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Aspiring actors, playwrights, and directors alike will give these drama books a standing ovation. For those seated, the opportunity to explore the classics.
An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a feisty woman...
A heartfelt slice of life in small-town Ireland, brimming with passions and all-too-human foibles, from the author of the well-loved Wexford Trilogy.Set in rural Ireland of the early 1960s, Lay...
The day after moving in, three young men wake up in an isolated house on the edge of the city, each one struggling with his own particular hangover. Outside is...
In Autumn 2011, Fishamble: The New Play Company, in partnership with The Irish Times, launched Tiny Plays for Ireland, commissioning short works by some of Ireland's best-loved writers and calling...
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for...
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it is terrible.' Jean Anouilh's judgement on the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Babylone in 1953 went on to conclude that...
This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the...
Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt...
Andrew Dickson's startlingly original and joyously entertaining Worlds Elsewhere traverses centuries and continents to reveal Shakespeare and his works in a fantastic array of new guises... 'Extraordinarily exhilarating ... like...
In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal.Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman tries to save...
Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day...
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and...
From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense...
This fifth collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1998) The Yalta Game (after Chekhov) (2001) The Bear (after Chekhov) (2002) Afterplay (after 2002) Performances (2003) The Home...
How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What's the effect of...
Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z,...
Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah...
I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. Just you remember.Lust and avarice trample on the finer feelings of love in...
Why Shakespeare?It's been 400 years since his death and yet we continue to find inspiration, revelation, solace, and entertainment in his poems and plays. In this original collection, Susannah Carson...
This second collection of plays by David Eldridge showcases the development of one of the most impressive playwriting talents of recent years. His plays combine emotional impact with complexity, realistic...
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,...
John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely...
John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely...
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.' When four young lovers flee...
Christopher Murray's definitive study of Sean O'Casey, the last great writer of the Irish literary revival, provides a strong interpretative context for his life. He looks afresh at the Dublin...
The Norton Shakespeare brings to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching features. The print and digital bundle offers students a great...
The Norton Shakespeare brings to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching features. The print and digital bundle offers students a great...
Corin Redgrave played Octavius Caesar in 1972 for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brutus in 1986 at the Young Vic, London, and Julius Caesar in 1996 at Houston's Alley Theatre. Here...
Acclaimed for his screenplays for TV dramas including Skins, Shameless, The Fades, This is England '86/'88/'90 and Glue, Jack Thorne first emerged as a writer of unflinching, compassionate and often...
Look, gang, what we need to keep sight of is, this isn't about us. It's not personal...It's about the children.When two 9-year-old boys kiss in the school playground of a...
Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap - introducing the Sound of the Underground.Out to the electric night, where the base line jumps...
Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023I can imagine myself in the future looking back on this all.And looking back I can feel when the fire was lit.Fifteen-year-old Roxy...
I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I...
This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka.It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true...
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife...
When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that...
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...
John Millington Synge's classic work set in Mayo. A mysterious traveller, Christy Mahon, arrives in the village believing he has killed his father. He is looked upon as a hero...
A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South - an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to seed - set against the rough-edged,...
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