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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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015731Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation...

The first major English language version of a contemporary German classic A study of the frail, flawed relationship between a middle-aged woman tripe butcher and a loud-mouthed factory worker. Since its 1981 premiere Through the Leaves has been praised...

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...

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines...

A sharp, street-wise drama about contemporary urban life that swells and builds across twenty-four scenes to give the authentic sound of a city. First performed in March 2004 at the Chapter in Cardiff.It could be any city. It just happens to be ours...

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the...

When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive. Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it...

An omnibus edition of Hegley's performance poems, "The Brother-in-Law and Other Animals", together with two of his most popular books, "Can I Come Down Now Dad?" and "These Were Your Father's".Book InformationISBN 9780413717306Author John HegleyFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872868394Author Brian ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176372081Author Monsieur Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

Just before Christmas 1944, Albrecht Haushofer had been delivered to the Gestapo prison in the Moabit district of Berlin. In solitary confinement, fettered hand and foot, he awaited a show trial with a predetermined outcome. After a while he was allowed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113802Author Jean AnouilhFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

We're not playing Grandmother's fucking Footsteps, mate! Stay away, or I'll jump!Midnight at the Dartford Crossing; Roland's settled in for another thrilling night supervising the toll machines; Andrea's pretty sure she's come to kill herself. Neither of...

Richard Cameron's most popular and acclaimed work together in one volume introduced by the author This volume includes Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Pond Life, Mortal Ash and All of You Mine. Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, written as interweaving...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116957Author McCartney NicolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman) Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a...

In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images...

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers...

Adapted for the stage by Paul Allen from Mark Herman's film, Brassed Off was first seen at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre and subsequently at the Olivier at the National Theatre, London. Grimley Colliery is set to close as the accountants say there's more...

'Oh, you do look...really good, though. You know. In the face. Oh and, uh, I love you.' Prisoners of their fear of falling things - keraunothetophobiacs - Jacqui and Robin are restricted to living indoors. When they meet online a relationship begins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573692550Author Georg BuchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how...

Reissued to tie in with a new production of Flight adapted by Ron Hutchinson and performed at the Olivier, Royal National Theatre Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the Soviet Union's finest playwrights, whose work was often at odds with the Soviet State. This...

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important,"...

This book was first published in 1981. The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Lugne-Poe's Theatre de...

Above The Stag Theatre's adult pantomimes are a London institution, selling out every year. Celebrating a decade of laughter, He's Behind You! makes these acclaimed theatre scripts available for the first time, placing queer characters front and centre...

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely...

Written by the former Deputy Head of Make-Up and Wigs at the National Theatre, this book opens up a process that very few people will otherwise be privy to, giving perspectives on the preparation before a production and responsibilities during, as well...

This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors,...

From the editor of the bestselling volumes: Modern and Contemporary Monologues for Men and for Women This is a selection of forty great speeches drawn from landmark plays stretching from Greek and Roman theatre right through to those of the nineteenth...

A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrights Cryptogram: "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a five-act satire on chivalric romances, generally considered the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play's...

A thunderstorm. A windswept country house. A family of failures - a detective who has never solved a case, a writer, an artist, a composer, and a dysfunctional teenager - are all arguing over a bequest. But the victim is not who we think it will be and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573615139Author Eduardo FilippoFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to...

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...