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This is a selection of speeches drawn from the great landmark plays of the twentieth century. The most famous playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed on stages around the world - are represented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739998134Author Evelyn SamuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Eves Super Easy BooksPublisher Eves Super Easy Books

'It had been a while. I was really nervous. I mean, it's not really like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. ...

A group of students arrange a sponsored 24-hour fast to raise money for charity. Two of the students, Charlie and Holly, brag that they could carry on, and in refusing to back down they end up embarking on a dangerous fast that lasts for days. The...

Join Lola on her backstage adventure in the first picture book created with the National Theatre.It's showtime! Lola is a little actor with big dreams. But when disaster strikes on opening night and an important prop goes missing backstage, can Lola save...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788609002663Author Julija VoznesenskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint RadPublisher RadWeight(grams) 127g

Musical / 11 Principals, Various small parts, Singers and Dancers / Various sets Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have been set to music in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Everybody knows the story, but now it's a new...

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play...

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage...

It's the height of the summer, and Daisy's fifteenth birthday. Trouble is brewing - in North London, someone's been shot. There's a curfew in place, school is suspended and the city is changing, but Daisy has an important delivery to make across town...

This hilarious volume brings together three funny, vibrant and theatrical monologue plays for female performers. The Wheelchair on My Face by Sonya Kelly Sonya tells her story about growing up with poor vision that went undiagnosed until she was seven...

Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Ben Power weaves the text of Romeo and Juliet into a provocative new tale of love and sacrifice. Re-imagining Shakespeare's story, A Tender Thing is an elegiac yet ultimately...

When Ronan's former girlfriend Max turns up at his fashionable Dublin restaurant, he's determined to prove to her how far he's come. But Max has something bigger to discuss. Over the course of one winesoaked evening, old wounds are exposed and new...

A traveller falls ill in a poor country and plummets into a feverish self-examination.But something's been hidden from me, too. Something - a part of myself - has been hidden from me, and I think it's the part that's there on the surface, what anyone in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957851365Author Simon W PainFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Penmore Press LLCPublisher Penmore Press LLCWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition. "Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ...a real coup de theatre" Nicholas de Jongh,...

Set in late 19th century London, the film tells of Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), a popular American magician, with his British mentor Harry Cutter (Michael Caine) and girlfriend and assistant Olivia (Scarlett Johansson), who is in a friendly rivalry with...

Stage version of the popular novel, first performed at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow before two West End productions and one on Broadway, winning an Olivier award on the way.Stage version of the popular novel, first performed at the Citizens Theatre,...

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Michael Palin's first stage play premiered in the West End in 1994 Faced with a family gathering, world-weary Stephen Febble does his best to be difficult. When his daughter, her dreary husband Alan, their precocious child and - not least - the dog come...

Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, and his work continues to be widely performed and studied around the world. This updated Companion includes Miller's work since the publication of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995757707Author Omar El-KhairyFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Fly PratesPublisher Fly PratesWeight(grams) 204g

This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an 'age of interruption' and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and...

Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to...

This fifth collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1998) The Yalta Game (after Chekhov) (2001) The Bear (after Chekhov) (2002) Afterplay (after 2002) Performances (2003) The Home Place (2005) Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458695Author Stephen BelberFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams)...

Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762940Author Rajiv JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 258g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416590842Author William GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Five characters share a common thread: Joanne. But it's not about her. It's about Stella, whose tomorrow is as far away as winter from summer. It's the way Grace finds her song on the footpath between two cars. It's about Alice's MBA wasted on plugging...

It's what life does to you. We don't have time to waste. Worrying over the small stuff while the big stuff takes its toll. You're living and then . . . boom. At 27, History teacher Nick is on the edge. A hidden secret lies under the Brink. Nick can't get...

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with ambitions of being a spy. She has two passports, speaks two languages and has a cultural...

"Extraordinary stories, ordinary lives. This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women, who live in our street, and drink in our local, share...

..A Story of Friendship, Migration and Karaoke.... Summer 1999. Margate's beaches are packed with day-trippers.... and its hotels filled with Kosovan asylum seekers - including Hanna (Celia Meiras), a survivor of Europe's most recent genocide. Hannah...

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay?Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1988.Book InformationISBN 9780930452896Author Alfred UhryFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196036Author Louise WallweinFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132360Author Valerie WindsorFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Love and addiction in New York City.Things are looking up for Jackie. He's out of jail and staying clean thanks to his sponsor. He might even have found a job. And of course there's Veronica, who he's loved since 8th grade. Nothing could come between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083135526Author Karl WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Bag of ElbowsPublisher Bag of ElbowsWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...