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This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, with an introduction by the author.Haunting Julia'A play for today. It touches on the failures of education and...

A fast-moving, exhilarating play about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in a rural part of England. Wheeler is a high-flying comprehensive kid destined for university, while football-mad Fitz is struggling to cope with his dysfunctional father...

"Oh do not jest thy doom" The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his enemies so that they plot against each other. It is an...

This is a collection of three thirty-minute plays by leading playwrights for children to perform, commissioned by the Unicorn. Class Acts includes: The Wish Collector by Oladipo Agboluaje, The Acme Thunderer by Lin Coghlan, and Of the Terrifying Events...

"Near perfect as a piece of experimental theatre" - The Daily Telegraph"Near perfect as a piece of experimental theatre" - The Daily TelegraphAbout the AuthorMick Gordon is an international, award-winning director. He has been Associate Director at the...

Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies. This collection contains the performance texts of four of their highly acclaimed shows: Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock and The Red Shoes. With...

Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable - and hilarious - performances. Rooted in performance and performance criticism, Sidney...

'There is a sordid and disgusting atmosphere,which makes the immorality of the play glaring and crude. There is the very questionable theme in these days of the relationship between masters and servants, which this play tends to undermine.' Lord Cromer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952742Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015762Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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...

Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 UK Theatre Awards Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland To keep that part of me silent. That is what is unbearable. That is why I must be free. Based on a true story,...

'Maybe she just doesn't wanna be found, maybe that last day she felt freedom was when she ran, and she just didn't stop, maybe that was it.' When her best friend Jay goes missing, Dee withdraws into a twilight world of fragmented memories and...

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman...a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity, and unusual in the way that the two types of women do not become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420975819Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical...

The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762437Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

In a Gotham-like city, a depletion of the Earth's water supply has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The privilege to pee is regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging for one of humanity's most basic needs. From...

Praise for Vols. I and II: `The virtues of this first-rate edition are too numerous to catalogue, and in any case,since they will stand enshrined in what is undoubtedly to be the standard text of Euripides for the next generation or two, they will...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of...

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010798Author G.Martinez SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033810Author Jean CocteauFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363648Author David AdjmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

"The greatest American playwright of his generation" (New York Magazine) Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award as the best play of the year. A Lie of the Mind is described by its author as a "love ballad...a little legend about love". Frank Rich of...

Two plays, from the award-winning author of Iron. Your Turn to Clean the Stair is a comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement. Old Mrs Mackie has always been in charge of her stair, the communal stairwell she shares with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272818Author August StrindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010507Author Frederick KnottFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A delightfully lewd city comedy written in 1613 by the co-author of The Changeling. Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is an intricately plotted play about unscrupulous...

I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do it, I couldn't do it. That my life wouldn't amount to very much. Now I might have had a bit of natural talent but I got here because of pure...

The Rose Tattoo is larger than life-a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama-it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina delle Rosa has withdrawn from...

Plautus' Amphitruo is the sole specimen of mythological burlesque in ancient comedy to come down to us in nearly complete form. This sex farce delighted Roman audiences and readers for centuries and continues to inspire adaptations to this day. Dr...

Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura...

'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy . . . Like ancient classical drama, too, the action is at once brief and relentless. By the end of the 90-minute play...

A smart and provocative thriller about spies, double agents, and the opaqueness of the human soul. A young woman is found dead. Her sister sets out to find out what happened - and stumbles into a world of secrets and subterfuge that makes her question...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130419Author Bernard PomeranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 115g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952746093Author Daisy Eris CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams)...