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Four key new translations of plays (including three previously unpublished works) written at the turn of the 20th century, charting the descent of Russia into revolution Hailed by Chekhov as the voice of his time, Gorky's four plays offer a panoramic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714543437Author Oskar KokoschkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd

This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech. ...

Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133534Author Satinder Kaur ChohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil. This edition of Christopher Marlowe's play contains two self-contained versions, known as the A-text...

Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. May 1822, rural Ireland. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707940Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856760402Author Raymond DyerFormat PaperbackImprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101244Author John LahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

New Monologues for Men features forty monologues from plays published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama recently. The monologues are selected by the editor, Geoffrey Colman, on account of their suitability and relevance to drama school students and recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010583Author Maurice McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Two rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan. Cork, 1998. An obsessive odyssey through the city. Dancing on tables, 3 a.m. breakfast rolls and waking up, polluted, on the wrong person's doorstep. Brenda and her...

This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of...

Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once...

The screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. Thomas Dekker's play The Shoemaker's Holiday was first...

My brother's trying to win the war. He's fighting. We should be fighting. I'm brilliant at fighting. June 5, 1944, Southsea Beach. A girl named Poppy stands on the precipice of history. Tomorrow is the biggest day of her life: D-Day. Along with her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Austrian State Prize 1991 and America Award in Literature 2022.Book InformationISBN 9788088628026Author Gerhard RuhmFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Twisted...

If you're not interested in earning a new pair of Nikes by the end of the day...complete designer wardrobe by the end of the week...all the beers you can drink...if you don't want to meet Uma Thurman...then okay, stay here, as King of the Slackers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566082075Author Laurie AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 244g

'We're in a hotel. We're always in a hotel. And each room is exactly the same as the last room, and the one before that, and the one before that...' Leila wants to inspire global change. John needs to get his shit together. They have an arrangement...

Three Thieves break into the same gallery on the same night. They're all intent on stealing the same Extremely Valuable Painting. They're bound to meet and it's bound to get messy. Poltergeist present an existential caper, an interactive sketch-show, an...

A strongly issue-led play, Burning Monkey relates the story of a teenage couple and their interactions with an older war veteran, trying to rebuild his fractured relationship with his daughter. While their exchanges initially show a hostile and...

A strongly issue-led play, Burning Monkey relates the story of a teenage couple and their interactions with an older war veteran, trying to rebuild his fractured relationship with his daughter. While their exchanges initially show a hostile and...

Jesse is paranoid and frightened, and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his son and his life. But Jesse has every reason to be frightened; he is increasingly feeling the sting of rising prejudice in every part of his life. Stephen Laughton's...

The authoritative edition of Antony and Cleopatra from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the...

30m, 7f, plus ensemble (doubling possible.) / Ints./exts. This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that...

Simone and Sam will do anything to get their daughter into the local Church of England school. Juliet and Nick agree to show them the ropes. The bonds of family, faith and friendship are stretched to breaking-point as four forty-somethings wrestle for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000065Author Tatenda ShamisoFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Breaking the Silence: "How well Poliakoff understands the indignities and absurdities of dispossession, the brazen pluck and...

The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films "A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming This is the complete companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to shock"...

I think I want you to hurt. I'm sorry but that's what I want. I want you to really hurt. Rebecca and Paul are running away. Away from memories and mistakes. They're trying to save their relationship. They need time and space. An isolated house in...

Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief... Four exhausted soldiers who hate each other's guts... A King who falls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710650Author Will ArberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The intellectual offspring of Ionesco, Beckett, and Pinter, Walter Wykes is proof that the Theatre of the Absurd lives on. In his plays, he creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and...

Late-night taxis, teen discos, home nurses, Jewish launderettes, vigilantes, babies, immigrants, seagulls. Citysong is a play, a poem and a chorus of voices showing three generations of a Dublin family on one day. Intimate and sweeping, joyous and...

A hole in the ground. Three women are forcing their way out. They're singing. They're moving. They're taking up space. And they refuse to apologise. "We're harpies. We're a three-headed bitch. We've been guarding the gates. Now we're throwing them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708800Author Ken LudwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...