Drama

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by Noel Coward (Author)Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream when their high-spirited children Simon and Sorel appear with guests of their own. A housefull of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare. With Judith's new flame and David's newest literary 'inspiration' keeping company as the children follow suit, the Bliss family lives up to its name as the ...

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by Ruth Goetz (Author)Compared to her mother, the heiress Catherine Sloper seems dull and lifeless, or at least that's what her father believes. With her lack of confidence Catherine becomes easy prey for fortune hunter Morris Townsend who deserts her on finding out she has been disinherited. Two years later, we see Catherine, her father dead, having matured considerably after her experiences and prepared to take revenge on Morris Townsend.-6 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21...

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by R. C. Sherriff (Author)Gripping mystery drama. An ordinary decent citizen is caught in a waking nightmare. A West-End hit in 1950.2 women, 5 men Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 31, 2017

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by W. Somerset Maugham (Author)Set immediately after the Great War in 1918. Maugham called it "a farce in three acts". After the death of her husband, William, the spoilt and beautiful Victoria married his best friend, Frederick. When William comes back after the war alive after all, each man can hardly wait to surrender her to the other. However, Victoria seems to have another admirer waiting in the wings.-7 women, 5 men Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: A...

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by Dodie Smith (Author)A novelist and his family are in poor straits; for Father has not managed to write anything in years. An American, named Simon, buys the novelist's old castle and comes with his brother, Neil, to take possession.-7 women, 7 men Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 04, 2016 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: I Capture the Castle Interest Level: Upper Gr...

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by James Saunders (Author)Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. He returns home for his mother's funeral and finds himself involved in the same awful problems he left behind, together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing "Italian girl".4 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 27, 2015

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by Jean Baptiste Moliere (Author)To reduce his medical fees, hypochondriac M. Argan decides to marry off his daughter Angelica to a physician's son. Unfortunately, Angelica loves Cl�ante. Argan's brother B�ralde and Toinette, an inventive maid, save the situation for the lovers and expose Mme Argan's schemes to bleed her husband of his fortune. Then they persuade the hypochondriac to turn physician so that he can quack himself free of charge.4 women, 8 men Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16...

The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Paperback

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by Oscar Wilde (Author) Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2015 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Importance of Being Earnest Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12 Reading Level: 4.5 Point Value: 3

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by Jean Anouilh (Author)To the great lords of her time as well as the politicians of the Church expediency was God. So the Maid had to die. So to Warwick and Cauchon, her life has the'somewhat artificial, and certainly impersonal, quality of a play. Short scenes from it are played out during the trial as they struggle to turn her simplicity into heresy. But it is the glory of her life rather than the tragedy that is the triumphant climax of the play.5 women, 13 men Number of Pages: 82 Dimensi...

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by Sean O'Casey (Author)The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced throughout the world and offers a compelling look at the family conflicts of struggling Irish matriarch Juno Boyle's Herculean attempts to keep her children safe and her husband "Captain" Jack Boyle sober despite his foolish schemes and the ongoing "troubles" in early 20th century Dublin. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 01, 1968

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by Agatha Christie (Author)Cecily Harrington has led a staid and proper existence. After winning a large amount of money in a sweepstake she desperately yearns for a life of adventure. Enter Bruce Lovell, a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps her off her feet. In a whirlwind romance, she recklessly abandons her job, friends and fianc� to settle in the remote and blissful surroundings of a country cottage. However, her newfound "love from a stranger" is not what it seems and in an astoni...

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by Ronald Gow (Author)An outstanding success on the English and American stages. Set in a manufacturing suburb of Manchester, is the story of respectable and responsible working-class people whose life is reduced to dogged survival. The older folks in the Hardcastle family are Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 05, 2015

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by Robert Bolt (Author)This hugely successful retelling of the fall of Sir Thomas More has gained plaudits for its stage, movie, and television versions. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2015 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Man for All Seasons Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12 Reading Level: 4.6 ...

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by Agatha Christie (Author)Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal murder. Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia builds, as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare. "As slick a vehicle as any theatre company could wi...

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by Simon Gray (Author)Isolated university professor Simon Hench, completely and selfishly otherwise engaged in listening to a new recording "Parsifal" is continually interrupted by students, friends, lovers and life.2 women, 5 men Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 1975

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by Jane Arden (Author) Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 17, 2016

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by N. F. Simpson (Author)Each of the Groomkirbys has an idee fixe. Kirby is teaching his speak-your-weight machines the "Hallelujah Chorus"; his mother pays the neighbour to eat their left-overs; his aunt in her wheelchair is convinced she's touring the Hebrides; his father is building the Old Bailey in the living-room. When this is complete the judge and jury move in with some bizarre results...4 women, 10 men Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1960

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by Sutton Vane (Author)An odd assortment of characters are passengers on an ocean liner whose destination is unknown. Suddenly the bewildered travelers realize they are dead and headed for Judgment Day. The young man who has lost his faith in himself becomes desperately afraid, the snobbish Mrs. Cliveden Banks prepares to demand certain heavenly concessions, and the old cockney woman goes on with her knitting. Most frightened of all are a young man and woman who have committed suicide. The Ex...

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead - A Play - Paperback

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by Tom Stoppard (Author)Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and w...

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by Sean O'Casey (Author)Drama Sean O'Casey Characters: 10 male, 5 female Three interior and exterior scenes This play is gripping from beginning to end. It has to do with the futile efforts of the leader of one of the Irish revolutions. He is finally killed and his wife goes mad after losing her unborn child. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 09, 2011

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband are perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tensen...

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by No�l Coward (Author)At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. No�l Coward's Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged ...

Private Lives - An Intimate Comedy - Paperback

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by No�l Coward (Author)Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a rou...

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by James Hilton (Author), Barbara Toy (Author)It is set in the period preceding the Second World War. It is told in the first person of Harrison, and tells the story of Charles Rainier, a wealthy businessman, and politician, from his time in the army during World War I, his subsequent memory loss and partial recovery, his assuming control of the family business and his attempts to recover his memory as Hitler invades Poland.6 women, 6 men Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Pu...

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by Daphne du Maurier (Author)Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, Rebecca. A bestseller which has never gone out of print, it has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, including a 1939 play by du Maurier herself, the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred...

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by Somerset Maugham (Author)The Sacred Flame is the story about the misfortune of Maurice Tabret, previously a soldier of World War One who had returned home unscathed to marry his sweetheart Stella. Unfortunately, after only a year of marriage, Maurice is involved in a plane crash and left crippled from the waist down. The play commences some years later in Gatley House near London, home of Maurice's mother, Mrs. Tabret. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: A...

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by Anton Chekhov (Author)A masterpiece of modern drama, The Seagull dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.-6 women, 7 men Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 21, 2015

Rattle of a Simple Man - A Play in Three Acts - Paperback

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by Charles Dyer (Author)With an aristocratic background borrowed from novels she's read, she picks up a lonely man who's come down to London for a frolic, and takes him off to her basement apartment. His pretension to worldliness quickly goes sour, for he has no experience with women and is totally gauche in this new situation. Neither of them is really what he seems. One by one they strip away the pretenses that mask their loneliness.1 woman, 2 men Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x ...

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by Terence Rattigan (Author)These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who help...

The Secretary Bird - A Comedy - Paperback

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by William Douglas-Home (Author)A wife whose husband takes her for granted finds romance with a dashing man, but has misgivings when the husband offers to be caught in a compromising situation with his secretary to give her grounds for divorce.-3 women, 2 men Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 31, 2015

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by Philip King (Author) Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 04, 1946

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by Sean O'Casey (Author) Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2013