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The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed...

By the author of Lucky Bag, Up to You, Porky and Barmy, two plays that provided an early vehicle for Victoria Wood's own performance teamed with Julie Walters. Friendship comes under uncommon strain in both plays as a community arts centre prepares to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781559365833Author Amy HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre...

When Henry VIII set up his own Church of England with himself at its head, one of the few men who opposed him was Sir Thomas More. The play contrasts More's virtue of 'selfhood' with the cynical assertion that every man has his price. 14 parts: 11 male,...

Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar...Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and...

"You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper."-The New York Times Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time and place and spirit, linking a young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809007066Author S.S. StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

A remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. Visceral and tender, The Walworth Farce combines hilarious moments with shocking realism. It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the...

Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art. In the first half of the musical, set in 1884,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100354Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 341g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437622453Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ediciones Catedra, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra, S.A.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573012488Author F. VosperFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Actor-musicianship is a permanent feature of the musical theatre landscape. Actor-musician shows can be seen from Bradford to Broadway, from village halls to international arena tours. However, with the exception of a couple of academic papers, there has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156632775Author Professor T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746980Author Stella AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The first book to investigate the place of law in modern and contemporary drama Illustrates the role of contemporary theatre in articulating legal and political issues to a modern audience Analyses a range of different genres in contemporary drama,...

Three timely one-act plays set in war-torn Syria and Iraq, by 'one of our best new playwrights' (The Times), featuring the epic and bloody adventures of an Iraqi translator, a London schoolgirl and a crackshot sniper.. The Collector is a tale of...

Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a century before it received its first complete...

Robert Holman wrote plays of startling beauty, combining close observation of the way people behave with a thrilling and often fiercely uncompromising mastery of dramatic form. He is the playwright most admired by other playwrights. To Simon Stephens, he...

The first single edition of Noel Coward's most controversial play."Only in Semi-Monde does Coward find a successful metaphor for the sexual complications that lie behind his posturing. Semi-Monde is easily the most visually daring of his comedies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130168Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573042096Author Sir John MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the...

Owen McCafferty's first collection brings together one short- and four full-length plays set in the author's home city of Belfast. Shoot The Crow'Tragicomedy of character and circumstance that makes McCafferty look like a ribald Northern Irish Chekov.'...

Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both...

"I want to be a fireman." "I want to be a teacher." "I want to be a movie star." Poland, 1925. As these Polish classmates - five Catholic, five Jewish - grow up, their lives take dramatically unexpected turns as their country is torn apart by...

Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize 2001 Few kids have a secret as chilling as Timmy's...

Listen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round... Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex,...

'This is a locals' pub. And what's the problem with locals? They die.' 'Inconsiderate bastards.' All over London, public houses become private flats. Tomorrow The Anchor closes for good. It's the end of an era, but Kenny and the gang are going out...

Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a...

Jazmin feels different. She doesn't want to stay in the village. She doesn't want to have a baby. She doesn't want to laugh at racist jokes in the local pub. She's got to get out. And when her Gran signs her up for a drama school...

Flora Poste, orphaned at twenty, decides to go and live with her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Once there she discovers they exist in a state of chaos and feels it is up to her to bring order.Book InformationISBN 9780573017377Author Paul DoustFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573160042Author Dennis PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Women are serving community punishment orders and are growing the vegetables for soup kitchens on an allotment. Marcie is convicted of dangerous driving; Norah, a serial shoplifter, hasn't recovered from the death of her daughter thirty years ago; Belle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573011016Author John WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'We ain't killers' 'How you figure that?... Iss in the blood.' When a letter arrives from the mother they thought was dead, twenty-one-year-old twins Racine and Anaia travel from the Dirty South to the California desert, to a yellow house with teal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018404Author Simon BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

I have noticed that something draws us towards outlying islands. Some force pulls. In 1939, on the eve of war, two young ornithologists arrive on a remote Scottish island, sent by the government to survey the bird life. With them are Kirk, the island's...

'My mam's always saying, the best thing to do with new things is just chuck yourself in at the deep end.' Liam is fifteen and he's just signed up for Bev Road Baths' first ever synchronised swimming team. It's for his best mate Caz really. She needs...

I could squeeze a bullet between those lips. Point first. Press it between those rosebud lips. Prise it between your pearly whites. Gently. I wouldn't break a single tooth. Philip Ridley's first new play since 2008 marks a change of direction for the...