Disrupting the Spectacle
Peterge
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Five Years of Experimental & Fringe Theatre in Britain
$29.99
Plays by Genre - Vaudeville and Folk Plays
Stand-Up - On Being a Comedian
Oliver Double
Methuen
How could Max Miller reduce an audience to helpless laughter just by talking about a fan dancer and her fan ? Why do club audiences howl with glee at Bernard Manning's violent jokes about Pakistanis ? Wh...
$28.99
Western Popular Theatre - The Proceedings of a Symposium - sponsored by Manchester University
David Mayer & Kenneth Richards - eds
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$22.99
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
David Self - adapted from the 14C poem
SchoolPlay Productions
4 Male 1 Female
This version of the Gawain legend has been especially adapted from the 14C poem and uses the anonymous poet as storyteller. King Arthur's Christmas festivities are interrupted by the arrival of the Green...
$6.99
Irish Folk-History Plays
Lady Gregory
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Includes The Canavans & The White Cockade & The Deliverer - published 1912 - very rare
$55
Marie Lloyd and Music Hall
Daniel Farson
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$35
Drag - a History of Female Impersonation on the Stage
Roger Baker
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$27.99
Dirty Work at the Crossroads or Tempted Tried and True - A Melodrama in Three Acts
Bill Johnson
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 7 Female
This is a mirthfully tear-jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent country girl and the dastardly Munro Munro has a wife, Ida Rhinegold, the dastardly belle of New Haven Music Halls, but that does not ...
$10.99
Harlequin Phoenix - or The Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue
Thelma Niklaus
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$27.99
Robin Hood - A Musical Celebration
David Wood and Dave & Toni Arthur
Samuel French Ltd
An exciting series of playlets which tell the various well-known tales of Robin Hood. A basic cast of fourteen is required but the cast can be very expansive and is designed to be a musical celebration by...
$12.99
Nineteenth Century British Theatre - Essays from Manchester University Symposium
Kenneth Richards & Peter Thomson - eds
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Nineteenth Century British Theatre - Essays from Manchester University Symposium - First Edition 1971 - ex-lib
$24.99
Grand-Guignol - The French Theatre of Horror
Richard J Hand & Michael Wilson
University of Exeter
The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the Theatre of Horror, a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was e...
$29.99
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet - 54 Monologues
Jo Carson
Theatre Communications Group
Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from "found" stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA A remarkable distillation of rhythms and n...
$16.99
Gaslight - A Victorian Thriller in Three Acts - aka Angel Street
Patrick Hamilton
Samuel French Ltd
2 Male 3 Female
A Broadway hit first produced in London under the title Gaslight, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in the 19th Century When the curtain rises, all appears to be peace...
$12.99
Little Nell and the Mortgage Foreclosure
John Donald O'Shea
Theatrefolk
2 Male 3 Female
A delightful melodrama replete with broad comedy, memorable characters, and plenty of booing and hissing for the stovepipe-hat-wearing villain! Nell Pureheart and her wise old Auntie Nora are about to lose...
$14.99