Plays by Publisher - A

Gloria Mundi

Patricia Brown

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

A masterpiece of grim ironyA sort of parable of life, laid in an insane asylum, showing the courage necessary to face the bitter realities of life A serious play, for advanced groups

$7.99

Wilderness of Mirrors

Charles Evered

Broadway Play Publishing

2 Male 3 Female

"The cloak-and-dagger drama lures its audience into a story of betrayal and shattered trust. An elusive Yale professor recruits a bright, but reluctant, young student for a career in wartime espionage Ev...

$15.99

So You Want to be an Actor?

Timothy West & Prunella Scales

Nick Hern Books

A handbook by two of the best-known names in the business - essential reading for any aspiring actor This short book offers practical advice and the 'dos and don'ts' to anyone considering a career in actin...

$14.99

Balm in Gilead

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

8 Female

One of the milestones of the dynamic Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement, this vivid and powerful play, first produced by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, illuminates the bleak and terrifying world of young ...

$13

House and Garden

Alan Ayckbourn

Faber & Faber

Two plays about love and marriage take place in different auditoria simultaneously with the same large cast appearing in both of them. As always in Ayckbourn, hilarity is combined with hurt.

$12.99

Not Quite Jerusalem

Paul Kember

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 2 Female

This award-winning play follows the lives of four disillusioned kibbutz volunteers who arrive to find their working holiday more like hard labour Two of the young men, Pete and Dave, soon alienate themselve...

$12.99

Think of the Magic

Frank Rodgers

Samuel French Ltd

1 Female

When a local housing officer brings the shattering news that the Carrs' family home is to be demolished and a Genie appears from an electric kettle, all chaos breaks loose. This cheeky, lively and exuberant...

$12.99

Light

Complicite - Theatre de Complicite - Simon McBurney from Torgny Lindgren

Oberon

A man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit The village is ravaged by sickness, and of those who survive, none any longer knows ...

$14.99

A Private Affair

Charles Emery

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Poor Jefferson! He's only looking for a quiet place to make lamps from empty liquor bottles Through an oversight, the two women - one a psychiatrist - haven't checked out of the hotel suite assigned to him ...

$8.99

Suburban Strains Book

Alan Ayckbourn & Paul Todd

Samuel French Ltd

8 Male 7 Female

This ingenious musical play concerns Caroline who marries unemployed actor Kevin, and supports him while he flirts with other women and ruins her flat with his oafish behaviour Eventually Caroline has enou...

$12.99

Salt Lake City Skyline

Thomas Babe

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

The time is 1915, the place the Salt Lake City courtroom where Joe Hill, the celebrated local radical, is on trial for murder. Obviously mistrusted by the conservative folk of his day, Hill senses that h...

$13

Elliot Loves

Jules Feiffer

Grove Press

Elliot is a bachelor in his late thirties whose new girlfriend, Joanna, is everything he ever wanted in a woman - intelligent, beautiful, warm, independent - and yet terrifies him for precisely that reason...

$7.99

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

Samuel French Ltd

3 Female

This provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power In the court of the Austrian Emperor, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter...

$12.99

All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare

Penguin

As a reward for her service, the King of France allows Helena to choose a husband from among his court, but Count Bertram heads off to battle rather than marry beneath his station. Helena's daring plan to wi...

$14.99

Down Red Lane

Kate Dean

Faber & Faber

It's Christmas 1999, but you won't see any tinsel in Red Lane Quarry. Through the dense winter fog, Spider and his ragbag of mates emerge, killing time with anything from a battered old saxophone to a bag of...

$14.99

Come As You Are

John Mortimer

Samuel French Ltd

Four entertaining and poignant playlets linked by their themes of sexual entanglements and by their suburban London settings.

$12.99

Bless Me Father

Craig Alpaugh

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 4 Female

This play combines all of the raucous hilarity of a Feydeau farce and a classic Mack Sennett comedy The action takes place in Holy Family Rectory where Fathers Richard and Charles preside over the merrim...

$10.99

Quartet & Equally Divided

Ronald Harwood

Faber & Faber

This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights ... In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers and each year, on 10th October, there is a concert to...

$12.99

Dinner at Eight

George S Kaufman & Edna Ferber

Samuel French Inc

From the society column of the New York Times: Mr and Mrs Oliver Jordan of 927 Park Avenue, entertained at dinner last night in honor of Lord and Lady Ferncliffe. Their guests included Miss Carlotta Vance, ...

$11.99

An Uncertain Hour

Nicholas A. Patricca

Dramatic Publishing

9 Male 2 Female

This tells the story of the transformation of Primo Levi, an Italian-Jewish chemist, into a writer because of his experience in Auschwitz. The play poetically explores the spiritual struggle at the heart of...

$9.99