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A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde. During one of his audacious experiments trying to separate good from evil in human nature, the kind and gifted Dr Jekyll...

An intense domestic drama of global consequence - for India then and for our world now. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess; music, drugs, eunuchs and harems. Two brothers, whose mother's death inspired the Taj...

A summer evening's barbecue is the setting for a meeting of the Trealaw and District Operatic Society. Next season's play is to be announced but Nick, the society's business manager, has promised a different show and the plum roles to four different...

Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages. Southampton is home to Britain's only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But when the Luftwaffe drops 2,300 bombs in three devastating raids, the city goes up in flames and the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927027Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365345Author Tracy LettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927003Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Little Theatre Comedy Tom Stoppard Characters: 5 male, 3 female Complete Interior Set Riley's a dreamer with all sorts of off beat inventions and his latest one is a double gummed envelope that can be used twice used: once for sending and then...

Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson 50 Best Plays is for students and lovers of theatre, parents and politicians, teachers and actors, a guide to progress over 50 years in a field of theatre dedicated to children and young people. 50 Best Plays is based on...

A romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives. Lin Han and Jie Hui have exchanged 536 emails and 72 jpegs, though they've only just met. She's sure he's the man she could fall in love with, if only he'd do it...

A funny and tender drama that explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America. In South Boston you're starting on the wrong side of the tracks - it's tough just making ends meet. So...

The National had never before staged Shakespeare's two most admired history plays. Bella Merlin follows the production from pre-rehearsal planning to opening night, charting the processes that make up two major productions in the Olivier Theatre, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690860Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Gabriel:'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The TimesSilence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award):'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial TimesLoveplay:'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010798Author G.Martinez SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595... or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing fuck-all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with...

Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595... or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing fuck-all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with...

'My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country.' Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for forty-four years. Mastermind. Seductress. Survivor. Created...

Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia, answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told. 'I will not stay standing to have you accuse me. And I will not sit there and be accused.' debbie tucker green's...

Notting Hill Gate, London. A sinister con man and two ex-convicts are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll to the home of Sam Henderson and his blind wife, Susy and set about trying to retrieve it. They start an...

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 9781439191163Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363259Author Sarah RuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

'Do you know what it's like to be the person who's actually sticking the knife in here? Or here? You stick a knife in close to an artery, boy do you know it. Then you're in tiger country.' Nina Raine's Tiger Country is a hospital play that follows a...

A raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams. Gordon and Serena have worked hard to get where they are. He's on the verge of a massive promotion at an energy giant. She's preparing for a move into the house of their dreams. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573630231Author Caryl ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French IncWeight(grams) 136g

In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house. As it...

Mr Wilkins, an unpopular master of Jennings' boarding school, is rumoured to be leaving. When Mr Wilkins is asked to play the King in the end of term performance of Henry V, the result is near to chaos. However, the last-minute arrival of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573705649Author Qui NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Prepare for the Cambridge Drama IGCSE 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:...

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation. Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Mary's half-sister Claire and the...

'I'm not broken. I'm a unique spark of life. We all are.' Jess has a great life: a job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When austerity threatens the world she has worked hard to build, Jess makes a stand to protect...

One of Euripides' late plays, Ion is a complex enactment of the changing relations between the human and divine orders and the way in which our understanding of the gods is mediated and re-visioned by myths. The story begins years before the play begins,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761447Author Peter WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362146Author Lynn NottageFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Frederic, who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo, who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457261Author Adam SzymkowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 95g