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A dissection of the impact on society of the war in Iraq When one man goes to war he leaves the city, his wife and brother. A year later only the wife and brother remain. Christopher Shinn's new play asks what happens when people and events apparently...

The tenth collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Plays Ten comprises the plays Ahno, Distance, Critique of Pure Feeling, Irrespective, Immense...

Edward Albee (1928-2016) was a central figure in modern American theatre, and his bold and often experimental theatrical style won him wide acclaim. This book explores the issues, public and private, that so influenced Albee's vision over five decades,...

Helping teachers to guarantee that dyslexic students get the most from drama inside and outside the classroom, this indispensable book includes a strait forward exploration of dyslexia and tactics for overcoming problems experienced by students in drama...

Two compelling and thought-provoking plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Anna Christie Eugene O'Neill's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman's longing to forget the dark secrets...

The show begins with a male comedian being given a script they have never seen before. They read the script out loud, sight unseen, in front of an audience. This is a show about what one woman thinks about when she thinks about sex with men. This run...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573706226Author Steve YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763182Author Robert FarquharFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

One wants to restore the image of the Church, gain back the community's trust. And as you know, this part of town has long been resistant to social progress. Otherwise Sister Bernadine wouldn't need to work so hard. Sister Bernie D'Amato doesn't look...

Seasonal new play by London's most prolific and evocative playwright People don't mourn out of love, they mourn out of fear and the fear makes them stop. Michael, Billy and Giuseppe are biding their time before Christmas away from their loved ones. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486421247Author Pedro Calderon de la BarcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573609329Author Arnold RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

For the first time, this play - first performed in 2012 at the National Theatre - is published in the Methuen Drama Student Edition series. It features commentary & notes by Nicholas Holden, Lecturer in Drama at the University of Greenwich, UK, that help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133770Author Arnold RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762710Author Mick MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

A Queen masterminds the murder of her Husband and takes the throne with her new lover. Her Daughter, Electra, grows up in the grip of a cruel regime, swearing revenge. Her Son Orestes, exiled as a boy and raised in the arms of the rebels, waits to embark...

A Queen masterminds the murder of her Husband and takes the throne with her new lover. Her Daughter, Electra, grows up in the grip of a cruel regime, swearing revenge. Her Son Orestes, exiled as a boy and raised in the arms of the rebels, waits to embark...

A child's life is snuffed out by a joy-rider. Four years on, the parents and the young lad meet. In this award-winning drama, writer Julian Armitstead explores the process of restorative or reparative justice, by which victim and offender are brought...

Ibsen's classic in a version by Patrick Marber. Hedda returns from her honeymoon with new husband George Tesman. Struggling with her marriage and life devoid of excitement, Hedda strives to find a way to fulfill her desires by manipulating those around...

Hamlet: Who's There is a tightly written highly theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's great play. Reimagining the action to take place over the course of one night, the play can be produced to last ninety minutes for a small cast of six actors. ...

Love in Idleness is the third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays (after Flare Path and While the Sun Shines). It is published here alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, which was never staged during Rattigan's...

First major theatrical adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116834Author Helen WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116995Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Barrie Keeffe's acclaimed screenplay for the classic film Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own 'corporation' and owning his own yacht and classy mistress. He has the police and the local authorities in his pocket, is planning a...

Is a man's Memorial Service the right time to tell the truth? Reunited for the occasion a group of friends gather to celebrate a life. But who are they remembering? A creative genius, a former lover, a bitter rival - or the man who deceived them all? A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067819Author Tom MachellFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115912Author Molly TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710339Author Adam SzymkowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68g

M2 or 3 F2 or 3. A farmyard and farmhouse. It's the half term holiday and George Kranky is looking forward to a break from school when a letter from Grandma arrives announcing that she is coming to stay - that very day! Soon she is making George's life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763724Author Reed MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger PlaysDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708084Author Adam SzymkowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"Know what happened, understand what happened and remember what happened." Hillsborough Survivor Beyond Hillsborough is a verbatim play, written and set in 2012, that explores the personal consequences of living with the Hillsborough tragedy. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437600758Author Lope de VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint 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 9780573709579Author Patrick BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Pit the kettle oan mither, this is braw news! Scotland's most famous family, The Broons, are brought to life in this new stage adaptation by award-winning playwright Rob Dummond. Beloved of readers since their first appearance in the Sunday Post...

'Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad.' The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the...

'What would you do to save your son? Everything? Anything? Lie?' It's Michael Thomas's birthday. A cake sits in his mother Evelyn's living room, its candles burning undisturbed. On the fifteenth anniversary of Michael's fatal stabbing, Jackie wants...

An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and...

This collection offers insight into different study approaches to disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? International...