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Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
This powerful one-woman play is a moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century and remains sadly relevant today with racial tensions and allegations of antisemitism continuing to dominate the news. Blending the personal wi..
15.36£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stop..
12.96£
The life of fifteenth-century heroine Joan of Arc is the stuff of legend, and her cruel death (burnt at the stake aged just nineteen) led to her being declared a martyr, granting her an extraordinary legacy. Following her canonisation in 1920, and a..
13.36£
The undisputed master of the short story, Saki's name is synonymous with brilliant writing that satirises Edwardian Society, and his plays were no exception. In his only full-length play, 'The Watched Pot', Trevor Bavvel, sole heir to a country esta..
13.03£
Brand: Faber & Faber
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word ..
23.50£
Brand: Samuel French
A bizarre tale which challenges the everyday concept of grief, making this a unique, yet poignant play. Marge and Butter are awaiting the arrival of their son, Weston, and his new wife. ISBN: 9780573122378Publisher: FrenchImprint: Samuel FrenchPubli..
10.22£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
'Dear Miss Tweetwell, the ladder is where I live. For at the top lies reputation and wealth and at the bottom: ignominy and squalor.' When noble heroine Miss Phoebe Virtue receives worrisome news on Instagram that her twin brother Jack may be endang..
15.26£
This debut creative non-fiction, Siueattle (Seattle), Chief of the native Duwamish tribe for more than a significant part of the 1800s, awakens from a continuous nightmare-or so he thought. He soon feels in his bones that these sleepless nights are ..
18.16£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century. A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood, full of her own darkly funny confessions a..
27.28£
Brand: Samuel French
The Rev. Lionel Toops wife, Penelope, is an ex-actress. While Lionel is away Clive, an actor, calls. He invites Penelope to dine in town which is out of bouns to servicemen. He dresses in Lionels blacks. ISBN: 9780573014031Publisher: Samuel FrenchIm..
15.85£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Although Noël Coward's work as playwright, songwriter and actor has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been forgotten. Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology rectifies this omission from ..
43.78£
Brand: Alma Books COMMIS
Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victor..
12.79£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
'30 just matters, innit. Like there's no doubt you're a proper adult then. Like 25 to 29 is just training, but 30, it's real.' Tunde's thirtieth birthday is fast approaching. So he's started therapy because he hasn't been able to get to the gym for..
13.50£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Look it's two-two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It's really not that deep… Holed up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent thoug..
15.70£
ISBN: 9780856761669Publisher: Warner Chappell PlaysImprint: Warner Chappell PlaysPublished date: 15 Mar 2002DEWEY: 822.914DEWEY edition: 20Language: EnglishSales rank: 6282Number of pages: 93Weight: 112gHeight: 195mmWidth: 130mmSpine width: 5mm..
13.01£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
From Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful gift anthology of Shakespeare's works.Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 ..
18.22£
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Diverging from critical paths that have focused on nostalgia as a memorializing practice or on Stuart nostalgia for Elizabeth, this book argues that Shakespeare's Elizabethan history plays stage nostalgia as a future-focused political rhetoric. In d..
100.42£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
A fierce and excoriating portrait of British racism, Roy William's Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads premiered in 2002 at the National Theatre. Set in a south-west London pub during the 2000 England vs. Germany match, tempers are running high. As Engl..
18.39£
Brand: Alma Books COMMIS
This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional..
14.23£
Brand: University of Texas Press
Six Plays for Children by Aurand Harris brings together a variety of dramatic forms that have enormously enriched the literature of children's theatre in this country and around the world. These works by this respected children's theatre playwright ..
53.71£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and hi..
12.42£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields… and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light ..
15.42£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic n..
15.39£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
Liam and Fletch grew up together. Born on the same street. Best mates since primary. Inseparable. The only difference was while Fletch was getting suspended from school, Liam was studying. And now he's going to Oxford. But with Liam gone, who's goin..
14.08£