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1984 - In an Adaption by Duncan MacmillanISBN: 9781783190614
Title: 1984 - In an Adaption by Duncan Macmillan
Author: ORWELL GEORGE
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThe classic story from George Orwell is adapted for the stage by Duncan Macmillan in this new version of 1984. The idea of the big-brother world and being constantly under surveillance is just as relevant now as when Orwell penned this classic.
Imprint: OBERON
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5 MINUTE PLAYSISBN: 9781495069246
Title: 5 MINUTE PLAYS
Author: HARBISON LAWRENCE
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE5-Minute Plays is the latest collection from veteran editor Lawrence Harbison, a man who has spent his career championing new and established playwrights by bringing their work into print. What's the story behind this one? In keeping with the spirit of the book, we'll give it to you in five.
Imprint: Applause Publishers
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ABI MORGAN : PLAYS ONEISBN: 9781783191819
Title: ABI MORGAN : PLAYS ONE
Author: MORGAN ABI
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKThe first collection from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan. Contains the plays Skinned, Tiny Dynamite, Splendour, Tender, Lovesong and 27.
Imprint: OBERON
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ABSENCE OF WARISBN: 9780571325894
Title: ABSENCE OF WAR
Author: HARE DAVID
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKThe Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions.
Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn between past principles and future prosperity, and of a deeply sympathetic leader doomed to failure, made the play hugely controversial and prophetic when it was first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993.
Imprint: Faber and Faber
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ACCRINGTON PALSISBN: 9781408137109
Title: ACCRINGTON PALS
Author: WHELAN PETER
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE
The Accrington Pals is a poignant and harrowing play set in the early years of the First World War, as the country's jingoistic optimism starts to wane and the true horror of warfare gradually becomes clear. The play looks at both the terrifying experiences of the men at the front and the women who were left behind to face social changes, deprivation and the lies of propaganda. While often comic vignettes portray the everyday life of a town denuded of men, the men face the terror that is the Battle of the Somme. This compassionate play portrays the devastating effects of war on a typical Lancashire mill town and the suffering of everyday people. This Modern Classic edition includes a new preface by the author, plus a full introduction exploring the themes, the social and historical context and the characters. It also includes a chronology of key events mentioned in the play and classroom activities.
Imprint: METHUEN DRAMA
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AFTER THE FALL / METHUEN STUDENT EDITIONSISBN: 9781408123126
Title: AFTER THE FALL / METHUEN STUDENT EDITIONS
Author: MILLER ARTHUR
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKAfter the Fall is embedded in historical events that were bound up with Arthur Miller's personal life. It is an intensely personal psychological study of its protagonist and a moral and philosophical commentary on the Holocaust, McCarthyism, and the career and death of Marilyn Monroe. This scholarly edition is perfect for students. It features extensive notes, commentary, further reading and questions for students. Methuen Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires.
Imprint: METHUEN DRAMA
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AFTERLIFEISBN: 9781408108338
Title: AFTERLIFE
Author: FRAYN MICHAEL
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEAfterlifeis 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.
Investigating the life of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt, Afterlifeis a grand epic and a highly theatrical work that will be directed by Frayn's long-term collaborator Michael Blakemore. With his morality play 'Everyman', Reinhardt captivated first the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, and then the city itself, with the play opening the Salzburg festival each year from 1920 until the accession of the Nazis in 1938. As Reinhardt and his company are forced into exile, 'Everyman' is taken to America until life imitates art and Death comes for first Reinhardt's master of ceremonies and chief associate, Kommer, and then for Reinhardt himself.
Imprint: METHUEN DRAMA
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ALAN AYCKBOURN : PLAYS 1ISBN: 9780571176809
Title: ALAN AYCKBOURN : PLAYS 1
Author: AYCKBOURN ALAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Imprint: Faber and Faber
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ALAN BENNETT : PLAYS TWOISBN: 9780571194421
Title: ALAN BENNETT : PLAYS TWO
Author: BENNETT ALAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKThis second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of treachery and, in different ways, make a sympathetic case for Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.
Imprint: Faber and Faber
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ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL - Arden ShakespeareISBN: 9781904271208
Title: ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL - Arden Shakespeare
Author: SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEIn All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an endangering plan to win the King of France 's favour and induce Bertram 's hand in marriage.
In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, Suzanne Gossett takes a transformative look at the play 's critical and performance history by offering fresh perspectives on the conundrum of genre, sexuality and moral dilemmas with masculinity and the structures of family. The authoritative play text is amply annotated to clarify its language and allusions, and two appendices debate the play 's authorship and review its casting. Offering students and scholars alike a wealth of insight and new research, this edition maintains the rigorous standards of the Arden Shakespeare.
Imprint: ARDEN
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AMADEUSISBN: 9780141188898
Title: AMADEUS
Author: SHAFFER PETER
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKWolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God's instrument on earth.
Peter Shaffer's award-winning play is a rich, exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals, and lives destroyed by envy.
Imprint: Penguin Modern Classics
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ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 : MILLENNIUM APPROACHESISBN: 9781854591562
Title: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 : MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
Author: KUSHNER TONY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEFirst performed in Britain at the National Theatre in January 1992, this play is written from a gay perspective and with an AIDS theme. The author is the award-winning writer of A Bright Room Called Day.
Imprint: NICK HERN
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ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 AND 2 IN A SINGLE VOLUMEISBN: 9781854599827
Title: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 AND 2 IN A SINGLE VOLUME
Author: KUSHNER TONY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEBoth parts of this epic drama available in one volume for the first time published alongside a 15th anniversary tour.
Part One of Angels in America, subtitled Millennium Approaches, erupted on to world stages in January 1992.
Part Two, Perestroika, followed in 1993. Since then Angels in America has become one of the most studied American plays, with over 30,000 copies of both parts sold in the UK alone. It has also been filmed for television by Mike Nichols, with Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson as the eponymous Angel.
Imprint: NICK HERN
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ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 2 : PERESTROIKAISBN: 9781854592552
Title: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 2 : PERESTROIKA
Author: KUSHNER TONY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE
Imprint: NICK HERN
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ANOTHER PARADISEISBN: 9781840029208
Title: ANOTHER PARADISE
Author: KENT SAYAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE
Imprint: OBERON
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ARTHUR MILLER : PLAYS 1ISBN: 9781408111307
Title: ARTHUR MILLER : PLAYS 1
Author: MILLER ARTHUR
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThis volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All five plays were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit in 1947:
'With the production of All My Sons, wrote Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times, 'the theatre has acquired a genuine new talent.
'This hit was followed by an even greater play: Death of a Salesman, which has gone on to become the classic American tragedy of Willy Loman, a salesman who becomes disillusioned with the American dream.
The Crucible (1953) was produced during the McCarthy era and became a parable of the witch-hunting practises of a government rooting out Communists.
A View from the Bridge (1955) concerns the lives of longshoremen in the Brooklyn waterfront and has remained one of Miller's most produced plays.
A Memory of Two Mondays, a one-act play, was written as a companion piece to A View from the Bridge.
Imprint: METHUEN DRAMA
RRP: $39.99Price: $39.99