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After the death of her sister is left unresolved, Esther is broken and alone. Searching for closure, she looks to Keith for answers. As she becomes increasingly drawn in to his disturbing world, her other relationships come under strain, not least a...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve, The Man of Mode was first staged in 1676 and contains all the classic ingredients of Restoration Comedy: adultery, intrigue,...

First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit...

An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate. For her history project, Charlie hits on the idea of writing the diary of Lottie, a young Victorian serving girl. When Charlie's...

Judith is on remand suspected of killing her mother. From the moment the police came to question her she has not spoken. Alex, a child psychiatrist with experience of mutism is called in as a last resort to make a psychiatric assessment. He battles...

Brigit I'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is. Set in the 1950s, Brigit, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed Bailegangaire (1985),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113529Author Derek BenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573607295Author Ted TillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985. They are a vividly memorable gang of eccentrics and exotics who are attempting to come to terms with their pasts and their fears for...

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710506Author Phil OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A new encounter with the work of a master of avant-garde theatreTadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative visual artists, stage directors, and theoreticians. His theatre productions and manifestos challenged the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466212435Author Hollis McLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

"It's not just what he's done that makes me want to kill him. It's everything about him that makes me want to kill him. Listen to me. And me a May Queen an' all" Frank Donohue is dead. Murdered. And as the culprits bury his death in the chaos...

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots. Rivka wants the perfect Orthodox wedding. With two weeks to go, she has the man, the dress - and the wig. But when doubt is cast on her wig, everything starts to unravel. Rivka finds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573011177Author Arnold RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Winnie the Witch uses her magic to solve some very practical problems. But the results are never quite as she imagined... One day after turning everything in her house black to hide the mess, she discovers she can no longer see her black cat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557831743Author Woodie KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Pit the kettle oan mither, this is braw news! Scotland's most famous family, The Broons, are brought to life in this new stage adaptation by award-winning playwright Rob Dummond. Beloved of readers since their first appearance in the Sunday Post...

Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and...

Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995589766Author Robert MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067468Author Cordelia O'neillFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressWeight(grams) 126g

A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers. Grizzly, Dog and Gnome live to climb mountains. They're good at it. They're not looking for death. They love what they do and they do it to the limit. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133787Author Arnold RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 49g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692694206Author Briana MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Moran Publishing CompanyPublisher Moran Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 86g

Garcia Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company. When Bernarda's husband dies, she...

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history and in the society around them. Their estate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014352Author Arnold RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013676Author Esther McCrackenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

A play about division, destiny and the undimmed potency of memory itself, from the author of the award-winning The Pull of Negative Gravity. East Berlin, 1990. The Wall has just been pulled down. A man arrives at the flat of his grandmother with...

A play about division, destiny and the undimmed potency of memory itself, from the author of the award-winning The Pull of Negative Gravity. East Berlin, 1990. The Wall has just been pulled down. A man arrives at the flat of his grandmother with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936839851Author Robert W. CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573615382Author Harry KurnitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an affair. If only her son were to break-up with his girlfriend. He...

"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) These hilarious and vicious two plays examine the corruption of Nigerian society through a study of the rise and fall of one of its...

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...

The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 3 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry VI, Part 3 is dominated by a struggle between two military forces, neither of which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763526Author James CawoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

It's 1991 in West Belfast. With their husbands either locked up or killed, Marie, Cassie and Nora are just trying to get on with their lives, despite the bombs, burning buses and soldiers trampling the flower beds. Life must go on - after all, there's...