Playscripts

ISBN: 9781783190614
Title: 1984
Author: ORWELL GEORGE / MACMILLAND D / ICKE R
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In an age of mass surveillance, 'total' policing and GPS tracking, 1984 is as relevant now as it's ever been.


April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.
Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be our reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant as ever.

Imprint: OBERON
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9781495069246
Title: 5 MINUTE PLAYS
Author: HARBISON LAWRENCE
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

5-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
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781783191819
Title: ABI MORGAN : PLAYS ONE
Author: MORGAN ABI
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

The first collection from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan. Contains the plays Skinned, Tiny Dynamite, Splendour, Tender, Lovesong and 27.

Imprint: OBERON
RRP: $37.95

ISBN: 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
RRP: $23.00

ISBN: 9781408123126
Title: AFTER THE FALL / METHUEN STUDENT EDITIONS
Author: MILLER ARTHUR
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

After 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
RRP: $23.99

ISBN: 9781408108338
Title: AFTERLIFE
Author: FRAYN MICHAEL
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Afterlifeis 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
RRP: $24.95

ISBN: 9780571194421
Title: ALAN BENNETT : PLAYS TWO
Author: BENNETT ALAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

This 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
RRP: $35.00

ISBN: 9781904271208
Title: ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL - Arden Shakespeare
Author: SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

In 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
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9780141188898
Title: AMADEUS
Author: SHAFFER PETER
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Wolfgang 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
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9781854599827
Title: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 AND 2 IN A SINGLE VOLUME
Author: KUSHNER TONY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Both 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
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781854592552
Title: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 2 : PERESTROIKA
Author: KUSHNER TONY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Imprint: NICK HERN
RRP: $23.99

ISBN: 9781840029208
Title: ANOTHER PARADISE
Author: KENT SAYAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE


Imprint: OBERON
RRP: $28.95