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Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989643099Author Alain-FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Bermuda WordPublisher Bermuda WordWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life. Meryl Davenport - A mother who tells the story of her non-stop day in a rapid-fire internal monologue. Tiggy Entwhistle - A cactus lover bravely attempting to rise above...

A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir. It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house...

Sam Shepard is 'the greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society' (New York magazine) "A poet...

One of America's most revered and provocative dramatists, David Mamet conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming ladies of fashion who have long lived together on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115585Author Katy BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In BULLISH, ancient mythology meets modern gender negotiation. Inspired by Ovid's Minotaur, a gender fierce ensemble of hopers and renegades try to pass, pack and blag their way out of the labyrinth.JOAN: An earthy story of courage, conviction and hope,...

"I was born a Goose of Southwark by the Grace of Mary Overie, Whose Bishop gives me licence to sin within The Liberty. In Bankside stews and taverns you can hear me honk right daintily, As I unlock the hidden door, unveil the Secret History." The Liberty...

An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government. How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the...

'Hutchinson illuminates the darker sides [of the Irish question] and writes with a spry humour that crashes through the notorious English indifference to the troubles over the water... What is unusual about this very striking play is that it presents a...

"one of the most important plays of our time" --Howard Taubman, The New York TimesIn Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a building that may be a police station. Some of them are...

Crowning Glory brings together the stories of seven women to explore the meaning of identity and beauty in today's world. This thought-provoking story is sure to make you laugh and cry, and will undoubtedly get you talking after the show.A new play...

The master of Old Comedy.The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BC. But the Athenians knew much more of his...

Please note this title can not be sold to customers in North America, due to copyright restrictions 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' 'F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was first published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016394Author Christopher HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015472Author Christopher BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573609343Author Loos ColetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573609350Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant...

A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. Inishfree might seem like a quaint Irish town, but fierce evangelist Thomas Magill knows better. He knows that jovial Dwain Flynn is a miserable drunk, that Timmy...

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. 'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952162Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838033156Author Zahra BatoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leaf Publishing HousePublisher Leaf Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014093Author Sean O'CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150110Author David MametFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110078Author Bill MacilwraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful. Jane and Bella are best friends. They're starting a revolution. But they're falling out of step. Toby dreams of babies, buggies, and home improvement. But...

A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets and poems, complete with valuable tools for educators. The authoritative edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468313925Author Robert AskinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774750Author Luigi PirandelloFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An outrageous play about imperialism, cross racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen's circles. Today is the eve of her...

'Shisha lounges are an essential part of the Muslim experience, bruv, like the Fillet-O-Fish.' Chunkyz Shisha Lounge is a home away from home for Jihad, Rashid and Asif, a space where community whispers are heard, jokes are told, and new hustles are...

Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system. The plays were commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and...

Four plays by the writer behind the West End smash-hit, Festen Serving it Up: a "precociously perceptive debut play about East End loutishness". Evening Standard Summer Begins a story of the dreams and frustrations of working class young people living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573601804Author Jim JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"Includes the plays The Park, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Time and the Room These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Strauss developing an enigmatic, unsettling and uniquely theatrical style. Set in Hamburg, The Park is Strauss's...