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The Lehrstucke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690402Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737406082Author Renee PittmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Mother's Love Publishing and EnterprisesPublisher Mother's Love Publishing and...

Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series, contains: Antigone by Sophocles, translated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999315610Author Richard Vaughan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Mitford Oak PressPublisher Mitford Oak PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100031Author Jean McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557422552Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018237Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. "Restoration towers like a colossus ...its stylistic wit, moral complexity and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133701Author Deborah MoggachFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2021 This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael Coveney - a...

'Once you're a woman doing as she pleases with her body, in someone's eyes you qualify for hoe status.' Bim, Alex and J have been best friends since school. Loud, funny, inseparable - they are the epitome of girls who just want to have fun. But now...

Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430086Author Lucy Chau Lai-TuenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573612251Author Robinson JeffersFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868194035Author Louis NowraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018916Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In 1831, Charles Darwin, a twenty-two-year-old aspiring naturalist, stepped on board HMS Beagle. Little did he realise that the voyage would last five years, changing not only his own life - but also the history of the entire world. The Wider Earth...

A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America. In a war-torn village the men have...

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...

An anthology of the three winning plays in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition, seeking out the best new writing in monologue form. First performed at the Arcola theatre, London. This volume contains: Woman Caught Unaware by Annie Fox - a...

Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family are hated by her own folk, and he marries someone else...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762161Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Wales...

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context,...

A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas - with a mysterious guest. With copious booze flowing, acid-tongued barbs flying, and the threat...

Sad single teachers get together. Drink tequila, get very pissed and reveal secrets and then stagger home at four in the morning, with some dim light in your brain saying "Shit. Year seven first lesson."' David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky premiered at...

Play Directing: The Basics introduces theatre students to a step-by-step process for directing plays, including advice on devising.Beginning with a historical overview of directing, this book covers every aspect of the director's job from first read to...

Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. Twilight. A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever. Libby whiles away her days in New Town cafes and still calls herself a writer - but she's not put pen to page...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in County Mayo in the West...

M2 F4. A living room. Fee code M Comedian and national treasure Dave Thursby has died, and on the day of his funeral, friends and colleagues gather beside his coffin to pay their last respects. There's Harvey, who wrote Dave's material; Vi, Harvey's...

This volume contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. They are seminal works in the development of the 'in yer face' theatre that emerged in Britain during the...

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

Three Kingdoms is a blackly entertaining and unsettling detective story cum parable about the devil in us all, international human trafficking and the changing state of Europe. As the severed human head of an Estonian woman is found in a river in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762796Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000317Author Carl GroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The master of New Comedy.Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the...

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens up a little-known aspect of her writing, and demonstrates her remarkable...