Plays by Author - Mike Leigh

Ecstasy

Mike Leigh

Nick Hern Books

3 Male 3 Female

Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with drink and perfunctory sex. Jean's insistent neighbour Dawn and Dawn's Irish labourer husband, Mick, and Mick's spineless mucker, Len all join her in a funny, ...

$14.99

Smelling a Rat

Mike Leigh

Nick Hern Books

As characters are forced to hide in wardrobes to avoid unexpected visitors, the comedy frantically approaches farce, but the drama is continuously underscored by conversations both painful and hilarious

$14.99

Topsy-Turvy

Mike Leigh

Faber & Faber

In Topsy-Turvy Mike Leigh, that master of contemporary British tragi-comedy, transports us back to 1880s London and the lives of those much-loved masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan Leigh explores ...

$12.99

Two Thousand Years

Mike Leigh

Faber & Faber

1 Male 4 Female

Concentrating on a North-London Jewish family, Mike Leigh explores, in a gentle tragic-comic way, a wide range of issues, including politics, religion, identity and the vexed question of Israel and the Middl...

$19.99

Naked and Other Screenplays

Mike Leigh

Faber & Faber

Few directors in contemporary cinema have laid bare the divisions, misunderstandings and grievances of our society with such skill and rigour as Mike Leigh. Naked is perhaps his most daring achievement, and ...

$12.99

Abigail's Party & Goosepimples

Mike Leigh

Penguin

Mike Leigh's 1970s classic play Abigail's Party focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soiree ... While teenager Abigail parties a few doors away, the pretentious Beverly ...

$16.99

Abigail's Party

Mike Leigh

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Suburbanites Laurence and Beverly are entertaining their new neighbors Angela and Tony as well as Susan, whose teenage daughter is having at party at which her mother is less than welcome Over drinks and sn...

$12.99