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This new series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights. _x000D_ Volume One is introduced by Andre Bishop, Artistic Director of the Lincoln CenterTheater, the most prestigious theatre in the USA. Each...

S-27 won the first Protect The Human Playwriting Competition in 2007.S-27 won the first Protect The Human Playwriting Competition in 2007.About the AuthorSarah studied English at St John's College Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham University...

I bit into your heart and I chewed on it slowly like a connoisseur. I swallowed it. I remember thinking it was an especially small heart and easy to digest. But no matter what I did you wouldn't die. A searing and darkly funny two-hander for women which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133565Author Katie Elin-SaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936839004Author Friedrich SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067703Author Adam Z. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573706226Author Steve YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A mother and daughter's struggle with poverty as the mother suffers from multiple sclerosis which leaves her unable to walk and needing full-time care.AwardsWinner of Edinburgh Fringe Festival "Fringe First Award" 1985. Short-listed for Most Promising...

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It's 7:03pm on the front line of the NHS ambulance service.Sylvia is on her last shift. Lisa is on her first shift. The two women patrol the city streets, encountering the full spectrum of human experience. An immersive journey into the world of the...

"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a...

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play's reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series...

Philip Ridley's latest play for Soho Theatre brings his unique blend of story-telling mixed with an apocalyptic vision of a society at conflict with itself to the stage. 'Look - they're fading. Those liars. Dissolving ...It's the end of their world .....

A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original. It is night-time and an exhausted Jane Austen sleeps over the recently completed manuscript of her...

"He's got two dads, my lad. One's black. That makes him black. I suppose." Manchester, 1983. Dave loves Rod Stewart, Joanne and his Ford Capri. He's all set for a new start. Only Joanne's about to have someone else's baby. Is Dave ready to become a...

A hilarious dramatisation of a classic children's story Since it first appeared in 1883, Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the mischievous puppet who becomes a boy has enchanted readers of all ages. Now dramatised by Lee Hall (acclaimed writer of Billy...

The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on...

Quaint Honour, a play about relationships between boys at a boarding school, was first staged in 1958 when homosexuality was still illegal. This publication marks it's revival at the Finborough Theatre in 2017. A boy's boarding school in the late 1950s...

"I'm good Hamlet gi'me a cause for grief"At first glance, readers of The Hamletmachine (1979) could be forgiven for wondering whether it is actually a play at all: it opens with a montage of texts that are not ascribed to a character, there is no vestige...

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...

Hugh Leonard's classic play, reissued for a new season at Dublin's Abbey Theatre Dublin, the 1960s. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave the house or his son's mind. As...

Anka got in and is here for good.Olufemi is being coached to break back in.Bashir has been here forever but he's just been sent to limbo.Lisa wants to send them all home.Welcome to England.A journey into to the heart of what it is to be a citizen, and...

The authoritative edition of The Winter's Tale from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's very late plays, is filled with improbabilities...

Snookered probes into the lives of young Muslim men and their fragile masculinity, burdened by cultural expectations yet charged with personal dreams. In a volatile political climate, Ishy Din opens a timely window into a strand of British Muslim life...

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

Includes: Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured; Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rain; Enter the Spokeswoman, Gently; The Bully Composition; and Oh, the HumanityFive short plays about being alive.We'd like you to meet a bunch of people with something on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116704Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'We're cosmic scallies, we dance on the off-beat, we're wonky shopping trollies, we're forgotten and trod on, we're gravy-stained and piss-sodden, we're the breath between coughing fits.' Shaun and Dent grew up best friends on the same council estate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737406082Author Renee PittmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Mother's Love Publishing and EnterprisesPublisher Mother's Love Publishing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710179Author Rachel WagstaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132315Author Derek LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627521Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

"Here lies she whom her husband's kindness killed" This is the epitaph, in golden letters, Master John Frankford proposes for the tomb of his wife, Anne, who has just starved herself to death. Frankford congratulates himself on the clever means by...

Melanie believes she has foreseen the future. But has she really? Or is it all in her mind? True or false, she has seen events which threaten the life of one she secretly loves, and she feels they are in terrible danger. What can she possibly do or...

Come join Figs in Wigs for their live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Blurring the boundaries of live art, music, theatre, comedy and dance Little Wimmin will examine how we think about the past, what's wrong...

'We were two weans playing at wee hooses... Now we're both paying the price.' Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's a fool. But the real test of their marriage comes when...

First collection of seminal plays by one of Wales' most talented writers Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco: his first work for the stage, published in February 2001 to tie-in with the production by Paines Plough and Sgript Cymru. Saturday night, small town...

First staged in 1912 and described as "the most powerful play produced in England in this decade," Githa Sowerby's Edwardian classic on family and labour enjoyed huge success in London and New York Set in the North Yorkshire home of the oppressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989073905Author Seven MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Revamp Media GroupPublisher Revamp Media GroupWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868199276Author Simon StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd