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Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam. They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents' Black Love. When that love is threatened, they...

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory...

A raw, uncompromising drama about bigotry and racism that explores the insidious rise of the British National Party. As a BNP rally gathers momentum on the streets outside, four women meet to play bridge. Struggling to find common ground, they talk...

It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary. She apparently had nothing to fear from him: his speaking skills had, famously, been compared to those of a dead sheep. But, a year later, inspired by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132452Author Rabiah HussainFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Maybe turn down the opinionated dial? Hari and Max weren't satisfied with their first attempt at parenthood, so they're giving it a second go. Only this time they've got a 30-day money back guarantee and an easy-to-follow construction manual. ...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. The ghost of a murdered courtier is promised by Revenge that he will see his murderer killed by his mistress. The two ghostly figures sit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116872Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain. The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus - was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to...

With VENUS, Hanif Kureishi turns his piercing gaze onto the pains of old age. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran stage actors whose slow, inevitable decline is disrupted by the arrival in their lives of Ian's niece Jessie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116452Author Bim AdewunmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedies. It was first produced in 415 BC just after the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573064906Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789197895477Author Joyce AkessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Pallas Athena DistributionPublisher Pallas Athena DistributionWeight(grams)...

Like the companion volume for men, Alternative ShakespeareAuditions for Women brings together fifty speeches from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also features good, but over-looked speeches from more...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. Lydia Languish, a young woman from a good family, holds to an...

A town is in turmoil. A hospital is closing. And an MP is dead on the train tracks... Accident? Or opportunity? When a local hospital announces its closure, panic ensues. Healthcare Assistant Rhea is forced to look for work elsewhere. Local lad...

A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573651496Author Anthony KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604443493Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying...

'I can't undo what's been said. My world changed this morning. I hope for the better, but we'll see in the future.' Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother,...

When Bertie is sent away from the African farm of his childhood to school in England, he leaves behind not only his beloved mother and the beautiful land, swarming with wildlife, but also his best friend - a white lion he rescued as a cub. Bertie's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298528Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486266824Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 62gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern...

A thrilling friend of her parents casts a spell over a young girl. A study in the glamour of brutal ideas.Susie, he's not just an individual like you and me - he works for the government. It's as if you were saying that you and I are so nice every day...

There have been many changes since the first edition of this publication appeared in 1984. In addition to the closure of many more local cinemas, there has been the growth of the multiplexes so the picture is not entirely black. This book has been...

A prodigiously talented young musician, an Ivy League school, a life changing allegation. Out of 37,451 applicants to Eliot University, Angela stands out - but not for the right reasons. An ambiguous event in her past threatens to overshadow her...

COMMUNICATING FOR RESULTS: A GUIDE FOR BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS, 11th Edition, equips you with the basic concepts and techniques you need to successfully communicate in today's business world, regardless of your current level of experience. Covering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868194219Author Morris GleitzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm *...

Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland. Tearing the Loom is a searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the...

'When I look at you - when you look at me - when our eyes connect? I have to protect. To hold on to something, 'cause there's too much to feel!' Four generations of black men are trying to understand themselves in a world which tells them they have...

'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, but That That That is what I enjoy. That is what I'm good at, okay?' Clair works in real estate. Mike and Liz are selling. James wants to buy. He'll only deal with Clair...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNeil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530226Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 195g

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Arthur Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. La Ronde is a play of ten scenes, each depicting a couple in a sexual liaison. There are...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700-1760 Entertainment in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010378Author John van DrutenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd