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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763182Author Robert FarquharFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Freedom finally beckons for Algie Packer, Essex's most notorious gangster. He's done seven years inside and now he's coming home to collect his reward - GBP3,672,000 in untraceable notes. But there's something Algie's family have forgotten to mention...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803252691Author John LylyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573607295Author Ted TillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

The authoritative edition of Titus Andronicus from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to...

Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573624421Author N. CowardPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edition of Richard III edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned...

It's 1945. American soldiers return home to ticker tape parades and overjoyed families; Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter, returns with the hope of rebuilding his life with just the shirt on his back and a dream in his heart. ...

I was the punk. I was born punk. But she was my rock. The only one I ever had.1976. Fran and Leni meet in a North London comp. Three years later they are The Rips. Girls with guitars, bored of playing nice. Music, sex, fishnets, tits and spitting. A...

A linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic cartoons, crackpot prophecies and demented erotica. A dense, poetic blend of the hallucinogenic and the hardboiled... dirty jokes, venomous poetry and tall tales that corkscrew deep into nightmares. A short story etc...

Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a virus and has a lasting effect on global politics. ...

With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedies. It was first produced in 415 BC just after the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017711Author William NorfolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected...

It's Dougie's birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it's he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour. He wants to serve a good cause, a global cause...

A new version, from award-winning poet Glyn Maxwell, of Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic masterpiece. A decent man finds himself stalked and confronted by his own evil alter-ego.A decent man finds himself stalked and confronted by his own evil alter-ego...

One wants to restore the image of the Church, gain back the community's trust. And as you know, this part of town has long been resistant to social progress. Otherwise Sister Bernadine wouldn't need to work so hard. Sister Bernie D'Amato doesn't look...

No one in Barker's generation did more to change British Theatre The Marrying of Ann Leete, is thinly veiled costume drama, using an 18th century tale to reflect on 19th century reality, it follows the story of Ann a "new woman", surrounded by a society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133558Author Lorna FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Boo, Bo and Pickle have all made plans tonight. But someone has to stay home and look after Princess.People are waiting, start times are looming. No one's budging and petty bickering soon spirals into a ludicrous battle of wills and, possibly, the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437600758Author Lope de VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.

A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions. French Without Tears is the play that first made Rattigan's name, and ran for over a thousand...

London, present day. The body of an unidentified young man is found face down in a suburban street. Who is he and where did he come from? He has no ID and nobody witnessed anything. It's as if he has just fallen from the sky... Pathologists and police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761621Author Richard BromeFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Helping teachers to guarantee that dyslexic students get the most from drama inside and outside the classroom, this indispensable book includes a strait forward exploration of dyslexia and tactics for overcoming problems experienced by students in drama...

1917. In a remote English village there are rumours of an enchanted wood. One of the inhabitants - a mysterious old man - invites eight strangers to stay. They all have something in common. When, one evening, the wood miraculously appears the guests feel...

A child's life is snuffed out by a joy-rider. Four years on, the parents and the young lad meet. In this award-winning drama, writer Julian Armitstead explores the process of restorative or reparative justice, by which victim and offender are brought...

This is an introduction to the drama, singling out and discussing its various elements, with detailed and generous quotation from masterpieces. Styan emphasizes that plays are meant to be judged in performance, not in the study, and that the play is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573065057Author Bill GavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736004975Author Stanley J MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint DominantstarPublisher DominantstarWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge is a dimension of imagination. An area we call the Twilight Zone. Adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr Burns) and directed by Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, this world premiere...

Moving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens. When Rachel's ex threatens to remove their son from London...

Performed at Soho Theatre, London, in October 2009.Performed at Soho Theatre, London, in October 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781840029659Author Natasha LangridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The wonderful world of classical Indian drama has been obscured for most readers by the stilted style of the existing 19th-century translations. Here, an Indian Sanskrit scholar, P. Lal, who is also a fine poet in his own right, has produced new versions...

A celebrated war photographer, whose audience with Osama bin Laden prior to 9/11 shaped his career. A young Syrian, six months pregnant, on an ageing fishing boat in the Mediterranean, sinking fast under the weight of refugees. Through two alternating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905492Author Sharon MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Honno Welsh Women's PressPublisher Honno Welsh Women's PressDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787376199Author John FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics...

Heralding a return to the stage for renowned dramatist Stephen Poliakoff, My City is a lyrical exploration of storytelling, interwoven personal and political histories, memory and the ties of the past.Beautifully atmospheric and infused with a sense of...