British Plays & Musicals - British Plays

Benefactors

Michael Frayn

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

This long running Broadway and London hit is about doing good and do gooding and about the way the world changes around you just when you are trying to change it yourself. An architect who believes that if y...

$12.99

Road

Jim Cartwright

Samuel French Ltd

Guided by rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we go on an evening's tour along a scruffy depressed road in a small Lancashire town and meet its inhabitants As we move from street corner, to kitchen, to bedroom we ...

$12.99

Flint

David Mercer

Used Copy

$35

Plays Two - Worlds Apart & Crusade & This Other Eden & International Cafia

Paul Sirett

Oberon

All the plays in this second volume of Paul Sirett's collected plays focus on dislocation and the clash of civilisations ... Set in an airport immigration office, Worlds Apart interweaves the fates of five...

$21.99

Savages

Christopher Hampton

Used Copy

$19.99

This Savage Parade

Anthony Shaffer

AmberLane Press

A high-ranking Nazi, Rudolf Bauer, is hunted down in South America and brought to Tel Aviv in 1962 for a secret trial. It is the task of the three 'judges' to establish Bauer's identity and confirm his guilt...

$16.99

The Life of Stuff - Sex Drugs and Frank Sinatra

Simon Donald

Capercaille Books

A brilliantly funny fly-on-the-wall snapshot of eight lives careering out of control as small-time crook and aspirant pharmaceutical entrepreneur Willie Dobie's best laid plans unravel when human nature t...

$12.99

Bonaventure

Charlotte Hastings

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 8 Female

A flood in the Fens has trapped two prison officials and their prisoner, Sarat Carn, who is on her way to he gallows for the murder of her brother. Convinced of Sarat's innocence, Sister Mary sets about unco...

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Leaving Home

Julia Kearsley

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 4 Female

A sparkily witty and touching play which examines family relationships, loss and dependency. When Dad walks out, the family are forced to come to terms with his mysterious disappearance. His grief-stricken w...

$12.99

Cocks and Hens

Ian Taylor

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

This British play examines the myths and nonsense surrounding sex. It is a play designed to provoke thought, but it is humorous as well. It deals with men and women at work, and shows that most of us do not...

$12.99

Another Time

Ronald Harwood

AmberLane Press

3 Male 2 Female

It is the early 1950s in Sea point, Cape Town. Leonard Lands, aged seventeen and the only child of immigrant parents, is already an outstandingly gifted pianist. It is clear that he must go to Europe to stud...

$16.99

Third Week in August

Peter Gordon

Josef Weinberger

2 Male 4 Female

When Sue decides to try and get away from everybody on a solo caravan holiday, little does she realise that she's booked into the caravan site from hell! She is soon taken under the wing of expert but inade...

$15.99

Indian Ink

Tom Stoppard

Samuel French Ltd

4 Female

Flora Crewe, an unconventional, young English poet living in India in 1930, is having her portrait painted by local artist Nairad Das and writing letters home to her sister Nell. Intermittent scenes, which a...

$12.99

Borrowing Time

Michael Burrell

AmberLane Press

1 Male 1 Female

Borrowing Time is a play about family life and relationships - between husband and wife, father and daughter, brother and sister As history moves on, each generation is faced with new challenges and new per...

$16.99

Cause Celebre

Terence Rattigan

Samuel French Ltd

When Alma Rattenbury - attractive wife of an elderly man - employs a handsome but uncouth youth as odd-job boy, it has all sorts of tragic consequences Finally culminating in murder The play follows the co...

$12.99

Good Things

Liz Lochhead

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 2 Female

Susan, suddenly single and with the dreaded 5-0 glaring her in the face, has an Old Dad in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence and an ex who, unfortunately, still has t...

$14.99

The Last Witch

Rona Munro

Nick Hern Books

4 Male 3 Female

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart Dornoch, northern Scotland,...

$14.99

As the Beast Sleeps

Gary Mitchell

Nick Hern Books

6 Male 1 Female

'A born thriller writer' ~ Times 'His writing has the blazing conviction of lived experience combined with a highly welcome relish for strong plots' ~ Daily Telegraph 'Exudes all the tension of a Hollywood...

$14.99

Levy Plays 1

Deborah Levy

Methuen

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 ir...

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Waiting in the Wings

Noel Coward

Samuel French Ltd

The Wings is a charitable home for retired actresses where the ladies grow older ungracefully The once-great actress Lotta Bainbridge arrives who years ago married the ex-husband of another of the residents...

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