Playwriting

This is my world, I am the king, I make the rules and everyone else can go to hell. This is off-shore. Oxfam estimate that there is $18.5 trillion siphoned out of the world economy into tax havens by wealthy individuals alone. Christian Aid has...

This is the person I am now. It's the person I want to be, should have been for a long time. We got dark, Sophie. Things got dark, and I...I'm better now. I'm in a better place... Once our lives are touched by tragedy, can we ever truly move on?...

In this collection, the author focuses on several contemporary Romanian female playwrights with residencies in Europe and the U.S.: Alexandra Badea, Carmen-Francesca Banciu, Alexa Bacanu, Ana Sorina Corneanu, Mihaela Dragan, Dr. Catalina Florina...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787377288Author James Elroy FleckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the...

He looked the same as anyone else. Any of the other ones who come in. White boys. So I didn't clock anything different, cos there wasn't anything different. How was I meant to know? Shajenthran's brother has had acid thrown in his face and Shaj is out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937997854Author Gregory FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Northampton House PressPublisher Northampton House PressWeight(grams)...

Best mates Leanne and Kelly have lived in Southend-on-Sea their whole lives. Larger-than-life Leanne is happy staying put, but Kelly secretly dreams of escaping her dull job and seeing the world. When out-of-towner journalist Helen can't afford...

A unique collection of plays that brings together stories of Jewish life from playwrights around the world. Curated and edited by international theatre collective Global Voices Theatre, these five plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of Jewish...

This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020 by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes...

At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of...

In 2014 local historian Catherine Corless made a discovery of baby bones and skeletons in the grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. Built on the grounds of an old workhouse that operated between 1921 and 1961 the discovery...

We just wait. Old light. And new light. We just wait. For each other, patiently wait. Patient Light follows a day in the life of a young person in Peterborough and how their vision of the future is blinded by carrying the weight of the world on their...

Black Nikki doesn't think her dad is a racist ... He just cares deeply about his community ... But when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, the dog won't stop barking ... The local kids start lobbing stones ... And her dad starts laying down...

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by...

"He said, 'The day will come when they don't cut our heads off in front of people.' And I asked him, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because we'll cut them off ourselves.'" A lecturer in Chile. A study group in the USA. A guard in the desert. A hangman in Mexico...

Spanning half a lifetime, Under Three Moons takes place on three nights across three decades of two friends' lives. From a school trip to France as teenagers, to a surf shack in their twenties, to Christmas in their thirties, Mike and Paul meet up and...

Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most...

Men in this town were born with mouths that can right wrongs with a few words. Why are you too timid to speak? As she is about to be executed for a murder she didn't commit, young widow Dou Yi vows that, if she is innocent, snow will fall in midsummer...

A tough inner-city school, proud of its inclusivity, suddenly explodes in a rapidly escalating culture war. Sex secrets, hip-hop and hope fight for centre stage in a vibrant, loud and proud, real talk rollercoaster. Tom Wright's hard-hitting new...

In a desperate attempt to bring some spark back to their all-too-cosy married life, professional millennials Michael and Phil switch a sherry on the couch for a night on the town. Their goal: to get in with Generation Z by trying to get off with one. ...

Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else. In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell Christmas trees on the sidewalk;...

The sensation of water flowing around my body happily floating down a river, watching the banks pass me by. I like to take the same journey as a river it's the lack of control which feels so good, it's good to leave my life alone for a while. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996765923Author Robert Malier AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Molotov EditionsPublisher Molotov EditionsWeight(grams) 154g

We should all have been taught more of life and less good manners It is three years since Agnes, an artist, left her unfaithful husband Henry. Now he writes to her in her Kensington studio begging to reunite, but Agnes married young; her innocence has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996572132Author Lisa SolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint All Original Play PublishingPublisher All Original Play PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975516348Author Brian McClure MayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Word Therapy PublishingPublisher Word Therapy PublishingWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989898447Author David YezziFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Robert Hill DBA/ExotPublisher Robert Hill DBA/ExotWeight(grams) 129g

Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion reflects the diversity of dramatic writing exploring the past and present of Romania, and takes stock thirty years after the collapse of communism. In addition to plays originally written in Romanian, the...

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts. Little Stitches...

25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth and Black Theatre contains 25 10-minute plays, originally produced by the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival in New York City, which has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998873503Author Edward EinhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Theater 61 PressPublisher Theater 61 PressWeight(grams) 163g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997217032Author Nina SerranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Estuary PressPublisher Estuary PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132773Author Florian ZellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Neil Wechsler's "Grenadine" has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee. "Grenadine "is the fantastical story of a man s quest...

Published alongside The Japan Foundation, this collection features five creative and bold plays by some of Japan's most prolific writers of contemporary theatre. Translated into English for the first time, these texts explore a wide range of themes from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987587701Author Briohne Joy SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Sneaky Happiness PublicationsPublisher Sneaky Happiness PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999116203Author Tracie A BonnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Tracie A. BonnickPublisher Tracie A. BonnickWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm...