Plays, playscripts, drama
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC American Buffalo
Book SynopsisThree small-time crooks plot to carry out a midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Good Person of Szechwan Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisRepackaged and reissued, this is Brecht's classic parable, set in an unjust society where good can only survive by means of evil. It is accompanied by Brecht's own notes and extensive commentary from John Willett and Ralph Manheim.
£15.60
Heinemann Educational Books Frayn Plays 1
Book Synopsis"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Table of ContentsAlphabetical Order; Donkeys' Years; Clouds; Make and Break; Noises Off
£26.48
Heinemann Educational Books Plays 1 The Ruling Class Leonardos Last Supper Noonday Demons The Bewitched Laughter Barnes People Eight Monologues
Book SynopsisThis collection of plays by one of Britain's most controversial dramatists includes "The Ruling Class", "Leonardo's Last Supper and Noonday Demons", "The Bewitched", "Barnes' People: Eight Monologues".Table of ContentsRuling Class; Leonardo's Last Supper; Noonday Demons; The Bewitched; Laughter; Barnes' People
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lorca Plays 2
Book SynopsisThis is the second collection of five plays by the Spanish dramatist (1898-1936) who was murdered by Spanish Nationalists in 1936.Table of ContentsShoemaker's Wife;Don Perlimplin;Puppet Play of Don Christobel;Butterfly's Evil Spell;When 5 Years
£27.47
Heinemann Educational Books A Woman Alone Other Plays Modern Plays
Book SynopsisA collection of one woman plays written by Rame and Fo, which explore the joys and vicissitudes of woman's experience. The plays featured include "Rise and Shine", "Alice in Wonderless Land", "An Arab Woman Speaks", "I'm Ulrike - Screaming", "It Happened Tomorrow" and "A Mother".
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books Page Plays 1 Tissue Salonika Real Estate Golden Girls Plays One v 1 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisThis first collection of plays by Louise Page brings together the key early plays - "Tissue", "Salonika" and "Real Estate" - with "Golden Girls".Table of ContentsTissue; Salonika; Real Estate; Golden Girls
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Six Plays Methuen World Classics
Book SynopsisA collection of 6 plays from Mikhail Bulgakov, considered by many to be among the foremost Russian playwrights of the first post-revolutionary generation. The plays featured in this collection include "The White Guard", based on his expereinces as a White defending Kiev against the Bolsheviks.
£27.47
Heinemann Educational Books Plays Four The Worlds The Activists Papers Restoration Summer
Book SynopsisContains Bond's plays from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bond is one of Britain's most widely read and staged playwrights, whose first play, "Saved", made a successful appearance at the Royal Court in 1965. His plays offer political and moral critiques of human society and relationships.Table of ContentsWorlds with Activists; Restoration; Summer
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Saint Joan of the Stockyards Modern Plays Part One 03
Book SynopsisSet in a mythical Chicago, Saint Joan of the Stockyards tells the story of a Salvation Army lieutenant who challenges the power of Pierpoint Mauler, the meat king. The play, which was never staged in Brecht's lifetime, is published here with a new translation and introductory notes.
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books The Gigli Concert Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisJ. King is a "dynamitologist", a fraudulent healer who claims to help people realize their potential. One day he is confronted with a client with faith in him. A nameless millionaire, obsessed with the voice of the opera singer Beniamino Gigli, begs to be cured of his affliction.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Frisch Three Plays Fire Raisers Andorra Triptych by Loeffler Michael Peter Author ON Apr061992 Paperback
Book SynopsisThis volume contains three of Max Frisch's plays in which he charts the clash between the individual and society. Beyond the deliberately grotesque situation, an important ingredient of each play is language.Table of ContentsFire Raisers; Andorra; Triptych
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rise and Fall of Little Voice Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisFollows the fortunes of a young singer who escapes the clutches of her mother and manager to find her true "voice". This play by Jim Cartwright, author of "Road", premiered at the Royal National Theatre in June 1992, directed by Sam Mendes and produced by Michael Codron.Trade Review'Written by hard-edged Northern poet Jim Cartwright back in the early 1990s' Scotsman - Joyce McMillan
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Modern Monologues v2 Audition Speeches
Book SynopsisOffers over 50 audition speeches celebrating the outstanding English, American and Continental dramatists of this century. The work of Amouilh, Arden, Baldwin, Barnes, Beckett, Behan, De Filippo, Gorky, Lorca, Mamet, Miller, Pirandello, Sartre and Wedekind is represented in monologues for women.
£22.52
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Skungpoomery Methuen Young Drama Modern Plays
Book SynopsisLife for Faz and his twitty assistant, Twoo, has become listless and lacking in sparkle. That is, until Faz invents skungpoomery, or "thinking up a word and then doing it". And so saying, Faz and Twoo bunkjam jarmer into the world outside. Ken Campbell has also written "Furtive Nudist".
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays by Women Volume Ten The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband by Elfride Jelinek The Choice by Claire Luckbam Weldon Rising by Phyllis Nagy
Book SynopsisAnnie Castledine was born in 1939 and brought up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She was Artistic Director of the Derby Playhouse from 1987-1990 and Associate Artistic Director of Theatr Clywd from 1985-7. Awards include: the Bass Charrington London Fringe Award for Best Ensemble and Best Director for From the Mississippi Delta, and Time Out Award for Best Director for Pioneers in Ingolstadt and Purgatory in Ingolstadt, Time Out Critics Choice for And All The Children Cried.Trade Review'Hooray for Claire Luckham's The Choice... a rich, challenging and extraordinary drama.' Observer 'Phyllis Nagy's stunning debut, a bitterly funny and chillingly surreal look at the soulless poverty of urban life. ...It's daring stuff, written with an understanding for the subtle power and violence of language.' Independent
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fo Plays Cant Pay Wont Pay Elizabeth The Open Couple An Ordinary Day by Rame Franca Author ON Mar141994 Paperback
Book SynopsisThis collection of plays brings together a political farce, "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!", and "Elizabeth", a radical reinterpretation of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, along with "The Open Couple" and "An Ordinary Day", intimate one-act dramas written in collaboration with Fo's wife Franca Rame.Table of ContentsCan't Pay? Won't Pay!; Elizabeth; The Open Couple; An Ordinary Day
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays 2 2 Red Noses Sunset Glories Nobody Here But Us Chickens Columbus Socrates v2 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisA mixture of social satire, comedy and tragedy. This volume contains two major plays, "Red Noses" and "Sunset Glories", and a series of three short plays on disability including "Nobody Here But Us Chickens". Two plays on figures from the past, "Columbus" and "Socrates" have also been included.Table of ContentsRed Noses; Sunset Glories; Nobody Here But Us Chickens; Columbus; Socrates
£26.48
Heinemann Educational Books Plays Insignificance Unsuitable for Adults Cries from the Mammal House Vol 1 Methuen Modern Plays Plays One
Book SynopsisThis collection of plays by Terry Johnson is part of the "Methuen Drama" series. Terry Johnson is the author of "Amabel", "Days Here So Dark", "Tuesday's Child", "Imagine Drowning", "Hysteria" and "Unfinished Business".Table of ContentsInsignificance; Unsuitable for Adults; Cries from the Mammal House
£26.48
Bloomsbury Academic Brecht Collected Plays 1
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists and theatre practitioners of the twentieth century whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Table of ContentsBaal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Play: A Respectable Wedding, The Beggar or the Dead Dog, Driving out a Devil, Lux in Tenebris and The Catch.
£28.46
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Brecht Collected Plays
Book SynopsisOne of a series of eight, this volume features the plays The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti. It also contains extensive notes, as well as variant versions and relevant texts by Brecht himself.Table of ContentsGood Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays2 Reunion Dark Pony A Life in the Theatre the Woods Lakeboat Edmond
Book SynopsisThe second in a series of "World Classics" presenting David Mamet's stage plays. Those in this volume date from the 1980s.Table of ContentsReunion; Dark Pony; A Life in the Theatre; The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rutherford and Son Methuen Theatre Classics Modern Plays
Book SynopsisFirst staged in 1912 at the Court Theatre, to considerable acclaim, this play is set in the North Yorkshire home of an oppressive patriarch. It portrays his obsession with his glass manufacturing business and his tyranny over the wrecked lives of his family.
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books Daniels Plays Gut Girls Beside Herself Headrot Holiday Madness of Esme and Shaz by Daniels Sarah Author ON Dec051994 Paperback
Book SynopsisA collection of plays by Sarah Daniels which includes "Beside Herself", "Gut Girls", "Headrot Holiday" and "The Madness of Esme and Shaz".Table of ContentsGut Girls; Beside Herself; Head-rot Holiday; Madness of Esme and Shaz
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bald Trilogy Recollections of a Furtive Nudist Pigspurt or Six Pigs from Happiness Jamais Vu Modern Plays
Book Synopsis"British Theatre's antic visionary" (Guardian)"We're doing three David Hare plays all on one day, you see and we're calling that a trilogy - The Hare Trilogy - So if we had yours on, it would seem like trilogies were in the wind." (Richard Eyre to Ken Campbell)
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Babies Modern Plays
Book SynopsisWinner of the George Devine Award in 1993, Babies premiered at the Royal Court theatre, London in September 1994Liverpudlian Joe Casey is twenty-four, gay and a form tutor at a south-east London comprehensive. Joe's life is spliced between the drug-using excesses of his lover Woodie and the advances of his female pupils (and their mothers). A warm and funny comedy by the author of the 1993 hit Beautiful Thing.
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books RED ROSES AND PETROL BY OCONNOR JOSEPH AUTHOR Paperback 061995
Book SynopsisA wonderfully comic play from one of Dublin's best writers
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books Plays Breezeblock Park Our Day Out Stags and Hens Educating Rita Vol 1 Methuen Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisA collection of four plays by Willy Russell. The plays are "Educating Rita", "Breezeblock Park", "Our Day Out" and "Stags and Hens". All the plays are concerned with working class people striving to enjoy life or improve themselveTable of ContentsBreezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rat in the Skull Royal Court Writers Modern Plays
Book Synopsis'Hutchinson illuminates the darker sides [of the Irish question] and writes with a spry humour that crashes through the notorious English indifference to the troubles over the water... What is unusual about this very striking play is that it presents a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary as a credible and even sympathetic human being and that it combines political concern with a desperate humour.' Guardian'Crudely beautiful and passionate... Hutchinson holds us not only through the means of suspence, the fascination of watching all these men play cat and mouse with one another, but through a passionate advocacy of language as a means of getting at the truth.' New Statesman'A steaming lava of words that pour down on everything and everyone to do with the Northern Ireland conflict.' Sunday Telegraph.'An electric jolt of a play.' Evening Standard
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bond Plays 6 The War Plays Choruses from After the Assassinations v6 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisIn the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series, this collection includes The War Plays (Red Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, Great Peace) and Choruses from After the Assassinations. Includes a commentary by the author.Table of ContentsThe War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays The Unseen Hand Chicago Icaruss Mother Red Cross Cowboys Operation Sidewinder Killers Head Vol 1 Methuen Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisVolume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print 14 of his legendary short and full-length plays from the 60s, including "The Unseen Hand", "Chicago", "Icarus's Mother", "Red Cross", "Cowboys", "Operation Sidewinder" and "Killer's Head".Table of ContentsThe Unseen Hand; Chicago; Icarus's Mother; Red Cross; Cowboys; Operation Sidewinder; Killer's Head
£26.48
Heinemann Educational Books Europe The Architect
Book Synopsis"Europe", a play inspired by Bosnian refugees waiting in a bus on the border for a country prepared to grant them asylum, is a black, bleak comedy. The protagonist of "Architect", Leo Black, used to be an idealistic architect, but now his buildings and his family are falling apart.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ivanov A Play in Four Acts Methuen New Theatrescripts Modern Plays
Book SynopsisThis adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph FiennesThis is a drama of a Russian landowner's half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plummets fast into domestic and philosophical chaos. The central scene concerns a debate between the landowner and the young doctor about honesty. The latter thinks that honesty is to do with blurting out offensive truths, whilst the former insists that no-one can acquire honesty unless they have the self knowledge to examine their own motives. By turns despairing and passionate, this play offers an insight into a robust young writer, exploring themes that were to interest him in his later plays.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Boys Life Search And Destroy Modern Plays
Book SynopsisTwo gripping plays by one of America's most exciting playwrights
£16.59
Heinemann Educational Books Bondagers the Straw Chair
Book SynopsisTwo plays of haunting lyricism by one of Scotland's most dynamic playwrightsTrade Review. . . one of the most striking things about Bondagers is just how ground-breaking the play's fusion of rich poetic text, striking physicality and a rhythmic musicality remains. * Herald *(on Bondagers) . . . Glover's drama has lost none of its energy or timeliness . . . The core of the drama, though, lies in the richness of Glover's script . . . The greatness of Glover's play, though, lies in its refusal to become a straightforward piece of negative social polemic. * Scotsman *(on Bondagers) . . . contemporary Scottish classic . . . Poetic, musical and elliptical, the play rises organically from the soil, its narrative line about a sexual assault emerging almost accidentally from its imagistic collage. * Guardian *(on Bondagers) Sue Glover's 1991 play about women agricultural labourers in the Borders in the late 19th century is that rarest of beasts, a Scottish contemporary classic with an all-female cast. * The Times *(on Bondagers) . . . Glover's play is arguably the finest of Scottish work plays . . . * Sunday Herald *(on Bondagers) Sue Glover's 1991 play is flecked with hints of political attitudes that will turn the women's present into our past. * Observer *
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays Cant Stand Up for Falling Down Pond Life the Mortal ASH All of You Mine Vol 1 Methuen Contemporary Dramatists 1 Cant Stand Up Life The Mortal Ash All of You Mine v1
Book SynopsisA collection of four plays by Richard Cameron.Table of ContentsCan't Stand Up for Falling Down; Pond Life; The Mortal Ash; All of You Mine
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays Vol 2 World Classics Two The Rehearsal Becket Eurydice and the Orchestra v2
Book SynopsisThis selection of plays includes some of Jean Anouilh's most enduring plays: "The Rehearsal"; "Becket"; "The Orchstra: A Play Within a Concert"; and "Eurydice".Table of ContentsThe Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Contemporary African Plays Death and the Kingsanowachattering the Songrise Shine of Comradewoza Albertother War Death and the Kings Woza Albert Other War Play Anthologies
Book SynopsisThe plays included in this volume are: "Death and the King's Horseman" by Wole Soyinka; "Anowa" by Ama Ata Aidoo; "The Chattering and the Song" by Femo Osofisan; "The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco" by Andrew Whalley; "Woza Albert!" by Percy Mtwa, et al; and "The Other War" by Alemseged Tesfai.Table of ContentsDeath and the King's;Anowa;Chattering & the Song;Rise & Shine of Comrade;Woza Albert!;Other War
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Harvey Plays 1 Beautiful Thing Babies Boom BangaBang Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club v 1 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisJonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first timeTable of ContentsBeautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-a-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Neilson Plays1 Normal Penetrator Year of the Family Night Before Christmas Censor
Book SynopsisAnthony Neilson''s plays collected in one volumeIncludes the plays: Normal a tight, powerful, three-hander...achieved with a sense of discipline and thematic energy (Guardian), Penetrator This is one of the blackest, funniest and most shocking comedy dramas you will ever see (Sunday Times), Year of the Family His writing is as tight and courageous as ever...highly recommended for those who like to think (What''s On), The Night Before Christmas is a smutty, dangerously funny but ultimately warm-hearted cri de coeur against the Christmas Industry (Stage); The Censor is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare forked basics (Evening Standard).Table of ContentsNormal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Youll Have Had Your Hole Modern Plays
Book SynopsisAn original stage play from the author of "Trainspotting". Within the sound-proof walls of a recording studio a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of justic.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Academic Plays 2 A Play of Giants From Zia with Love A Source of Hyacinths The Beatification of Area Boy v 2 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of four plays from the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. Wole Soyinka's work often features in GCSE and A level texts, as well as being studied at university level. She looks at African tradition by often using dance and music in her work.Table of ContentsA Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Source of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dario Fo Peoples Court Jester Biography and Autobiography
Book SynopsisA revised critical study covering the various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career.
£30.43
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays Vol 7 Methuen World Classics 7 Quadrille Peace in Our Time Tonight at 830 v7
Book SynopsisThe Seventh Coward volume, including four pieces from the Tonight at 8.30 sequence.Table of ContentsQuadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (iii)
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Peter Pan Or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up A Fantasy in Five Acts Modern Plays
Book SynopsisJ. M. Barrie's classic tale adapted for the stage in this version by Trevor Nunn and John Caird for the Royal National Theatre's production in 1997.Trade ReviewLovingly rendered account of a great story. Sunday Express, Mark Shenton, 16/12/2007
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Elton Plays 1 Gasping Silly Cow Popcorn 1 Popcorn Silly Cow and Gasping v1 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisThis collection of Ben Elton plays includes three works: "Gasping" is a satire on yuppiedom, advertising and corporate greed; "Silly Cow" is a satire on the modern world; and "Popcorn" adopts the sick humour, violence and sexiness of the Stone-Tarantino school of film-making.Table of ContentsGasping; Silly Cow; Popcorn
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Junk Adapted for the Stage Modern Plays
Book SynopsisTwo runaway teenagers are drawn into a web of heroin addiction and prostitution when their search for adventure takes an unfortunate turn.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rough Magic First Plays Play Anthologies
Book SynopsisIncludes: I Can't Get Started by Declan Hughes; The Dogs by Donal O'Kelly; Down Onto Blue by Pom Boyd; Hidden Charges by Arthur Riordan; Danti-Dan by Gina Moxley; Mrs Sweeney by Paula Meehan
£28.46