Plays, playscripts, drama
Aurora Metro Publications Fix
Book Synopsis"I have lived with these trees and watched them grow. You have been away from here for too long, you don't see it. Or you have simply forgotten..." Responding to a call-out, a repairman finds himself inexplicably drawn to an old woman and her house in the woods. At first it seems like a simple fix, but as a storm starts to close in, he is forced to confront the ghosts from his past. A tale of guilt and childhood memory - can we ever really mend what is already broken?Trade Review‘…that rare beast… a bold theatrical experiment that is also remarkably entertaining.’ – The Times****; ‘…makes a fascinating evening of theatre, full of variety, but circling around a single powerful theme’. – The Scotsman****
£9.99
Aurora Metro Publications The Star with No Name
Book SynopsisThrown off the train for not having a ticket, Mona finds herself, alone, in a rural town at night. Although she is fashionably dressed, she has no money and nowhere to stay. Fortunately, the local schoolteacher, Marin, invites her to stay at his home while he sleeps over at a friend’s place. However, an attraction soon develops. Marin, a keen astronomer, reveals that he has discovered a star which is not marked on any star chart. They share a wonderfully happy night together. But their idyll is soon shattered by the arrival of Mona’s boyfriend, Grig. Will Mona choose to return to her old life in the city or settle for a quieter life with Marin? This play was a hit play in Romania at the time it was written and has subsequently been adapted for film in both France and Russia. Available for the first time in a new English translation by Gabi Reigh.
£11.99
Aurora Metro Publications The Convert
Book SynopsisAlix and Marcus have been brought to The Facility to be "corrected". If their condition is cured they may leave and return to the society. But if they fail, they will be sent to the Other Place, away from their friends and family forever. Failure is not an option, but in this confounding institution, where they only have each other, the greatest threat to their success is their own love. Chillingly informed by real techniques that are used against LGBTQ+ people, Kavanagh''s imaginative and timely play pitches nightmarish forces against our unerasable, shining humanity. Reviews"Startling New Writing." - Paul Vale, The Stage"Excellent new dark satire." - Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph"Kavanagh''s writing is funny, moving and mesmerising all at once; in-yer-face theatre at its finest." - Jeff Carpenter, The PrickleTrade Review“Startling new writing…” Paul Vale, Theatre critic, The Stage; “Excellent new dark satire about Conversion Therapy” — Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph; Review: The Convert at Above the Stag, London – ‘Startling new writing about gay conversion therapy’; “RECOMMENDED: Ben Kavanagh’s chilling new play THE CONVERT explores the resources we need to endure catastrophe through an alternate reality where our greatest fears are endemic and enduring.”– The Prickle
£9.99
Aurora Metro Publications Mad(e) & Cutter
Book SynopsisBetween Valentine’s day and first day of winter, three lads and an ancient and mischievous shapeshifter collide repeatedly. One lad carries an urn, literally unable to let go of their best friend’s ashes; the second is homeless because he came out as bi; the third has no recourse to public funds. As they dodge a system that engulfs and traumatises, can the mythical and ancient beira help them still the glitch in their broken minds? An epic story of life, death, and everything in between, mad(e) is a passionate, exhilarating and uniquely theatrical commentary on masculinity and young men’s mental health, co-created with boys and young men nationally. Ultimately, it is about healing, informed by the playwright’s own lived-experiences.Trade Review"Searingly prescient social commentary exploring masculinity, through a mythological lens. mad(e) weaves reconciliation and hope from the hostile environment that so many young men are forced to navigate. Essential." - Museum of Homelessness A voice rarely heard, if ever, in theatre. It is complex, and at times, dazzling."Table of ContentsAuthor biography Theatre Company information Playscript of mad(e) Playscript of cutter
£9.99
ERIS Bacon/Giacometti: A Dialogue
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£12.34
ERIS Bacon/Giacometti: A Dialogue
Book SynopsisThis book, written in the form of a play, is about an imagined conversation between Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti.
£14.24
Inkandescent Femme Fatale
Book SynopsisThe Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1968. Nico, singer with The Velvet Underground, is waiting to shoot Andy Warhol's latest movie and for her lover, Jim Morrison, when her room is invaded by Valerie Solanas, radical feminist and would-be Warhol assassin. A duel to the death begins… 100 years since women got the vote, and 30 years since Valerie and Nico died, Wiseman reimagines two female pop culture icons at the epicentre of 60s cool battling for control of their own destinies.Trade Review"Wiseman’s writing sears and burns" – The Guardian
£999.99
UEA Publishing Project UEA Creative Writing Anthology Scriptwriting:
Book SynopsisThe UEA MA 2020 Scriptwriting Anthology presents an exciting look at the next generation of stage and screenwriters from around the globe. These writers have creaed a varied array of truly original work, tackling innovative story structures and dramatic techniques, pertinent and timely issues and a whole world of themes. Graduates of the MA in Scriptwriting include Bruntwood and BAFTA winners now blazing their own trails in TV, film, radio and theatre. This anthology features a foreword by recent graduate Tilly Lunken, as well as an introduction by course convenor and renowned playwright, Steve Waters.
£999.99
Polari Press Chatham House Rules
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£11.78
Polari Press The Death Life of All of Us
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£12.00
UEA Publishing Project Scriptwriting: UEA MA Anthologies 2023
Book SynopsisWe invite you to open your mind and engage your imagination, with twenty-two diverse and gripping tales written for the stage and screen. Set across the world, from London to Paris, the backroads of Eastern Europe to the post-apocalyptic highways of the United States, across forests and cliffsides, and even to Heaven itself, these varied pieces tackle subjects from desperate survival, to unrequited love, to exploring new identities. Hiking through Rendlesham Forest, Jay searches for aliens and confronts his childhood trauma in Pareidolia. Jerry struggles with the most important decision of his life... whether or not to shave his moustache, in MoustOUCHe. Two young brothers make the discovery of their lives in Mortars.
£999.99
Cornell University Press Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of
Book SynopsisThis volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the Giō cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. Each event features a series of one to three plays preceded by essays.
£56.70
Cornell University Press Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited volume presents the fifth and final category of Noh plays, often called kiri-nō, or "ending Noh," because they are staged last in a formal performance. This group comprises fifty of the most active and exciting of all plays in the Noh repertoire. They include deities, ghosts, or living humans, as well as a plethora of supernatural beings such as tengu (strange long-nosed creatures), monstrous creatures, demons, and fiends. The fifth-group Noh with such shite are all supernatural or visional. None of them is totally realistic. These ghosts, deities, and monsters sometimes appear to attack men, sometimes to help them, and sometimes just to tell their stories. Dividing the plays into seven subgroups according to structure, the authors fully analyze their dramatic characteristics. The book includes line-by-line translations of eight Noh representing all of the subgroups, together with the Romanized original Japanese texts, detailed introductions, and running commentaries.Trade ReviewThe great advantage of Shimazaki's translations is that an English reader now has the wherewithal to begin to decode these beautiful works;... a labor of love and careful scholarship. * Journal of Asian Studies *
£100.80
Cornell University Press Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of
Book SynopsisThis volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the Giō cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. Each event features a series of one to three plays preceded by essays.
£999.99
Ugly Duckling Presse Emergency Index 2011
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£16.20
Ugly Duckling Presse Emergency Index: Volume 7
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£21.25
Ugly Duckling Presse Awaiting
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£14.40
Iron Press Rainbird: The Tragedy of a Painter
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£8.00
Gallimard Les mains sales
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£11.40
Gallimard Lecole des femmes Folio classique Prescriptions
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£5.52
Editions Flammarion Faust
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£999.99
Le Livre de poche La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
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£8.33
Pocket Le malade imaginaire
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£6.40
Diaphanes AG The Steps of Nemesis – A Dramatic Chronicle in
Book SynopsisThe first-ever English translation of this dramatic work by Nikolai Evreinov. In the 1910s the Russian theater director and theorist Nikolai Evreinov (1879–1953) insisted on the theatricalization of life. Twenty years later, Evreinov, who had left Russia in 1924, was in exile in Paris when Stalin staged three elaborate political show trials in Moscow. Evreinov then meticulously read the transcripts of the trials in the Russian-language press, collected material on Nikolai Bukharin and the other defendants, consulted with experts, and finally wrote a play, his response to the staging of a judicial farce. With this response, he also wanted to rehabilitate his idea of the theatricalization of life. After all, the theatricalization of life does not mean performing false confessions, constructing conspiracies, fabricating facts, or casting hired witnesses. In his theatrical theory, Evreinov was careful not to make the theater of life invisible. His play is therefore not a historical reconstruction, but an imaginary look behind the scenes, in which the Stalinist perpetrators confess to the real crime in the end: the theater. Expertly translated into English for the first time by Zachary King, The Steps of Nemesis brings a fascinating play to a whole new world.
£24.00
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Die Rauber
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£9.60
Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart Antigone
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£12.66
Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann Schroedel Diesterweg Schoningh Winklers GmbH An Inspector Calls
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£13.83
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Gotz Von Berlichingen
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£7.24
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Der Diener Zweier Herren
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£7.52
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Konig Oedipus
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£6.89
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Nora Ein Puppenheim Schauspiel in drei Akten
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£6.90
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Medea Dichtung und Wirklichkeit
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£7.85
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Von morgens bis mitternachts
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£7.54
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH An Inspector Calls A Play in Three Acts
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£7.67
Not Stated Woyzeck Leonce
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£7.11
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. Die Fremden Fr mehr Mitgefhl
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£8.27
Suhrkamp Verlag Schlimmstenfalls wird alles gut
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£11.25
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Wilhelm Tell
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£10.07
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Faust
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£10.08
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Fruhlings Erwachen
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£11.03
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co Die Rauber
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£10.10
Suhrkamp Verlag Traume; Vier Spiele
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£13.25
Suhrkamp Verlag Leben des Galilei
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£8.92
Suhrkamp Verlag Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
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£9.20
Suhrkamp Verlag Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthofe
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£8.74
Suhrkamp Verlag Der Jasager und der Neinsager. Vorlagen,
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£9.36
Suhrkamp Verlag Leben des Galilei
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£9.86
Suhrkamp Verlag Fruhlings Erwachen
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£7.90
