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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013287Author S. VaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...

Vira hasn't seen her sister Deesh for years. Deesh's kids, Amy and Bill, want to know why but nobody's telling them anything.When Deesh invites her sister to Amy's flashy party, Vira reckons it's time to come home and move on. Time to stop watching the...

"A major new voice in British theatre" (Scotsman) Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, Herons is the disturbing and moving story of fourteen-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers...

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702303Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081801Author Gerald Lee RatliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Meriwether Publishing,U.S.Publisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 268g

1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it. Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys...

It's 1972. An era of possibility and polyester and pubic hair. While Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley's Lover, Christine is watching Deep Throat and Brian is confused. Devised by The Wardrobe Ensemble,...

One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies - savage, comic and intensely lyrical - The Bacchae powerfully dramatises the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. The magnetic young Dionysus - icon, hedonist, god - returns...

Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology category The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This edited...

This collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din charts the development of a writer able to turn the tumultuous experience of life in modern Britain into satisfying, humane and often richly comic drama. Whether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231324Author James T ManganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131748Author Frances E. DolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of...

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for individuals with special educational needs and disabilities.Providing a highly accessible combination of theory and...

Two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use imaginary friends to inject some excitement into their seemingly dull lives. Jack Worthing invents a brother, "Ernest," whom he pretends to be in order to visit his beloved Gwendolen in the city...

Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet, she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience know that the nastiest of them is having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116728Author Nicola McCartneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"Thrilling...unforgettable, maybe even life-changing...it has the inevitablity and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy" (USA today) In 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry for publicly maligning him as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708718Author Dael OrlandersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a small...

Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham's talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For...

Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage version of this much-loved story brings its settings and characters to thrilling theatrical life. From its opening image of little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707858Author Larissa FasthorseFormat 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 9780573013256Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them. From the remnants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889439273Author Terence RattiganFormat HardbackPage Count 652Imprint The Paper TigerPublisher Paper TigerWeight(grams) 1122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from...

Feet of Clay Someone is killing Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how - he just gets weaker and weaker. But it's not just Vetinari - across the city, people are being...

One bathroom. Two people. One day. A relationship witnessed in minute, devastating detail. A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love, Jack Thorne's play Mydidae exposes the private and disturbing moments a couple share, and explores...

'Place like this - you know this - place like this gets in your blood. Once it's in your blood, you can't get it out.' One night under Cardiff skies, four lost souls go looking for answers. After dark, when the world is quiet, their paths weave and...

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set In a San Francisco loft, aspiring author Felix focuses his binoculars on a prostitute plying her trade. He complains to the landlord, has her evicted, and finds he has trouble pounding on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528718288Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 3mm

'Like bawdy Shakespeare meets wild Wycherley filtered through the formalised camp of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me...how wonderful to see the rabid raw talent of Ravenhhill given the full works' Michael Coveney, Daily Mail It's London 1726, and Mrs...

Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirises the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly...

Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black In And We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her...

Moli re's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning. Plays for Performance Series.Book InformationISBN 9781566633031Author MoliereFormat HardbackPage Count 89Imprint Ivan R Dee,...

Josephine Baker: captivating performer, political activist and international icon, who lived from 1906 to 1975.From the ragtime rhythms of St Louis and the intoxicating sounds of 1920s Paris, to present-day London, Josephine and I intertwines the story...

Josephine Baker: captivating performer, political activist and international icon, who lived from 1906 to 1975.From the ragtime rhythms of St Louis and the intoxicating sounds of 1920s Paris, to present-day London, Josephine and I intertwines the story...