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Coward's 'forgotten' play, published to tie in with its world premiere. In his wickedly funny final play, NoeeI Coward takes us behind the scenes of a new West End production....
The Speculator and The Meeting
Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premieres in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in...
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick
A sharp and hilarious biographical play based on the life of Carry On star Sid James Carrying on in the great tradition of British comedy, Terry Johnson's new play takes...
Sleeping Around
Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan Sleeping Around is about love and sex...
Talk Of The City
Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Broadcasting House, London, in the late 1930s. With war in Europe...
Brecht Collected Plays: 3: Lindbergh's Flight; The Baden-Baden Lesson
The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language Volume Three of Brecht's Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards - a play which recasts...
Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language. The fifth volume...
Frontline Intelligence 3: Europe; Uganda; Some Voices; Ashes and Sand
The third volume in an anthology series of the most original and exciting new plays for the nineties Europe, set in an international rail station linking several countries examines the...
Dead Funny
One night only. Wimbledon Theatre. Sunday night. Norman Wisdom. Norman Wisdom The death of Benny Hill prompts this comedy about impotence, sex therapy and the English sense of humour. Eleanor...
Minghella Plays: 1: Whale Music; A Little Like Drowning; Two Planks
Anthony Minghella's writing "sets a standard of emotional truth and clarity so sublimely high that everything around it looks stale, flat, tawdry and obvious" (The Times) Whale Music is: "genuinely...
Poliakoff Plays: 1: Clever Soldiers Hitting Town; City Sugar; Shout
Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks...
Antigone
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French...
"The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays
This is a new selection of five English nineteenth-century plays, none of which has been recently available. In the case of "The Lights o' London", a famous drama of the...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
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A selection of Seneca's most powerful and macabre plays Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are...
Saint Joan
Penguin Classics relaunch One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest...
Miss Julie
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained...
The Wedding
The Wedding is a Polish classic, continually in production in Poland since Stanislaw Wyspianski wrote it nearly a hundred years ago. A witty but ultimately tragic satire about Polish society,...
Complete Dramatic Works
Samuel Beckett's bleak vision represents the attempts of an honest and heroic artist to find some hope in the no-man's-land of contemporary existence. His plays for the theatre and radio...
Secondhand Drama Bargain Book Box DSH1107
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Secondhand Drama Bargain Book Box Dive into the world of theatrical genius with this comprehensive collection of twenty-one landmark stage and radio productions, spanning genres from biting Restoration comedy to...
Secondhand Theatre Scripts Bargain Book Box DSH1108
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Secondhand Theatre Scripts Bargain Book Box Immerse yourself in the world of dramatic literature with this diverse collection spanning centuries of theatrical genius, featuring everything from Shakespearean tragedies and classic...
Secondhand World Drama and Existentialist Theatre Bargain Book Box DSH1106
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Secondhand World Drama and Existentialist Theatre Bargain Book Box Experience the revolutionary and enduring power of global theatre with this collection focused on dramatic masterpieces and philosophical texts from the...
Scuttlers
A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1882 and the streets of Manchester...
Twentieth Century
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Musical comedy Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden Music by Cy Coleman Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a play by...
Secondhand Plays Bargain Book Box DSH1118
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Secondhand Theatre History and Drama Studies Bargain Book Box This extensive collection of 21 secondhand volumes provides a comprehensive look into the world of drama, spanning from classical Bernard Shaw...
The Belle Vue
Horvath's setting for this black political farce is a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the 1920s where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac - wealthy and despotic....
First Run: New Plays by New Writers: Bk. 3
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This is the third in a series of new plays, selected and introduced by the literary manager of Hampstead Theatre. It contains Kathy Burke's comedy, Mr Thomas, The Awakening by...
The Encounter
In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his...
The James Plays (Original Edition)
Rona Munro's vividly imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. Charismatic, cultured, and obsessed with grandiose schemes that his...
Flare Path
A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War. 1942. The Falcon Hotel, on...
Rose Bernd
Silesia, 1903. Every man falls for Rose Bernd. But her actions lead her into danger. In a deeply traditional community how can she avoid disgrace? Rose Bernd is a compassionate...
Eden End
Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal...
Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery
The stage was a vital force in nineteenth-century American especially in the debates over slavery and race. This original Toby anthology brings together for the first time, a selection of...
Gypsy
The musical tale of a domineering stage mother's inadvertent creation of a burlesque stripper, now available in paperback for the first time.
Through the Leaves and other plays
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Three plays translated from the German by Roger Downey. Franz Xaver Kroetz is a controversial figure whose works have helped reshape world drama over the last two decades. His unsparing...
Afterlife
Afterlife is Michael Frayn's first new play for the National Theatre since Democracy , which premiered at the National in 2003 before West End and Broadway transfers. Afterlife opens in...
Wedekind: The Lulu Plays: Earth Spirit; The Marquis of Keith;
Includes the Earth Spirit, The Marquis of Keith and Pandora's Box In Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, better known as The Lulu Plays, we see Lulu's rapid descent into degradation,...
Lessing: Two Plays
Sara, Minna von Barnhelm Two contrasting plays by the influential German playwright and critic, Gotthold Lessing. Sara is a compelling domestic tragedy that is as popular now as when it...
Symbolist Drama
Now back in print, this one-of-a-kind volume of fifteen short symbolist plays from around the world, written between 1890 and 1918, is even more timely in today's turn to the...
Suburban Motel
Something completely different from George Walker! Six plays, united only by the fact that they each take place in one and the same suburban motel room. Transients, lovers, the haunted...
Three Plays By George Kelly
Ranging from rollicking farce to gentle satire to bitter domestic drama, these plays - Torchbearers , The Show-Off and Craig's Wife - reveal Kelly as a master theatrical craftsman, an...
After the Ball
Stephen has, with ill grace, returned home to his mother's deathbed. As he and his sister rake through the family photographs and childhood memories, they find conflicting versions of their...
Plays: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plays Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso. This volume will serve to illustrate the range of Goethe's long and unparalleled career.