Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Rhashan Stone (Author)Peckham, 2004. Lenny turns up on Mona's doorstep after thirty years apart. He is looking for forgiveness. She's looking for the man he used to be. She cannot forget the past; he was too drunk to remember it. The mood moves from mischief to malice as the heat that drove them apart reignites and long-buried emotions resurface. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.14 x 5.48 IN Publication Date: Septe...

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Report copyright infringementby David Cregan (Author)In this new comedy of sex and politics, an anxious group of relations and dependants struggle for supremacy in a garden in the north of England. Toby, a sprightly 91-year-old, wants to keep young by buying and tending a part of the big garden next door. Gerald is trying to bed as many attractive women as possible in between buying up small shops in South East Asia to turn into supermarkets. Daniel struggles to get past chapter two of the bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Motton (Author)After a relaxing holiday at the Forest-side Nature Hotel, shopkeeper Gengis Khan feels his personality has expanded so substantially that he decides to write a self-help manual. If only he could find a shop that will sell him a biro...But he soon discovers that the road to publication and posterity is littered with potholes in the modern world: Gengis narrowly avoids being replaced by a clone of himself after spending a year on a life-sup...

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Report copyright infringementby Madani Younis (Author)How many policemen does it take to cause the death of 1,000 people in custody? Apparently none. Justice is blind, but how deaf is it? Silent Cry, by Madani Younis, unashamedly tackles the issues that face a family that verge on imploding, and tells the story of a mother's journey that begins as her son's life ends. A death in police custody leads to an ordinary family looking for justice from a system that has no answers. The story is base...

Terence - Adelphoe (The Brothers): 'I am human and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me''

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Report copyright infringementby Terence (Author)Publius Terentius Afer is better known to us as the Roman playwright, Terence.Much of his life, especially the early part, is either unknown or has conflicting sources and accounts.His birth date is said to be either 185 BC or a decade earlier: 195 BC. His place of birth is variously listed as in, or, near Carthage, or, in Greek Italy to a woman taken to Carthage as a slave. It is suggested that he lived in the territory of the Libyan tribe that...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Rowe (Author)Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, on June 20th, 1674. He was educated at Highgate School, and then at Westminster School under the tutelage of Dr. Busby. In 1688, Rowe became a King's Scholar, and then in 1691 gained entrance into Middle Temple. This was his father's decision (he was a barrister) who felt that his son had made sufficient progress to study law. While at Middle Temple, he decided that studying ...

Nicholas Rowe - The Ambitious Step-Mother

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Catley (Author)When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster's office it's hardly love at first sight. More like "what you playing at you frigging psycho?" And when the two sixteen-year-olds find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it's time for some serious thinking. "I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for ...

Mrs Inchabald - Every One Has His Fault: 'Then why do you complain for the want of a family?''

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Report copyright infringementby Inchbald (Author)Elizabeth Simpson was born on 15th October 1753 at Stanningfield, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Despite the fact that she suffered from a debilitating stammer she was determined to become an actress. In April 1772, Elizabeth left, without permission, for London to pursue her chosen career. Although she was successful in obtaining parts her audiences, at first, found it difficult to admire her talents given her speech impediment. However, Eliza...

Mrs Inchbald - The Widow's Vow: 'First on your safety think! Now belles appear by ample bulwarks guarded, front and rear''

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Report copyright infringementby Richard John Anderson (Author) Title: The Elephants. Die Rüssel-Tiere-Proboscidea-Sslonn (U). A zoological mnemonic. [In verse.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its...

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Report copyright infringementby Ugljesa Sajtinac (Author), Chris Thorpe (Translator)It's hard turning thirty. Especially when your alcoholic father has taken the toilet door, you've got a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in your bed and your best friend is the lunatic living downstairs.Then an old school friend turns up after ten years living in Huddersfield and it's the start of an evening where the sparks fly and the ketchup flows. A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sa...

Mrs Inchbald - To Marry Or Not To Marry: 'But if you knew the intended bridgegroom''

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Mrs Inchbald - The Wedding Day: 'And aims, in all she dares to write, To make her Wedding Day-a merry night''

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Report copyright infringementby Reza de Wet (Author)Includes the plays African Gothic, Good Heavens and Breathing In A farm lies in ruin. And with mother and father now gone, a brother and sister face eviction by an officious lawyer. Abandoned, they endlessly enact the rituals of punishment once visited upon them by their parents. Widely regarded as a milestone in South African theatre, the multi-award winning play African Gothic tells the story of their final 'dance macabre'. Despite overwhe...

Three Plays: Veracruz, Snowbirds, Big Money

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Report copyright infringementby John F. Levin (Author)JOHN F. LEVIN is an American playwright, novelist and journalist. He has written a number of historically based screenplays including: Pacheco, the story of the Seminole Wars for Warner Brothers, (Danny Glover producer); Dust in the Wind, (Wayne Wang director and Oliver Stone, Producer) and South of Market for American Zoetrope, (Francis Ford Coppola, Producer). His novel, The Great Divide (co-authored with Frank Robinson), was published b...

Mrs Inchbald - Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are: 'Why blame me?''

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Report copyright infringementby George Eric MacKay (Author)Title: Nero and Acte a: a tragedy.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial a...

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Report copyright infringementby George Feydeau (Author), Peter Meyer (Translator)Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France's best comic dramatist since Moliere. He once said that to make people laugh you have to place your cast in a dramatic situation and then observe them from a comic angle, but they must never do or say anything which is not strictly demanded, first by their character and secondly by the plot. Includes the plays Fitting for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Murray Gold (Author)Katherine is creating a "quiet space" in her living room. Complete with fountains, Muslim artwork and a statue of Ganesh. Or, at least, that was the plan seventeen weeks ago when Leo, Jakey and 15 year old Bizzey turned up to make her dream reality. Now she thinks she may be on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Or murder. Or both. Her city type boyfriend, Michael, is trying to be one of the lads, Jakey's turning criminal and Leo's starting to...

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Porter (Author)Emily is sixteen. She lives with her dad and works in a junk shop with no customers. She's got a nose like a white strawberry, hair like a demented angel and a terrible, terrible secret...Adolescence, sexuality and guilt come together in this richly theatrical, macabre and often hilarious play about an ordinary life going badly wrong...Stealing Sweets and Punching People was produced at the Latchmere Theatre, London, in October 2003. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Norden (Author)A play for 7 - 11 year olds. Mum has gone away for some time on her own, trusting Dad to look after the kids, Helen, Andy and Luke. They are all out Christmas shopping, when they overhear a street preacher screaming, 'The end of the world is nigh!'. Luke is convinced that a meteorite will hit their street and there will be no home for Mum to come back to. The kids have to act and act quickly. That night, they're transported to a fantast...

George Peele - David and Bethsabe: 'Of Israel's sweetest singer now I sing, His holy style and happy victories''

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Report copyright infringementby George Peele (Author)George Peele was born in July 1556 and baptised on the 25th at St James Garlickhythe in the City of London. A completely accurate record of his life is not possible but enough accounts and records exist to provide some background. His father, James was a clerk at Christ's Hospital, then a central London school, and authored two treatises on bookkeeping. Peele himself was initially educated at Christ's Hospital before entering Broadgates Hal...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Catley (Author)You're an agoraphobic drug dealer who suffers panic attacks. Not good for business. Enter a teenage boy with a dangerous ambition, a lapdancer who'll do anything for a hit and a hard man on a mission. Could the day get any darker on Sunbeam Terrace?Mark Catley was born in Leeds and grew up within sight of Beeston's Sunbeam Terrace. He was the first writer commissioned by the Playhouse as part of the BBC's New Writing scheme, Northern Exposur...

Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890 - 1939

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Report copyright infringementby L. Platt (Author)This book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to the early 1920s, musical comedy was the single most popular form of 'legitimate' theatre entertainment. This lively account establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Jyll Bradley (Author)Sibylla Kellaway's volatile marriage to unfaithful David is ending. She has flown the marital nest and taken refuge in a summer-house at Silversands, a remote coastal promontory. Sibylla's flight has bitterly divided friends and family and opened old wounds.Anna, a young birder, is also at Silversands. Binoculars and notebook in hand, she secretly records all she sees - the nesting terns and rare waders...and the glamorous, defiant Sibylla....

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel Wright (Author)Ben, Howie, Jude and Tariq. Four guys caged in a hospital ward in the name of medical research. Take tablets, give blood, get paid, go home. And with no drink, no caffeine & no smokes, they're guinea pigs guzzling pills for a fast buck, happy to blank the consequences. All that time to think, and bounce off the walls - and each other. What's more, you couldn't find four lab rats more different. At least, that's what they think - but, d...

John Lyly - Campaspe: 'Fortune, thou didst never yet deceive virtue, because virtue never yet did trust fortune''

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Report copyright infringementby John Lyly (Author)Played beefore the Queenes Majesty on new yeares day at night, by her Majestys Children, and the Children of Paules. John Lyly was born in Kent in 1553 or 1554, the eldest of eight children. As can be imagined accurate records dating so far back of his early life are few and far between. It is most probable that Canterbury, Kent was his actual birthplace. At age sixteen he became a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, and obtained his bachelor...

Coburn: Three Plays: Get Up and Tie Your Fingers; Safe; Devil's Ground

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Coburn (Author)Includes the plays Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Devil's Ground and Safe Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Ann Coburn's first play, was premiered at the 1995 Borders Festival and had a successful run at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival. It is the achingly sad and ultimately uplifting story of three women coping with death, dealing with guilt, and learning to let their children go. Safe is a play which taps into the deep, shared roots of childhood in ord...

Margaret Cavendish - The Lady Contemplation - Part I: 'Prethee let me know those pleasing thoughts''

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Cavendish (Author)Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was born in 1623 in Colchester, Essex into a family of comfortable means. As the youngest of eight children she spent much time with her siblings. Margaret had no formal education but she did have access to scholarly libraries and tutors, although she later said the children paid little attention to the tutors, who were there 'rather for formality than benefit'. From an early ag...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian McAvera (Author)From poverty-sticken youth in Barcelona to international success as leading players in the artistic avant garde Pablo Picasso and Jaime Sabartes lived through much together. But now is the time of reckoning...It is 1973. Picasso has just died. Sabartes is in some strange limbo - and Picasso joins him. However Sabartes is no longer the oppressed doormat he once was. He starts to take Picasso apart...This verbally venemous, effervescent play...