Plays by Genre - Historical and Costume Plays

Paul Thain from Brandon Thomas

6 Male 4 Female

Charley's Aunt is a hugely popular vintage farce It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds in February 1892 and quickly transferred to London's Globe Theatre where it broke the record for...

$12.99

Howard Barker

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++ This is the latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unse...

$24.30

Tom Stoppard

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++2020 OLIVIER AWARDS - Best New Play "Breathtaking. The work of a master" ~ Time Out Leopoldstadt is set at the beginning of the 20th Century in the Jewish quarter of Vienna that gives the...

$13.50

Max Bush

Winner of the AATE Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award for a nationally significant body of work for young audiencesMany consider Max Bush to be the fountainhead of the renaissance in playwriting for y...

$27.95

Nicholas Wright

2 Male 2 Female

Celebrated actor, singer and political campaigner Paul Robeson is touring the United States of America as Othello His Desdemona is the brilliant young actress Uta Hagen Her husband, the Broadway star José...

$12.99

Rona Munro from Louis de Bernieres

++ 25% DISCOUNT ++Rona Munro's acclaimed adaptation of Louis de Bernières' bestselling novel Cephalonia, 1941 Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island ...

$11.99

Karen Ruch - Editor

As She Likes It is an anthology of 8 short plays featuring famous and familiar women from Shakespeare's canon Women who have had muted voices in the Bard's plays But in As She Likes It they take center sta...

$9.99

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

2020 OLIVIER AWARDS ~ Best Comedy Play 'Men, who forgetting they were born of women, nourished of women, and if they were not of the means of women, they would be quite extinguished out of the world, and a f...

$14.99

James Cawood

5 Male 3 Female

** 25% DISCOUNT ** A chilling ghost story full of shocks, twists and gothic atmosphere from the author of Stone Cold Murder and Death Knell The cast of Lucian O'Keefe's 1946 classic ghost play Scared to...

$9.75

Paul Thain from George M Cohan

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++ Seven Keys to Baldpate is a creaky old comedy thriller But back in the day - 1913 to be precise - it was a sensation, hailed by one New York critic as "The cleverest play I have ever see...

$7.20

Reed Martin & Adam Tichenor

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++ The Reduced Shakespeare Company presents the literary sensation of the Century! Discovered buried beneath a parking lot in Leicester, UK, next to a pile of old bones, an ancient manuscri...

$11.30

J M Barrie

** 25% DISCOUNT ** "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves" Billed as "Peter Pan for Grown-ups", this is a haunting drama of self-revelation It's 1917 In a remote English vill...

$11.95

Tristan Bernays

** 25% DISCOUNT **"I'd rather walk in blood than walk a slave" This ancient-history play in verse tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women A queen A warrior And a rebel Britannia, A...

$11.25

Adapted by Paul Thain from Brandon Thomas

6 Male 4 Female

Charley's Aunt is a hugely popular vintage farce It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds in February 1892 and quickly transferred to London's Globe Theatre where it broke the record for...

$7.99

Naomi Paxton - Editor

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++An anthology of eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13, providing invaluable source material to students and scholars from a wide r...

$19.95

Joseph Robinette from Debbie Macomber

++ 10% DISCOUNT ++The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright AwardJo Marie Rose, widowed as a young woman, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her purchase of the Inn at Rose Harbor, a local bed-and-breakfa...

$8.99

Paul Thain from Charles Dickens

This one-act adaptation captures the classic Christmas ghost story in 45 magical minutes One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by his old business partner, Jacob Marley, seven years dead...

$7.99

Susan Croft

** 25% DISCOUNT ** This is an Anthology of rare short plays by female dramatists on the theme of female suffrage In 1908 the Actresses' Franchise League was founded at a meeting in the Criterion Hotel i...

$14.95

Mike Poulton

++ 25% DISCOUNT ++ A new version of The Greatest Story Ever Told... Spanning the creation of Heaven and Earth to the Last Judgement, this is the story of Good versus Evil Of Life and Death And of lo...

$14.99

Kelly Hunter from William Shakespeare

** 25% DISCOUNT ** Hamlet, Who's There? is a tightly written highly theatrical abridged version of Shakespeare's great play Reimagining the action to take place over the course of one night, the play c...

$11.25