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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151636Author Vaclav HavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420978001Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763274Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645463194Author Mike RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mike RogersPublisher Mike RogersWeight(grams) 141g

First staged in 1912 and described as "the most powerful play produced in England in this decade," Githa Sowerby's Edwardian classic on family and labour enjoyed huge success in London and New York Set in the North Yorkshire home of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116889Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

It was the dinner that changed history: the night in February 2016 when Boris Johnson decided to vote 'leave' and a nation's future was sealed. Guests included the spirits of Prime Ministers past, including Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Tony...

Here is a father who loves his daughter. You can tell from the way he held her when she was born after a difficult delivery; you can tell from the way he dances with her to her favourite songs; you can tell from the way he will do anything to protect her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133602Author Katherine ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127g

Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie...

1968. A time of political upheaval the likes of which has not been seen since. Until - perhaps - now. In a new age of radical leftism and global politics, this new version of David Edgar's 1983 award-winning hit play, Maydays, has startling parallels to...

Two plays by one of Britain's most prolific young black authors Brixton Stories Ossie Jones is an immigration lawyer in Brixton, London, a place full of wordmongers, preachers and prophets. One day he falls into a coma, is arrested for a crime he has not...

This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-husband. Her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces her to Peter, a handsome drifter who might be an AWOL...

When did our obsession with wellness start making us sick? Hear Me Raw is an autobiographical play based on the author's experiences of the online wellness industry. The play opens with the protaganist playing the typical health blogger: "She has...

The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan. In a hotel room a once-lauded playwright meets Nijinsky's elderly...

Let us not dwell on the past . . . I'm an old man, Charles. Old enough to know the past is only good for one thing - destroying the future. Guy and Kathleen grow their crops, raise their daughter, and pay their taxes. But Africa is changing,...

August Strindberg is one of the founders of the modern theater. George Bernard Shaw considered him "the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist," Sean O'Casey called him "the greatest of them all." And to Eugene O'Neill he was...

This book will be of major interest to student teachers, teachers, lecturers and researchers. It provides a case for an integrated approach to the teaching of drama in primary and secondary schools that will help practitioners develop a theoretical...

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A collection of play adaptations by one of Britain's best-selling contemporary playwrights THE GRADUATE: California in the 1960s. Benjamin's got excellent grades, very proud parents and, since he helped Mrs Robinson with her zipper, a fine future behind...

An energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate. Mandy's been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky,...

An enthralling drama about the man who killed Hendrik Verwoerd, President of South Africa and the architect of South African apartheid. Written by the acclaimed actor and author of Year of the King. I.D. tells the true story of how Demetrios Tsafendas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067888Author Jade ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 4mm

'I'm off to conquer a barren world.' 1969 - Man takes his first steps on the Moon, while Sylvia meets an astronaut at a party. 2055 - Sylvia's granddaughter is set to become the first person to walk on Mars. Witness the adventures of three...

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 *...

A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, whose story is recounted in Homer's Odyssey. It's 11.30 a.m. and already it's thirty-three degrees Celsius. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous...

'We were two weans playing at wee hooses... Now we're both paying the price.' Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's a fool. But the real test of their marriage comes when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573662355Author Adrienne KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The most popular teenager in Britain comes to the stage! "Tracy Beaker Gets Real" has been adapted by Mary Morris with music by Grant Olding from one of the most successful children's books ever, Jacqueline Wilson's "The Story of Tracy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573605420Author Alice ChadwickeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches. But is that enough to bring about change? Alejandra and Marcela are female anarchists, nervously planning to plant bombs in the middle of the...

From the liberation of the electric wheelchair to the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration, there have been both great advances and terrible setbacks for disabled people in Britain over the last fifty years. Hard-hitting and hilarious,...

Am lie is an extraordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world but loudly in her mind. She covertly improvises small but surprising acts of kindness that bring joy and mayhem. But when a chance at love comes her way, Am lie realizes that to find...

An essential collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.Introduction by Werner SollorsAdrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133671Author Sarah MiddletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"... succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." -Karin BarberUnder colonial rule,...

The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is...

Six people with six very separate lives are strangely linked by circumstance. Does Nicola still love Dan? Can Stewart be on the verge of an office romance? Will Imogen ever find true love? Does Ambrose have a secret life? And what on earth is Charlotte...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708039Author Madeleine GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd