Plays by Nation - British Plays

House and Garden

Alan Ayckbourn

Faber & Faber

Two plays about love and marriage take place in different auditoria simultaneously with the same large cast appearing in both of them. As always in Ayckbourn, hilarity is combined with hurt.

$12.99

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off & Dracula

Liz Lochhead

Penguin

"It draws the most dramatic and uncomfortable parallels bewteen the sacrifice of Mary in her day and the myriad sexual, political and religious deformities that still plague the Scottish psyche ... a play th...

$14.99

Pack of Lies

Hugh Whitemore

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 5 Female

The Jackson are a nice middle aged English couple. Their best friends are their Canadian neighbors, the Krogers. All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks to use their house as...

$12.99

Chimps

Simon Block

Nick Hern Books

3 Male 1 Female

A young couple in a new home on a normal Saturday afternoon looks forward to a bright future. Stevie has a self-defense class. Mark has the nursery to paint. That is until a prearranged appointment with door...

$14.99

Second From Last in the Sack Race

Michael Birch from David Nobbs

Samuel French Ltd

1 Female

The play follows the life of one Henry Pratt. Born in 1935 Henry's childhood is disrupted first by war and then by the death of his mother and father. Packed off to prep school, then public school and then t...

$12.99

Embers

Christopher Hampton from Sandor Marai

Faber & Faber

2 Male 1 Female

A remote 18th-century Hungarian castle is the setting for a meeting ... Forty-one years after a tragic event two former friends must confront each other in a devastating bid to lay the past to rest Betray...

$12.99

Our Song

Keith Waterhouse

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 3 Female

Adapted from Keith Waterhouse's own novel, this is the story of Roger Piper who, eager to get out of his middle-aged executive lifestyle, stumbles into an tempestuous affair with Angela Caxton When Roger di...

$12.99

Born in the Gardens

Peter Nichols

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

In a mock Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70 year old Maud and her younger son, forty five year old Mo. She speaks more to the soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums An a...

$12.99

The Mysterious Mr Love

Karoline Leach

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 1 Female

What begins as a period drama about a man who woos and weds plain young women with a little money stashed away becomes a taut thriller with a startling climax After persuading his brides to transfer their s...

$12.99

Dancing at Lughnasa - Stageplay

Brian Friel

Faber & Faber

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty The two male...

$12.99

Fit Piece - A Radio Play

Helen Shay

International Playwrights Forum

1 Male 1 Female

Winner International Radio Play Competition 2004A short radio play

$6.99

The View from the Rooftops & The Gambler

Dominic O'Sullivan

Olympian Press

7 Male 2 Female

The View from the RooftopsElena is a young woman in 1990s Prague, where life has changed dramatically from the fear and repression of the Cold War eraShe sees only the good in life and takes things at face v...

$12.99

Top Girls - METHUEN EDITION

Caryl Churchill

Methuen

0 Male 7 Female

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of Top Girls employment agency Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the...

$15.99

Private Fears in Public Places

Allan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

Six people with six very separate lives are strangely linked by circumstance ... Does Nicola still love Dan? Will Imogen ever find true love? Does Ambrose have a secret life? Can Stewart be on the verge ...

$12.99

For Better For Worse

Hedva Anbar

Cyberpress

2 Male 2 Female

How much say have we in the management of our lives? How much control has our DNA? And how much of the time are we, without knowing it, being manipulated by other people for their own ends? Sheena, ei...

$7.99

5 New Plays from VAULT 5 Festival

Charlotte Chimuanya

Nick Hern Books

"A major London festival showcasing new and rising talent" ~ Independent on VAULT FestivalThis fifth anthology in the VAULT series offers five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and...

$17.99

Botticelli in the Fire

Jordan Tannahill

Faber & Faber

4 Male 3 Female

"They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you" Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all - talent, fame, good looks He also has the ear and the wif...

$14.99

Scary Bikers

John Godber

Josef Weinberger

1 Male 1 Female

When retired miner Don and former private school teacher Carol meet in a graveyard, they could never have imagined how their lives would merge An innocent coffee leads to a bike ride through the Yorkshire d...

$15.99

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov adapted Conor McPherson

Nick Hern Books

Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson's stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside...

$14.99

Swive [Elizabeth]

Ella Hickson

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 2 Female

"My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country" Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England And she reigned for forty-four years ...

$14.99