The Motor Show
Steve Gooch & Paul Thompson
Used Copy
$19.99
British Plays & Musicals - British Plays
The Grown-Ups
Nicholas Kelly
Methuen
Very much a play of our times, The Grown-Ups is a gripping examination of the way we live now and the thirty-something preoccupation with status, materialism and what it really means to be a 'grown-up' in co...
$15.99
Eleutheria
Samuel Beckett trans Barbara Wright
Faber & Faber
Written in French in the late 1940s before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in 'normal' life while a...
$16.99
Beyond Our Kennel
John Hegley
Methuen
"One of the funniest men alive" - New Statesman "As a comic poet he's unrivalled" - Time Out "Guerrilla wordsmith to the bold and beautiful, John Hegley crafts poetry which is deceptively simple; wisely fo...
$15.99
Three Sisters On Hope Street
Diane Samuels & Tracy-Ann Oberman
Nick Hern Books
6 Male 5 Female
A funny, vibrant and moving version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, set amongst the Jewish community in wartime Liverpool in 1946 ... A year after the sudden death of their father, sisters Gertie, May and Rita...
$14.99
Burning Issues
Ron Hutchinson
Faber & Faber
4 Male 2 Female
Mallowan is a living legend - a moral and literary giant. The anticipated publication of his journals promises to be one of the major events of the year. However, the journals reveal more about the author th...
$12.99
The Kidnap Game
Tudor Gates
Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 2 Female
Paul Kendon, a highly successful businessman, is devastated when a man claims to have kidnapped his daughter Kendon is happy to quietly pay the ransom, but his security officer calls in Inspector Joy Hart, a...
$12.99
Greenwash
David Lewis
Josef Weinberger
3 Male 4 Female
Alan works in Public Relations - he knows how to win friends and influence people, and now works for Big Oil He also knows how to seduce women At a charity dinner for the rainforest, he has met and fallen ...
$15.99
The Restoration of Arnold Middleton
David Storey
Samuel French Ltd
2 Male 4 Female
Arnold hides from himself in a sick parody of living until one night he takes unforgivable advantage of his mother in law's drunkenness and must turn to his wife for help
$12.99
Owen Plays 1 - Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco & Shadow of a Boy & Drowned World & Cancer Time & Fags
Gary Owen
Methuen
$27.99
The Disorderly Women
John Bowen
Samuel French Ltd
6 Male 7 Female
Inspired by the classic myth of Euripides' The Bacchae, this play presents the tragic story of a good man who attempts to perform good acts and is destroyed by his denial of what is instinctive, irrational a...
$12.99
Black Plays 3 - Boy With Beer by Paul Boakye & More
Yvonne Brewster - ed
Methuen
This is a wide-ranging selection by theatre director Yvonne Brewster Boy with Beer by Paul Boakye is a funny and sexy story of a Guardian-reading gay photographer who finds his fantasy "African Prince" - ...
$27.99
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene ONeill
Nick Hern Books
Intensely autobiographical, this magnificently tragic portrait of O'Neill's own family is 'the finest and most powerful play to have come out of America' Christopher Bigsby
$14.99
Steaming
Nell Dunn
AmberLane Press
1 Male 6 Female
Steaming is set in the 'Turkish Room' of a run-down Public Baths in the East End of London, where five women regularly meet, to bathe, relax and share their troubles "a lovely play, suffused with affection"...
$16.99
Plays 2 - Mr Puntila and His Man Matti & Mother Courage & A Servant to Two Masters & The Good Hope
Lee Hall
A collection of major play adaptations by the author of Billy Elliott MR PUNTILA: "Brecht's Puntila is the Jekyll and Hyde of the class war. When he's plastered this Finnish landowner drips with sugary huma...
$24.99
The Lonesome West
Martin McDonagh
Methuen
3 Male 1 Female
Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without the most massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of t...
$15.99
The Found Man
Riccardo Galgani
Nick Hern Books
In this new play about T.E. Lawrence it's 1922, and T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), is now plain T.E. Shaw (of Dorset) He is encamped incognito with his bodyguard John Bruce, and the other raw recruits at Bovi...
$16.99
Bolger Plays 1 - The Lament for Arthur Cleary & In High Germany & The Holy Ground & Blinded by the Light
Dermot Bolger
Methuen
This volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: 'Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage into the dark heart of a city where Irish theat...
$27.99
Barker - Collected Plays 3 - Claw & Ursula & He Stumbled & The Love of a Good Man
Howard Barker
John Calder Publications
The plays in this volume range over twenty years, beginning with Barker's first major work for the stage - Claw, a study of urban discontent and political impotence, developed over three stylistically contra...
$22.99
Indigo
Heidi Thomas
AmberLane Press
Possession and betrayal are the principal themes of this vividly poetic drama Set in the late 18th century, Indigo is the story of two young men: Ide, an African prince, and William, son of a Liverpudlian s...
$16.99