Plays by Genre - Historical and Costume Plays

Esther and Vashti

Carolyn Gage

Cyberpress

A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient PersiaA young Hebrew woman and her former lover, the Queen of Persia, struggle against their personal and political differences to form an alliance a...

$7.99

Older Testaments - Encounters on The Way

William Thomas

Cyberpress

This play is written to accompany the recently published Seven Testaments of World Religion and the Zoroastrian Older Testament (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) Through a series of vignettes, Older Testaments...

$7.99

Save the Pier!

James Harris

Cyberpress

Tear down the iconic Santa Monica Pier? Who would ever want to do that? In the early 1970s it almost happened when the City Council voted to demolish the Pier and replace it with a man-made resort island ...

$7.99

Botticelli in the Fire

Jordan Tannahill

Faber & Faber

4 Male 3 Female

"They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you" Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all - talent, fame, good looks He also has the ear and the wif...

$14.99

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov adapted Conor McPherson

Nick Hern Books

Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson's stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside...

$14.99

Swive [Elizabeth]

Ella Hickson

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 2 Female

"My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country" Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England And she reigned for forty-four years ...

$14.99

The Welkin

Lucy Kirkwood

Nick Hern Books

Rural Suffolk, 1759 As the country waits for the return of Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from thei...

$14.99

Fame is no Sanctuary

Christina Hamlett

Cyberpress

On a February morning in 1922, the body of Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor was found in his living room He was the victim of a single gunshot fired at close range Almost a century later, his...

$7.99

Anatol - A Play

BK De Fabris from Arthur Schnitzler

Createspace

Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893 It is a seven-act play set in late 19th century Vienna, depicting the many shallow and immature relationships of bourgeois playbo...

$6.99

The Guardsman

Bonnie Monte from Ferenc Molnar

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 4 Female

A new version of The Guardsman, Molnar's romantic comedy using a literal English translation by Gabor Lukin, a great-grandson of Molnar A beautiful actress has married her handsome leading man and their bes...

$15.99

The Glass Piano

Alix Sobler

Oberon

2 Male 2 Female

Princess Alexandra thought her life would never change She lives in the castle with her father King Ludwig, her maid Galstina, and glimpses of her mother as she runs from the stables to the rose bushes And...

$14.99

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Rona Munro from Mary Shelley

Nick Hern Books

4 Male 3 Female

"This story has been told and retold in hundreds of different ways since it was first written. But it remains the dark and rebellious roar of its adolescent author. Mary Shelley was only eighteen when she wr...

$12.99

Lancer & Lace

James Bruns

Cyberpress

2 Male 1 Female

November 22, 1963 Dallas, Texas What happens when the defining moment in American History does not happen? The Presidential motorcade proceeds uneventfully through downtown and arrives at the next stop T...

$7.99

Odysseus the Immortal - Part I: Penelope the Queen

Erman Kaplama

Cyberpress

Written mostly in verse, the tragedy Penelope the Queen is the first play in the Odysseus the Immortal trilogy Set in Ithaca nearly a decade after Odysseus's return, it offers an alternative ending to Homer...

$7.99

The Secret River

Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville

Nick Hern Books

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history adapted from Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales, deported as a convict from the slums of Lond...

$15.99

Ten Boom the Musical

Susan Meredith Beyer & Donna Marquean Griggs from Corrie ten Boom

Cyberpress

Ten Boom the Musical is based on The Hiding Place, the true story of Dutch author and Nazi Holocaust survivor Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom and her family risked their lives hiding Jews from Nazis and certa...

$7.99

Plays of the American Experience

Thomas Hischak

Meriwether Publishing

Nothing brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors Subtitled 25 Fascinating Stories for the Classroom or Stage, Plays of the American Experience is a unique Collection of 25 short pl...

$20.99

The Heart of Robin Hood

David Farr

Faber & Faber

The notorious mean and grumpy Robin Hood and his band of outlaws steal from the rich, creating a fearsome reputation amongst those who dare to travel through Sherwood forest But they don't share their spoil...

$14.99

Eyam

Matt Hartley

Nick Hern Books

Winner Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 2016 It's 1665 As the plague runs rife through London, Reverend William Mompesson arrives in Eyam, Derbyshire, to lead the parish But Eyam is no sleepy backwater ...

$14.99

Whisky Galore - STAGE ADAPTATION

Philip Goulding from Compton Mackenzie

Nick Hern Books

0 Male 7 Female

Whisky Galore combines rollicking physical theatre, panto and farce, with an array of hilarious characters, perfect for any female-led theatre company It's 1955 and the Pallas Players, an all-female theatre...

$14.99