Drama

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Report copyright infringementby David K. O'Hara (Author)Really, we don't have to keep worrying about the time, Gordon. Let's just sit here together. Okay? For a little while. London is sinking, there's constant rain, and everyone is trying to escape. Gordon, an American writer, finds himself holed up in the attic room of a half-way house, awaiting forged papers and safe passage back to the States. He becomes trapped with Stella, a mysterious and seductive woman, and a teenage girl called Iris...

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Report copyright infringementby David Salter (Author)A play based on the works of O.Henry and Al JenningsBuried in the depths of the Ohio Penitentiary, the cruelest prison in American history, an inmate known as "The Smilemaker" keeps his brothers' spirits buoyant and their hopes of survival alive with stories of love and sacrifice amongst the tenements and theatres of Manhattan.Leaping from the shadows bursts a throng of colourful characters including a delirious pair of tap-dancing lovers, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Noelle Janaczewska (Author)GOOD WITH MAPS: When the world map was full of gaps, the Amazon topped the list of places unknown to western explorers. In the twenty-first century are there any 'unknowns' left? On a trip to the Amazon, the writer ponders this and other questions as she struggles to deal with her father's journey through Parkinson's disease towards what is perhaps our last great unknown-death. Good with Maps is sad and confronting, but it's also funn...

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Report copyright infringementby Dejan Stojanovic (Author), Branko Mikasinovich (Introduction by), Dennis Barnett (Author)AUTHORS presented in this anthology are Branislav Nusic ("Deceased"), Djordje Lebovic ("Hallelujah"), Aleksandar Obrenovic ("The Bird"), Aleksandar Popovic ("Hats Off!"), Ljubomir Simovic ("The Traveling Troupe Sopalovic"), Dusan Kovacevic ("Balkan Spy"), Sinisa Kovacevic ("Times Have Changed"), Nebojsa Romcevic ("Caroline Neuber"), Biljana Srbljanovic ("Barbelo, on Dogs an...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia D. Denison (Editor)For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life, who hurt, and are often hurt in return. This study deals with Osborne's complete oeuvre and critically examines its form and technique; the function of the gaze; its construction of gender; and the relationship between Osborne's life and work. Gilleman has also traced the evolution of Osborne's reception by turning to critical review...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Maxwell (Author)Helmet (a.k.a. Roddy) lives his life completely immersed in computer games. The little time he has away from his consoles is spent in The Zone, a low tech games shop, which has just this very day gone bankrupt. Sal, the down-trodden owner of The Zone, is left wondering where it all went wrong. The shop is Sal's prison, but it's Helmet's church. As they get to know each other, hiding from reality for a while, it becomes clear that Helmet ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold Wesker (Author)Arnold Wesker's plays, written over a period of more than fifty years, offer actors, male and female, a remarkable source of monologues covering themes such as friendship, death, old age, political disillusion, failed love, and self-discovery fuelled by emotions ranging through anger, joy, hope, fear, outrage, love, bewilderment, guilt, and comic irony. This is Wesker's own selection of them. In addition to definitive versions of famous mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)Henry had one good eye until the surgeon lost even that one's lens down some drain. He had a wife he could call his own until she started to shack up very noisily with some young turk Australian postgraduate in his (Henry's) own home. He had a housekeeper until she left in built-up disgust claiming Henry continuously confessed to some vague past unspeakable crime. Henry also had this itch which his new housekeeper - his wife's cousin - could k...

The Scruffy Scoundrels: A New English Translation of

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Report copyright infringementby Annibal Caro (Author), Donald Beecher (Translator), Massimo Ciavolella (Translator)Annibal Caro wrote The Scruffy Scoundrels (Gli Straccioni) in Rome in early 1543 for his patron Pierluigi Farnese, the eldest son of Pope Paul III. The actual performance of the play was delayed, then ultimately canceled after the death of its patron. Caro denied numerous requests for permission to stage the play and even to have it copied. First published in 1582 in an edition f...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Wright (Author)"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not mu...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Oswald (Author)A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter the chaos of human desire from the perspective of a servile donkey. The most exquisite tale in this wonderful epic, as originally told by Lucius Apuleius, is the first known account of the m...

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Report copyright infringementby Curious Directive (Norfolk) (Author)It's 7:03pm on the front line of the NHS ambulance service.Sylvia is on her last shift. Lisa is on her first shift. The two women patrol the city streets, encountering the full spectrum of human experience. An immersive journey into the world of the paramedic, where the audience sit in the back of a moving ambulance and witness all that comes with a twelve-hour night shift. The Kindness of Strangers is a pan-city promenade...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah McAndrew (Author), Deborah McAndrew (Adapted by)The world was cruel to Simeon DuffMad and mired in the deepest sloughNobody seemed to give a stuff'bout Simeon, Simeon Duff Simeon Duff is working class, unemployed and desperate. His wife works. He's lost all self-esteem. He's on the scrap heap and wants to end it all . . . and so begins this brilliantly insane comedy about a man on the edge. When word gets out that Duff is going to top himself, a host of...

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Report copyright infringementby Kay Adshead (Author)At the heart of a London Park there is a beautiful house. Inside, the raging Pongo has volunteered for an anger management drug trial. But isn't anger vital to our humanity? Set in a mythical England against ongoing war and civil insurrection, Animal is a dark and funny tale of humanity's struggle for progress. In this millennium, will we choose to be Animals or Angels? Animal opened at The Soho Theatre and New Writing Centre, London, on 4th...

Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Caoimhe Mader McGuinness (Author) Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 08, 2026

Anythynge You Want To: Shakespeare's Lost Comedie

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Austin (Author), Peter Bergman (Author), David Ossman (Author)More than just a rousing send-up of Shakespeare, Anythynge You Want To: Shakespeare's Lost Comedy is a full-length theatrical entertainment, written and rewritten continually throughout The Firesign Theatre's long performing career. This volume collects every iambic double entendre and silly soliloquy into a surreal comedy opus, complete with Firesign's "scholarly" Introduction, tongue-in-chee...

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Report copyright infringementby Carmel Winters (Author)This bold new play from award-winning playwright Carmel Winters deals with the near-taboo topics of sex, power and parentage within modern relationships. Set in the intoxicating height of the boom and, finally, the sober fall of the bust, Best Man prompts a public reckoning of our most private struggles as questions of power within the family are examined with scorching insight. Following the nationwide success of the high-profile B for B...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Maxwell (Author)Mancub is the beautiful and absurd story of a boy who seems to be turning into animals. Paul faces the usual struggles of growing up. Struggles for understanding with his father, struggles to work out what girls are about.But he also faces a more pressing problem. Reality seems to be shifting as the people around him begin to display the traits of certain animals. Stranger still are the changes he, and other people, see in himself. Does ...

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Report copyright infringementby John H. Gray (Author)Claude is born into the de Passioné family, an old wealthy aristocratic French family with extensive ownership in wineries and vineyards. Claude starts life as a rebellious youth, constantly pushing back against his domineering mother, Marie-France and his philandering father, The Marquis.While studying at The Sorbonne in Paris, Claude forges friendships and finds love, until he accidentally stumbles into an international crime ring. His li...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Hayes (Author), Michelle Morgan (Author)Harry Spain is a man with a problem; well several problems actually, and all of them ex-wives. Blondes Abby, Gloria, and Jessica were all once married to Harry, and now enjoy a platonic friendship with him; spending weekends together at his beach-front property in Malibu. They sunbathe, gossip, and hang out on the beach, until one weekend when their perfect existence is threatened by the arrival of Kimberly; a woman...

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Report copyright infringementby Kay Adshead (Author)'White people in their big shiny cars drive many kilometres with their sickness which I heal; sickness of the mind, body and of the soul. I charge a bit more for the soul' At night, a young black boy is 'questioned' by a white South African policeman.....36 years later, when the truth is dug up, a tortured Jennifer watches over her dying husband. But does her maid Beauty have the power to 'save' him, and is the price of remembering a dreadfu...

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Meunier (Author)Jadin, the French Managing Director of a West African trading company in the 1940s, is so addicted to the old order of slave traders, that hereduces his employees to mental and emotional subjugation, destroying their sense of self-worth and dehumanising them. Laurent arrives to challenge Jadin's ruthlessness, but the face-off doesn't last for long. When Laurent replaces Jadin, he turns out to be an even worse example of one of the last sl...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Park (Joint Author), Kate Mulvany (Author)The Harp in the South Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of the Darcy family over thirty years, from country New South Wales in the 1920s to the inner-city slums of Surry Hills in the 1950s. The beating heart of this exuberant play is its carousel of characters. From hard-boozing Hugh Darcy and his long-suffering 'Missus' Margaret, to their children, sensitive and romantic Roie, smart and sassy Dolour, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Baxter (Author)Amid the splendours and pretensions of the royal court, the Earl of Rochester impresses Charles II with his irreverence and plain speech. So much so, that the monarch gives him the task of creating a 'ministry of pleasure', thus liberating him to tour the country in search of all manner of delights. Featuring some of Rochester's most infamous poems, The Ministry of Pleasure opened at the Latchmere Theatre, London in June 2004. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Abdolhai Shammasi (Author)A story of people whose identities have been stolen, since they have accepted that someone who has no name or identification will rule over them. Undoubtedly, in such a situation, all events are as horrible as a comedy. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: April 20, 2022

Among The Breakers: A Drama In Two Acts (1872)

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Report copyright infringementby George Melville Baker (Author)Among The Breakers is a dramatic play written by George Melville Baker and originally published in 1872. The play is set on the rugged coast of Maine and follows the story of a group of shipwreck survivors who are struggling to survive amidst the harsh conditions. The play is divided into two acts, and each act is further divided into several scenes. The first act introduces the characters and sets the scene for the drama that is t...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Conrad (Author)Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to Marseille at age 16, where he began to work on merchant ships - which at times included stints of gun running and the intrigue of political conspiracy. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit...

Four Plays Plays by Grace Cavalieri Including Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory: Blonde Glory: Blonde Glory: Blonde Glory: Four Plays by Grace Cavalieri

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Cavalieri (Author)"Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory" was in development for five years, with several successful readings in Maryland and New York City. It was guided to production by Director Shela Xoregos. The play opened at The Theater for The New City, (NYC) in October 2012. There was a marvelous opening night and then Sandy the Hurricane hit the city, filling the subways with water, and closing Broadway and off- Broadway for weeks. When calm was restored, ou...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Hugo (Author), William Young (Author)""Lucrezia Borgia: A Tragedy"" is a play written by the famous French author Victor Hugo in 1847. The play is based on the life of Lucrezia Borgia, a historical figure who was known for her beauty, political power, and scandalous reputation. The play takes place in the late 15th century in Italy and follows the story of Lucrezia Borgia, her father Pope Alexander VI, and her brother Cesare Borgia. The play explores the...

Fire for Effect: The Unproduced Screenplay

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Report copyright infringementby Ib Melchior (Author)Fire For Effect is a WWII story, but not of the ordinary kind. Based on a true incident, it involves a little known, but vitally important branch of Military Intelligence - the IPWs - Interrogators of Prisoners of War. It is the story of a battle of wits between two officers, good men both, with strong convictions, integrity and a firm sense of duty - but on opposite sides. And it concerns a potentially catastrophic event about to happen. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alyssa Linn Palmer (Author)Chicago, the Roaring Twenties. Cecilia Mills is new to town and struggling to survive. Her world is turned upside down when she falls for gangster Franky Greco's moll Nell Prescott. Working at The Orpheus dance hall thanks to Nell, Cecilia becomes known as CeeCee and rubs elbows with gangsters and the city's elite, and she and Nell hide their affair from Greco. Patrick Sheridan is fresh out of prison and bent on revenge, with Greco in...

Henry Fielding - The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild:

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Fielding (Author)Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, in Somerset on April 22nd 1707. His early years were spent on his parents' farm in Dorset before being educated at Eton. An early romance ended disastrously and with it his removal to London and the beginnings of a glittering literary career; he published his first play, at age 21, in 1728. He was prolific, sometimes writing six plays a year, but he did like to poke fun at the au...