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Originally published in 1999, this book is a critical analysis of Renaissance theatre, including chapters on speaking theatres, performing theatre and redesigning Shakespeare.Book InformationISBN 9780367134334Author Christopher CairnsFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050466Author David WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573012778Author Peter CokeFormat 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 9780573622823Author A.R. GurneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Eugene O'Neill's only well-known comedy, Ah! Wilderness is a family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War. Richard...

'Our duty is plain. To bring an end to peace.' An empire gone wrong; an empire completely gone, in fact. A nation with delusional ideas of its place in the world, making poor choices, involved in clumsy foreign adventures, constantly on the edge of...

In a remote mountain village in eastern Turkey, against a backdrop of mounting political turmoil, a father clings to the simple life he has created for himself and his family. As violence creeps ever closer, Haydar refuses to flee from the family home, a...

The National had never before staged Shakespeare's two most admired history plays. Bella Merlin follows the production from pre-rehearsal planning to opening night, charting the processes that make up two major productions in the Olivier Theatre, and...

"Marieluise Fleisser (1901-1974) is the author of Purgatory in Ingolstadt and Pioneers in Ingolstadt. Both plays were directed in Berlin in the 1920s by Bertolt Brecht. After a brief moment of glory, Fleisser's second play met with damning disapproval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887548284Author Judith ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaPublisher Playwrights Canada...

Three people have come to visit the grave of Michael, who has died of a heart attack in his early 40s. There's Maureen, his wife of nearly 20 years, whom he helped through a breakdown that followed the death of their infant son. There's Anna, his lover,...

"Sara, Minna von Barnhelm Two contrasting plays by the influential German playwright and critic, Gotthold Lessing. Sara is a compelling domestic tragedy that is as popular now as when it was first performed in 1755. Minna von Barnhelm is a delightful...

"This is a highly unusual theatrical gem . . . both beautiful and beguilingly idiosyncratic."-Time Out Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism, and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play The Diver ingeniously links the ancient Japanese...

This title contains four plays by the distinguished Scottish-based writer Stanley Eveling, long associated with Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. In "The Strange Case of Martin Richter", a group of men with a terrible past act out a fantasy in a German...

L'Avare (1666) is Moliere's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser's family and servants. First performed at the Festival Theatre, Chichester...

The savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth-century decadence in Oscar Wilde's astonishing tragedy. Salome, stepdaughter of King Herod, agrees to perform the mysterious and erotic Dance of the Seven Veils - but demands in return the head...

Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot...

"I need you to get in the wardrobe." Faye's afraid. She's not sleeping, she doesn't trust ducks and all she's had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. A doctor recommends a form of exposure therapy, so Faye enlists the help of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150899Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573620683Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Imagine being told to leave your home... Imagine American soldiers occupying your house and land... Imagine being 12 and angry, with only a cat to tell your secrets to... Well it all happened (most of it anyway) in Slapton Sands, Devon, in 1944...

Irascible author Algy Waterbridge is hard at work on his thirty-third crime novel. While Algy's wife is getting more forgetful, and his PA frequently oversteps the mark, the constant interruptions come to a head with an unfortunate newspaper interview...

Includes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and WinterThese three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her...

Are you angry with policing or Polyneices? Them, we can change. He, is dead. Speak to Creon... Ask him to release Polyneices... we will bury him quietly, peacefully, together. A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804920Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and interviews with aid workers, doctors, human rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707827Author Adam SzymkowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared-57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story...

Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And Milena, desperate to protect her children, carries a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915424570Author J M LewinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jane LewinPublisher Jane LewinWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

A unique collection of five contemporary plays from 21st-century Hungary, translated into English for the first time. Written by some of Hungary's most highly prolific and commercially successful dramatic voices, these plays are being produced in...

The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce, compassionate, mightily...

'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been...

As the twenty-first century moves towards its third decade, applied theatre is being shaped by contemporary economic and environmental concerns and is contributing to new conceptual paradigms that influence the ways in which socially engaged art is...

'In the death zone, your body starts eating itself. Time and space disappear. It's impossible to remember what happens up there.' When Yasmin and her guide, Tshering, return from a perilous expedition to Everest without a member of their party, they...

"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer Mariana Pineda achieved immediate critical success on its first performance in Barcelona in 1927. The Public is a powerful and uncompromising demand for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBridget O'Connor was born in North London in 1961. She won the TimeOut short story competition and publication of her first collection of short stories Here Comes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573031045Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaw's first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535808460Author C B (Charles Blake) CochranFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Gale and the British LibraryPublisher Gale and the British...