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A.D. - A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus

A.D. - A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus

Edwin Morgan Published by Carcanet
1857544986

Acclaimed Scotish poet Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time, when He experiences all that…

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Abandonment

Abandonment

by Kate Atkinson Published by Nick Hern Books

Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone She’s moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot But worse than that…

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Absence of War

Absence of War

David Hare Published by Faber & Faber

This is the final play in a series of three, following Racing Demon and Murmuring Judges As with the other plays, Hare has created a fiction based on fact, and for his research into the workings of the…

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Across Oka - STUDENT EDITION - includes Notes & Commentary

Across Oka - STUDENT EDITION - includes Notes & Commentary

Robert Holman Published by Methuen

Eileen and her grandson Matty, 16, travel to Russia to stay with scientist Pavel and his son Nikolai, 14, on the Oka reserve where they are to take part in an experiment to save the Siberian Crane from…

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Adrenalin Heart

Adrenalin Heart

1 Male, 1 Female

Georgia Fitch Published by Oberon

Leigh meets Angel and her life is turned upside-down as sex, race, drugs and verbals collide in this terrifyingly beautiful roller-coaster drama “Someone in a white coat said I was one of those who…

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Afore Night Come

Afore Night Come

Large Mixed Cast Male, 2 Female

David Rudkin Published by Oberon

Sure there’s no end to the disasters that could choose to unfurl themselves on the world. The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual…

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After Aida

After Aida

4 Male, 3 Female

Julian Mitchell Published by AmberLane Press

After the triumphs of Aida and the Requiem in the early 1870s, the composer Verdi has retired to the country. His two friends, Ricordi the publisher and Faccio the conductor, convinced that Verdi should…

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After Darwin

After Darwin

5 Male, 1 Female

Timberlake Wertenbaker Published by Faber & Faber

Charles Darwin is invited to travel aboard the “Beagle” with Robert FitzRoy into uncharted waters off the coast of South America But for Millie, Ian and Tom, getting to grips with a 1998 stage…

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After Liverpool & Games

After Liverpool & Games

James Saunders Published by Samuel French Ltd

Both ‘After Liverpool’ and ‘Games’ - published together in the same volume - are suites of pieces which play predominantly with theme and are to be performed by one or more actors.…

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After Miss Julie

After Miss Julie

Patrick Marber after Strindberg Published by Methuen
413711501

July 1945. A country house in England. Celebrations for the British Labour Party’s election victory are in full swing The lady of the house, Miss Julie, descends into the servants’ kitchen…

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After Mrs Rochester

After Mrs Rochester

2 Male, 6 Female

Polly Teale Published by Nick Hern Books

A dramatisation of both the tortured life of writer Jean Rhys, but also of her most famous book - The Wide Sargasso Sea, a sequel to Jane Eyre Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre - and more particularly…

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After the Dance

After the Dance

Terence Rattigan Published by Nick Hern Books
9781854592170

Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking writer, David, the play turns on his involvement with two women, his wife Joan and an earnest-minded younger woman, Helen Joan commits suicide. David…

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After the Lions

After the Lions

Ronald Harwood Published by 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 “ remonstrates…

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Afterlife

Afterlife

4 Male, 2 Female

Michael Frayn Published by Methuen
9781408108338

Afterlife is Michael Frayn‘s first new play for the UK’s National Theatre since Democracy in 2003 Investigating the life of the Austrian impressario Max Reinhardt, this is a grand epic as Reinhardt…

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Afterlife - ACTING EDITION

Afterlife - ACTING EDITION

6 Male, 2 Female

Michael Frayn Published by Samuel French Inc

Max Reinhardt was a man who had everything - money, friends, a beautiful home And then – pfft! It all vanished ... One the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, he had a lifelong ambition – to dissolve…

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Agamemmnon & The Fall of the House of Usher

Agamemmnon & The Fall of the House of Usher

Steven Berkoff Published by AmberLane Press

Adapted from Aeschylus’ great tragedy, Berkoff’s version of Agamemnon is about the heat of battle, fatigue, the marathon, and the obscenity of modern and future wars In The Fall of the House…

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Age of Consent

Age of Consent

1 Male, 1 Female

Peter Morris Published by Methuen

Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize…

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Alan Bennett - Plays 1 - Forty years on & Getting on & Habeas Corpus & Enjoy

Alan Bennett - Plays 1 - Forty years on & Getting on & Habeas Corpus & Enjoy

Alan Bennett Published by Faber & Faber
9780571177455

A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance

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Alan Bennett - Plays 2 - Kafka’s Dick & The Insurance Man & The Old Country & An Englishman Abroad & A Question of Attribution

Alan Bennett - Plays 2 - Kafka’s Dick & The Insurance Man & The Old Country & An Englishman Abroad & A Question of Attribution

Alan Bennett Published by Faber & Faber
9780571194421

This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution.…

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Alarms and Excursions / METHUEN EDITION

Alarms and Excursions / METHUEN EDITION

METHUEN EDITION Published by
9780413732804

Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzzers, warblers, beepers and cheepers, all trying to warn them of something What are these electronic…

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Albert Make Us Laugh

Albert Make Us Laugh

6 Male, 8 Female

Jimmie Chinn Published by Samuel French Ltd

A unique and touching play about Albert Nuttall, aged eleven, who, some would say was backward, but is in fact very special - he is a poet and a visionary. As Albert grows up he inspires unexpected depths…

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