Ambulance & Downfall
Gregory Motton
Oberon
New edition of two original plays by the innovative Gregory Motton Both plays premiered at the Royal Court Theatre directed by Lindsay Posner
$14.99
Plays by Nation - British Plays
Blue Ball
Paul Godfrey
Methuen
The Blue Ball is an imaginative investigation of the experience of Space researched by the playwright among the astronauts themselves This ambitious play questions the politics of a culture in which the won...
$15.99
The Whisky Taster
James Grahan
Methuen
The Whisky Taster is a contemporary, subtle and witty exploration of feeling and perception in the modern world of advertising Barney and Nicola are advertising wonder kids They win accounts with wit, cha...
$15.99
Man and Boy
Terence Rattigan
Samuel French Ltd
5 Male 2 Female
Gregor Antonescu, a tycoon of Hungarian origin, arrives at the Greenwich Village apartment of his illegitimate son, Basil, for a business meeting to discuss a highly-profitable merger After achieving appare...
$12.99
Self Portrait
Sheila Yeger
AmberLane Press
3 Male 6 Female
Gwen John, now regarded as one of the finest painters of our time and country, had an immense talent that was largely overshadowed during her own lifetime by that of her brother Augustus. With this portrait ...
$16.99
Something to Remember You
by Jimmie Chinn
Samuel French Ltd
2 Male 3 Female
Armstrong Armstrong is a man convinced he is ugly and scarred and desperate to become a writer. Unable to deal with the strange lonely world, he finds escape at the cinema and in his absent father's record c...
$12.99
Christopher Hampton - Plays 1 - Total Eclipse & The Philanthropist & Savages & Treats
Christopher Hampton
Faber & Faber
Four Christopher Hampton plays from the late-1960s and early-1970s - a comedy about the repercussions of a dinner party, an account of the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine, a variant on the eternal ...
$24.99
Two Thousand Years
Mike Leigh
Faber & Faber
1 Male 4 Female
Concentrating on a North-London Jewish family, Mike Leigh explores, in a gentle tragic-comic way, a wide range of issues, including politics, religion, identity and the vexed question of Israel and the Middl...
$19.99
Quartet & Equally Divided
Ronald Harwood
Faber & Faber
This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights ... In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers and each year, on 10th October, there is a concert to...
$12.99
Apologia
Alexi Kaye Campbell
Nick Hern Books
3 Male 3 Female
A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian As a young mot...
$14.99
Moving
Hugh Leonard
Samuel French Ltd
5 Male 4 Female
It is 1957 and the Noone family are moving to a new house in Dublin, ably assisted by the Removal Man who steps in and out of the action commenting on the relationships The second act is set in 1987 when th...
$12.99
Pravda - A Fleet Street Comedy
Howard Brenton & David Hare
Methuen
Pravda (which means "truth") is a comedy of excess which, for the first time puts modern Fleet Street on the stage This is Howard Brenton's and David Hare's first collaboration since Brassneck in 1973. I...
$15.99
Map of the Heart
William Nicholson
Samuel French Ltd
4 Male 4 Female
A profoundly moving play concerning Albie who, dissatisfied with his life, decides to go to the Sudan to perform charitable work with his lover, Mary Whilst in the Sudan, Albie is taken hostage and both Mar...
$12.99
Strippers
Peter Terson
Samuel French Ltd
4 Male 6 Female
Peter Terson's wry play looks at the world of strippers, particularly on one young couple, Wendy and Bernard When Bernard is made redundant, Wendy turns reluctantly to stripping to support the family Altho...
$12.99
The Last Supper
Howard Barker
John Calder Publications
Barker's most ambitious work to date. A meditation on the story of the last supper. A densely imagined tour of the human will to self-denial and submission Employing a contemporary deity - The People - in...
$9.99
The Collected Plays of Ronald Harwood - A Family & The Dresser & J.J. Farr & Another Time
Ronald Harwood
Faber & Faber
Ronald Harwood came to England from South Africa in 1951 and began writing in 1960 He is also the author of "After the Lions", "Tramway Road" and "The deliberate Death of a Polish Priest"
$25.99
As the Beast Sleeps
Gary Mitchell
Nick Hern Books
6 Male 1 Female
'A born thriller writer' ~ Times 'His writing has the blazing conviction of lived experience combined with a highly welcome relish for strong plots' ~ Daily Telegraph 'Exudes all the tension of a Hollywood...
$14.99
Scot-Free New Scottish Plays
Alasdair Cameron - editor
Nick Hern Books
The plays in the Collections are ... Writer's Cramo is John Byrne's (The Slab Boys and Tutti-Fruitti) first play which takes satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions Losing Venice is John Cl...
$19.99
Plays for England - The Blood of the Bambergs & Under Plain Cover & Watch It Come Down
John Osborne
Oberon
A volume from the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival and author of Look Back in Anger The Blood of the Bambergs, the first of the two companion "Plays for England", is a satirical a...
$14.99
Plunder
Ben Travers
Used Copy
$19.99