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Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion. Frank...

I don't know if you'll ever love me as much as I love you, but one day you'll understand why I've done this to you.Doris, born illegitimate in 1900, exchanges her budding teaching career for marriage and motherhood. When the war is over, her daughter...

Six plays, six places: Eskdale, Staindrop, Whitby, Boston, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester. Chris Thorpe's cycle of six warm, witty new plays crosses Northern England, from a sheep farm in Eskdale via a tourist information centre in Whitby to Manchester. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775293835Author Janet Lynn StobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Child's Play ProductionsPublisher Child's Play ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Set in 1792, amongst the merchant princes and cut-throat backstreets of Liverpool, in the Palace of Westminster in London and aboard the Blackamoor Jenny - a guineaman making its sixth "African voyage" to stock its foetid hold with human beings - Gabriel...

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to...

In the town of Balbek the far right are about to seize power. At the local theatre, Aymeric dreams of celebrity; Lucas longs for a liberal revolution; Michael is seduced by the extremists; Juliette Demba is in fear for her life. As this political...

2011 Fringe First Award Winner"Henry, are you awake?"Henry lives each day like the last. Exactly like the last. Every day, he tries to make sense of the world around him; the girl sitting on the lawn outside his window, the pages of a book filled with...

This collection of specially-commissioned, accessible, essays explores that element of performance theory known as theatricality. Six case studies, each written by a specialist in the field, use historically specific circumstances to illustrate how and...

After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body... a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance...

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death, like a thousand young brides before her. But she has...

A dynamic collection of audition pieces for radio, stage and screen actors Radioactive Duologues draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641771931Author Peter CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Encounter BooksPublisher Encounter BooksWeight(grams) 152g

"A stream of visually arresting and magical stage pictures that make most conventional theatrical imagery look half dead." (Independent) Summer, Quebec City. Following the brutal murder of a young woman, police suspicion rests on one of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530226Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838274214Author Susan GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Tanzanite Press & The Verrall PressPublisher Tanzanite Press & The Verrall...

"Confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguiling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart."-The Daily Telegraph Three acclaimed plays from a gifted playwright...

This is the first full-length account of the history and working practices of Amsterdam's Mickery Theater. Between 1965 and 1991 under its noted director Ritsaert ten Cate, Mickery became renowned worldwide for promoting and presenting significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995516229Author Rikki Beadle-BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme "JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous" Sunday Times GUIDING STAR: "Dry, funny, truthful,...

Ireland 1986. A teenage girl begins a series of conversations with a statue of the Virgin Mary in a grotto.Inspired by a true story, Mary and Me is a compellingly original imagining of a young woman's search for understanding and meaning at a milestone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010378Author John van DrutenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech. ...

The world was cruel to Simeon DuffMad and mired in the deepest sloughNobody seemed to give a stuff'bout Simeon, Simeon DuffSimeon Duff is working class, unemployed and desperate. His wife works. He's lost all self-esteem. He's on the scrap heap and wants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468307214Author Neil LabuteFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Overlook PressPublisher Overlook PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

'Like a child, a weapon won't be satisfied until it dominates your every thought.'After a devastating school shooting, a woman develops an obsession with assault rifles that begins to take over every aspect of her existence.Martin Zimmerman's...

The scripts of three shadow-plays translated from recollections of mutliple performances in Greek withnessed by Theodore Stephaides in various places in the years 1920-1940. These playscripts are essentially recreations, complete with stage directions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982957967Author Emile ZolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Emile Zola SocietyPublisher Emile Zola SocietyWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest precursors of modern drama. First published in 1989, this...

An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain. The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus - was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133534Author Satinder Kaur ChohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

New Monologues for Men features forty monologues from plays published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama recently. The monologues are selected by the editor, Geoffrey Colman, on account of their suitability and relevance to drama school students and recent...

Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. May 1822, rural Ireland. The...

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...

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century swaggering carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and a desperately intent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707940Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762710Author Mick MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980281446Author Christopher WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Knocklofty PressPublisher Knocklofty PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary. The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the complex emotions of his characters with...