Plays by Publisher - P

Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass

Tom Hendry

Talon Books

9 Male 2 Female

"There I was just out of high school, all eager for the future, and there was the road to the future stretching out in front of me like fifteen miles of broken glass" Set in Winnipeg in August, 1945, Fif...

$19.99

Dirty Butterfly

debbie tucker green

Nick Hern Books

1 Male 2 Female

Listening through their thin walls, Amelia and Jason are drawn into the dark and compelling world of their mutual neighbour Jo. Set in inner-city London, Dirty Butterfly is a mesmerising and startling play ...

$14.99

Burgoo!

William Schreiber

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 0 Female

Alben Barkley, Truman's "Veep," uses folk humor and cracker barrel philosophy to tell his life story It begins in rural Kentucky and runs through over 40 years in Washington Using hilarious one liners and ...

$7.99

The Lights

Howard Korder

Methuen

9 Male 3 Female

Rose, Lilian and her boyfriend, Frederic, are faces in the crowd, striving for the promise of a richer life that beckons all around them, just beyond our grasp. On their night-long journey from innocence to ...

$15.99

Big Fish

John August & Tim Burton

Nick Hern Books

Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy, this is part of the NHB Shooting Script Series Each volume contains the original screenplay, production stills, full credits and an introd...

$19.99

Tomato Plant Girl

Wesley Middleton

Dramatic Publishing

0 Male 3 Female

This powerful exploration of friendship delights young audiences with its sharp dialogue, physical action and playful, high-energy conflict Little Girl is the new kid in Heretown. Good thing she's got h...

$10.99

The Fighting Days

Wendy Lill

Talon Books

1 Male 3 Female

Set in Winnipeg during 1910-1917 this play presents the polarities of public and private lives, and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement It focusses on the life and work of Francis M...

$16.99

Characters in Action - Playwriting the Easy Way

Marsh Cassady

Meriwether Press

The twelve chapters provide a complete survey of every step in playwriting from the germination of an idea to its complete development into a theatrical production It covers the basics of writing for theat...

$19.99 , $16.99 (15% off)

A Tale of Two Cities

Matthew Francis from Charles Dickens

Samuel French Ltd

A moving and exciting adaptation of Dicken's classic story of the English lawyer and the French aristocrat caught up inextricably in the violence and bloodshed of the French Revolution. Played on simple set,...

$12.99

Cleo Camping Emmanuelle and Dick

Terry Johnson

Methuen

3 Male 3 Female

A sharp and hilarious biographical play based on the life of Carry On? star Sid James Carrying on in the great tradition of British comedy, Terry Johnson's new play takes some familiar faces and gets a ...

$15.99

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

Joseph Robinette from M.C. Beaton

Dramatic Publishing

8 Male 1 Female

Agatha Raisin, an irascible but endearing middle-aged dynamo, has impulsively sold her London public relations business and "retired" to the serenity of the Cotswolds, only to discover that it's difficult ...

$10.99

Neat

Charlayne Woodard

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 1 Female

In the oral traditions of West Africa and the African diaspora, Charlayne Woodard is a modern-day griot On a bare stage, this magnificent storyteller spins her own exquisite real-life remembrance of her ...

$13

Viva!

Andy de la Tour

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 1 Female

In the delightfully tacky Hotel Intercontinental in the fictional banana republic of Puerto de Oro, a CIA backed dictatorship is under siege by guerillas who are within five miles of the capital Hiding out ...

$10.99

The House

Tom Murphy

Methuen

7 Male 4 Female

Summertime, and the emigrant workers, dressed in new suits and dreams, are returning home for the annual sojourn. They are young, vigorous, they have money in their pockets But they do not belong here any mo...

$15.99

Sleeping Beauty or Coma

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 2 Female

This offbeat curtain raiser to Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a fairytale treatment of "mod" London "A compendium of every movie made in the 60's.... Captures their spirit, mood and style with delicious humor...

$10.99

What the Wine Sellers Buy

Ron Milner

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

The Thread That Runs So True

Reginald Lawrence from Jesse Stuart

Dramatic Publishing

Jesse is still in his teens when he takes on the job of teacher in Lonesome Valley School Many of his students are older than he, and certainly those in the clique led by the school bully are bigger and...

$10.99

2nd May 1997

Jack Thorne

Nick Hern Books

A smouldering new play from one of Britain's most exciting young writers, about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future It's 2nd May 1997 An historic victory - the Tories, 18 years in...

$14.99

Jumping for Joy

Jon Marans

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

In this dark comedy, wily, manipulative Emily Mavin has summoned her uptight Manhattanite brother, Michael, to their family home in Maryland, using the excuse that their father, Samuel, has suffered a mild h...

$13

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back - Screenplay

Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasden from George Lucas

Faber & Faber

Widely considered the darkest and most intriguing of the central Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back deepens the exploration of mythic themes first essayed in A New Hope From its opening amid a besie...

$12.99