Comedians
Trevor Griffiths
Faber & Faber
A group of hopeful comedians meet in a Manchester schoolroom for one last briefing from their tutor before submitting to the scrutiny of a London agent's man.
$12.99
Plays by Nation - British Plays
The Hillsborough Script - A Dramatic Satire
Tom Paulin
Faber & Faber
$14.99
Joking Apart
Alan Ayckbourn
Samuel French Ltd
4 Male 4 Female
Another marvelous portrait of middle class, middle aged life by this skillful portrayer of manners and morals. Charming, naturally successful in everything, Anthea and Richard almost unconsciously but ruthle...
$12.99
I Thought I Heard a Rustling
Alan Plater
Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 2 Female
When an ex-miner turned poet is appointed Writer-in-Residence at Eastwood Branch Library, senior librarian Ellen doesn't take long to realise that the charming Geordie is no poet. Nevertheless, she does find...
$12.99
Poor Mrs Pepys
Vanessa Brooks
Josef Weinberger
3 Male 3 Female
Based on incidents from the famous Diary, this spans an eleven year period between 1658 and 1669, creating a comedy that includes both the Black Death and the Great Fire of London as well as bringing to life...
$15.99
Waiting for Yesterday
Duncan Greenwood
Samuel French Ltd
2 Male 6 Female
A small private hotel full of elderly residents is set to close and they are soon to be homeless. Despite having lived there for many years, all of their dreams and hopes for the future are based in the past...
$12.99
A Hostage Close to Home
Dougie Blaxland
New Theatre Publications
2 Male 1 Female
Set in a university city in present day England, this explores what happens when two British students take the daughter of a Middle Eastern politician hostage Although they pretend initially that their aim...
$14.99
Cardiff East
Peter Gill
Faber & Faber
$12.99
Osment Plays 1 - The Dearly Beloved & What I Did in the Holidays & Flesh and Blood
Philip Osment
Methuen
$27.99
Bailegangaire
Tom Murphy
Methuen
" ... as complex and haunting as one of Yeats' later poems ... A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match ... Meanwhile her two granddaughters strug...
$15.99
After the Lions
Ronald Harwood
AmberLane Press
Set in France during the First World War, After the Lions takes as its subject the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, portrayed here towards the end of her illustrious career. "She wants to go on acting " remonstrat...
$16.99
Anna Weiss
Mike Cullen
Nick Hern Books
1 Male 2 Female
An explosive and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome - winner of the 1997 Edinburgh Festival Critics' Award. Anna Weiss is a hypnotherapist, specialising in revealing 'lost' memori...
$14.99
Scottish People's Theatre - Plays by Glasgow Unity Writers
Bill Findlay - ed
Scottish Lterary Studies
Growing out of roots planted in the Great Depression and the chaos of the Second World War, Glasgow Unity Theatre grew into the most celebrated and influential of mid-twentieth century Scottish theatre compa...
$25.99
Ravenhill Plays 2 - Mother Clap's Molly House & The Cut & Citizenship & Pool (no water) & Product
Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times...
$22.99
The Giant
Antony Sher
Nick Hern Books
0 Female
A powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between passion and creativity ... It's Florence, 1501, where a vast block of Carrara marble known as Il Gigante becomes the centre of conflict...
$14.99
Harold Pinter - Plays Two
Harold Pinter
Faber & Faber
The Plays are ... The Caretaker & Night School & The Dwarfs & The Collection & The Lover & 5 Revue Sketches At the heart of this second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work is The C...
$24.99
Waiting in the Wings
Noel Coward
Samuel French Ltd
The Wings is a charitable home for retired actresses where the ladies grow older ungracefully The once-great actress Lotta Bainbridge arrives who years ago married the ex-husband of another of the residents...
$12.99
Brenton Plays 1
Howard Brenton
Methuen
Includes Christie in Love & The Churchill Play & Weapons of Happiness &Epsom Downs & Sore Throats & Magnificence Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dram...
$27.99
Dennis Kelly - Plays One - Debris & Osama the Hero & After the End & Love and Money
Dennis Kelly
Oberon
The four plays in this collection by Dennis Kelly are linked by their characters' desperate need to believe that there is more to life than the often brutal worlds in which they find themselves ... Debris ...
$21.99
Shimmer
Linda McLean
Nick Hern Books
No-one's day is going to plan. Petal, Missy and Hen are on their way to the island of Iona, looking for a miracle When their train is halted by floods, they are forced to stay at a B & B by Loch Lomo...
$16.99