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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Posh Oberon Modern Plays
I've got a new law for you mate, it's called survival of the fittest, it's called fuck you we're the Riot Club.In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't the last huzzah: they're planning a takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club.
£18.18
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Colder than Here
"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing" Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future. Laura Wade's beautifully poised family drama was first performed at Soho Theatre, London.
£13.41
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Posh
“I’ve got a new law for you mate, it’s called survival of the fittest, it’s called fuck you we’re the Riot Club.” In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn’t the last huzzah: they’re planning a takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club.
£14.31
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Home, I’m Darling
How happily married are the happily married? Home, I’m Darling is a dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife. Judy has Johnny's slippers waiting for him when he arrives home from work, the kitchen's clean, the rooms are aired...yet this is not the 1950s, but a 21st-century 'arrangement' agreed between the two of them. With clothes, furniture and a (faulty) fridge from the 1950s, Judy and Johnny try to 'live the dream', with specific roles and a perfectly ordered life.
£14.31
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Posh
Laura Wade is an Olivier-award winning playwright and screenwriter. Her play Home, I'm Darling premiered at Theatr Clwyd in 2018 before playing at the National Theatre and won the award for Best New Comedy at the 2019 Oliviers. In 2018 she adapted Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons for the stage for Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2015 she adapted Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet for the stage and it premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith before transferring to the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh. Her screenplay The Riot Club, an adaptation of her 2010 stage play Posh, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014 and opened in cinemas on September 2014. Posh opened in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2012 after its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2010. Henry Bell is Senior Lecturer in Performance at University of the West of Scotland, UK. Prior to academia, he worked as a professional theatre dire
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Watsons
What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She’s been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who’s as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar. But there’s a problem: Jane Austen didn’t finish the story. Who will write Emma’s happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?
£14.73
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alice
The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won’t stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life that’s less than perfect. In this new adaptation by renowned playwright and Sheffield native, Laura Wade, you can follow Alice as she escapes her bedroom to find adventure in a topsy-turvy world. Based on Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Wade’s adaptation breathes fresh life into a much-loved story about rabbit holes, pocket watches and talking caterpillars.
£14.31
