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"An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritannical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With Oleanna he continues an exploration of...

The final volume of the New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies series expands the analyses of Edward Albee’s theatre beyond Anglophone countries. Ranging from academic essays, performance reviews, and interviews, the selected contributions examine...

Three essential plays by one of Europe's foremost 20th century dramatists The Rules of the Game (1918) is based closely on the author's own unhappy marriage centred around Leone Gala and his wife who are separated, their only contract, a formal visiting...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic comedy of manners from the Restoration period. Mirabell loves the heiress Millamant and must concoct a clever plan which allows him to marry her and keep her fortune despite the...

‘“Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in girls and those assigned female at birth are often seen as character flaws.” Great.’ Pip is forever arriving late (including on stage), losing things and having lapses of attention where things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907926252Author Michael MessengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Hanbury PlaysPublisher Hanbury Plays

A modernized version of Herford and Simpson's 1925-52 edition of five plays by Ben Jonson (1572/3 - 1637), whose plays were first performed by, his contemporary, Shakespeare and his company. The five plays are: "Volpone", "The alchemist", "Bartholomew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854590725Author Clare McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 106g

Wise-cracking Groucho Marx with his trademark cigar and painted on black moustache. Blonde, curly-wigged, mute Harpo, chasing girls, beeping his blub horn and chasing pretty girls. Rubber-faced Chico, twisting phrases into hysterical malapropisms. And,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854592231Author Phyllis NagyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 112g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854592088Author Ariel DorfmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 95g

Bryony Lavery brings to life Mary Webb's classic novel of loves lost and found.Book InformationISBN 9781840023862Author Byrony LaveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Absolute ClassicsPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854590565Author Katharine BrisbaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 534g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977232229Author Mae JulianFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) required the dramatic and fictional forms “as the pianist needs both his left and his right hands.” While he is best known here for his novels, in the U.S.S.R. he is also famous for his plays. Neither of the plays in this...

Interviews with one of the world's most stimulating creative talents Audiences internationally have been thrilled and moved by such remarkable and personal works as Robert Lepage's The Dragon's Trilogy, Needles and Opium and The Seven Streams of the...

A play written by the Spanish poet and dramatist who was murdered by Nationalist partisans in July 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War. Commissioned and performed by the highly acclaimed Communicado Theatre Company, this translation won a...

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone , which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the...

Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809316465Author Arnoul GrebanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University Press

Stanley, Hazel, Warren and Rick make the weekly escape from their real life nightmares into a role-playing board game peopled by dragons and monsters. A safe world where the dangers are of their own imagining; where they are free to become heroes of...

For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being...

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance...

Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in...

"Elma is a singer in a sleazy 1930s Berlin nighclub. Having suffered an appalling assault during the First World War, she has no memory of her former life. A man appears and tells her that she is, in fact, the wife of an Italian aristocrat, and a new...

A major new work by the performance group Ridiculusmus. Challenging, vividly imaginative and utterly absorbing play.Book InformationISBN 9781840028317Author RidiculusmusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736968680Author Tyrell PlairFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Platy Multimedia & PublishingPublisher Platy Multimedia & PublishingWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420975130Author Johann GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 186g

with: Arup, Jens;Book InformationISBN 9780192815682Author Jens ArupFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Oxford PaperbacksPublisher Oxford University Press

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Re-issued alongside the release of John Malkovich's outrageously sexy film, starring Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, Jack Devenport and Malkovich himself. The Libertine was first seen at the Royal Court in 1994, in a production by Max Stafford-Clark's Out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087904276Author Tyrell PlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Platy Multimedia & PublishingPublisher Platy Multimedia & PublishingWeight(grams) 358g

These three tragedies were written at the height if Lorca's powers and display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramatic technique. Blood Wedding tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged...

This anniversary edition contains the three cartoon classics "101 Uses of a Dead Cat", "101 More Uses of a Dead Cat" and "Uses of a Dead Cat in History".Book InformationISBN 9780413760401Author Bond SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Methuen...

The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen's career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. "The Master...

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A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Set against the backdrop of the threatened Napoleonic invasion of 1804, David Edgar and Stephanie Dale's play A Time to Keep is the story of an unlikely but...

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