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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Book of a Musical, Tony Awards 1971 and Best Musical, Tony Awards 1971.Book InformationISBN 9781559361088Author Stephen SondheimFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade...

From the gothic story by Daphne du Maurier.From the gothic story by Daphne du Maurier.About the AuthorLisa Evans writes for theatre, radio and television. Her original stage plays include Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home, Under Exposure, Crime of the...

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded...

A dark and twisted coming-of-age story by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen. Hendrix is growing up. Or at least he's trying to. He's sick of his mother and her constant preaching on the virtues of an organic lifestyle. And he's sick of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420949674Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369824Author Taylor MacFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Late-night taxis, teen discos, home nurses, Jewish launderettes, vigilantes, babies, immigrants, seagulls. Citysong is a play, a poem and a chorus of voices showing three generations of a Dublin family on one day. Intimate and sweeping, joyous and...

This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of...

This collection of historical and contemporary scenes offers drama teachers a wide range of topics through an exploration of vividly drawn texts. The opening pantomime dialogue contrasts with such serious issues as cholera and plastic pollution. These...

The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide with the Great Depression, the intensification of the crisis of democracy that began after the war, and the rise of...

David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911369790Author Maurice ClaypoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint LinguaBooksPublisher LinguaBooksWeight(grams) 70g

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) Includes three of...

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...

But I do have a job. I'm a professional viscount. Things aren't looking good for Theodore 'Tug' Bungay. His mother, Lady Agrippina, has a plan to cut off his funds. His fed-up fiancee wants to drag him up the aisle. An oligarch is eyeing up his...

The Fall is a play collaboratively written by the original cast as a reaction to and reflection on the South African student protests in 2015 and part of 2016. The #RhodesMustFall and subsequent student-led movements in South Africa alerted the...

Help build a challenging and rewarding English curriculum with imaginative ways of studying Shakespeare's drama, stories and language for every year of KS3. Reinvigorate the study of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3 to lay strong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000584Author Damian BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113574Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The play was intended as a tragedy on the purposeless of life imposed on the women of his time, both by their upbringing and by the social conventions which limited their activities. When it was first produced it met with misunderstanding and abuse. It...

A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets, complete with valuable tools for educators.The authoritative edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare...

I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527051Author HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

A remarkable writer - an original fresh voice, with a sharp political edge (Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director the Royal Court Theatre). British writer Rory Mullarkey is the winner of the Harold Pinter Commission, the James Tait Black Prize for...

Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home. Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past...

An intense domestic drama of global consequence - for India then and for our world now. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess; music, drugs, eunuchs and harems. Two brothers, whose mother's death inspired the Taj...

'There is a quality in Shawn's writing - imaginative verve, quiet intensity, a sort of puritan sensitivity or a blend of them all.' The TimesThis first collection of Wallace Shawn's work contains plays from the seventies and eighties, including Aunt Dan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762918Author Esther WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing.Five daughters live together in a single household with a...

For the first time, a collection of Britain's top comedy performer's plays and TV scripts in one volume This volume includes the Evening Standard award-winning play Talent 'Very funny - at times, too near the knicker-wetting degree' (Guardian) and her...

'Lock up your sons. And your daughters if the mood fits. Tonight we are getting destroyed.' Nate's coming to the end of his career, Yaz hasn't the means to get herself one, and Josh's injury could finish his before it's even started. Today's been a...

A disobedient cultural response to a very well-known story: the male gaze. Award-winning writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, The Globe) radically responds to William Golding's classic Lord of the Flies in their new piece Flies - A powerful and...

Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. It charts Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as this extraordinary 19 year old pits himself against the...

You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential.Promiscuous, pitiless and bored,...

Twelve years ago, from the mouth of a great sacrifice, a child was born. And they called her Autumn. Isaac returns to his family home with a chance to atone for the terrible mistake that claimed his childhood.Autumn is a little girl whose time is running...

Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future. A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution. A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her young daughter. In a care home...

We're supposed to be having a party. It's s'posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun.Thatcher's Britain - Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, in the safety of their home, a group of Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521684Author Lanford WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70 year old NHS.Alison is heading to her first shift at St Nicholas's Hospital in Gosforth. She's...