Diaries of Peter Pears 1936-78
Peter Pears & Philip Reed
Boydell & Brewer
Travel diaries reveal musical inspiration, personal memoirs, and notes on perfomance - 16 b/w illustrations - 272 pages
$34.95
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Smash
Jeffrey Hatcher
Dramatists Play Service
5 Male 5 Female
Based on the novel An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw, the story centers on Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire Socialist He leaves his bride on their wedding day because he fears his passion for h...
$13
The Envoi Messages
Louis Phillips
Broadway Play Publishing
6 Male 4 Female
"Western Union has arrived with messages sent from the 1930s when all was not well with the world. ENVOI MESSAGES sends clear messages of both desperation and optimism. The play is a tight knit story about m...
$12.99
Radio Gals
Mike Craver & Mark Hardwick
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 4 Female
In the twenties when radio ruled the airwaves and small stations thrived, music teacher Hazel C. Hunt received a transmitter as a retirement gift and station WGAL was born in Cedar Rapids, Arkansas A wacky ...
$10.99
Two and Two Make Sex
Richard Harris & Leslie Darbon
Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 3 Female
Absurdity, taken with seriousness and decorated with the ridiculous, and logic foundering in bizarre situations these are the farcical formulas well exploited in this play. George is getting into his fifties...
$12.99
House of Secrets
Peter McKelvey
Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 3 Female
A wryly funny and well-observed drama in which one of Richard and Sarah Higg's lodgers is attacked and police suspect one of the other men in the household. Eventually they make an arrest but have they actua...
$12.99
Black Sheep
Lee Blessing
Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 2 Female
A prominent family's "black sheep" nephew, the son of an interracial marriage, comes to stay with them after being released from prison But do they want him? And what does he want from them? In this dar...
$13
Angelica and Francesca
Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
iUniverse
Angelica and Francesca are the identical twin daughters of Pellrue, Duke of Doretay Doretay is a state within a kingdom of Vidien, which Angelica's and Francesca's great uncle, King Oscar, rules Pellrue atte...
$9.99
A Sense of Detachment & The End of Me Old Cigar & Jill and Jack & A Place Calling Itself Rome
John Osborne
Oberon
Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values The End of Me Old Cigar e...
$14.99
The Night of January 16th
Ayn Rand
Plume Books
Set in a Courtroom, on one level the play is a gripping drama about the rise and destruction of Bjorn Faulkner, a brilliant and ruthless tycoon On a deeper level, it's a skillful dramatic objectification of...
$16.99
Radioactive Monologues for Women for Radio & Stage and Screen
Marina Caldarone & Marilyn Le Conte - eds
Methuen
This draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television, this collection of extracts is perfec...
$21.99
Access Accents - WELSH (South) - An Accent Training Resource for Actors
Penny Dyer & Gwyneth Strong
Methuen
An essential tool for actors needing to develop an accent at a moment's notice Top voice coach, Penny Dyer, voice coach to Helen Mirren on The Queen and who has worked with Nicole Kidman, Reece Witherspoon ...
$27.99
The Caucasian Chalk Circle - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary Notes
Bertolt Brecht - trans James & Tania Stern with W.H. Auden
Methuen
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child The message of Brecht's parable is ...
$15.99
Buddies
Mary Gallagher
Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 3 Female
The setting is the cluttered living room (and front porch) of an old frame house near the campus of a Catholic men's college in the Midwest It is a summer night in the pre-Vietnam sixties, and the occupan...
$13
Katherine Desouza
Nick Stafford
Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 1 Female
Katherine Desouza is missing, possibly murdered Possibly by Kevin, possibly not Languishing in prison for a series of killings of which he claims to be innocent, Kevin's regular visitor is his old flame Fa...
$13
Sleep Deprivation Chamber - A Theatre Piece
Adam Kennedy with Adrienne Kennedy
Theatre Communications
In this autobiographical drama, a broken taillight leads to the brutal beating of a highly educated, middle-class black man by a policeman in suburban Virginia The Kennedys interweave the trial of the victi...
$15.99
Popkins
Murray Schisgal
Dramatists Play Service
4 Male 2 Female
As the play begins Chuck Popkin, an underpaid assistant editor, is greeted by his wife, Claudia, with the unsettling news that she is leaving him, not for another man but for another woman: Eleanor Lipton...
$13
Local Boy Makes Good - Three Musicals - 18 Wheels & Rock and Roll & Don Messer's Jubilee
John Gray
Talon Books
"18 Wheels is a high-speed delight - rollicking country music of great charm, characterisations of great wit - a totally successful musical entertainment on a wholly Canadian theme" ~ Vancouver Rovince "...
$19.99
Doubletalk - 50 Comedy Duets for Actors
Bill Majeski
Meriwether Press
These comedy American duets have been divided into dialogues for 2 men, 2 women, 1 man and a woman or optional men or women They are suitable for drama competitions as well as auditions, as they are short...
$20.99
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
Tennessee Williams
Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 2 Female
"Superficially the play is about the painter - famous, rich and lost - and his wife, who find themselves in a Tokyo hotel The wife, wildly promiscuous, tries to seduce the Japanese barman in the hotel ba...
$13