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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573704192Author Ken LudwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian) Constantly revived on stage, radio and television, Rattigan's plays demonstrate their continuing power to hold and move audiences...

The second collection of plays from the German Expressionist playwright. Includes the plays: The Machine Breakers, The German Hinkemann, The Revenge of the Lover Scorned, Wotan Unbound, Day of the Proletariat and German Revolution. _x000D_ Ernst...

The first collection of plays by one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary playwrights - "one of the most promising dramatic prospects of the new millennium" (Daily Telegraph) The collection includes the THE MEMORY OF WATER in which three sisters meet...

A collection of major play adaptations by the author of Billy Elliott MR PUNTILA: "Brecht's Puntila is the Jekyll and Hyde of the class war. When he's plastered this Finnish landowner drips with sugary human kindness; once sober again, he's a tyrannical...

A turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen.A turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen.About the AuthorAlex Jones writes for theatre, radio and film. Credits include the internationally acclaimed play Noise for Soho Theatre...

The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It's the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today. This is the big game, and it's been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when...

Neil LaBute's Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays.In 'Medea Redux', a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher.In 'Iphigenia in Orem', a Utah businessman confides...

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers Bazaar and Rummage brings together a neurotic do-gooder, a trainee social worker and three agoraphobics who have been persuaded to venture out of their homes to run a jumble sale. "As a study of...

This volume of Conor McPherson's collected plays, covering a decade of writing, celebrates a fascination with the uncanny which has led him to be described as 'quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation' (New York Times). In Shining City,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114519Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban. Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081528Author Laurie AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 452g

"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote morality." David Cameron, January 2012 Anders...

A collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre. These eight short plays by some of the most exciting new Irish playwrights around were commissioned and staged by the Abbey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110511Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

It wouldn't be Christmas without A Christmas Carol. In this new stage version, Patrick Barlow takes Charles Dickens' classic story of greed, grief, ghoulish ghosts and eleventh-hour redemption, and makes it feel brand new again. This adaptation brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111556Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently...

A funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family full of longing that's losing its grip - The Last of the Haussmans examines the fate of the revolutionary generation. Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high-society drop-out Judy Haussman...

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. There is no me, there is no you, and there is certainly no self.Princeton, New Jersey. 1955. Thomas Stoltz Harvey performs the autopsy on Albert Einstein -...

Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his...

A harrowing, intense drama about people-trafficking, set inside a container lorry. A freight container, somewhere in Europe. Inside are five people with one common aim: to reach England and start a new life. Can they trust the agent to get them there?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573700286Author Marc CamolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115820Author Jack BradfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113772Author Arnold WeskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Volume Ten in Methuen's highly successful series of Plays by Women provides the second selection of international plays by theatre director Annie Castledine. It encompasses Diana Quick's adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed, Tinch...

How do you decide what stories an audience should hear? How do you make your theatre stand out in a crowded and intensely competitive marketplace? How do you make your building a home for artistic risk and innovation, while ensuring the books are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763205Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573704215Author Christine EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West first met in 1922 when they were aged 40 and their correspondence continued for the next 20 years until Virginia's suicide in 1941. While Vita revered Virginia's genius, Virginia was at times dismisive of Vita's...

The first collected edition of the enduring plays by the popular author of The Long Good Friday Gimme Shelter (Gem, Gotcha, Getaway): 'This brilliantly and cleverly interlinked trio of plays are about fighting and acceptance...Humanism and individuality...

Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's late plays such as The Winter's Tale. Set in a fictionalised Sicily, it has the complex plot of love, disguise and the threat of death much loved by early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362795Author Lynn NottageFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Since it was first performed in Athens in the 420s BC, Oedipus the King has been widely regarded as Sophocles' greatest tragedy and one of the foundation stones of western drama. Taken as a model by Aristotle in his Poetics, it became a yardstick for...

'Dear Miss Tweetwell, the ladder is where I live. For at the top lies reputation and wealth and at the bottom: ignominy and squalor.' When noble heroine Miss Phoebe Virtue receives worrisome news on Instagram that her twin brother Jack may be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015311Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring...

I think I can feel the world turning a little. It feels like it's just grinding to a halt. Mike is a 16-year-old with a bully of a brother and a mum who doesn't speak. Sarah is a weed-smoking teen who can't wait to get out of their dead-end town. One hot...

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