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Improbable Fiction

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 4 Female

Six aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work Among them are writers of historical romances and children's literature who are finding it difficult to start writing, and a crime write...

$12.99

Clockwork

Pat Cook

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 9 Female

"You tell me how you wrenched up your leg or I'll turn your MasterCard into guitar picks!" yells old Zack at his nephew Leon. For some reason, none of the Dunwoody clan is talking too much about Leon's acc...

$10.99

Some of My Best Friends

Stanley Hart

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 2 Female

In this allegory about happiness, freedom and responsibility, an autocratic tycoon has a mental breakdown, is whisked off to a sanatorium, undergoes shock treatment that results in his being able to understa...

$10.99

High Cockalorum

Robert Murray

Dramatists Play Service

The time is 1878 and the place is Meanly, Kansas, a little whistle stop on the Santa Fe, which has quieted down of late and wants to stay that way Consequently, the Sheriff, prodded by the local wives an...

$13

Maskerade

Stephen Briggs from Terry Pratchett

Samuel French Ltd

All is not well in the Ankh-Morpork Opera HouseA ghost stalks the dark corridors, leaving strange letters for the management And killing people! Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investiga...

$12.99

Letters

Francois Truffaut

Faber & Faber

With the characteristic variety of mood and tone evident in his films, these letters document the development of Francois Truffaut from rebellious boy to mature film-maker in the last years of his life. They...

$34.95

More than Meets the Eye

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 6 Female

This comedy concerns Stanley Nichols who writes successful children's stories under the pen name of Grandma Letty He is voted "Grandmother of the Year" and his house is besieged by reporters and photographe...

$10.99

The Sanford Meisner Approach - An Actor's Workbook IV - Playing the Part

Larry Silverberg

Smith & Kraus

Revolutionary! Inspiring! Masterful! Essential! From around the world, the critics have raved about Larry Silverberg's series on the Meisner Approach This is the Fourth Book in the series, offering ... ...

$15.99

Watch on the Rhine

Lillian Hellman

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 5 Female

Concerns an idealistic German who, with his American wife and two children, flees Hitler's Germany and finds sanctuary with his wife's family in the United States He hopes for a respite from the dangerou...

$13

The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

On a subway platform in New York City, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn't looking for salvation Now, the reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvatio...

$13

Some Voices & Pale Horse

Joe Penhall

Methuen

Some Voices - 'The most thrilling playwriting debut in years ... The writing is razor-sharp, sensitive, quietly eloquent, full of the touchingly drab poetry of lost lives' ~ Sunday Times Pale Horse - 'His ...

$15.99

Kursk

Bryony Lavery

Oberon

A submarine is on patrol in the arctic The crew sleep, eat, drill, long for word from home, and silently shadow their target Then their lives - at once extraordinary and mundane - are shattered by a global...

$14.99

The Wicked Lady

Bryony Lavery

Oberon

6 Male 6 Female

This is a stage adaptation of the original novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall ... Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked Forced into a respectable...

$14.99

Suburb - The Musical

David Javerbaum & Robert S. Cohen

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 4 Female

Suburb takes an insightful, witty, and nuanced view of the world of the lawnmower, the barbecue, and the mall, exploring the suburb's rites and rituals with a four-person chorus (expandable to eight) and f...

$10.99

Voices in the Dark

John Pielmeier

Broadway Play Publishing

5 Male 1 Female

"It may take a psychologist to tell us why we enjoy being frightened, why we yearn to enter the most sinister crevices of our mind. Although the slice and dice thriller is more popular on film than on stag...

$12.99

A Bad Dream

Simon Brett

Samuel French Ltd

8 Male 8 Female

It's 1902 and the Bellingford Amateur Dramaticks' next production is to be A Midsummer Night's Dream But it is a production with a difference, as it is being sponsored by (and therefore controlled by) a lo...

$12.99

Hannah and Martin

Kate Fodor

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

Hannah and Martin is based on the relationship between the Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt and the renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger In Germany in the 1920s, Heidegger and Arendt have a tumu...

$13

A Passage to India

Martin Sherman from E M Forster

Methuen

First major adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself...

$15.99

Saturday Night

Jerome Kass

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

On Saturday night, Rochelle Harris is, as usual, expecting her friend Ellie. As soon as her father leaves she excitedly changes into a splashy hostess gown and covers the drab furniture with bright-colore...

$13

Man Enough

Patty Gideon Sloan

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

As Jack and Josie Delaney prepare to send their mentally retarded 18 year old Joey to a state school, their older son comes home to challenge their decision. Joey, with his quiet courage, teaches his bright ...

$10.99