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'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued...

A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space. Renee Coburg is a gritty, glamorous aviator, the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world. Jo Green...

[body] In "Tantalus, " we return to Ancient Greece to view the origins and outcome of the Trojan Wars with a modern eye. The legend, handed down through the ages...

By the time he was writing Gossip in 1977, George Walker had already begun to shift his settings from, on the one hand, North America's colonial roots in Europe, and...

In the tradition of the avant-garde, the three plays collected in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of performance. Building on visual arts and dance, as well as on the...

This fourth volume Luigi Pirandello's collected plays contains four works written between 1916 and 1930 and covers the most productive years of Pirandello's life. It is difficult to overestimate the...

Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion for sentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the reformed rake Loveless to the temptations of London and the charms...

A collection of four plays by women - three British and one American.

New Anatomies , Grace of Mary Traverse , Our Country's Good , Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field

Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times...

Offering a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses they are put to, these essays suggest that the activity of criticism is itself a site for political intervention.

A gripping black comedy by an award-winning new voice from the North East It's the 1960s and we're in the back of a porn cinema in Gateshead, North East England....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...