Plays, playscripts, drama
Random House USA Inc Inherit the Wind
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£12.60
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Mothers Daughter
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£19.54
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Unholy
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£19.54
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada The Breathing Hole Aglu
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£21.24
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Selfie
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£19.54
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada The Childrens Republic
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£19.54
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Beautiful Man Other Short Plays
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£21.24
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Andys Gone
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£21.24
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
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£21.24
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Mortified
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£20.39
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Bluebirds
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£20.39
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
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£16.20
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Night MA
Book SynopsisBy one of America''s most talented playwrights, Marsha Norman''s ''night, Mother won the Dramatists Guild''s prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. ''night, Mother had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in December 1982. It opened on Broadway in March 1983, directed by Tom Moore and starring Anne Pitoniak and Kathy Bates; a film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, was released in 1986.
£12.34
Hill & Wang A Soldiers Play
Book SynopsisWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982A black sergeant cries out in the night, They still hate you, then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller''s forceful drama--which has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washington--tracks the investigation of this murder. But A Soldier''s Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.
£14.40
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Three Plays
Book SynopsisNewly repackaged, three plays by Federico García LorcaIn these three plays, Federico García Lorca''s acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetryor poetic dramadepends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The results, both performable and readable, have been thoroughly revised for this edition, which has an introduction by Christopher Maurer, the general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.
£17.10
Josef Weinberger Plays Assembling California
Book SynopsisAt various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersectin the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentiethand always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been trans
£17.00
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Burial at Thebes
Book SynopsisIn this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland''s renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles'' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.Sophocles'' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual''s human rights and those who must protect the state''s security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the treacherous other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone''s release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a trag
£13.30
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Gross Indecency
Book SynopsisWinner of the Lambda Literary AwardIn this stunning work of theater, Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England''s reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of gross indecency and, implicitly—for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde''s writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and studied for decades to come.
£11.39
Random House USA Inc Chekhov The Essential Plays
Book SynopsisBecause Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain—are Chekhov’s four essential masterpieces for the theater.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Fires in the Mirror Crown Heights Brooklyn and
Book SynopsisDerived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contempo
£999.99
W. W. Norton & Company The Norton Anthology of Drama
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£81.06
WW Norton & Co Antigone
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£17.23
WW Norton & Co Lysistrata
Book SynopsisAbout Aaron Poochigian's translation Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to music, with dancing. It's very rare for modern translators to convey his poetic virtuosity or make any attempt to bring his meters to life. But Aaron Poochigan has achieved this feat, crafting polymetric translations that convey the whole range of Aristophanes' larger-than-life characters and provocative, alternative-reality scenarios. This new translation is zany, sharp, inventive, vivacious, and surprisingly relevant for our times. EMILY WILSON, translator of Homer's Odyssey
£11.11
WW Norton & Co Ibsens Selected Plays
Book SynopsisIbsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.
£16.99
WW Norton & Co Anton Chekhovs Selected Plays
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.
£20.99
WW Norton & Co Tartuffe A New Verse Translation
Book SynopsisWidely hailed as the founder of the modern French comedy, and known to be a gifted actor, playwright, and patron of fellow actors, Molière was a towering presence in seventeenth-century Franceand the scourge of its political and religious Establishment.
£20.01
WW Norton & Co The Roaring Girl
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£21.51
Random House USA Inc The Vagina Monologues
Book SynopsisThe international sensation, a compelling rhapsody of the female essence (Chicago Tribune), relaunched with new material for its 20th anniversary. This expanded edition of the bestseller that changed the way women think about their bodies features a diverse set of new monologues in addition to those previously included, as well as a new introduction by a leader in feminist thought and a new afterword about the global influence of The Vagina Monologues. A celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery, The Vagina Monologues was adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that has rocked audiences around the world. This groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman''s body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again. Features seven new monologues by Eve Ensler--
£15.30
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Speed The Plow Modern Classics
Book SynopsisWhen Fox comes up with an idea for a blockbuster movie, he and Gould think they've made it. For one blissful day the world seems about to open its arms to embrace them. This play is more than an anti-Hollywood satire - it is a comedy about a world where language is out of synch with emotion.Trade ReviewDavid Mamet's Speed-The-Plow is infinitely more than a brutal satire on Hollywood. It is a study of male panic and the denial of redemptive grace. Michael Billington - Guardian Sitting through a David Mamet play is like being caught in a sudden shower of verbal broken glass. The dialogue is so sharp that it slices the senses and there is an iciness to the darkness of the humour ... his sheer skill with language makes for commanding power. Daily Express
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Book SynopsisInspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle, and written at the close of World War II, this parable is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It re-tells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed and fought over by two women.Trade Review"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" The Observer
£15.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Death and the Kings Horseman A Play
Book SynopsisBased on the real events that took place in the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria in 1946, this play tells how Simon Pilkings, a district officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide demanded by the death of the King. There follow drastic repercussions in both indigenous and colonial communities.Trade Review'This rich turbulent piece, which starts as folk comedy and ends as Greek tragedy, takes on board an abundance of ideas: identity, tradition, the passage from life to death... Soyinka's play is as much philosophical as political.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 9.4.09 'Based on events in 1940s Nigeria, the story attains a more classically tragic power in showing two forces unable to understand each other. On one side there is the Yoruba culture, in which the death of a king is followed by the suicide of his favoured liegeman...on the other, the powers that be with their contrary code that suicide is illegal and to be prevented, even if it costs more lives.' Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, 13.4.09 'Wole Soyinka's play is one of the great creations of twentieth-century theatre: it has the fire, grandeur, cruelty and humanity of Greek tragedy, the moral cutting edge of modern political thinking, and the African writer's take on his own people's values: loving mocking, ironical and ruthlessly observant... Soyinka writes with the moral ambivalence and relentless questioning of Shakespeare' John Peter, Sunday Times, 19.4.09
£14.19
Heinemann Educational Books Plays 2 v2 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisThe internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixtiTable of ContentsLear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion
£26.48
Heinemann Educational Books Townsend Plays 1
Book SynopsisA collection of plays by Sue Townsend, including "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" adapted from the novel, "Wombergang", set in the waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic, "Bazaar & Rummage" about a community jumble sale, "Groping for Words", and "The Great Celestial Cow", about Indian immigrants.Table of ContentsSecret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow
£20.89
Heinemann Educational Books The Steward of Christendom
Book SynopsisThe play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books THE LONESOME WEST BY MCDONAGH MARTINAUTHORPAPERBACK
Book SynopsisMartin McDonagh's first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. In 2003, his play The Pillowman had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre and received the 2004 Olivier Award. In 2006, Martin McDonagh won an Oscar for his short film Six Shooter.Trade Review'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily Telegraph 'Martin McDonagh is both a powerful writer of staying power and an individual talent within a powerful tradition ... His is a voice you will want to hear again.' The Sunday Times
£15.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Our Lady Of Sligo
Book SynopsisThis is the script of a play in which an old woman lying in her bed remembers her past as the vivid present.
£14.19
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Street Of Crocodiles Modern Plays
Book Synopsis"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian)
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mother Claps Molly House A Play with Songs Modern Plays
Book SynopsisMark Ravenhill's play "Mother Clap's Molly House" explores the gay subculture of 18th-century London.
£14.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Copenhagen Student Editions
Book SynopsisThe Student Edition of Frayn's multi-award winning play includes a full commentary and notes.Trade Review"I think it's probably the best play about science ever written in English drama, because what it does is explicate science, the nuclear process, and relate it to a highly volatile emotional situation and more." The Guardian {Review}, May 31 2008 'It's [the] newborn sense of uncertainty - of strangeness, subjectivity and mystery at the heart of mathematics and science - that drives Michael Frayn's magnificent 1998 play Copenhagen.' Joyce McMillan, Scotsman, 23.4.09 'Forget the physics. The greatest experiment in Michael Frayn's threehander is the dramatic form itself.' Mark Fisher, Guardian, 27.4.09 'Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time.' Play Collections- Contemporary Dramatists (December 2010)
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Methuen Drama Book of Modern Monologues for Women Audition Speeches
Book SynopsisChrys Salt began her career as a performer in Rep, touring theatre, West End, TV and radio dramas wi th regular stints in various soap and series. She now directs extensively in theatre and sound, and has written several books, theatre and radio plays, features and documentaries. She runs her own the atre company and teaches regularly at the London Actors Centre.Trade ReviewThe range is wide and there is something to suit most aspiring actresses. It is not only valuable for the performers for whom it is designed but for teachers whose endless search for something right for a particular student often ends in frustration or repetition. * Word Matters (STSD) *
£21.36
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Monstrous Regiment Modern Plays
Book SynopsisThe Monstrous Regiment in question is made up of a vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), a troll, Igor (who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular about previous ownership), a collection of misfits and a young woman discovers that a pair of socks shoved down her pants is a good way to open up doors.
£14.19
Taylor & Francis The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
Book SynopsisThis anthology offers an introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political contexts, along with newly edited texts of ten plays and a masque.Trade Review'This splendid anthology is the perfect economical textbook to shape an undergraduate module.' -Kevin de Ornellas, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Guide to the Anthology. Introduction. Further Reading. Chronology of English Culture and Society 1558 to 1642. The Plays: Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1585); Anon., Arden of Faversham (1592); Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (1593); Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness (1603); Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry (1604); Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness (1605); Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607); Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609); Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl (1611); Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling (1622); John Ford, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore (1633).
£39.99
Pearson Education Limited Fast Heinemann Plays
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£20.90
Random House Publishing Group Six Great Modern Plays
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£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc Pygmalion and My Fair Lady 50th Anniversary
Book SynopsisThe ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this man whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion as his bride. Centuries later, George Bernard Shaw captured the magic of this legend in his celebrated romantic play, Pygmalion. Pygmalion became Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, his statue an untutored flower girl from the streets of London, and the barrier between them the difference in their stations in life.In My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner takes the legend one step further—the barrier is swept away and Higgins and Eliza are reunited as the curtain falls on one of the loveliest musical plays of our time—winning seven Tonys® for its original Broadway production, and seven Oscars® for its film adaptation.
£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Lysistrata
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£6.50
Penguin Putnam Inc Sophocles The Complete Plays
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£999.99
