Plays by Nation - British Plays

House of Secrets

Peter McKelvey

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

A wryly funny and well-observed drama in which one of Richard and Sarah Higg's lodgers is attacked and police suspect one of the other men in the household. Eventually they make an arrest but have they actua...

$12.99

An Evening with Gary Lineker

Arthur Smith & Chris England

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 2 Female

July 4th, 1990. In Italy, England are playing Germany in the Semi final of the World Cup In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday trying to rekindle a failing marriage. Monica dreams of an affair with Gar...

$15.99

The Trouble With Old Lovers

Angela Huth

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Alice, somewhat tipsy after a friend's wedding, announces to husband Tom that she has met Edward and Laura and invite them to dinner. Edward is Alice's old-flame and Laura and Tom had a brief pre-marital aff...

$12.99

The Painter And The Portrait

Angeliki Zaphiropoulou

New Theatre Publications

2 Male 3 Female

Peter, a Greek artist in Monaco, has fallen in love with Mary, an English pianist and wife of his best friend John, an English architect Tortured by his secret yearnings for Mary, he secludes himself in...

$14.99

Pentecost

David Edgar

Nick Hern Books

9 Female

Winner of the 1995 Evening Standard Play of the Year Award A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. International and local art historians argue over who should own the paint...

$14.99

Small Change & Kick for Touch

Peter Gill

Marion Boyars

$17.99

Steven Berkoff - Plays 1

Steven Berkoff

Faber & Faber

Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon -among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical and his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful This firs...

$24.99

Eden

Eugene O'Brien

Methuen

1 Male 1 Female

Billy and Breda haven't had a night out together in years. Tonight, Breda's lost the weight and gained a babysitter and a new outfit and is ready to sweep Billy off his feet down at Flanagans. But Billy ...

$15.99

The Scottish Play

Graham Holliday

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 7 Female

Michael harbors an ambition to direct Macbeth and gets his chance with the autumn production of The Shellsfoot Thespians He encounters problems from finding enough men to telling grande dame Geraldine she i...

$12.99

April De Angelis - Plays 1

April de Angelis

Faber & Faber

This collection offers four plays Ironmistress, Hush, Playhouse Creatures and The Positive Hour that are sometimes wrenching, occasionally scathing, often hilarious, and frequently political without being po...

$24.99

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