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...
Mercer Plays: 1
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
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...
In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade.
This second volume of plays showcases the comic, surreal and gloriously off-kilter side of his more recent work. Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 2002) mixes Victorian melodrama with a catalogue of grotesque comic tales; The Lying Kind (Royal Court, 2002), a black farce set at Christmas involving two hapless policeman who must...
In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Ye...
A new collection of Stephen Poliakoff's plays and screenplays
Includes the screenplays Caught on a Train (winner of BAFTA award Best Single Play, 1980), Close My Eyes (winner of the Evening Standard Best British Picture of 1991 and numerous other awards), and the play Coming in to Land
A new collection of Stephen Poliakoff's plays and screenplays
Includes the screenplays Caught on a Train (winner of BAFTA award Best Single P...