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An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate. Thirteen-year-old Violet has plenty to wish for. She wishes Will, her older brother, would be kinder to her. She wishes beautiful...

In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Constance Ledbelly, a tweedy academic, has ghostwritten the papers of her mentor for years, when suddenly he announces he's marrying a riva.. Escaping into her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902638249Author Ed ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books

An outrageously funny satire on modern politics, New Labour and the fine art of spin Alistair Beaton's hilarious play, part farce, part biting satire, is set in the plush seaside hotel of a party conference. As anti-capitalist riots rage in the streets...

What happens when two sets of parent's meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and...

Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal, collaborations...

In 2018, island-monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to Valletta, the European Capital of Culture in Malta. They thought they were going to drink rum with Brits abroad, celebrating their final year as Europeans, and make a play. Instead they found...

Reeling from her ex-husband's engagement to a much younger woman Jodi Isaac turns to her famous fashion-designer dad for support. Instead she finds him wrapped up in his West Village townhouse with Trey. Who's twenty. And not necessarily gay. But...

A fascinating volume which gives people the opportunity of read and learn from Reckord's work, and enjoy the sophistication and insight of his delivery, characterization, politics, plot. Includes: Della, Skyvers, and The White Witch.First published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786599409363Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Plataforma9Publisher Plataforma9Weight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360807Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group...

Cities are full of stories - it's amazing what you hear if you stop and listen. Drawing on her decade of singing on the tube, Danusia Samal's Busking It is a journey through the tunnels of the London Underground. This is a fun, moving and vibrant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710445Author Gracie GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble. Alceste, the 'misanthrope', hates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573705984Author Mark RylanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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Isabel's got pains. Anne's got slugs. And Genevieve doesn't want to talk about hers. She just wants you to eat the damn hummus (she made it!). Let's talk about family nightmares. We mean uh memories.Book InformationISBN 9780573708381Author Will,...

"This text offers a cohesive framework for exploring social justice through drama and drama from a social justice perspective. Research based examples of practice from a range of international contexts link theory and practice. Connecting chapters raise...

Common is a dark and disturbing journey into the carnivalesque world of early-Industrial Britain, exploring the personal and public traumas in the period of the enclosure. Written with verve and wit by Olivier Award-nominated and Writers' Guild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067673Author Danny RobinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 8mm

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies). ...

This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of...

The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre is an exploration of the rich diversity of theatrical traditions in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book traces the ancient and complex roots of African...

London, present day. The body of an unidentified young man is found face down in a suburban street. Who is he and where did he come from? He has no ID and nobody witnessed anything. It's as if he has just fallen from the sky... Pathologists and police...

'We'll tell the same old stories, all over again. And we won't complain. Because it's Christmas.' It's Christmas Day, sort of, and Alice, Mike and Tess - three generations of the one family - are busy preparing a feast, singing songs, spinning yarns...

"I believe in this. I believe in here. Me and you." Everyday life, is it nothing but a series of creeping, soul-destroying disillusionments and compromises? This young couple start to think so, falling further and further into a lyrical, wild and...

The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763359Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

A moment of kindness in a sea of unfamiliarity... A long, hard day at work... A lively party... A nostalgic lullaby... The story begins in Nigeria where the character of Dele plays a last game of football with his friends and says goodbye to his son...

The authoritative edition Henry VI, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts...

This Introduction - an indispensable 'how to' guide for students and teachers alike - investigates the methods and aims of historical study in the performing arts, from archival research to historical writing. Beginning with case studies on Shakespearean...

Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett...

An unsettling, intelligent and savagely funny play about oil geopolitics and the price of human life. An attack on a pipeline in Northern Nigeria. Journalists and PR consultants rush to the scene. Everyone wants control of the story - and they're...

Blending theatre, storytelling and killer moves, spoken word artist Maria Ferguson explores her relationship with the F-word (food) with the help of her first love (dance). Questioning how we all look at size, Fat Girls Don't Dance takes us in to the...

'We talkin' about life. We talkin' about being treated as equals. We talkin' about not being shot down in the streets and motherfuckers gettin' off scot-free.' Lynchburg, Virginia, on the former site of a cotton mill. Fourteen-year-old Ruffrino is...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final...

'I have to draw a new map. I have to be seen. For her. For all of us!' Since her ordeal five years ago, nineteen-year-old Nene rarely leaves home. Secure within her mum's embrace, Nene now keeps the outside world securely on the other side of her...

In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the Third World and subordinated cultures in the first world. Crow and Banfield consider the plays of such...

The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight. And a hundred years later, The Woman seeks to understand. 1916 - In the darkness of the French night, three young soldiers, a private, a corporal and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708299Author Kate KerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd