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-It has an admirable choked quality, like a cry of despair suppressed- -The Guardian

-Extraordinarily powerful...it is a privilege to attend such a theatrically excellent event.---Independent

-Taut and beautifully written...an inspiration.---Observer

Four very different one-act plays that study the effect of war on very different individuals. Contains Gifts of War and Butterfly Fingers by Fraser Grace; and The Retreating World and A State of Innocence by Naomi Wallace.

Beautiful, kind and virtuous, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother . . . until, in a fit of jealousy, she leaves her dull, distracted husband and infant children to run off with a handsome, aristocratic suitor. Her fall from grace is absolute as she suffers the terrible punishment of those who dare to disobey a merciless moral code.

Set in a 1919 New York City telephone exchange on the eve of automation, Switch Triptych focuses on three Bell Atlantic 'hello girls' and their luckless male managers. Together they make up a microcosm of post-war urban society where the meanings of gender, technology and labor are shifting underfoot. A sexy play about labor history and clashing ideologies by the author of The Pugilist Specialist.

'The Beach' is a strange, intimate and tender comedy about the depths of love.

In -Inglorious Technicolour, - an old art teacher uses his connections to help a talented boy. -Death to Mr. Moody- is about a hated teacher whose pupils try to kill him. -The Jonah Lie- is a large-scale youth theatre play.

Written between 1972 and 1976, a time of high hopes for the rebirth of a national network of regional theatres. Includes 'Gaunt, ' 'Lile Jimmy Williamson, ' 'Buck Ruxton' and 'A Tale of Two Town Halls.'

John Barton has adapted the texts of Greek historian Thucydides and a Socratic dialogue from Plato into 'The War That Still Goes On.' The text is a mixture of tragic, comic and political material as originally voiced in ancient Greece.

When pirate-turned-explorer Martin Frobisher discovers a new land in the Arctic filled with riches, Elizabeth I glimpses a golden future of wealth, prestige, and influence. The Queen invests heavily to bring civilization to the natives and their assets home to England. Frobisher's Gold blends history, comedy, and politics in a tale of imperial desire, improbable coincidences, and bad dentistry.

Hands across the sectarian divide - and not everyone's happy. The early 1970s, and Joe, a republican sympathiser, pals up with Sharon, a Protestant girl. His cards are marked... Joe's friend Mick joins the Cause and after a spell in the Kesh goes on the run with Tom, another activist. Then - they get the word; a big operation is planned in Armagh city centre. It goes horribly wrong - by accident or design? Is it another betrayal, like the 1920 Partition act? Trainor's play probes the motivation and the methods of the armed struggle. Trainor has been there, seen it and done it: his exciting...

This book will be of major interest to student teachers, teachers, lecturers and researchers. It provides a case for an integrated approach to the teaching of drama in primary and secondary schools that will help practitioners develop a theoretical rationale for their work. It also offers practical examples of lesson plans and schemes of work designed to give pupils a broad and balanced experience of drama. These are presented within a framework that argues for an integration of content and form, means and ends, and internal and external experience.
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In Moliere's famous satire, Tartuffe, a religious hypocrite, tries to get title to his friend's estate by sending him to jail. The play proved both controversial and influential. In this student edition the French text is supplemented by a useful English introduction and notes on the text.

This school edition of passages from two plays of Euripides, originally published by Macmillan, is furnished with introduction, notes, vocabulary and useful summaries of the lines and choruses omitted. The "Helen" in particular is suitable for use at GCSE level.

A new translation of Calderon's most popular mystery."

A comedy of low-life manners from the man whose strength is his satirical observation of English tribal customs.--Guardian (UK)

Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper, who she deliberately leads on. This is Nicholas Wright's new version of Wedekind's early 20th century erotic drama.

Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So they push for it. Published alongside the U.K. premiere at the Royal Court, a sexy new play from an exciting new German writer.

The true Duke of Genoa has lost his throne to the usurper, Pietro. The Duke returns to court in disguise to expose the corruption and regain his true office. This play presents a study of courtly intrigue, betrayal and treachery.

SMark arrives in a village near Madras to try and find his wife. He does not understand what has driven her to abandon her young son. Jane cannot explain why she needed to escape or how she ended up looking after children in India or what is in the bag she's been holding on to. It is hot, dusty and poor, and a long way from their comfortable life in London.

As artistic director of English Touring Theatre (-the company of the moment---Daily Mail), Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. In this book, he takes readers step-by-step through choosing the play, casting, design, rehearsal, running the play, putting it on stage and on to opening night.