Plays, playscripts, drama
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays
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£17.24
New World Library Stories Sell
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£15.29
Ediciones Catedra S.A. LA Dama Boba
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£12.12
Faber & Faber Englander N What We Talk About When We Talk About
Book SynopsisA viciously funny and intelligently provocative play about family, friendship and faith, adapted by the author from his Pulitzer-finalist short story. Who in your life would you trust to keep you alive?
£10.44
Concord Theatricals, Ltd Rope
Book SynopsisBrandon wants excitement and little cares how he gets it. He persuades his weak-minded friend, Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate.
£10.99
Faber & Faber Plays Prose Pieces Poetry
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£11.69
Cengage Learning, Inc Organizational Communication
Book SynopsisMiller/Barbour/Woo''s ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION: APPROACHES AND PROCESSES, 8th Edition, presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective. Professor Miller, Barbour and Woo''s clear writing style and consistent use of examples and case studies ensures that you''ll find the material comprehensive and easy to understand.
£112.50
Concord Theatricals, Ltd The Picture of Dorian Gray
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£12.80
Samuel French Ltd The lark
Book SynopsisTo the great lords of her time as well as the politicians of the Church expediency was God. So the Maid had to die. So to Warwick and Cauchon, her life has the''somewhat artificial, and certainly impersonal, quality of a play. Short scenes from it are played out during the trial as they struggle to turn her simplicity into heresy. But it is the glory of her life rather than the tragedy that is the triumphant climax of the play.5 women, 13 men
£10.99
Samuel French Ltd The Black Prince
Book SynopsisFormer tax inspector Bradley Pearson is a writer who has published nothing - his precept is perfect; his maxim is to wait - unlike his best friend Arnold Baffin who is a prolific, highly-successful writer of second-rate novels. Now Bradley is to retire to his seaside cottage to write his masterpiece. In a series of smartly comic scenes, his departure is thwarted by a succesision of unwelcome visitors and crises: a wheedling ex-brother-in-law, a detested ex-wife, a suicidal sister, a distraught phone call from Arthur who has battered his wife Rachel. But when the Baffin's teenage daughter Julia asks Bradley to give her a tutorial on Hamlet, 'the god of love and art, the Black Eros, the Black Prince' is unleashed with dire and terrifying results.
£10.99
Samuel French Ltd The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13
Book SynopsisLife''s pretty hard when you''re a 13 year-old misunderstood intellectual living in a cul-de-sac in 1981. With dysfunctional parents, ungrateful elders and a growing debt to school bully Barry Kent, Adrian Mole''s life simply couldn''t get any worse! So when luminous new girl Pandora joins Adrian''s class, things look set to change for our hapless hero. She immediately captures his heart, only for his best friend Nigel to steal hers...Based on the classic bestselling novel by Sue Townsend, this critically- acclaimed West End musical brings Britain''s best-loved spotty teenager''s story to life for a new generation of theatregoers.A perfectly realised British musical. - The Evening StandardA show for all ages. - The Daily TelegraphThis endearing and thoroughly enjoyable show should not be missed. - The Independent
£11.99
Samuel French Ltd A New Brain
Book SynopsisBy the Tony Award-winning authors of Falsettos, here is an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital, surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor, and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children’s television show that features a frog – Mr. Bungee – and the specter of this large green character and
£10.99
Concord Theatricals Everybodys Talking About Jamie
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£10.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Bent: The Play
Book SynopsisMartin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. It educated the world Sherman explains. People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and to some extent gypsies and political prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals. Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews gypsies and handicapped and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. The play Bent highlights the reason why - a largely ignored German law Paragraph 175 making homosexuality a criminal offense which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise to power.
£11.69
Amber Lane Press Ltd Can You Hear Me at the Back
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£8.99
Newest Press Wolf Plays
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£10.19
Nick Hern Books A Good House
Book SynopsisA funny, thrilling and provocative play exploring race, resentment and community politics, from a leading South African playwright.
£9.89
Nick Hern Books Animal Farm
Book SynopsisA fresh interpretation of George Orwell's classic story ofrebellion and treachery, first performed by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
£9.89
Currency Press Children of the Black Skirt
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£13.49
Currency Press Boy Overboard the play
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£13.29
Manchester University Press Loves Cure or the Martial Maid
Book SynopsisA fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's ground-breaking comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary. -- .
£19.00
Nick Hern Books The Habits
Book SynopsisA funny, gripping and heartfelt play about fantasy, reality, and the blurred lines between the two. Premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2025.
£9.89
Nick Hern Books Backstroke
Book SynopsisA kaleidoscopic and compassionate play about a mother and daughter. Premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2025, starring Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig.
£9.89
Nick Hern Books Stereophonic
Book SynopsisThe electrifying, Tony Award-winning playset inside the elusive world of a recording studio, as a rock band on the brink of superstardom attempts to create their difficult second album. Published alongside the West End production in 2025.
£13.49
Samuel French Inc Brighton Beach Memoirs
Book SynopsisFull Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext.Here is part one of Neil Simon''s autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley
£10.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Comedy About Spies
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£10.99
Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Venus in Fur A Play
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£16.16
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Monster
Book Synopsis"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over. He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on."An inexperienced teacher is given the job of saving a disturbed and violent fourteen-year-old boy from permanent exclusion. Alone in the classroom, an intense battle of wills takes place. But what can be done when a child cares for no one and is afraid of nothing? Monster won two awards at the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was first performed in 2007 at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, where Duncan MacMillan was Writer-in-Residence.
£14.76
Oxford University Press, USA Hysterical Laughter
Book SynopsisHysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women exhibits many of the interdisciplinary qualities that characterize teaching in the Classics. It is an innovative text that takes two important subfields of Classics-literature and gender studies-and brings them together into a new synthesis that provides instructors with a new and creative way to explore key issues into each of these disciplines. Instructors who teach courses in ancient comedy or drama are looking for ways to show students the social and cultural dimensions of theater. And instructors who teach courses on women or sexuality in the ancient world will want to use one of the most important sources we have from the classical world-comedy-as a way to show students how gender roles were constructed in ancient societies. There are many anthologies of Greek and Roman drama. There are many translations of say, Lysistrata, one of the most famous comedies of the ancient world. There are several books that examine women in antiquity. But Christenson''s is the first volume that uses a literary genre--comedy--as a vehicle to explore another field (women/gender/sexuality). The results are immensely creative and open up new teaching avenues for instructors. Christenson''s volume provides all new translations (all translated by Christenson) of four ancient comedies, two Greek and two Roman, that question classical stereotypes about women and challenge configurations of gender in ancient society. Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Samia (Menander), Casina (Plautus), and Hecyra (Terence)-each regarded as among the finest classical comedies-illustrate the possibilities of theater as an agent for gender awareness and expose traditional feminine roles in real life as social constructions, asking students to assess the cultural and historical position of theater in ancient society.Trade ReviewHysterical Laughter features four classic Greek and Roman plays - Lysistrata, Samia, Casina, and Hecyra each starring strong female characters. Each play is an excellent example of these great playwrights' work, and juxtaposing them brings out both similarities and differences in their ideas and their stagecraft. As the author demonstrates, each play challenges its society's ideas about women and gender roles, using hilarious comic techniques. The translations are close, but very lively, boldly including the originals' vulgarity and even obscenity; they ought to be staged as well as read. The introductions, informed by the latest scholarship, provide information about women in the ancient world and the original performance conditions; the notes are succinct and helpful, the bibliographies excellent. This book will be ideal in classical studies, history, theater, and women's studies classes. * Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz *Table of ContentsTable of Contents: ; About The Translator ; Preface ; Introduction ; DT Greek Old Comedy ; DT Greek New Comedy ; DT Roman Comedy ; DT Women In The Ancient World ; Aristophanes' Lysistrata ; Lysistrata ; Menader's Samia ; Samia. ; Plautus' Casina ; Casina ; Terence's Hecyra ; Hecyra ; Appendix: Olympian Deities
£26.99
Samuel French Inc Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Book SynopsisRay LawlerCharacters:3 male, 4 female Interior Set This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relatio
£10.99
Nick Hern Books Summerfolk
Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Maxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died. Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where dachas have been subdivided into summer colonies and the newly rich idle away their time in unhappy romantic alliances. Gorky's characters are still dreaming of a better life, but they are increasingly aware of impending revolution. Gorky's play premiered in November 1904 at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg. This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
£5.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Way of the World
Book SynopsisDavid Roberts is Professor of English at Birmingham City University, UK. His recent books include Restoration Plays and Players (2014) and George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed for (Methuen Drama, 2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction Further Reading The Way of the World
£9.99
Alma Books Ltd Plays Volume 1
Book SynopsisThese five plays provide an excellent introduction to Kaiser's vision of the regeneration of man, which he illustrated in his works by a total paring down of detail, penetrating to the core of the matter and revealing man's true potential.In From Morning to Midnight the cashier, downtrodden victim of the capitalist system, turns bank robber in order to test the power, freedom and happiness that money can bring. His grand gesture of setting himself and others free turns into an odyssey of disillusion and ends in his violent death. The unique stage technique employed by Kaiser is as challenging today as it was when the play was first performed. The Burghers of Calais has always been considered Kaiser's greatest play and the classic of Expressionist drama. In it, Kaiser exploits the non-naturalistic technique of Expressionism. The play embraces vast expansiveness and total concentration, stylized gesture and lengthy monologues.Trade Review"These Kaiser plays … must be read by anyone with more than a passing interest in drama … One now realizes how prophetic these works are – both in content and technique." * The Cork Examiner *
£11.69
Josef Weinberger Plays ALie of the Mind by Shepard Sam Author ON
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£10.44
Josef Weinberger Plays M Butterfly Acting Edition for Theater
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£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Harold Pinter Writers Lives S
Book SynopsisA biography of one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output.Trade Review"William Baker's Harold Pinter affords readers with a comprehensive, career-spanning analysis of the Nobel Laureate's life and art. A deft and eminently rewarding exploration of one of postwar literature's great masters, Baker's study will become the standard-bearer for our understanding and enjoyment of Pinter's time-eclipsing work." - Professor Ken Womack, Penn State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction and Acknowledgements; 1. Growing Up; 2. Ireland, Precarious Existence and Marriage; 3. Early Plays; 4. Success; 5. Turning Points; 6. The 1970s and 1980s; 7. The 1990s and Beyond: Political Engagement; 8. Conclusion: Cancer, The Nobel Prize, Mutations of Mortality, Poetry; Bibliography; Index.
£18.74
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Scorched Revised
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£20.39
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Four Tragedies Electra Philoctetes Ajax The Women
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn these new translations Meineck and Woodruff have struck a near-ideal balance between accuracy and readability, formality and colloquialism. Their versions are simply a pleasure to read, conveying with remarkable vividness the powerful characterizations and poetic variety of the originals. The addition of succinct but illuminating notes makes this an exemplary volume for anyone interested in Sophocles' dramatic art. --Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Department of Classics, Wesleyan University[T]his sequel to the same pair's well-received translation of the Theban plays hits an appropriate mean . . . a text that I could happily adopt for teaching. --Malcolm Heath in Greece and RomeTable of ContentsIntroduction; Notes on the Translations; Map: Sophoclean geography; House of Pelops Family Tree; Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes; Endnotes.
£13.29
Currency Press Pty Ltd Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
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£13.49
Currency Press Pty Ltd Hotel Sorrento
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£13.49
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Bacchae
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£12.34
Samuel French Ltd Gasping
Book SynopsisThe first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots.3 women, 3 men
£10.99
Harvard University Press Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
Book SynopsisSophocles (497/6–406 BC), considered one of the world’s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers.Trade ReviewSir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering Eugene Onegin, called a metaphrase—a scrupulous, bare explanation of the original… Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of Sophocles… Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb version only confirms his impenetrable greatness. -- Donald Lyons * New Criterion *Hugh Lloyd-Jones was a very natural choice of editor… He gives a 22-page introduction on Sophocles’ life, together with a very brief consideration of the seven plays and a short guide to further reading. * Greece and Rome *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea
Book SynopsisEuripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.Trade ReviewA well-executed and stimulating production. * Classical Review *An excellent 48-page general introduction… The translation…is close to the Greek and reads fluently and well. All in all this is an excellent little volume. * Greece and Rome *Both experts and generalists will benefit from the work of this experienced Euripidean scholar. -- John E. Thorburn * Religious Studies Review *
£23.70
Samuel French Ltd 84 Charing Cross Road
Book SynopsisThis wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who has shown her gratitude through the years by sending care packages to the staff of Marks & Co.
£12.80
Faber & Faber David Hare Plays 1
Book SynopsisThis first volume of David Hare''s plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of ''one of the great post-war British playwrights'' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth ''n'' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.
£17.09
Samuel French Ltd The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Book SynopsisPeter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy embark on a magical mystery tour to the Land of Narnia through the wardrobe. There they encounter the wicked White Witch, representing the forces of evil, and the King of the Beasts, Aslan the lion, representing all that is good and right. The White Witch is destroyed, allowing good to triumph over evil in the time-honoured way.
£12.80
Nick Hern Books Superhoe: the hit stage play behind major BBC TV
Book SynopsisThe hit stage play behind major BBC TV drama series Mood. Sasha Clayton is twenty-four and living with her mum, stepdad, and irritating little sister, in Plaistow, East London. She's gone from being the most popular girl at school, to spending most of her time on her own in her bedroom scrolling through social media. She may not have a job or a flat, and, admittedly her boyfriend's not answering her calls – but she's got talent and a dream. When she releases her first EP everything's going to change. Nicôle Lecky's play Superhoe was first staged in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2019, performed by its author and directed by Jade Lewis. It was the first collaboration between Talawa Theatre Company and the Royal Court. The play was adapted by Nicôle Lecky into the six-part BBC television drama series Mood, first broadcast in March 2022.Trade Review'Fiercely clever... equal parts brutally funny and brutally sad... for a story of loneliness, isolation and entrapment, Superhoe is also beautiful and hopeful' * The Stage *'A vivid and touching portrait of millennial angst' * Telegraph *'A terrific piece by rising star Nicole Lecky, full of wit, truth and blazing feeling... smart, of the moment, and very funny' * Metro *'An engaging and hyper-provocative solo piece that shines a light on the perils new generations face' * Broadway World *'A frank, funny, and at times devastating piece which explores class, familial relations, and making ends meet with only your phone' * WhatsOnStage *'Nicole Lecky is a revelation… smart, sweary, authentic and provocative' * Evening Standard *'Astute, aggy and punctuated with rap, Superhoe pins down the financial difficulties of young adults' * Guardian *'Nicôle Lecky is a serious name to watch… this thrilling monologue is clearly the work of somebody who will go very, very far indeed' * Time Out *
£9.49
