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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708084Author Adam SzymkowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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...

A heartrending drama about family, betrayal and forgiveness, spanning four generations and two hemispheres. From the writer of the award-winning film Lantana. When the Rain Stops Falling moves from the claustrophobia of a London flat in 1959 to the...

A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances. It includes duologues from: ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111358Author Alan PlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Martin McDonagh is one of the world's most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating analysis of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his stage plays and the films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a resource for...

Can you remember your first time? In this hilarious and heartbreaking true story, theatre-maker and activist Nathaniel Hall can't seem to forget his. To be fair, he's had it playing on repeat for the last fifteen years... but now he's ready to lift...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953404Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s...

One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is...

Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176373903Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Jeffrey Archer's latest play, The Accused, is a tense courtroom drama with a difference. The audience will act as the jury, as if they were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. You will have to decide...Did Dr Sherwood murder his wife? Was...

Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once...

'Just because you appear to have secrets don't mean your secrets are all that interestin'.' A young female soldier returns from Afghanistan to a home she no longer recognises or connects with. She has proved herself in combat but her hardest battle is...