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It's 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and it's tricky being Fiz. She's thirteen, she's got no money, her sister's pregnant and her mum thinks she's a waste of space... Rick remembers what it's like to be a teenager. So he thinks it won't...

Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763281Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers have...

If you are born in a country where being yourself can get you killed, exile is your only choice. Frances Poet's play Adam is the remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that choice and begin his journey. It charts Adam's progress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067772Author Dougie BlaxlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm

How should I make the most of being alive in this moment? How should I try to enjoy life whilst also being a good person who makes space for a better future? What is love and where do I find it? Why do the men in this play have all the lines? Sisters...

RashDash take on Chekhov in this reimagining of the classic play that brings the women to the forefront. "I'M GOING TO PHILOSOPHISE MY HEAD OFF." How should I make the most of being alive in this moment? How should I try to enjoy life whilst also...

Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style and tone, and brings together some of his best-loved...

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set One of the most popular romantic comedies of the century, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for lead actress Ellen Burstyn, who later recreated her role in...

This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362535Author Lisa KronFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

This classic edition of Mike Fleming's The Art of Drama Teaching provides a multitude of practical ideas for teachers of drama and for those who are interested in using drama to teach other subjects. It takes the form of detailed discussion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953675746Author Parv BancilFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

..A Story of Friendship, Migration and Karaoke.... Summer 1999. Margate's beaches are packed with day-trippers.... and its hotels filled with Kosovan asylum seekers - including Hanna (Celia Meiras), a survivor of Europe's most recent genocide. Hannah...

Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks the mythology of Oxbridge against the background of...

Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks the mythology of Oxbridge against the background of...

'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114182Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763380Author Miles TredinnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of...

"This magical book is a love letter to the artists whose imagination and cleverness transport us and unite us, and to the beauty and fragility of their performance. When I read it I feel like I am constantly on the joyful edge of falling in love, trying...

Contains: one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship. What do you do if you think your aunt is an alien? Twelve-year-old Jelly and her brother, Jonjo, have their suspicions. She won't let them leave the house. Or ask questions. And she...

Someone has seen a wolf. Where did it come from? How many are there? Someone must be able to do something about them. Otherwise, how will our children get to school? And how will we all get to line-dancing in the village hall? Set over one...

Someone has seen a wolf. Where did it come from? How many are there? Someone must be able to do something about them. Otherwise, how will our children get to school? And how will we all get to line-dancing in the village hall? Set over one...

Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into...

Ibsen's political comedy in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett. Bratsberg is a man of tradition. He thinks manners, knowledge and education are the foundations of a good society, but are his values dated? Monsen is an entrepreneur who...

Winner of the 1990 Mobil Playwriting Competition for the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester. A gutsy tragi-comic drama set in a run-down Newcastle housing estate where Jean, divorced from the violent, foul-mouthed Micky, rules over a household that...

"There's me 'out there', in public, and there's me in here. I know you think they're not the same. But they're not as far away as you think." Created by the Almeida Young Company and written by Molly Taylor, Cacophony tells the story of a young...

We will fix it. We will mend it...In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality,...

'Rule number eleven: We don't talk about them. Not here. They don't exist here.' Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In fact they have quite a few. They've just signed on the dotted line for a studio flat. Under a pseudonym, naturally - Mr and Mrs White. ...

The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia. A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple committing adultery, grannies complaining...

The grasping social climber, the tiresome neighbour, the spirited heroine, the most unsuitable of suitors, and, of course, the perfect love match, are all some of Jane Austen's timeless literary inventions. Mistress of a sharp wit, Austen's observations...

"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband" "I can't believe we're stuck down a mine." "Yet here we are" 3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573031083Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of OBIE Award for Playwriting 1995-6.Book InformationISBN 9781559361354Author Suzan-Lori ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573705533Author Alice BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763045Author Roy ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621709Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Second collection of plays by the award-winning young British playwright Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads: Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose against Germany at football Clubland: Ben is married to Denise but on the pull, Kenny's looking...