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The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four...

Three short plays from the multi-award-winning writer of VisitorsAt First Sight: Two young people meet and spend a New Year together in Salzburg. Holly is there on holiday with her parents; Jack plays piano in the hotel bar. Their story is told through a...

"I've listened to all the stories of my generation, then watched 'em get sick or fade away. And it wasn't this world that killed 'em. It was the other...the memory of it." Britain, the near future. Much of the country is underwater and the government has...

Travelling from America to Britain to a remote Greek island, The Faith Machine explores the relationship between faith and capitalism and asks fundamental questions about the true meaning of love. On a beautiful September morning in New York, Sophie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019159Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A fascinating, witty and characteristically exuberant dramatic exploration of the Shakespeare authorship debate. Is it possible that the son of an illiterate tradesman, from a small market town in Warwickshire, could have written the greatest dramatic...

Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century.Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances,...

Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody...

"We need to use our imagination. We need to imagine that change might be possible. That change is possible, however hard or impossible it might seem." In a blend of English, Farsi and fully integrated BSL, three performers tell a story from three...

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the laconic means and compassionate ends of...

What goes on inside a great narrator to make them great? This ground-breaking work answers this question by exploring the psychophysical aspect of voiceover. The reader is given a bird's-eye view of the professional narrator's mental, physical, and vocal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645425502Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a young woman's determination to change her life.Book...

In this stage adaptation of the hugely popular TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Paul Carpenter and Ian Gower revisit the 1950s and Maplins Holiday Camp with its host of colourful characters. It's the start of a new season and founder Joe Maplin...

"Neaptide races from domestic trauma to staff-room banter ... it bursts with provocative ideas and disturbing questions about human relationships. Most important, it shows that the facade of liberalism and emancipation is merely a translucent gloss."...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited. When she later discovers that he has scuppered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913195199Author Zoe BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Black Eyes Publishing UKPublisher Black Eyes Publishing UK

"Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey...the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the social environment and the texture of people's lives." This...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573031038Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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) Volume...

The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and...

I'm eighty years old. I find that unforgivable and suddenly it's a millennium and I stink of the past century, but what can I do? Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettos and a ship called The...

An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and...

"The religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant, Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573704796Author Lisa KronFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969313Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Modern LibraryPublisher Modern LibraryWeight(grams) 195g

"I'm in love with a man from Dundee Though he lived 100 years or so before me He was a poet He was aware of this" _x000D_ A tragic comedy,A tragic comedy, McGonagall's Chronicles charts the true life story of the worst poet of all...

Steven Berkoff has been variously described as controversial, thrilling, electric and dynamic. A Renaissance man of the theatre, he is known equally for his writing, directing and acting. Collecting together nineteen one-act plays, this volume presents...

This is a powerful, fast-moving dramatisation of George Orwell's classic satire, Animal Farm. The script is fresh, funny and immensely enjoyable without in any way jeopardising the savagery of the original novel. About the series Heinemann Plays is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613975Author Philip BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'Stories from the past just simply don't get told unless someone bothers doing it. And I really believe this story needs to be told.' 1604. A small village outside Oxford. Two boys have been murdered by local brute Brian Gunter at a football match and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050831Author D. SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101559Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 368g

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A collection of four twist-in-the-tail plays for two women: "Day Trippers", "The Guilt Card", "Theatrical Digs" and "Short Changed". All set by the seaside, and delicately observing life, they are full of animated characters.Book InformationISBN...

Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573012259Author Jean AnouilhPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society ladies mount yet another assault on the classics with a startlingly original production of Macbeth staged to get them to the Welwyn Garden City Finals. Under the carefully mascara'd...

First published to tie-in with the Royal Court Theatre's production in April 2003, with a cast including Alexander Delamere, Victoria Gay, Fiona Glascott and Rosamund Pike, this is the newly revised version of award-winning Terry Johnson's classic play...