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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982957929Author Emile ZolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Emile Zola SocietyPublisher Emile Zola SocietyWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A gripping psychological thriller adapted for the stage by Emile Zola himself from his own notorious novel, in a version by Nicholas Wright. Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Therese Raquin falls passionately for another man...

Celebrating twenty years of productions, acclaimed playwright Cathy Crabb has selected eleven of her works for staging. Filled with humour and emotional resonance, these texts explore themes of family, trauma, neurodivergence, class and locality, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573614354Author Ossie DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

From the editor of the bestselling volumes: Modern and Contemporary Monologues for Men and for Women This is a selection of forty great speeches drawn from landmark plays stretching from Greek and Roman theatre right through to those of the nineteenth...

COMMUNICATION IN OUR LIVES, 8th Edition, provides everything you need to become a more confident and effective communicator -- in both your personal and professional life. Award-winning teacher Julia T. Wood combines the latest research, theory, and best...

A recent study found that 25% of UK homeless and at-risk young people identify as LGBT. Safe is a powerful verbatim theatre piece exploring some of these untold stories via the Albert Kennedy Trust: a charity supporting such youth.Different young people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132469Author David AlmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with drink and perfunctory sex. Jean's insistent neighbour, Dawn, and Dawn's Irish labourer husband, Mick, and Mick's spineless mucker, Len, all join her in a funny, drunken, sad celebration of their mutual...

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus...

They are the coolest, fiercest, most super talented girl band ever assembled: Big Sis and Little Sis are waiting for the third member of their trio to arrive. Little Miss is on her way. It just takes her a little bit longer. At thirteen, Little Miss...

The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces...

Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: "Beauty of Bath", "Kingston Black", and "Glory of the West". Inside the farmhouse, the rule of matriarch Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire...

"Tell me, please - is this a dream?' The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's fantasies - love, ambition and victory. But when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830234Author Alexander OstrovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822217824Author David AuburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Concord TheatricalsPublisher Concord TheatricalsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Sonny, 18, is a vegetarian who has always been concerned about the environment and animal rights. He's just got a Saturday job on the Pussy Cat Van, a cat rescue operation, and believes strongly that it is wrong to experiment on animals. His sister...

Will truth out? Set over one evening, Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan is a play that rages in a tiny room. Fraught, funny and ferocious, this new drama testifies to the pain of carrying the memory of sexual assault throughout a lifetime. A play...

Fraser Grace's other plays include "Perpetua", "Gifts of War", "Butterfly Fingers", and "Who Killed Mr Drum?". A psychiatrist waits in State House, Harare, for his first encounter with a most unusual patient. Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, is in...

Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Play for Young Audiences Award 2022 We're a punk band. A politically motivated Marxist punk band thit waants tae bring doun the rich by any means necessary! It's 1978. Unemployment and violence darken every Glasgow...

How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates...

'So what you want, in a nutshell, George, is a mistress, housekeeper, nurse, literary executor and mother for Richard?' Based on actual events, Mrs Orwell is the story of the marriage and literary partnership of George Orwell and Sonia Brownell.Based...

Schiller's play of 1800 pits Mary Queen of Scots against her rival Elizabeth of England. The meeting never happened, but Goethe claimed 'It will be good to see those whores alongside each other.' Schiller's Mary redeems her youthful crimes through...

Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as...

A hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian family life in England, by the author of East is East. The wedding feast is over and the bridegroom's father is dancing the bhangra, but the groom himself is curiously reluctant to make his way to...

Sam's dead at fifteen. It's a social media thing. Maybe. When bereaved mother and chaplain Thea sets off on a mission to follow her daughter somehow, she's joined on her journey by bickering teen twins Billie and Lenny, plus Gil - a lost soul whose...

Original by Arthur Ransome Adapted by Nick Wood Father is away and mother brings Roger, John, Susan and Titty to stay at Pin Mill where they can spend the summer messing about in boats. Their adventure begins when they go out with Jim on his boat...

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I'm not afraid, Tom. Sooner or later your life becomes parched. Its rivers run thin. Its mountains have melted into the distance as blue and cool as memories.An ordinary couple with an extraordinary love relive their darkest secrets, deepest passions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874402964Author Judy Elliot McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's Plays

This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its earliest...

Pillock has ADHD. His brain works faster than his bowel when he's had a Babybel. And he's lactose intolerant. He's trying to keep his head above water, but he's drowning in loneliness, hook-up culture and medical role plays. He feels stagnant and it's...

'Eric Argyle was notably surprised when rather unexpectedly his eyes opened again. If truth be told, if he was being honest with himself, he hadn't really expected this type of thing would ever be happening again.'Eric Argyle is having a bad Sunday. It's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475216Author Michael PeppiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Edward Bond Plays:9 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding, and Early Morning. The volume comprises five new plays and a comprehensive introduction by the author exploring theories of writing...

Classic Voice is an essential guide for teachers, students, and actors who are approaching classical texts. It is a unique resource that provides information, ideas, and plans for dealing with the vocal demands of classical text in workshop contexts. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413411501Author John WillettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 352g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976736455Author David BrazilFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint Roof BooksPublisher Roof BooksWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 38mm

The tenth collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Plays Ten comprises the plays Ahno, Distance, Critique of Pure Feeling, Irrespective, Immense...

Another unbearably hot evening. 8:54pm. Suzy Storck sits by the window on this hot and airless night, waiting for her husband to come home. Upstairs she can hear her children, yelling and clamouring at their bedroom door. She's locked them in. Suzy...