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Collected Screenplays
Paperback,
08/04/2002,
£16.99
£15.00
But Rafi's own shady past threatens to haunt him.
London Kills Me (1991)
A weekend in the lives of homeless Clint and his pal Muffdiver, youthful veterans of the streets of London, whose chief source of income derives from selling drugs to the wealthier denizens of Notting Hill.
truth and reconciliation
Paperback,
01/09/2011,
£9.99
£8.99
Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told. World premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 2011.
200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide
Paperback,
17/06/2021,
£18.99
£17.09
30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors: Celebrating 30 Years of Kali Theatre's South Asian Women Playwrights
Paperback,
03/06/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
Collected Shorter Plays
Paperback,
05/01/2006,
£14.99
£13.00
Contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio, and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, this book presents shorter plays, which demonstrate the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision.
How It Is
Paperback,
05/11/2009,
£9.99
£8.00
A novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice.
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
Paperback,
05/11/2009,
£12.99
£11.00
(Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the sea, that if you didn't see what it was you wouldn't know what it was.
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
Paperback,
21/05/2009,
£12.99
£11.00
Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. Box - [Pause.] - three, spool - [Pause.] - five.
Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love
Paperback,
05/11/2009,
£9.99
£8.00
Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed it had drunk its fill.Edited by Christopher Ricks
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
Paperback,
21/05/2009,
£10.99
£9.00
Features four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett that were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. This edition also includes several short prose texts such as: "Heard in the Dark" I & II, "One Evening", "The Way", and, "Ceiling".
Willy Russell Plays:Willy Russell Plays: 2 : Blood Brothers; Our Day Out - The Musical; Shirley Valentine; John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert
Paperback,
20/10/2016,
£18.99
£17.09
Our Day Out
Paperback,
08/03/1984,
£10.99
£9.89
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. This edition contains the music for the play.
Russell Plays: Russell Plays 1 : "Breezeblock Park", "Our Day Out", "Stags and Hens", "Educating Rita" v.1
Paperback,
12/08/1996,
£18.99
£17.09
A collection of four plays by Willy Russell. The plays are "Educating Rita", "Breezeblock Park", "Our Day Out" and "Stags and Hens". All the plays are concerned with working class people striving to enjoy life or improve themselve
Blood Brothers
Paperback,
10/05/2001,
£10.99
£9.89
Twin brothers are seperated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.
Stags and Hens
Paperback,
10/05/2001,
£10.99
£9.89
"Stags and Hens" takes place in the gents and ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, hold their stag and hen partie
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5
Paperback,
06/10/2011,
£16.99
£15.29
Yorkshire PostIf I Were You"A blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature."
Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail
Paperback,
30/10/2019,
£5.99
£5.39
These surreal compositions have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov. This volume also contains the accompanying illustrations by Picasso himself.
Normal People: The Scripts
Hardback,
12/11/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
The perfect gift for 2020 - the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television drama based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel.
Just imagine: Drama and Dressing-up for Children Aged Five to Nine
Paperback,
01/04/1993,
£13.95
£12.56
Just Imagine presents inspiration for children's drama in its many varied forms, from simple games and activities, to puppets and plays. The suggestions for the costumes and accessories help create the characters and fantasy worlds introduced by the drama.
Untitled
Paperback,
24/09/2010,
£8.99
£8.09
An intriguing new play from a critically acclaimed performance poet.
Black T-Shirt Collection
Paperback,
13/03/2012,
£9.99
£8.99
From Fringe First winner Inua Ellams comes a new story about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt brand.
Knight Watch
Paperback,
22/06/2012,
£11.99
£10.79
This rhythmic, sizzling solo show conjures the violence of a city and imagines a more beautiful world beyond it.
Spalding Suite
Paperback,
01/05/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game of basketball.
14th Tale
Paperback,
05/10/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
The 14th Tale is a beautiful mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief.
Barber Shop Chronicles
Paperback,
05/06/2017,
£10.99
£5.00
Inua Ellams' Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.
Hamlet: Arden Texts of 1603 and 1623
Paperback,
15/01/2007,
£12.99
£11.69
Presents the "First Quarto text of 1603" and the "Folio Text of 1623". This title is useful for scholars and students of textual history, or to those studying "Hamlet". It presents the plays with annotations and the introduction contains the stage history of the "First Quarto" text.
Six Tragedies
Paperback,
14/01/2010,
£9.99
£8.99
This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.
Dance Teacher's Survival Guide: Teaching Dance in Schools from Key Sta
Paperback,
05/09/2000,
£14.99
£13.49
VOLPONE AND OTHER PLAYS
Paperback,
25/06/1998,
£8.99
£8.09
This collection of plays by Ben Jonson contains: "Every Man in his Humour", about the sexual fantasies of London's citizens; "Sejanus", a dramatization of the Jacobean system of censorship; "Volpone", a look at the seedier side of Venice; and "Epicone", the tale of a misogynist.
Americans
Paperback,
30/10/2003,
£7.99
£7.19
At the turn of the 20th century, the president of the United States is shot by an anarchist. Is the crime a protest against America's imperial ambitions - or a cry for attention by an angry young man? Provocative, edgy, and compelling, this is the first play by the author of "Fast Food Nation".
Falling Out of Time
Hardback,
06/02/2014,
£14.99
£13.49
A genre-defying drama--part play, part prose, pure poetry that tells the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son.
Samuel Beckett
7,
29/06/2001,
£5.99
£5.39
This Beginner's Guide provides an introduction to the life and work of one of the great literary figures of the 20th century, whose writing is often considered to be dark and inaccessible. Coots investigates Beckett's preoccupation with human existence and the absurdity of the human condition.
Talking heads 2
Paperback,
05/10/1998,
£7.99
£5.59
Characterized by the author's understatement, observation and knowing irony, these six Alan Bennett monologues were written for the second BBC1 series of "Talking Heads", the first having been transmitted 11 years earlier, in 1987.
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments
Paperback,
16/10/2014,
£12.99
£11.69
Presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world - the theatre of your own imagination.
Jew of Malta
Paperback,
25/08/1994,
£5.99
£5.39
A new edition of the Elizabethan dark comedy which is seen to be topical in its concern with international politics. The editor's introduction forms a critical discussion and includes a stage history of the play. It features commentary notes on language and staging.
Broken Heart
7,
25/08/1994,
£7.99
£4.19
A Greek tragedy where desire and duty are in conflict. Set in Ancient Sparta, Penthea is married by her brother to Bassanes although she loves Orgilus. Virtuous Penthea feels herself adulterous, Bassanes jealous and Orgilus driven to seek revenge. Suffering, courage and expiation follow.
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Anglo-Saxons
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