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"Includes the plays Chips With Everything, Their Very Own and Golden City, The Journalists, Badenheim 1939 and, published here for the first time, Phoenix Phoenix, Burning Bright. Described variously as 'a dangerous playwright, 'a melancholy optimist',...

'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, but That That That is what I enjoy. That is what I'm good at, okay?' Clair works in real estate. Mike and Liz are selling. James wants to buy. He'll only deal with Clair...

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. In Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), Ahmad and Nour rent a flat so that they can spend time together away from their...

How does the brain create a sense of self? This work is a poetic journey into the science of the mind. A philosopher watches as his wife's brain tumour changes her personality. Ego theory and bundle theory collide in a struggle to define identity. It is...

'We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) includes a new preface and additional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573705984Author Mark RylanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve, The Man of Mode was first staged in 1676 and contains all the classic ingredients of Restoration Comedy: adultery, intrigue,...

Like the companion volume for men, Alternative ShakespeareAuditions for Women brings together fifty speeches from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also features good, but over-looked speeches from more...

A devastating drama about family and the ties that bind us together. Sixty five miles. The distance between Hull and Sheffield. The distance between a man and the daughter he's never met. Pete and Rich are two very different brothers. Reunited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061780202Author Paul RudnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573692055Author Elyse NassFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Written by one of Northern Ireland's most celebrated playwrights Martin Lynch, this is the painful, shocking, and hilarious story of Northern Ireland's infamous prison, Long Kesh, told through the eyes of prison officers, Republicans and Loyalists, a...

Michael Pennington's work on his solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken London's 'Russian Actor' from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, into the repertoires of the National Theatre and the Old Vic and across Europe. "Are You...

A remarkable new play about Cold-War betrayal and the quest for justice 1953. In McCarthy's America, Jakob and Esther Rubenstein are betrayed and punished for an act of industrial espionage. Could this be the greatest miscarriage of justice of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755206032Author Martin BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

A trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922. Wild Sky is a story of interlocking lives: of the politicised Josie Dunne, and of Tom Farrell, who is driven...

An essential collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.Introduction by Werner SollorsAdrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary...

'From that very first minute I sin 'im - strung up by his feet and howling - oh I certainly knew we had business all right.' A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk. Fishskin Trousers weaves together the haunting tales of...

The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the...

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer)"One of theatre's subtlest, most...

What are you when you are always the other?A play about identity, being a mixed-race black woman and always feeling like an outsider. Blending music and spoken word, WHITE considers the concept of mixed-race privilege, tries to connect clashing cultures...

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory...

Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. "Sugar Mummies" is a funny, provocative, and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfalls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573614781Author Frank CarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes' comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding. First performed at the Royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785435126Author Professor Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100590Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)...

Serena and Jeff have one last chance to conceive: Genesis Incorporated, whose glowing testimonials and bespoke treatments surely justify a final roll of the dice. Meanwhile, Bridget has put it all on ice while she focuses on her high-flying career and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573164354Author John MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100293Author LysiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 200g

Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more...

A raw, uncompromising drama about bigotry and racism that explores the insidious rise of the British National Party. As a BNP rally gathers momentum on the streets outside, four women meet to play bridge. Struggling to find common ground, they talk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936839837Author Stanislaw Ignacy WitkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116452Author Bim AdewunmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957462489Author Laurent SeksikFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Salammbo PressPublisher Salammbo PressWeight(grams) 512g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award - Best Play 2000.Book InformationISBN 9781872868257Author Aphra BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Amber Lane Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573064906Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"Moliere's classic farce pokes fun at Argan, a man so obsessed by his own imaginary ailments that he can no longer control his haphazard household or the mercenary medics he employs. With doctors determined to grow fat from the profits of his condition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710421Author Jeffrey HatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

If you're not interested in earning a new pair of Nikes by the end of the day...complete designer wardrobe by the end of the week...all the beers you can drink...if you don't want to meet Uma Thurman...then okay, stay here, as King of the Slackers,...