The Ramayana
Peter Oswald
Oberon
The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set free his wife Sita from the demon Ravana This divine story, here set forth in dramatic form, encapsulat...
$14.99
Plays by Publisher - A
Grass Widows
Mary Orr
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 4 Female
The scene is a comfortable apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, in New York City, which is shared by two divorcees. They are awaiting the arrival of a third "bachelor lady" to join them in dividing their livi...
$13
A Cry from Heaven
Vincent Woods
Methuen
Classic Irish myth of revenge and betrayal in poetic retelling ... The story of the beautiful Deirdre and the Sons of Usna is one of the great tragedies of Irish myth. The birth of a girl heralded by om...
$15.99
Making Noise Quietly & Being Friends & Lost
Robert Holman
Nick Hern Books
An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives First staged at the Bush Theatre, then revived by Oxford Stage Company in 1999 'Charming, funny and faultless ... a minor mira...
$14.99
The Offering
Gus Edwards
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 2 Female
The scene is a shabby basement apartment on New York's West Side, where Bob Tyrone, an aging black, lives with his young wife, Princess. Now on welfare, Tyrone spends most of his time dozing, or glass in h...
$13
Total Eclipse
Christopher Hampton
Faber & Faber
A screenplay set in Paris in the late 1800s and featuring two celebrated poets. Paul Verlaine is a volatile alcoholic torn between his lovely yet conventional wife and the seductive and brilliant Arthur Rimb...
$12.99
Nowhere
Dorothy Hewett
Currency Press
4 Male 2 Female
In a once-thriving country town, Josh sits in a shed singing in the ashes of his dreams. Into his life comes Snow, still reeling from his Vietnam memories, and Vonnie, a young Aboriginal girl fleeing from th...
$23.99
Anagram of Murder
Seymour Matthews
Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 3 Female
Beautiful Veronica plots to kill her writer husband, Gus But becomes very alarmed when Gus discusses the plot of his new novel, which is uncomfortably close to her own murder plans! Nevertheless, Veronica ...
$12.99
A Kick in the Baubles
Gordon Steel
Josef Weinberger
4 Male 5 Female
It's another peaceful Christmas in the Bauble household, but chestnuts aren't roasting on an open fire And although a Silent Night would be welcome, all is not calm and all is certainly not bright Frank d...
$15.99
Continental Divide
Oliver Hailey
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 2 Female
Lucille and Cullum are wealthy New Yorkers living as virtual prisoners in their lavish Fifth Avenue apartment, the entire block being held in a state of siege by rebelling domestic servants They are, how...
$13
Flirting With the Deep End
Suzanne Maynard Miller
Dramatic Publishing
2 Male 3 Female
Michael owns an independent bookstore that houses the world's worst book club Aside from Michael himself, only two members remain - Gail, a neurotic librarian beset by relationship woes, and Diane, a shoot-f...
$10.99
Acting Up
David Hare
Faber & Faber
In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict He then chose to become the actor of his own play and set ...
$12.99
Swashbuckling - The Art of Stage Combat and Theatrical Swordplay
Richard Lane
Lime Tree
Swashbuckling is the ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay. In words and in pictures - about 400 of them, almost all taken expressly for this large-format book It covers everythin...
$29.99
Wiping My Mother's Arse
Iain Heggie
Methuen
2 Male 2 Female
A caustic new comedy by one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrights When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to ...
$15.99
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
Places Please - An Essential Manual for High-School Theater Directors
Joy Varley
Smith & Kraus
Sub-titled 'How To Structure & Organise Your Theater Program', this covers every step in the daunting task of planning and presenting a high school theatrical production, defining the roles & respo...
$16.99
A Hole in the Fence
David Foley
Oberon
It's 1919 and the US naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, is mired in 'conditions of vice' Mr Vole has a plan to clean it up - he orders a group of young sailors to infiltrate Newport's dens of depravity a...
$14.99
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
John Bishop
Josef Weinberger
5 Male 5 Female
The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westche...
$15.99
Scapin & Don Juan
Moliere trans Albert Bermel
Applause Books
In one of Moliere's most popular plays, Scapin, that monarch of con men, puts his store of ingenuity to work, getting two lovesick young men married to the girls they pine for and, along the way, taking r...
$10.99
Sweet Panic
Stephen Poliakoff
Methuen
In Sweet Panic, a child psychologist's understanding of contemporary life is brought into question when she finds herself being stalked by the mother of one of her young clients Casting an acute eye over t...
$15.99