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After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body... a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848428218Author Joanna Murray-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132513Author Kill The BeastFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127g

Theatre has engaged with science since its beginnings in Ancient Greece. The intersection of the two disciplines has been the focus of increasing interest to scholars and students. The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science gives readers a sense of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872868066Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

This triple bill of one act murder mysteries combines: The Wasp's Nest which sees Hercule Poirot come between a bitter triangle of lovers to prevent a sinister murder before it takes place; The Rats, a dark and chilling tale in which a pair of adulterous...

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time. A provincial town is in search of a hero. A shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the...

A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine. Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father. The night before he leaves for the war in Chechnya to do his national service, he throws a party. Lera,...

Two of Wedekind's most seminal plays, Earth-Spirit and Pandora's Box both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu, who embodies both animal sensuality and waif-like innocence, as she escapes a life on the streets, receives a society...

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" (City Limits); Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous...

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play's reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series...

The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces...

Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new GBP9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in...

Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new GBP9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in...

"Extraordinary stories, ordinary lives. This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women, who live in our street, and drink in our local, share...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501164149Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Twenty-five year-old east Belfast man Stevie meets forty-nine year-old Glaswegian widow Martha while recovering from a painful breakup with his ex-girlfriend. Stevie and Martha are immediately attracted to each other. Although their relationship is...

The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels its history...

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing.Five daughters live together in a single household with a...

A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday. Suddenly single and with the dreaded 'Big Five-0' staring her in the face, Susan also has to cope with a father in his...

Julia Lukin, a musical prodigy, committed suicide twelve years ago and now memories of her haunt the three men closest to her. Her father, Joe, has never come to terms with her death, and in the Julia Lukin Music Centre, he meets with a psychic, Ken, and...

'There are no miracles in this world. Only those we make for ourselves.' It's 8 a.m. and a revolt is underway. The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is stealing. The mother is scheming. The dynasty is crumbling. ...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761041Author Edward PercyFormat PaperbackImprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Reformed womaniser Nick is approaching thirty and has fallen head over heels with the girl he wants to marry and have kids with. But then a dark little fling he'd rather forget comes back to threaten everything. For the first time he understands that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573152221Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"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...

An analysis - and celebration - of the NHS as it turns 70. Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS and residencies in hospitals and surgeries and with director Nick Kent, Thomas uses his own demise to explore the state...

Set in 1792, amongst the merchant princes and cut-throat backstreets of Liverpool, in the Palace of Westminster in London and aboard the Blackamoor Jenny - a guineaman making its sixth "African voyage" to stock its foetid hold with human beings - Gabriel...

Two plays from Moliere, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday). Miseryguts is a Scots version of Moliere's Le Misanthrope, a bitter comedy about a worldly sophisticate who cannot help telling uncomfortable truths about his...

The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on...

Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a...

This is a six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka. It is Kafka's terrifying but bizarrely comic story in a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son Gregor emerges one morning...

Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children. Featuring one of the most powerful female roles in the history of drama, Euripides' tragedy Medea is reworked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763700Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Eugene O'Neill's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman's longing to forget the dark secrets of her past and hope for salvation. Exiled from her home by the Old Devil Sea to the inland plains, Anna Christie's life...

The Story of M is a solo performance that integrates visual projections and poetic language to portray autobiographical stories of racism, poverty and sacrifice. While sitting in a white screened hospital ward and as slides of family photographs flash...

Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Single Drama Jane Austen's classic novel is the story of Anne Elliot. Engaged eight years previously to a young navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, she allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912411306Author Cabdulqaadir C DiiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Looh Press LtdPublisher Looh Press LtdWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

It could be any city. It just happens to be ours. Twenty four hours. Twenty four lives. Each linked in a way that no-one can predict.Book InformationISBN 9780413774378Author Gary OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury...