Dreaming
Peter Barnes
Methuen
4 Female
Set during the bloody aftermath of the medieval War of the Roses, this beguiling drama follows Captain John Mallory as he leads his band of renegades to his vision of Home
$15.99
Plays by Genre - Historical and Costume Plays
Mariner
Don Nigro
Samuel French Inc
8 Male 8 Female
This wild epic celebrates the mad obsession and ambiguous triumph of Christopher Columbus The charming Italian mariner and lover moves through the nightmare of his life, loves and struggles against authorit...
$10.99
Hedda Gabler
Henrick Ibsen adapted Christopher Hampton
Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 4 Female
A unique play from the middle period of Ibsen's long life, which, along with A Doll's House, not only heralded the growth of feminism, but modern drama itself. General's daughter Hedda's struggle against su...
$12.99
The Bacchae of Euripides - A New Translation with a Critical Essay
Donald Sutherland
Nebraska Press
This new translation of The Bacchae - that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse - is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmuti...
$18.99
The Abdication
Ruth Wolffe
Dramatic Publishing
6 Male 4 Female
In 1665, Christina of Sweden abdicates the throne, gives up Protestantism to become a Catholic and arrives in Rome expecting to be welcomed by the Pope as the Churches newest, most ardent and most celebrated...
$9.99
Trelawny of the 'Wells'
Arthur W. Pinero
Samuel French Ltd
8 Female
When actress Rose Trelawny falls in love with the grandson of a snobbish knight she finds that her visit to her lover's home is a humiliating failure and that she can no longer act. Eventually the elderly ty...
$12.99
In Lambeth
Jack Shepherd
Methuen
2 Male 1 Female
"Before there is Revolution there must be Revelation" In Lambeth is set against a background of the French and American revolutions Pursued through the streets of Lambeth by an anti-republican mob, Thomas...
$15.99
Hobson's Choice
Harold Brighouse
Samuel French Ltd
7 Male 5 Female
Classic Northern comedy about fiesty Maggie who marries lowly boot-boy Will Mossup to spite her father - set in 1880 This delightful play is first and foremost a Comedy of character, though it drives home m...
$12.99
Pride and Prejudice
Helen Jerome from Jane Austen
Samuel French Inc
$10.99
Beckett or The Honour of God
Jean Anouilh
Samuel French Ltd
5 Female
Never have Anouilh's characteristic intelligence and irony been employed with more telling effect than in this drama of the tragic relationship between the King Henry of England and the introspective intelle...
$12.99
My Boy Jack
David Haig
Nick Hern Books
8 Male 2 Female
This tells the tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his severely sh...
$14.99
An Experiment With An Air Pump
Shelagh Stephenson
Methuen
3 Male 4 Female
The Scientific and Romantic attitudes of 1799 are contrasted and counterpointed by their 1999 equivalents in this elegant drama of love, mystery and betrayal 1799 -On the eve of a new century, the house bu...
$15.99
Horrid Massacre in Boston
Don Nigro
Samuel French Inc
4 Male 4 Female
Jane Lamb, an orphan, finds a home at Mrs. Turley's Bunch of Grapes Inn in Boston during the Revolution The colorful, eccentric and dangerous regulars she encounters there include a demonic roustabout who i...
$10.99
Judah's Daughter
Jules Tasca
Samuel French Inc
5 Male 4 Female
Here is a new theatrical form the author calls an "eurythmy" - a system of movements to words with the actors wearing full face masks The piece may also be done as a conventional play without masks The sto...
$10.99
The Firstborn
Christopher Fry
Dramatists Play Service
3 Female
This poetic drama is set in Egypt just before the great Exodus of the Jews Moses has been away from Egypt for several years, and the Pharaoh has summoned him back to help with military campaigns When Mos...
$13
The Burston Drum
Ellen Dryden & Don Taylor & Charles Young
Samuel French Ltd
On the 1st April, 1914, in the village of Burston, a group of children went on strike to protest at the unfair dismissal of their teachers, Kitty and Tom Higdon The Burston Drum tells the story, in musical ...
$12.99
Picnic at Hanging Rock - NOT AUSTRALIA/NZ
Laura Annawyn Shamas from Joan Lindsay
Dramatic Publishing
For a group of Australian schoolgirls, a romantic Valentine's Day outing ends in an intriguing mystery What has happened to the three seniors and the mathematics teacher on top of the jagged peaks of Han...
$9.99
Moliere in Love
Laura Annawyn Shamas
Dramatic Publishing
7 Male 5 Female
Set in 1670, Paris, Molière in Love is based on the true story of Molière's theatrical attempt to win back the love of his much younger wife, Armande In order to "re-romance" his wife, the playwright decide...
$9.99
Transylvanian Clockworks
Don Nigro
Samuel French Inc
4 Male 3 Female
The author of Ravenscroft investigates the Dracula myth in a powerful, complex, darkly funny and utterly terrifying vampire play unlike any you have ever experienced Set in London and Transylvania in 1888 t...
$10.99
Loves Labours Wonne
Don Nigro
Samuel French Inc
9 Male 5 Female
Dark and strange, ribald, funny, sad and beautiful, this unique play takes audiences on an inspiring trip deep into William Shakespeare's soul ... Late on the stormy night on which he is to retire to the c...
$10.99