A collection of plays by Sue Townsend, including The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole adapted from the novel, Wombergang, set in the waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic, Bazaar & Rummage about a community jumble sale, Groping for Words, and The Great Celestial Cow, about Indian immigrants.
A collection of plays by Sue Townsend, including The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole adapted from the novel, Wombergang, set in the waiting-room of a gyna...
This volume contains Handke's work from the 1970s. It includes Kaspar, in which the playwright explores the power of language as a means of oppression - a means of creating artificial uniformity by teaching people to comprehend the world only in terms of the speech patterns they are given.
This volume contains Handke's work from the 1970s. It includes Kaspar, in which the playwright explores the power of language as a means of oppression...
The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers
Where the Difference Begins, a naturalist play for television, is about the "difference" between thirties deprivation and fifties affluence, between material prosperity and its accompanying spiritual and political apathy, as embodied by sixty-year-old railwayman Wilf and his sons; A Suitable Case for Treatment, a play for television, portrays a man who, on account of his communist beliefs, is unable to conform to the world around him and associates more with the gorilla he sees in the...
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The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers
Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print for the first time in Britain, 14 of his legendary short and full- length works from the 60s.
Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print for the first time in Britain, 14 of his legendary short and full- length works from the 60s...
The first collection of plays by one of Britain's leading writers
Pax: 'Pioneering writing which unlocks the colours of the imagination and subverts the structure, style and content of our new drama' City Limits; Clam: 'A budding genius' City Limits; The B File: 'An ironic, funny, lonely and challenging survey into the loss of cultural identity among young adult females in post modernist Europe' (Guardian); Pushing the Prince into Denmark is a surreal duet in a snowstorm between an angry Ophelia and a wilfully ignorant Gertrude.; Honey, Baby: 'Levy understands the underbelly, the...
The first collection of plays by one of Britain's leading writers
Pax: 'Pioneering writing which unlocks the colours of the imagination and s...
A collection of works by seminal contemporary gay playwright Martin Sherman, including the best-seller 'Bent', which follows the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.
A collection of works by seminal contemporary gay playwright Martin Sherman, including the best-seller 'Bent', which follows the persecution of homose...
'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review
A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui.
From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a...
'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review
Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright.
Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' - Independent Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct' - Observer Opera Wonyosi, adapted from Gay's The Beggar's Opera: 'Swaggering and scabrous, at once a verbal spree and a fierce assault on totalitarianism' - Observer
The volume also contains The Trials of Brother Jero and Jero's Metamorphosis, classic comedies of modern Nigerian...
Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright.
Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world d...
The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights.
THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place - and is exposed to the deepest questions of human existence.
OLLY'S PRISON: an ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years.
COFFEE: A young man alone in a room. A...
The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights.
THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The past has been abolis...
