Plays by Nation - French Plays

Martin Crimp from Edmond Rostand

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++ 2020 OLIVIER AWARDS - Best Play Revival A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but...

$13.50

Richard Wilbur from Moliere

** 25% DISCOUNT **Clitandre seeks the hand of Henriette, a match heartily approved of by her father, Chrysale However, his wife, Philaminte, has other plans for her younger daughter - namely marriage to ...

$7.50

Anita Loos from Colette

2 Male 5 Female

** 25% DISCOUNT ** This is the classic story of a young French girl who wins at the game of love Gigi has been brought up by her Grandmama and her courtesan Aunt Alicia They intend their prodigy to be a...

$7.50

David Bradby & Anne Sparks - editors

** 50% DISCOUNT **Mise En Scène is a book in two parts ... The first half is a probing look at French theatre now, providing an historical and critical survey of drama and theatre in France since 1968 ...

$14.95

Jean-Claude Carrière trans Richard Nelson

8 Male 1 Female

++ 25% DISCOUNT ++Imagine a time when the Catholic Church had the right to determine whether or not you were human In a 16C Spanish monastery, the fate of millions of American natives from an ocean away ...

$7.50

David Andeson

1 Male 1 Female

An LGBT couple discuss their relationship and the role spirituality plays in it One-act CAST : M1, 1 Trans WomanTo read the opening scenes, click here

$7.99

Don Druick

Through the Eyes is award-winning playwright Don Druick's acclaimed tour de force for a solo actorSet in the Versailles of the Sun King, this play is the story of the great Italian artist, Gianlorenzo Bernin...

$15.99

Alexandre Dumas trans Laurence Senelick

Anthony is not a melodrama, Anthony is not a tragedy, Anthony is not a stage play. Anthony is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts ~ Alexandre Dumas (père) After an absence of three years,...

$15.95

Florian Zeller trans Christopher Hampton

2 Male 4 Female

The Height of the Storm is a compelling family drama André and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual A bunch of flowers arrive B...

$12.99

Peter Brook & Marie-Helene Estienne

4 Male 1 Female

Peter Brook is among the most influential figures in international theatre, creating challenging, inspiring works across theatre, opera, cinema and writing and forging productions of daring insight and unsto...

$12.99

Georges Feydeau trans Laurence Senelick

Pontagnac - an inveterate womanizer - follows Lucienne to her house and makes advances When her husband Vatelin appears - one of Pontagnac's friends - the kerfuffle is soon settled when Vatelin forgives him...

$15.95

Georges Feydeau trans Laurence Senelick

The Lady from Maxim's is often described as Feydeau's masterpiece It charts the trials and tribulations of a certain proper Doctor Petypon who wakes up with a hangover only to find in his bed "The Shrimp" -...

$15.95

Michel Tremblay adapted Deirdre Kinahan

Fifteen determined women invite you into their lives in this funny and furious new version of Michel Tremblay's celebrated Québécoise comedy Les Belles-Soeurs Transported from Canada to Ireland, it's 1974 a...

$12.99

Sidney Homan & Brian Rhinehart

This book enables actors to create memorable and hilarious performances Sub-titled The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies it explores why we laugh And what we laugh at And how performers can best e...

$24.95

Neil Bartlett from Albert Camus

4 Male 1 Female

Albert Camus' novel La Peste (The Plague) was published in 1947 and instantly seized on as an allegory of the Nazi occupation It was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were...

$14.95

Rose Biggin

This book is the first full-length study to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre Drawing on the author's role as embedded...

$99.95

Robin Belfield

A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner Verbatim theatre is fashioned from words actually spoken by real people in real situations, and ...

$19.95

Florian Zeller trans Christopher Hampton

In The Lie - a companion piece to Florian Zeller's earlier play The Truth - Michel and Laurence are coming for dinner But Alice has spotted Michel kissing another woman that very afternoon Leaving her with...

$12.99

Georges Feydeau trans Laurence Senelick

It was Feydeau himself who suggested that these five one-acts be published under the title From Marriage to Divorce and this collection brings these hilarious plays together in English for the first time Lo...

$19.95

Hana Litova

Si la pièce a un thème, ce thème est la mémoire de la Shoah (Holocaust) CHIAC, le Président, sans doute prononce discours sur discours, obsédé par son son seul compte en banque MARIE, une historienne, sans...

$7.99