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Science and religion go head to head in David Baddiel's debut play: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers. When physics student Edie seems to prove, scientifically, the existence of God, it has far-reaching effects. Not least for...

Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward V's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding...

A coming of age story inspired by Dizzee Rascal's seminal album. In a strict Mormon household somewhere in the seam between East London and Essex, a girl is given Dizzee Rascal's ground-breaking grime album Boy in da Corner by her best friend SS Vyper...

Howard Barker is one of the most controversial British dramatists of his time. His plays unsettle, challenge, and expose. The contradictions of the humanist personality are explored in the following four plays: I Saw Myself; The Dying of Today; Found in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132582Author Taz SkylarFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916356146Author Rikki Beadle-BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

'We can be strong. We can be loud. We can be brutal. And if it makes people uncomfortable? Good.' Five wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit to compete in the obscure art of Backhold Wrestling. Can bold...

Now we don't want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596053076Author Oliver Wendell HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707735Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

It's 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they've been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067772Author Dougie BlaxlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785434334Author Lord George Gordon Byron, 1788-Format PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Deadtree PublishingPublisher Copyright Group LtdWeight(grams)...

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 *...

A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one family's experience of the NHS. A month after stating "we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care", the government launched the biggest...

Sixteen-year-old Kelly has never known her Dad. Turns out he's from Iraq, which her mum never mentioned, and he's brought an ancient Mesopotamian vase as some kind of present. But Kelly doesn't want a vase. She wants her dad to stay and get to know her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916356160Author Rikki Beadle-BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

M2 F4. A living room. Fee code M Comedian and national treasure Dave Thursby has died, and on the day of his funeral, friends and colleagues gather beside his coffin to pay their last respects. There's Harvey, who wrote Dave's material; Vi, Harvey's...

On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need. Something that might just swallow them...

Sunday 30th January 1972: 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead, and another 13 wounded when British soldiers opened fire during an anti-internment civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The 1972 inquiry by Lord Chief Justice, Lord...

"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. ...

'We're... A man and a woman Who've lost a child Who first lost a child And then... each other Or maybe I should say: Who first lost a child, then themselves and then each other' An extraordinary play that asks a simple question: is it ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914170362Author Alan SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Sixth Element PublishingPublisher Sixth Element Publishing

A savage satire on the rapacious nature of office lives and lusts - the British debut from a writer whose work has been seen in prestigious theatres all over Germany. Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone...

How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a far away galaxy?Going Dark explores contemporary society's lost connection with the night sky and its wonder at the cosmos, with a portrait of one astronomer...

Four plays inspired by and originating on the European stage from one of Britain's most important playwrights.Three Kingdoms was presented at Teater NO99 in Tallinn, Estonia on 17 September 2011, before opening at the Munich Kammerspiele, Germany, on...

- Idea for a story. A beautiful young girl lives by a lake all her life. She loves this lake. She's happy and free, like that bird was once. Then a man comes along and for no reason at all... what do you think he does?- He destroys her.A story about how...

The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic...

Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been a roaring success. Free metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the ones with guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, it’s okay over here and no, it doesn’t snow...

At a raucous party during their freshman year at Princeton, Tom and Amber connect in ways that seem innocent enough at first. But as things progress, they find themselves in murky territory, with ramifications that could affect the rest of their lives. ...

'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- WoyzeckGeorg Buchner's Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author's death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first 'modern' drama in the history of European theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762796Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

"When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient...

The first collection of plays by the multi-award winning playwright and winner of the 2001 "Most Promising Playwright" Evening Standard Theatre Award THE NO BOYS CRICKET CLUB (1996): Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost...

The first collection of plays from one of Britain's finest young writers Spoonface Steinberg, Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114182Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is...

Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490723396Author Phil BoastFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed...