Plays, playscripts, drama
Nick Hern Books Table
Book SynopsisSix generations, twenty-three characters one very special piece of furniture. Tanya Ronder's thrilling play is an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on. Table was the first play to be staged in The Shed, a temporary venue at the National Theatre, London, to celebrate original, ambitious and unexpected theatre. It premiered in April 2013 in a production directed by Rufus Norris.Trade Review'Highly inventive and often touching... there is a great deal of humour, but the play is also dark, sharply depicting the sad human truth that we often inflict the worst pain on those we love, or are supposed to love' * Telegraph *'Tremendous... richly textured' * Guardian *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Death of England
Book SynopsisClint Dyer: On stage he has worked with heralded directors like Mike Leigh, Simon Mcburney, Dominic Cooke, Micheal Attenbourgh, Jane Howel, Ian Brown, Mike Bradwell, Madani Yohonis, Gbolahan Obesisan, Dawn Walton, and the legendary Philip Hedley, etc. He starred on stage in the National Theatres Oliver winning show Ma Rainey's Black Bottom directed by Dominic Cook, for which he won best actor in the I.A.R.Awards. Clint won Best actor at the British Urban Film Awards, Screen Nation Film and Television Awards, Liege International Film Festival and The Texas Black Film Festival for SUS' . He was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award at the Screen Nation Film and Television Awards for SUS'. Clint directed the Olivier, Evening Standard, TMA and What's On Theatre Goers, nominated show THE BIG LIFE', at TRSE, bringing it to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, makingmit the first Black British musical to go the West End. Also the soon to be seen The Happy Tragedy
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fosse Plays Six
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Top Girls
Book SynopsisI believe in the individual. Look at me.Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women''s experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous conversation across ages and generations it was described by The Guardian as the best British play ever from a woman dramatist'. The play opens with an anachronistic dinner party hosted by Marlene, the newly-promoted manager of the Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: a female Pope, a courtesan-cum-nun, a tireless adventurer, an obedient wife from Chaucer and the leader of a charge into hell from a Bruegel painting. The feminist themes introduced by this cacophonous scene echo throughout the more contemporary action of the play, as Churchill uses the setting of the Top Girls' agency to allow a glimpse into the lives of several very different working womeTrade ReviewTop Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind * John Peter, Sunday Times *Ms Churchill is one of our best writers…her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme * Spectator *A playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting -- Benedict Nightingale * New Statesman *The work build to a superb emotion-draining climax that sent me out of the theatre convinced that this is the best British play ever from a woman dramatist -- Michael Billington * Guardian *Table of ContentsForeword by Ann McFerran The Play
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Faber & Faber Zinnie Harris Plays 1
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Other Place
Book SynopsisAlexander Zeldin is a writer, director and the founder of A Zeldin Company (AZC). Zeldin has made work in South Korea, the Middle East, Russia and at the Naples Festival, before developing projects as a teacher at East 15, and working as an assistant director to Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. For the National Theatre: LOVE, Faith, Hope and Charity and The Confessions. Other theatre includes: Beyond Caring (transferred to the National's Temporary Theatre) at The Yard, a German version directed by Zeldin was produced in 2022, and is currently in repertoire at the Schaubühne, Berlin; and Une Mort dans la Famille at Odéon-Theâtre de l'Europe and on European tour.
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Aurora Metro Publications Swansea Boy
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Nick Hern Books A Table Tennis Play
Book Synopsis‘When does it happen?’ A long summer weekend, two strangers, and a full-size table tennis table. Sam Steiner's A Table Tennis Play is a play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball. It premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a production by Walrus in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.Trade Review'Superb… a tense emotional back and forth… each line of Steiner's script holds tremendous jeopardy' * Exeunt Magazine *'Grips tighter and tighter, masterfully dragging the audience down into the insecurities and fears of the players... Nobody writes dialogue quite like Sam Steiner... Zipping between hilarity and horribly affecting emotion, Steiner has a knack of making every single second count, leaving the unsaid hanging brilliantly heavy in the air... thrillingly enticing' * Broadway Baby *'Steiner's gift for dialogue is in full evidence here, using his characters' foibles and idiosyncrasies to illuminate masterfully and without judgement so much that goes unsaid' * Broadway World *'A Table Tennis Play is less concept-driven than Steiner's previous work, but sees him at his finest: whip-smart dialogue is whacked back and forth as themes, desires and thoughts bounce around... riveting... characters that are so vividly drawn... solidifies Steiner's status as a writer with the keenest ear for dialogue, finding magic among a sea of memories. An absolute ace' * WhatsOnStage *'A subtle and beguiling piece of writing, encompassing huge things – grief, the passing of time – and minutiae, ingeniously economical in the way it uses words, with a deliciously offbeat sense of humour... studded with moments of magic and unexpectedly, capsizingly moving narrative swerves' * The Stage *
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Random House USA Inc Oleanna A Play
Book SynopsisIn a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.
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Faber & Faber The Cocktail Party
Book Synopsis''Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.'' Times Literary Supplement''Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas.'' Observer
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rotterdam
Book SynopsisNo, Alice, I don''t want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one.Now Alice must face a question she never thought she'd ask . . . does this mean she''s straight?A bittersweet comedy about gender, sexuality and being a long way from home.Rotterdam received its world premiere at Theatre503, London, in October 2015, before transferring to Trafalgar Studios, London, in May 2016. This volume contains introductory commentary and notes by Stephen Farrier from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains:- an introductTrade Review(Rotterdam) speaks eloquently about a complex issue while at the same time being properly laugh-out-loud funny * Stage magazine *Table of ContentsThe introduction and commentary to the play will cover: Introduction to Author's Life and Work Contexts: historical, political and social (focusing on sexuality and gender, and including terminology) Themes: identity, intergenerational relationships, secrets and truth-telling, friendship Dramaturgy and Genre Production History and Reception Scene-by-Scene Summary Play-text Further Reading
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro
Book SynopsisRosa Andújar is Deputy Director and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at King's College London, UK. She has co-edited two volumes which address her research expertise in ancient Greek tragedy and its modern reception: Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (2018) and Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (2020).Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer/performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism. Alfaro held a six-season tenure as the Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2013-2019). He was a member of the Playwright's Ensemble at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre (2013-2020). Alfaro is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly known as a genius grant, presented to people who have demonstrated expertise and exceptional creativity in their respective fields. Alfaro is a Joyce Foundation Fellow. In 2019, Alfaro was awarded the PEN America/Laura Pels IntTrade ReviewIn these plays, Luis brilliantly transplants Sophocles’s Electra and Oedipus and Euripides’s Medea into the modern-day streets of Los Angeles and New York. In doing so, he gives voice to the rich, complex lives of the Chicanx and Latinx communities and neighborhoods that he knows and loves. This book is a must-own for any student and lover of contemporary, American plays. * LA Review of Books *A Bloomsbury translation: In this way, the entire book constitutes more than a simple collection of Alfaro's plays. Each of the sections of the anthology reiterates the creation of an archive ... Andújar's work thus contributes to the preservation of the memory of these communities which have turned to the theatre as a venue through which to tell and connect their own stories with other cultures, geographies and temporalities, constantly and necessarily crossing all kinds of borders. * Latin American Theatre Review *Andújar not only offers a richly annotated introduction at the beginning of this volume: each of the three plays also begins with a separate introduction that contextualizes the dramatic work in a way that is both enthralling and enlightening … A must-read for any student and fan of contemporary theatre. And for those of us who have a particular love of Chicanx and Latinx drama, this volume will bring immeasurable reading pleasure and enlightenment. * La Bloga *From the opening scene, the cultural combination is intoxicating … A fascinating trilogy. * British Theatre Guide *Equipped with Andújar’s excellent introduction to Alfaro’s work generally and to each adaptation, plus a production history and interview with Alfaro, this book not only makes the scripts of three very successful plays available for the first time for everyone, but also presents a unique and fascinating way of engaging with the ancient Greek dramas of which Alfaro’s plays are adaptations. * Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *A welcome addition to the bookshelves of those with an interest in the afterlives of Athenian tragedy ... The volume as a whole exemplifies the way in which collaboration between academics and practitioners enhances classical reception studies: this reviewer would be delighted to see more contemporary classical reception texts being given similar treatment. * Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsEditor’s Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Luis Alfaro’s Griego Drama: An Introduction 2. Electricidad: A Chicanx Tragedy between Family and Feminism 3. Electricidad 4. Blind Love and the Chains of Destiny: Oedipus el Rey 5. Oedipus el Rey 6. Mojada: Dramatizing Latinx Migrations 7. Mojada 8. Production History 9. Glossary 10. Interview with Luis Alfaro 11. Further Reading
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Penguin Putnam Inc Twelve Angry Men
Book SynopsisA landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which R
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Nick Hern Books two Palestinians go dogging
Book Synopsis'Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.' The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The Fifth Intifada is right around the corner. But on a contested piece of land near their village of Beit al-Qadir, Reem and Sayeed are about to go dogging. Don't worry, you're allowed to laugh. Sami Ibrahim's play two Palestinians go dogging uses the lens of humour to explore how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone. The play won the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019 and was premiered in May 2022 at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, directed by Omar Elerian.Trade Review'A devastatingly human portrait of conflict that sears itself on the mind. Sami Ibrahim's play is a startlingly bold tragicomedy and a furious call to action... as devastatingly epic as Greek tragedy... a show that comes with an enormous gut-punch, and is all that theatre should strive to be' * Guardian *'A darkly comic political drama, shot through with absurdism and bleak humour' * The Stage *'A dose of harsh reality... This play matters and is truly memorable' * Broadway Baby *'Entertaining and timely... a comedy that skilfully holds humour in uneasy tension with its characters' pain' * Telegraph *'Occasionally bleak, utterly brilliant... hilarious and harrowing... a stunningly insightful and entertaining play, one of the cultural high points of this year' * Broadway World *
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Penguin Books Ltd Plays Political
Book SynopsisWhile some of Shaw's earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism: although he satirises Fascist dictators in Geneva, the satire is disappointingly mild. Neither did Shaw appear to foresee (on the evidence of these plays, at least) the imminent collapse of the British Empire.But it is Shaw the dramatist rather than Shaw the political philosopher who still holds our attention even in plays as explicitly political as these. He had a sharp intellect and a quirky sense of humour, and his dialogue still glints and sparkles: he couldn't write a dull line if he tried. No matter how serious the themes he addresses, the crispness of his writing and his lightness of touch still scintillate.Shaw seems, pe
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Penguin Books Ltd Incident at Vichy Penguin Modern Classics
Book SynopsisIn Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how they are to suffer for it, is not clear, and they hope for the best. But as rumours pass between them of trains full of people locked from the outside and furnaces in Poland, and although they reassure themselves that nothing so monstrous could be true, their panic rises.Arthur Miller''s claustrophobic play of how the inconceivable becomes allowed to pass, Incident at Vichy is one of the most indispensable, moving pieces of art about the Holocaust.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Master Builder and Other Plays With Little
Book SynopsisHenrik Ibsen’s most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen seriesThis new Penguin Classics series of Henrik Ibsen’s plays will offer the best available editions in English of the great works by “the father of modern drama,” all under the general editorship of Ibsen scholar Tore Rem. All plays included here are newly translated and based on the recently published, definitive Norwegian texts. The Master Builder and Other Plays collects his last four plays: Little Eyokf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When We Dead Awaken, in addition to the title play.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to pr
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Penguin Books Ltd Four French Plays
Book SynopsisThis new Penguin volume includes the ''greatest hits'' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille''s Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière''s The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector''s widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son.John Edmunds'' translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was subsequently praised by Harold Pinter. This is the first time Trade ReviewRacine's plays...create in performance a terrifying and inescapable velocity - they are grippingly exciting -- Alan Hollinghurst
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Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts John Webster The Duchess of
Book SynopsisEach book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students'' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
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Bloomsbury Academic Festen Modern Plays
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Faber & Faber The Nether
Book SynopsisI''ve read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour and behaviour in-world.The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination.Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out our private dreams.Jennifer Haley''s The Nether received its UK premiere in July 2014 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in a co-production with Headlong.
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Faber & Faber Apex Predator
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Samuel French Ltd The Great Privation
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Samuel French Ltd Absent Friends
Book SynopsisColin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband are perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down.
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Samuel French Ltd Lettice and Lovage
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Samuel French Ltd The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Book SynopsisLittle Voice (LV) lives alone with her mother Mari, whose sole purpose in life is to find a man. When Mari's latest catch hears LV's impersonations of famous singers, he rushes to exploit it, and the result destroys LV. Finally, however, LV regains the courage to speak and sing in her own voice.
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Samuel French Ltd The Dumb Waiter
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Samuel French Ltd Play
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Samuel French Ltd Bedroom Farce
Book SynopsisTrevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples'' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany.
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Samuel French Ltd The Revlon Girl
Book SynopsisSet eight months following Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (in which 144 people were killed; 116 of them children) The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of a group of bereaved mothers who met every week above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their meetings, the women looked at each other and admitted how much they felt they’d let themselves go. So afraid that people would think them frivolous, they secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips.
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Samuel French Ltd Constellations
Book SynopsisOne relationship. Infinite possibilities. ''Let''s go for a drink. I don''t know what I''m doing here anyway. One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'' Nick Payne''s Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it''s about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. Constellations premiered at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2012. It transferred to the Duke Of York''s Theatre, London, in November, and was awarded the Evening Standard award for Best New Play 2012.
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Samuel French Ltd Butter in a Lordly Dish
Book SynopsisSir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one act thriller that''s contains one of Christie''s most gruesome murders.
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Samuel French Ltd Private Peaceful A Play For A Small Ensemble
Book SynopsisThe Peaceful brothers, Tommo and Charlie, have a tough rural childhood facing the death of their father, financial hardship and a cruel landlord. Their fierce loyalty to each other pulls them through, until one day they both fall for the same girl. And then the Great War comes.It tells the story of a country lad fighting a war he doesn''t understand for people he cannot respect. We join 18-year-old Private Tommo Peaceful in the trenches as he tells us a story of courage, devotion and sibling rivalry on what may be his last night on earth.Private Peaceful was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, won the Red House Children''s Book Award and the Blue Peter Book Award and is acknowledged by Michael Morpurgo (War Horse, The Butterfly Lion) to be his favourite work. This new, small ensemble version by Simon Reade was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse.
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Samuel French Inc A Thousand Clowns
Book SynopsisHerb Gardner Comedy Characters: 4 male, 1 female, 12 year-old boy 2 Interior scenes This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy gags for Chipper the Chipmunk, a children's television star, Murray finds himself unemployed with plenty of free time with which to pursue his...pursuits. Lectured by his conventional brother Arnold and hounded by the system, Murray is paid a visit by bickering, uptight social workers, Sandra and Albert, and finds himself solving their problems as well as most of his own. Would be a standout comedy in any season. Filled with laughter and warmth and sweetness and inspired daffiness. One of the quintessential New York comedies.-New York Daily News An extraordinarily funny play with some brilliantly offbeat lines.-The New York Post
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Samuel French Inc The Amen Corner
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The characters are honestly observed, and the lines have wings and humor."- The New York Daily News "Truth, vividness and rich humanity."- The New York Post
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Samuel French Ltd Witch
Book SynopsisA charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a witch and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her - and then returns again - unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Yerma
Book SynopsisFederico García Lorca was born in 1898, in Andalusia, Spain. A poet anddramatist, and also a gifted painter and pianist, his early popularballads earned him the title of 'poet of the gypsies'. In 1930 heturned his attention to theatre, visiting remote villages and playingclassic and new works for peasant audiences. In 1936, shortly after theoutbreak of Civil War, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans. Hisbody was never found.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century Observer
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Josef Weinberger Plays Aladdin Play
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Remains of Maisie Duggan
Book SynopsisNow I'm dead there''ll be changes. I won't keep rolling over. I won't wag my tail at every insult and injury!Kathleen Duggan has rushed home to Ireland upon hearing the news that her mother, Maisie, has died.Only when she gets back to the house, she finds that her mother is alive and well. Almost. However, after a routine car accident, Maisie believes that she is now dead and wandering around the homestead, awaiting her funeral. Still able to talk to her childish adult son and her violent, temperamental husband, she will no longer be silenced by the male-dominated, pugnacious atmosphere that has kept her quiet all these years. So when Kathleen comes back for the funeral', Maisie expects to find her final resting place, safe from the threat of domestic violence once and for all. The Remains of Maisie Duggan received its world premiere on the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in autumn 2016.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Educating Rita
Book Synopsis''One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.'' Sunday TimesThis new student edition includes an introduction covering the play''s context; chronology; dramatic devices; critical reception; production history; and key themes such as class and identity, popular culture and education. Educating Rita portrays a working-class Liverpool woman''s hunger for education. It premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in 1980 and won the SWET award for Best Comedy of the Year. It was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters and won the 1983 BAFTA award for Best Film.<Trade ReviewRussell's deft two-hander has as much to say about education, art and power as it does about class. * Shona Craven, Herald, 16.2.09 *Willy Russell's intellectually insatiable hairdresser is one of those rare comic creations who have become lodged in the collective consciousness. * Guardian *Willy Russell's 1979 two-hander emerges evergreen: of its time, but relevant to an income-bracketed Britain where accents still speak volumes. * Sunday Times *Table of ContentsChronology Context: Liverpool in 1980s Willy Russell and the Everyman Themes: Being trapped and breaking free Class and identity Popular culture v high art Education and knowledge Dramatic Devices: Language and voice Structure Setting Production History: Casting Rita Film Critical Reception Academic Debate Comparative Literature Further Study EDUCATING RITA Notes References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alfred Fagon Selected Plays
Book SynopsisDespite the legacy of his eponymous award, Alfred Fagon''s stage works have often been forgotten due to them not being available. This anthology of selected plays brings together his shorter works for the first time into one volume that expands his legacy and confirms his place as one of Britain''s key writing talents of the twentieth century. Originally an actor, Fagon's writing for the stage, film and television grew throughout the early 1970s, before his breakaway hit The Death of A Black Man was produced at the Hampstead Theatre in 1975. Now one of British theatre''s most well-known names, Fagon's legacy is secured due in no small part to the commemorative award in his honour that was established following his death in 1986, to recognise Black British playwrights from the Caribbean, resident in the United Kingdom. Brought together with a critical introduction from Dawn Walton OBE, this collection also includes a reflection and response from a former winner of the AlTrade ReviewThe collection comprises seven relatively short plays that demonstrate the skills and limitations of a writer whose career was sadly cut short in his prime. * British Theatre Guide *Table of ContentsForeword by Dawn Walton OBE A Day in the Bristol Air Raid Shelter Adventure Inside Thirteen Four Hundred Pounds No Soldiers in St. Paul's Shakespeare Country Small World Weekend Lovers Reflections by Alfred Fagon Award Winner - Juliet Gilkes Romero
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC BLANK
Book SynopsisShe can't stay awake.She sold drugs.She's good at interrogations.She drinks in the mornings.She ate a rabbit.She smashed up a shop.She stabbed a man.She used a hammer.She had a baby.She can't find her mother.She's covered in blood and doesn't know why.Alice Birch's heartbreaking new play reaches across society to explore the impact of the criminal justice system on women and their families.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dont. Make. Tea.
Book SynopsisIf you could press a button and one hundred thousand vulnerable citizens died instantly but the rest of the population of the planet was guaranteed prosperity, would you press that button?Chris never wanted to end up here. She's a proud woman and hates asking for help but when her condition deteriorated she had no choice but to claim disability benefits. Ralph believes in the new system. He knows it works. He knows it can work for Chris. He's here today, in her home, to assess her. To prove to her that there has been no mistake she is fit and capable of working. Chris knows he is wrong. Knows her life will be over if his verdict stands. Can she persuade him to change his mind? And, if not, how far is she willing to go to save herself?Rob Drummond's Don't. Make. Tea. confronts the lengths disabled people must go to in order to preserve themselves in an unjust system.This edition was published to coincide with the Birds of Paradise Theatr
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Between Riverside and Crazy
Book SynopsisSon, that girl, she's a nice girl, but she don't study accounting. Her lips move when she read the horoscope that ain't the mark of a future accountant!Since his wife died, ex-cop Walter Pops' Washington has filled his palatial rent-controlled apartment in one of Manhattan's most desirable areas with an oddball extended family of petty criminals. So now he's besieged by the landlords, who want him out, the NYPD, who want him to settle his lawsuit against them, and the ladies from the local church, who want to save his soul But Pops, calm at the eye of the storm, is going to do precisely what Pops wants to doStephen Adly Guirgis' fast-moving Rabelaisian tragicomedy was a Broadway hit and won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This edition was published to coincide with the UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre, London in May 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Outpatient
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Private View
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Book SynopsisDescribed by Brecht as ''a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all'', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster''s takeover of the city''s greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche from Al Capone to Shakespeare''s Richard III and Goethe''s Faust Brecht''s compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble''s most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino.This version, originally translated by George Tabori, has been revised by leading Scottish playwright Alistair Beaton.Trade ReviewThe 1964 translation by George Tabori, souped up by Alistair Beaton, fizzes with verbal pep and clever couplets . . . there’s never a dull minute . . . We are wooed by relentless spectacle and our enjoyment is integral to the play’s chilling kick. * Daily Telegraph *Alistair Beaton’s revised version of the text is pleasingly sparky ... The West End is a better place for such challenging, intelligent fare. * Standard *Alistair Beaton's shrewd tweaking of George Tabori's translation . . . * Guardian *Hitler's rise to power is parodied in Brecht's allegorical satire with the Führer as scary as a tea cosy ... The American gangster movie meets Richard III * Gaurdian *... comedian Alistair Beaton's revision of the translation by George Tabori keeps the sprightly blank verse of the original, with multiple Shakespearean and other literary echoes. * Sunday Times *
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