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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420933482Author Eugene OneillFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z, Dromgoole's engaging and provocative short essays include his...

In a small Nigerian town, Ben and Obembe, along with their two older brothers, slip away to fish at a forbidden river. Unnoticed and carefree, they continue until one day the prophecy of a madman changes the course of their lives forever. Based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785435126Author Professor Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936839127Author Nicolai GogolFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

'They say we're like swans. Ruddy beautiful graceful things on the surface of a lake but underneath we're paddling like mad.' Maggie and Gordon first met, dancing to Rod Stewart songs, in 1971. Now in their sixties, and still very much in love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016820Author N.J. CrispFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A revered modern classic about life in the closing days of World War II. Set in 1945 during the days between victory in Europe and victory in Japan, Touched follows the fortunes of a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham. Stephen...

In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but...

"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek) Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended by a young nursing Sister and visited by the uneasy figures of her husband Jack,...

Scottee grew up around strong, brave and violent men and boys. Bravado is his memoir of working class masculinity from 1991 to 1999 as seen by a sheep in wolf's clothing. Scottee grew up on a council estate in Kentish Town, where as a child he knew...

Citizenship is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he's not sure whether by a man or by a woman, and he feels he should choose pretty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131731Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)...

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century swaggering carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and a desperately intent...

The Patient, known as Mrs. Wingfield, has been horribly injured in a fall from her balcony. Unable to communicate, it could have been an accident, attempted suicide or worse still a coldblooded killer bent on murder. While relatives gather around her...

1665. As the plague runs rife through London, Reverend William Mompesson arrives in Eyam, Derbyshire, to lead the parish. But Eyam is no sleepy backwater; it is a village at war with itself. The community has dissolved, and neighbour feuds with neighbour...

The play was intended as a tragedy on the purposeless of life imposed on the women of his time, both by their upbringing and by the social conventions which limited their activities. When it was first produced it met with misunderstanding and abuse. It...

'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays.'...

"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplin use an old story of the old man married to the young wife to expose the social attitudes of...

COMMUNICATION IN OUR LIVES, 8th Edition, provides everything you need to become a more confident and effective communicator -- in both your personal and professional life. Award-winning teacher Julia T. Wood combines the latest research, theory, and best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953675760Author Jenny SealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Rhythm is often referred to as one of the key elements of performance and acting, being of central importance to both performance making and training. Yet what is meant by this term and how it is approached and applied in this context are subjects seldom...

Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we? Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his...

'When does libertarian become Nitroglycerine? When does protest become Semtex? At what point does the conviction you are right...become Gelgnite?' Charles Jennings QC arrives at a respected national hospital for a heart transplant. He is awoken into a...

"I need you to get in the wardrobe." Faye's afraid. She's not sleeping, she doesn't trust ducks and all she's had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. A doctor recommends a form of exposure therapy, so Faye enlists the help of her...

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target having been labeled a "witch" and cast out by the town but her soul is not...

why these bleak thoughts today, the whole world in shadow, everything undercut and suspended in its own delirium Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo,. Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that...

This is all we are. This is all sex is. The attempted obliteration of the self. That's why it's so brutal. All there is the plane of nature. It was what was before and will always be, and our complete annihilation, this leisurely murdered world, is after...

All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale about...

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine. Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763755Author Miles TredinnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger PlaysDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm...

Martin McDonagh is one of the world's most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating account of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his work for the stage and of his films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a...

An Englishman, a Northern Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a recording studio and created The Union. Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, the pioneering indie rock band is now on the verge of breaking up. When financial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868198392Author Tony McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and...

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960756Author Anne Elizabeth ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute Books

Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theater in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2009. The new version is set in...

New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays.Book InformationISBN 9781854596963Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133725Author Tatty HennessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd