Playwriting

Love is the rarest of things...it's the rarest trick...and we feel entitled to it, don't we? Owen may live in the present but his mind remains lodged firmly in the past. As he's forced into a relationship with a teenager with emotional behavioural...

Lads, when it comes to your time for pickin' women, you're not going to have my kind of luck. The best one is taken. All Julia and John want is to live their lives with their two sons, on their own terms. But despite their hopes, the outside world and...

Lying there, drifting up into those ancient lights was exactly like looking into the past. It is looking into the past. History, I think, is just a property of light. Charlie Fairbanks was born in the dead center of the United States at the dead...

A housing crisis, a hung Dail and an unlikely alliance. Haughey|Gregory follows the deal made between Tony Gregory and Charles Haughey in 1982, when Gregory took a surprise Dail seat - and suddenly found himself holding the balance of power. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738423170Author Alan SandryFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Cambria PublishingPublisher Cambria Publishing

The party ain't over yet! As long as that music keeps playing, I'll keep dancing! Raw, rude and raucous, Cherry Jezebel is a dazzling new drama. Hilarious and heartbreaking, it's a champagne blowout and the hangover from hell, a spin under the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990552956Author Amy M EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Blue Sky DaisiesPublisher Blue Sky DaisiesWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016...

The night before the funeral was when he told us that he was getting the lot and I said, I said only then in retaliation, you know, and I am not proud of this, but how Dad had, how he had smashed his glass and cried, cried for Simon when he rang home to...

What if I said I am not what you think you see? A southpaw boxer is on the verge of their pro debut when their wife signs the adoption papers for a Korean boy. The boy's original adoptive father was all set to hand him over to a new home... until he...

HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by the Daily Mail as "famous for...

Of all my years of growing up, I grew up in 1962... The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard-drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. Though they're established in the working men's clubs, they aren't exactly at...

A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor. He's...

What makes someone a playwright? How do their identities and ideas interweave and co-exist? What permanent truths can we discern from examining existing texts? How can we write theatre that encapsulates the contemporary moment? How do we...

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...

What is home? The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, UK, and the US, complicates the answer. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787055858Author Alexandra KittyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Do you know what I believe in? I believe in us. Me and you, right here. This town was once an incredible place. We have to have courage to fight for it again. Hero or enemy? Who can actually tell the difference? Everything is going to be fine,...

Don't, for God's sake, come back alive 'cause we don't want to see your ugly stumps and your ugly scars. We don't want to hear your midnight screams and tales of hell. We all got along nicely without you, thank you very much, and now you're back you...

'You want me to have full penetrative sex with your son, right? I just wanted to, you know, check.' Jack, a young man with a learning disability, lives at home, cared for by his devoted parents. Like most men in their twenties, he has needs - his...

Is there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator Repair Service's 9-hour production of The Great Gatsby and a Kathakali performance? How can we come to appreciate the slowness of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre...

Bullets are not sexy. They are not sexy. Armadillo - little armoured one. [Spanish] A teenage girl disappears from a small town in America where fifteen years earlier, another teenage girl was kidnapped. Now a woman, she watches the news. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996758345Author Bob MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint May DirectionsPublisher May DirectionsWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

No it was ordinary, it was all ordinary, the whole morning was ordinary. We had breakfast and we said goodbye.A teenage boy goes missing. Time fractures. His mother will never give up hope.Nick Payne's startling portrait of faith, grief and family opened...

It was an accident! When Wendy jumps off the family piano and shatters her mam's favourite glass table, she doesn't just break the glass, she cracks open a whole other world. With the shards packed into her backpack and emotions bubbling inside her,...

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights from Chile, accompanied by critical essays contextualizing each play.

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A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights from Chile, accompanied by critical essays contextualizing each play.

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The first collected play anthology from Irish dramatist Colin Murphy which tells the 100 year history of Ireland through stirring and original drama.

The first collected play anthology from Irish dramatist Colin Murphy which tells the 100 year history of Ireland through stirring and original drama.

Five female playwrights offer short but intense experiences of the lives of Afghan girls and women in the brief, perilous years before the Taliban retook Kabul.

Five female playwrights offer short but intense experiences of the lives of Afghan girls and women in the brief, perilous years before the Taliban retook Kabul.

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An anthology of plays by contemporary Latin American playwrights, translated into English for the very first time.

Six new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, newly translated for an English-language audience.From streetwise urchins with a sharp eye for political discourse in Chile to artists who dream of better futures amidst crisis in...

Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide is an introduction designed to help readers understand the nature of dramatic scriptwriting and quickly guide them to a place where they can write, first a short play, and then a short screenplay...

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Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the world's leading theatre companies, this book collects six of its most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time. Druid Theatre is Ireland's leading theatre company. Since their origin in 1975...