The Last Actor Managers
Laurence Irving & T F Dillon Croker & Stephen Tucker
Used Copy
Includes Forbes-Robertson & F R. Benson & Beerbohm Tree & Lewis Waller & Oscar Asche & George Alexander - published 1879
$35
Plays by Genre - Vaudeville and Folk Plays
Curse You Jack Dalton - An Old Fashioned Melodrama
Wilbur Braun
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 4 Female
And still the villain pursues her! Not only pursues her but threatens to have her committed to an asylum if she does not renounce our manly hero, Jack Dalton! You've never encountered such a villain as...
$8.99
The Greasepaint War - Show Business 1939-45
John Graven Hughes
Used Copy
$35
The Old Wife's Tale - New Vampt & Adorned with Figures
Anon - published 1911
Used Copy
$19.99
The Edinburgh Fringe - A History
Alistair Moffat
Used Copy
$19.99
Working the Halls : The Honris in One Hundred Years of British Music Hall
Peter Honri with Overture by Spike Milligan
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An illustrated history of British Music Hall through career of Peter Honri 214-page English language paperback edition published by Futura Publications Limited in 1974
$29.99
The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold
Blanchard Jerold
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Written by his son. Very rare - spine worn but otherwise good - published 1858.
$55
Pure as the Driven Snow or A Working Girl's Secret
Paul Loomis
Samuel French Inc
5 Male 8 Female
On a dark and stormy night Purity Dean, a working girl with a secret, seeks shelter in a Vermont inn She's been forced to give up her canning factory job as she can no longer endure black hearted Mortimer F...
$10.99
Disrupting the Spectacle
Peterge
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Five Years of Experimental & Fringe Theatre in Britain
$29.99
Stand-Up - On Being a Comedian
Oliver Double
Methuen
How could Max Miller reduce an audience to helpless laughter just by talking about a fan dancer and her fan ? Why do club audiences howl with glee at Bernard Manning's violent jokes about Pakistanis ? Wh...
$28.99
Western Popular Theatre - The Proceedings of a Symposium - sponsored by Manchester University
David Mayer & Kenneth Richards - eds
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$22.99
Irish Folk-History Plays
Lady Gregory
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Includes The Canavans & The White Cockade & The Deliverer - published 1912 - very rare
$55
Marie Lloyd and Music Hall
Daniel Farson
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$35
Drag - a History of Female Impersonation on the Stage
Roger Baker
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$27.99
Harlequin Phoenix - or The Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue
Thelma Niklaus
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$27.99
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
David Self - adapted from the 14C poem
SchoolPlay Productions
4 Male 1 Female
This version of the Gawain legend has been especially adapted from the 14C poem and uses the anonymous poet as storyteller. King Arthur's Christmas festivities are interrupted by the arrival of the Green...
$6.99
Dirty Work at the Crossroads or Tempted Tried and True - A Melodrama in Three Acts
Bill Johnson
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 7 Female
This is a mirthfully tear-jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent country girl and the dastardly Munro Munro has a wife, Ida Rhinegold, the dastardly belle of New Haven Music Halls, but that does not ...
$10.99
Grand-Guignol - The French Theatre of Horror
Richard J Hand & Michael Wilson
University of Exeter
The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the Theatre of Horror, a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was e...
$29.99
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet - 54 Monologues
Jo Carson
Theatre Communications Group
Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from "found" stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA A remarkable distillation of rhythms and n...
$16.99
Gaslight - A Victorian Thriller in Three Acts - aka Angel Street
Patrick Hamilton
Samuel French Ltd
2 Male 3 Female
A Broadway hit first produced in London under the title Gaslight, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in the 19th Century When the curtain rises, all appears to be peace...
$12.99