Drama

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays: Stunning; The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry; Pullman, Wa; Hurt Village; Dying City; The Big Meal

by Sarah Benson

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced...

Longing

by William Boyd

All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life?

Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and...

Kate Tempest

by Kate Tempest

I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it.

Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things....

The Flower Book - Illustrated by Maxwell Armfield

by Toby Cole

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

Educating Rita

by Willy Russell

Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical,...

Ravenhill Plays: 1: Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids

by Mark Ravenhill

"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out

"There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He...

Ravenhill Plays: 2: Mother Clap’s Molly House; The Cut; Citizenship; Pool (no water); Product

by Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times....

Stags And Hens

by Willy Russell

'Stags and Hens takes place in the Gents and Ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda have decided, unbeknownst to each other, to hold their stag and hen parties . . . a bleakly funny and...

Saved

by Edward Bond

Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation...

Come Back, Little Sheba

by William Inge

William Inge's famous story of marital frustration which erupts in violence. Doc and Lola had an indiscreet affair, she became pregnant and, compelled to marry her, he gave up his medical studies, forfeited...

Picnic

by William Inge

This title collects four plays by American playwright William Inge, including Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

Shakespeare on Theatre

by William Shakespeare & Nick de Somogyi

(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here...

The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

by Lisa Hopkins

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship....

The Refugee Hotel

by Carmen Aguirre

Dark comedy about Chilean refugees who arrive in Vancouver in 1974 after Pinochet’s coup. Cast of 12 men and women.

Paradise Garden

by Lucia Frangione

Day and Layla are reunited long after Layla’s family buys Day’s family estate, where generations lived in West Coast paradise.

Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater

by R. Keller Kimbrough

As works of Buddhist fiction, these texts relate the histories and miracles of particular buddhas, bodhisattvas, and local deities. Many of their protagonists have become recognizable cultural icons through...

The Tragedy of Mister Morn

by Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Karshan & Anastasia Tolstoy

For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and...

If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet

by Nick Payne

Fifteen-year-old Anna is bullied by her classmates for being overweight. Her mother, Fiona, decides to transfer her to the school where she teaches, but that only makes things worse. Anna’s father, George,...

The Driving Force

by Michel Tremblay & Linda Gaboriau

The stormy relationship between Claude and his father Alex displays cruel irony on an Alzheimer’s ward. Cast of 2 men.

Simon Stephens

by Simon Stephens

I see you in the morning, on the first morning I stayed over at your house. Waking up. Watching you lying asleep next to me. You looked, you looked. It was like. I think about that more than you probably think...