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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.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 *...

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

Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic engagement to the foreground of the text, reflecting the...

'I know exactly how much I am worth. I am worth one thousand euros because that is how much Babac paid for me. To put this in easy language, that is like two-and-a-half iPhones.' A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional...

In The Wasp's Nest, Hercule Poirot's come between a bitter triangle of lovers to prevent a sinister murder before it takes place. In Yellow Iris, a distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761386Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Two plays developed and commissioned under the Soho Young Writer's Programme: Claire is bright. Too bright. She crackles with energy. She has a flat, a boyfriend, a life - until one night she loses it all...Sectioned to a psychiatric ward, should Claire...

Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, one's appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character] rings true and resonates further... A play which is...

A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling...

A new work from Peter Brook - the contemporary theatre's greatest inventor Whatever the social and national barriers, we all have a brain and we think we know it. But, the moment we go inside, we find we are on another planet. Using Oliver Sacks'...

It's 1955 and the Pallas Players, an all-female theatre company, are putting on a play: Whisky Galore. They transport us back to 1943 on the Scottish islands of Great and Little Todday, where the whisky supply has dried up because of the war, leaving...

This is a six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka. It is Kafka's terrifying but bizarrely comic story in a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son Gregor emerges one morning...

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, telling the story of two families divided by culture and land. William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a convict from the slums of London. Upon earning his pardon he discovers...

Cixous' work as a playwright - working mainly with Theatre du Soleil and their director Ariane Mnouchkine - establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous European theatre making of the last 40 years.This collection brings together for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708626Author Will ArberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre, loosely based on the plays of Plautus. Pseudolus, a simpering slave, is trying to win his own freedom by cooking up a...

This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the...

Four Scottish teenagers. Two interlocking stories. One ideology tears them apart. Talented kickboxers and A-grade pupils Fatma and Britney have been best friends for ever. That is until now. Britney's views about everything are changing dramatically...

I feel like asking him to stay. To never leave this room. But I know that soon he will leave and...I'm going to ring him that night. I'm not going to write anything down. I might not even say anything. Just listen to him breathe.Lucy and Jim are alone...

Burn: This is the story of Birdman. Fifteen years old, no family, no friends - a loner with nothing to lose. One lazy afternoon, down on the riverbank, the friends he never had narrate the story of his last dramatic day. First performed at the National...

When two souls collide, the impact can resonate for all eternity. So it was - and so it is - with Heathcliff and Cathy. But if they can't be together, the world that struggles to contain them will simply shatter and burn... Andrew Sheridan's gripping...

The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education. This anthology of six of the most commonly studied and revived Naturalist plays from the European repertoire offers a unique...

October 31st 1978. Thomond Park, Limerick. The mighty New Zealand All Blacks, oin an Irish tour, take on the none-too-mighty Munster team - and, to everyone's surprise, they lose 12-0. From this piece of Irish sporting history John Breen has fashioned a...

'We can do better - can't we?' Having both been deeply scarred by their own parents' separations, Joe and Anne never imagined they'd find themselves, years later, in the same position. Determined to place the interests of their son Alistair at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Drama/Theater) 1996. Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780688154370Author Jonathon LarsonFormat...

A mother and daughter's illusions are shattered when they head to the local Sikh Temple, as they're immersed in a world of desperate aspiration and dangerous deals. Behzti (Dishonour) touched such a nerve in a Sikh community during its UK production that...

A darkly humorous look at the flip side of home-sweet-home Jane and Kev Hammersby don't have secrets. When Kev comes home from a business trip with something on his mind, the truth will out, despite a house full of over-excited children, dirty laundry...

This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael Coveney - a former member of Ilford's Renegades - tells this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957182981Author Keith DewhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Greenheart PressPublisher Greenheart Press

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Garcia Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece. Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451214096Author Paul RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Five interrelated one-act plays, written to be performed in any order determined randomly prior to performance, looking at the lives of a judge, agent, politician, budding star and novelist.Book InformationISBN 9780573113635Author Alan AyckbournFormat...

This exhilarating and vibrant adaptation of the literary classic brings to life the all-encompassing love between the taciturn, brooding Heathcliff and the emotionally unstable Catherine. Their destructive relationship is one of the most enduring love...

Millions of people cycle to work every day. And every week, some of them don't make it home. One Tuesday morning, Isabelle packs her lunch box into her pannier, kisses her young daughter goodbye, and sets off on her bike through Hackney. What happens...