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Sam Mendes and Simon Russell Beale have forged one of the most successful working partnerships in contemporary theatre history. Across twenty years and eight productions their collaboration has...

In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are...

Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage versions of Dickens have gathered wide critical acclaim. This collection includes:...

?I?m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell.? ? Anton Chekhov During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton?s sister,...

Children of Fate was written in 1981 and is a fascinating, passionate and humorous testament to the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and marginalised in General Pinochet's Chile. 2013 is the...

A guidebook for child and teen actors and their parents on the UK and US TV and Film industries from top Hollywood talent manager Frederick Levy. - Training- The Tools (Headshots, CV)- The Players...

When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own...

The Wish Collector by Oladipo AgbolaujeA magical epic whirling from a playground in Britain to a village in Sierra Leone The Acme Thunderer by Lin CoghlanA funny, moving family drama of pigeons and...

Drawing on Catherine Weate's extensive experience as a voice coach, Classic Voice provides a comprehensive preparation for the vocal demands within classical texts. It includes warm-up ideas,...

Wickedly funny, insightful, often absurd but always true, Clinging to the Iceberg explores the inner workings of the business of writing for hire. It's written by someone whose career has spanned...

Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement. 'I don't know my grandparents' names, how embarrassing is that? But I can name all of Kanye's albums.' Nigeria: a grandmother...

Includes the plays Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Devil's Ground and Safe Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Ann Coburn's first play, was premiered at the 1995 Borders Festival and had a successful run at...

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej Klimowski Two of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for ?dith Piaf. The other five were written for...

'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 scholars, readers and play-goers for over four...

Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Jen SilvermanPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: January 24, 2018Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Michael hasn?t been home in almost twenty years. Having been kicked out of the seminary and exiled from his family home, he found himself in London, by accident rather than design. But now, the death...

In Hannah & Hanna having escaped from Kosovo, Hanna, 16 meets Hannah, 16, from Margate. An unlikely friendship develops when they find that music is a common bond between them despite their different...

David Weston has spent a lifetime acting in Shakespeare's plays, and has been directed by the likes of Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and Michael Croft. Chosen as Ian McKellen's understudy in the RSC's...

Includes the plays Crossing Jerusalem, The Golem, Year Zero and St Joan Crossing Jerusalem describes 24 hours in the life of an Israeli family in March 2002, as they cross Jerusalem at the beginning...

Through the eyes of the South African born feminist Olive Schreiner, friend, witness and narrator of Eleanor Marx's tragedy, the plot explores real events in the last two years of Eleanor's life,...

At their stylish country retreat, Freda and Robert Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends, all executives at a transatlantic publishing company. Young, beautiful and successful...

Includes the plays Whispers Along the Patio, Nice Dorothy, The Last ThrashIn Whispers Along the Patio retired Matthew is happy eating his breakfast on his patio in the morning sunlight. However,...

Brooklyn 1986. Joe & Elli have entered a major ballroom dancing competition. They have practised hard and hope to win - but their plans are jeopardised when the unexpected arrival of a figure from...

Includes the plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle The three plays in this volume are hauntingly beautiful pieces with simple fable-like characters who are touched by magical events. A circus has a...

Includes the plays African Gothic, Good Heavens and Breathing In A farm lies in ruin. And with mother and father now gone, a brother and sister face eviction by an officious lawyer. Abandoned, they...

Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays to be performed in English. Olga's Room Communist. Jew...

Kneehigh Theatre Company presents Dead Dog in a Suitcase written by Carl Grose. What the HELL is the world coming to? Based on The Beggar's Opera, John Gay's classic musical satire, Dead Dog in a...

Born in Russia, Arthur Adamov was educated in Geneva and Paris and wrote in French. His avant-garde and often political plays were grouped with the Theatre of the Absurd, but he felt that they were...

Decky Does a Bronco is the tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 'Broncoing swings' in Girvan, on the west coast of Scotland. Broncoing (kicking the swing...

Includes the plays Dick Barton - Special Agent and The Curse of the Pharaoh's Tomb Gaberdine collar up, trilby at rakish angle, intrepid sleuth Dick Barton faces arch enemies Baron Scarheart and...