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To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573651229Author Frank LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067833Author Nick LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressWeight(grams) 132g

An emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy and the poison of the festive season - from the award-winning writer of The Sugar Wife. A small town in the south east of England. Eddie returns home for a peaceful family Christmas for...

Three employees of Harlem Office, New York, a neighbourhood copy shop where promotions are rare, raises are even rarer, and racism is often on display. But when one staff member is given the chance to move up to manager, friendships are tested and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708183Author Masi AsareFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437605814Author de Rodas ApolonioFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067840Author Dougie BlaxlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573070211Author Sir John MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Based on The Tale of Custard the Dragon and Custard the Dragon and the Wicked night by Ogden Nash. Characters: 4m, 2f with doubling / Family Musical / Unit Set Join Custard the Dragon and his friends as they embark on a musical journey in which a most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925005844Author Kate MulvanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdWeight(grams) 130g

'You - miserable, mean, scribbler of a man. You're quoting from that play you put me in.' Abandoning theatre, living a life of squalid splendour, August Strindberg practises alchemy. In his hotel room, he attempts to make gold by finding the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770914629Author Daniel MacIvorFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaPublisher Playwrights Canada Press,Canada

Environmentalist, activist, and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contributes a foreword to this Skyhorse edition of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's renowned 1882 play. Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820458199Author Jost HermandFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708893Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A major season of rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford Teeming with energy and larger than life characters, Eastward Ho! sees Touchstone, a London goldsmith, preparing to marry off his two...

A shattering and heartbreaking play, joint winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition. From the moment he came into the world as the snow fell and the cold wind blew, Oscar's existence has been a stagger through an underworld peopled by loners...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132667Author Jack PopplewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573120305Author Ron NicolFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437615073Author Edward AlbeeFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.

To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future. If we let our children name themselves, will they author their own destinies? Will the nameless ones be free? Untitled is a magical realist story set in Nigeria and England, of identical...

A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley, restoring to the play the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896. In nineteenth-century rural Russia, an anxious young writer prepares the first...

Includes: "The Optimist", "The Swing of Things", and "The Company Man".Includes: "The Optimist", "The Swing of Things", and "The Company Man".About the AuthorTorben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760621797Author David WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789500363150Author Steven BerkoffFormat PaperbackImprint LosadaPublisher Losada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051019Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708190Format PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Ex-boxer Spinks is myopic, poor and lonely, his one companion being the alcoholic Kingsley. To gain attention, he pretends to win the Lottery and is soon receiving freebies and handouts from people hoping to get a share of his fortune and, for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226738017Author Friedrich von SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

A wildly imaginative, hilariously provocative and deeply moving play from one of Scotland's most important playwrights. The philosopher David Hume and the father of modern economics, Adam Smith, wake up in Edinburgh in the early twenty-first century...

As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Vaclav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres - poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050466Author David WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573012778Author Peter CokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573622823Author A.R. GurneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French IncWeight(grams) 140g

An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Eugene O'Neill's only well-known comedy, Ah! Wilderness is a family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War. Richard...

This warm and gripping story of fear and forgiveness is the first major play in twenty years from Charlotte Keatley, the award-winning author of My Mother Said I Never Should. This beautifully immersive and yet also elusive new play is a subtle and...

Three people have come to visit the grave of Michael, who has died of a heart attack in his early 40s. There's Maureen, his wife of nearly 20 years, whom he helped through a breakdown that followed the death of their infant son. There's Anna, his lover,...

"This is a highly unusual theatrical gem . . . both beautiful and beguilingly idiosyncratic."-Time Out Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism, and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play The Diver ingeniously links the ancient Japanese...

The savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth-century decadence in Wilde's astonishing verse tragedy. Banned by the Lord Chamberlain in 1892, Wilde rewrote the play in French and it premiered in Paris in 1896, when Wilde was in prison...