Plays by Publisher - Amberlane Press

Bent

Martin Sherman

AmberLane Press

Max is gay and sent to Dachau concentration campHe denies he is gay and gets the Jews' yellow label instead of the pink one given to gays In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears...

$14.99

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Manuel Puig, translated by Allan Baker

AmberLane Press

2 Male 0 Female

Two prisoners share a cell in an Argentinian jail Valentin, a young Marxist revolutionary, is contemptuous of the older Molina who is gay, yet a deep friendship developsBut the guards are bribing Molina with...

$12.99

Theatre in a Cool Climate

Colin Chambers & Vera Gottlieb

AmberLane Press

Despite the onslaught of gevernment policies and media denigration, all the contributors to this book think it does They each present their own snapshots of what it's like to be a professional in the th...

$29.99

Borrowing Time

Michael Burrell

AmberLane Press

1 Male 1 Female

Borrowing Time is a play about family life and relationships - between husband and wife, father and daughter, brother and sister As history moves on, each generation is faced with new challenges and new per...

$16.99

Raj

Leeds Playhouse-in-Education Company

AmberLane Press

RAJ is set in India during British administration. It is a play about imperialism, about power and where it lies, about divided loyalties: loyalties born, nurtured and handed down over generations of British...

$9.99

Vampire

Snoo Wilson

AmberLane Press

3 Male 3 Female

Vampire was originally written for Paradise Foundry (formerly Portable Theatre). Snoo Wilson says: "Every age has its own vampires ... the play begins in the Victorian age. It was a Victorian phenomenon beca...

$16.99

Grace Note

Samuel Adamson

AmberLane Press

3 Male 3 Female

When Grace decides to leave her sheltered accommodation and return to her old home, her children start to worry. Only Ellie, her daughter-in-law, seems to understand her need to dwell on the past and her pas...

$16.99

Don Quixote

Keith Dewhurst

AmberLane Press

6 Female

From the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Keith Dewhurst's version of Don Quixote is an epic play in 23 scenes, which seeks to convey for the theatre the variety, humour and tragic power of the most remarkable ...

$16.99

Stoppard - The Mystery and the Clockwork

Richard Corballis

AmberLane Press

The terms "mystery" and "clockwork" are scattered throughout Stoppard's own writings and concepts and are encapsulated in Act II of Jumpers when George complains (unjustifiably as it turns out) that Archie...

$22.99

Disposing of the Body

Hugh Whitemore

AmberLane Press

5 Male 3 Female

When life starts to fade into a summery drowsy twilight, you should be taking things a little easier ... But for Henry Preece, embarking on early retirement with his attractive wife, things start to go serio...

$16.99

A Letter of Resignation

Hugh Whitemore

AmberLane Press

1963 was an amazing year. President Kennedy's assassination. The Great Train Robbery. Beatlemania. The Profumo Affair. Life was changing Britain was becoming a different place and to many people the Prime M...

$16.99

Death Catches the Hunter

Biyi Bandele

AmberLane Press

When the Prophet Emefa receives the word of God he founds a new church, and the people flock to see the miracles he performs. He cures the paralysed and restores sight to the blind. His final act of daring i...

$16.99

Bodies

James Saunders

AmberLane Press

3 Female

Two couples - Anne and Mervyn, and Helen and David - meet again for the first time in nine years. Helen and David have since undertaken a course of 'therapy' in America, which they claim has given them a new...

$16.99

Turning Over

Brian Thompson

AmberLane Press

5 Male 2 Female

A deliciously funny satire on how television documentaries are made. A BBC film crew is on a hill station in India, making a programme for a series entitled 'I could be happy here'. But the presenter, direct...

$16.99

New Boy

Russell Labey from William Sutcliffe

AmberLane Press

3 Male 2 Female

Barry has the face of an angelThe body of a god And the name of a plasterer When he arrives as the new boy at school everyone's hormones start racing And it's not just the girls who fancy him REVIEWS ...

$14.99

The Best of Friends

Hugh Whitemore

AmberLane Press

This unusual play by the author of Breaking the Code is adapted from the letters and writings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Sir Sydney Cockerell and George Bernard Shaw, close friends who exchanged a flood of...

$16.99

I Thought I Heard a Rustling

Alan Plater

AmberLane Press

3 Male 2 Female

I Thought I Heard a Rustling is a comedy about a very serious topical dilemma: would you rather live in a town with twenty-seven supermarkets and one library, or a town with twenty-eight supermarkets and no ...

$16.99

Another Country

Julian Mitchell

AmberLane Press

9 Male 0 Female

Another Country is set in an English public school in the early 1930s. The future leaders of the English ruling class are being prepared for their roles in the Establishment But the two central characters a...

$16.99

Coriolanus in Deutschland

Steven Berkoff

AmberLane Press

Steven Berkoff's journal of directing Coriolanus in Germany makes fascinating reading as one of Britain's most controversial figures of the theatre unfolds the agonies and pleasures of creating Shakespeare i...

$22.99

Falling Over England

Julian Mitchell

AmberLane Press

4 Male 3 Female

Falling Over England is the moving chronicle of a British family over three generations, from 1945, through the Suez crisis of 1956, to the present. Shifting back and forth in time, the play asks dramatic qu...

$16.99