Author Richard Vaughan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Mitford Oak PressPublisher Mitford Oak PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100031Author Jean McConnellFormat 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 9781557422552Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018237Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. "Restoration towers like a colossus ...its stylistic wit, moral complexity and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133701Author Deborah MoggachFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'Once you're a woman doing as she pleases with her body, in someone's eyes you qualify for hoe status.' Bim, Alex and J have been best friends since school. Loud, funny, inseparable - they are the epitome of girls who just want to have fun. But now...

Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny, the...

Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. Twilight. A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever. Libby whiles away her days in New Town cafes and still calls herself a writer - but she's not put pen to page...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430086Author Lucy Chau Lai-TuenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

We all want something to believe in. It's 1987 and Frankie Vah gorges on love, radical politics, and skuzzy indie stardom. But can he keep it all down? Following the multi award-winning What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright's second verse play...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018916Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In 1831, Charles Darwin, a twenty-two-year-old aspiring naturalist, stepped on board HMS Beagle. Little did he realise that the voyage would last five years, changing not only his own life - but also the history of the entire world. The Wider Earth...

A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America. In a war-torn village the men have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316324465Author Ayad AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

An anthology of the three winning plays in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition, seeking out the best new writing in monologue form. First performed at the Arcola theatre, London. This volume contains: Woman Caught Unaware by Annie Fox - a...

Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family are hated by her own folk, and he marries someone else...

This second collection of plays by David Eldridge showcases the development of one of the most impressive playwriting talents of recent years. His plays combine emotional impact with complexity, realistic characterisation with humour, and are among the...

Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward V's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I. A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing...

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...

Sad single teachers get together. Drink tequila, get very pissed and reveal secrets and then stagger home at four in the morning, with some dim light in your brain saying "Shit. Year seven first lesson."' David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky premiered at...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in County Mayo in the West...

April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be...

'The foreign devils will be entranced by our performance and line our path back to Shandong with gold and cherry blossoms…' 1917. Shandong Province, Northern China. Times are tough in Horse Shoe Village. Old Six and Second Moon struggle to earn enough to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000317Author Carl GroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens up a little-known aspect of her writing, and demonstrates her remarkable...

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2021 This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael Coveney - a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458732Author Dan O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler. One sunny day in Paris, Gustave Alland, famous artist and philanderer, visits Louise Strandberg - convalescing in her brother's studio...

A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock. Barbs Marshall is a celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful and well off, but she is 39 years old and almost deafened by the ticking of her biological clock. To...

The Smith family hatch a plan to murder their estranged matriarch for her insurance money. They hire Joe Cooper, a police detective and part-time contract killer, to do the job. But once he enters their trailer home and comes face to face with their...

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him.With a...

You were brought up on mythology. Hollow mythology. That's why you're all stuck, all angry, a prince in the wrong story. A prince with a black eye.Fleeing a world he has rejected, Robin finds solace in his music and the sanctuary of his remote family...