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Caryl Churchill

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 0 Female

Caryl Churchill tackles human cloning in her latest play ... "Part psychological thriller, part topical scientific speculation, and part analysis of the relationship between fathers and their sons, it co...

$14.99

The Conference of the Birds

Peter Brook & Jean-Claude Carriere from Farid Uddi Attar

Dramatic Publishing

This play presents you and your actors with an occasion for imagination and magic where the only suggestion of a set is a large oriental carpet ... There are moments of farce and despair as the Birds att...

$11.99

Luv

Murray Schisgal

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

"When the play begins there is Harry Berlin, looking like a shaved, mustachioed beatnik who has sunk so low that honest beatniks would disown him. He has no future except to jump off the bridge and is about ...

$13

First Love

Richard Vetere

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

Dot, a well-preserved middle-aged woman, has been a widow for over ten years Her best friend, Sunny, has been made a widow recently. The two neighborhood women speed-walk, try different diets to stay fi...

$9.99

Don Juan in Soho

Patrick Marber

Faber & Faber

Moliere's farcical, tragic, anarchic Don Juan (1665) is the inspiration for Patrick Marber's new play in which the action of the original is relocated to present day Soho, London Whereas Moliere condemned h...

$12.99

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

Holy Moses!

Bob Kolsby & Sean Hartley

Dramatic Publishing

This upbeat, funny and tuneful one-act musical tells of the story of Moses in his teenage years Despite "leading the normal life of a Pharaoh-in-waiting" (i.e. diction lessons, slave management and going to...

$9.99

Comic Potential - USA Edition

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 5 Female

This is one of the funniest and most inventive plays by Britain's grand master of comedy A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, it begins in a television studio where a hospital so...

$10.99

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Vicky Ireland

Dramatic Lines

Vicky Ireland has scored again! This is her second play featuring the poems and characters created by Allen Ahlberg and it promises to prove as endearing and hugely popular as the first - Three cheers for ...

$29.99

Women Playwrights - The Best Plays of 1998

Marisa Smith - ed

Smith & Kraus

American theater has evolved from its traditional "old-boys monopoly" Many of the brightest, and vibrant directors are now female - and hold major positions of power throughout major companies. Similarly, t...

$24.99

Silhouette

Simon Brett

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 3 Female

An ingenious thriller where Detective Inspector Bruton questions actress Celia Wallis about the murder of her husband Martin Celia is obviously in the clear, but the finger of suspicion points to Neville, t...

$12.99

The Queen Must Die

David Farr

Samuel French Ltd

Politics, friendship, body image, Oliver Cromwell and Britney Spears feature in this ingenious slapstick one-act comedy for young people

$12.99

Divorce Me Darling! - A Musical Play

Sandy Wilson

Samuel French Ltd

A sequel to the hit-musical The Boy Friend, the girls from Mme Dubonnet's finishing school are reunited But the initial euphoria of married life has worn off and the girls are eager for more singing, dancin...

$12.99

THomas Middleton - Five Plays

Thomas Middleton - A Trick to Catch the Old One & The Revenger's Tragedy & A Chaste Maid of Cheapside & Women Beware Women & The Changeling

Penguin

$18.99

Hay Fever

Noel Coward

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 5 Female

The Bliss family is ultra BohemianDavid Bliss, a novelist, and his wife, Judith, a retired actress, hope for a quiet weekend in the country Each of the four members of the family - without consulting the ...

$12.99

Merry Wives - The Musical

Gregory Doran & Paul English & Ranjit Bolt from William Shakespeare

Oberon

When Sir John Falstaff sets out to woo a rich mistress to solve his financial worries, he soon discovers that the Wives of Windsor are more than a match for him Love, song, laughter and merriment combine in...

$14.99

Marx in Soho - A Play on History

Howard Zinn

South End Press

In this witty ad brilliant Play on History, renowned historian Howard Zinn brings Karl Marx to life to defend his ideas and comment on the world today Howard Zinn, author of the best-selling A People'...

$12

Phedre

Jean Racine adapt Ted Hughes

Faber & Faber

A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Que...

$12.99

The Great Sebastians

Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse

Dramatists Play Service

The Great Sebastians"is an artfully deliberate combination of the legends of Graustark and the writings of George Sokolsky In it Lunt and Fontanne are a vaudeville combo doing a mind-reading act, and their...

$13

Navigating

Katherine Thomson

Currency Press

2 Male 5 Female

'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing', observed Edmund Burke. The courage of ordinary people in the face of economic upheaval or public corruption is at the heart o...

$23.99