'Five Gold Rings' is Joanna Laurens' second play, it opens at the Almeida Theatre, London in December 2003.
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'Five Gold Rings' is Joanna Laurens' second play, it opens at the Almeida Theatre, London in December 2003.
Arabian Nights Dominic Cooke "Arabian Nights focuses on seven of the 1,001 tales that Sharazad told her royal husband Shahrayar each morning to stave off her threatened execution. "It's been a long time wince I've heard a theatre audience stamp …
The plays in the Drama Classics series conform as set texts for the AQA and AS level courses up to 2004. Each of the world class pieces is introduced by an expert and the books are very compact and portable.
London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir. When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds. Tanika Gupta is the author of "Waiting Room."
brand new musical, a wonderfully upbeat story of unrequited love and a great comedy all rolled into one.
Bumbling and inefficient town officials are thrown into a panic when they learn that a Government Inspector is coming, perhaps incognito. When a well-dressed rogue arrives, he realizes he is presumed to be the Inspector and takes advantage of the …
Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London's powerhouse of new theatre writing, "Airsick" is a sexy and sassy first play from Emma Frost. Her two lead characters are very feisty, outspoken, no-nonsense women. The trouble is they are still prone to get …
"We Happy Few" follows a seven-woman amateur troupe as it travels the country's schools and village greens during World War II playing a repertoire of Shakespeare and other classics. Disasters happen, triumphs occur, but above all the show must …
Death and the Maiden/Reader/Widows/Trilogy
Widows Death and the maiden Reader.
Stuart Carolan's debut play tells the story of a fractured family in present-day Ireland, entrenched in violent and uncompromising republicanism, which finally shatters when a senior figure in the IRA visits the farm to hunt out a suspected …
SMark arrives in a village near Madras to try and find his wife. He does not understand what has driven her to abandon her young son. Jane cannot explain why she needed to escape or how she ended up looking after children in India or what is in …
Written around 1940, but not staged until 1956, this autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright recreates his own family experience, in an attempt to understand himself and those to whom he was tied by fate and love. This is the …
Phedre Jean Racine The most famous classical tragedy-recently revived in the West End and at Brooklyn Academy of Music with Diana Rigg.
Marlowe's "history play" which focuses on the reign of Edward in 14th-century England. The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece.
Two plays by the winner of the Best Fringe Production Award at the 1996 Dublin festival, Disco Pigs is about Pig and Runt, two 17-year-olds who share everything at the time in their lives when everything has a meaning and seems to last forever; …
Moliere's most controversial play, Don Juan follows the sensualist escapades of the notorious and unrepentant womanizer and his valet, Sganarelle, who fervently (but unsuccessfully) tries to steer Don Juan onto the right path.
Children of the Sun Maxim Gorky A prophetic pre-Revolutionary play, first staged in Russia in 1905, advocating an alliance between the workers and the intelligensia.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Drama Classics series is gaining ground each year and is actively sought after by many schools and teachers.
Three friends from high school revisit a shocking event ten years before. Ruthless accusations, festering resentment and unresolved sexual jealousies are exposed. Tape is an unsettling drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.
Into a waterfront bar, full of life's failures, subsisting solely on their dreams, comes Hickey with his urge to make them face the truth. This play, first staged in 1946, is written by the author of Anna Christie and Strange Interlude, who won …
Tiny Dynamite: First Performed at the Traverse Theatre 3 August 2001
"Tiny Dynamite": when memory takes hold, when chaos takes over and when the electricity between us becomes overwhelming. An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike …
Stanley Spencer is the wayward genius of modern British painting. Coming from humble origins, he never lost his 'rough edges' despite being taken up by the smart set. His stubborn championing of ordinary people and local places as suitable …
With energetically witty English verse throughout, Anthony Burgess' translation of this well-loved 19th-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal …
Two former lovers, now both married, meet in a hotel room away from their homes. Their given reasons are plain: both are in town and want to share a meal. But each has hidden motives which will only emerge with time. The result is a night of …
brutally funny journey through the backrooms of the British rock 'n' roll business in the late '50s, Mojo has won numerous awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Part of a series of pocket paperbacks of the world's great plays - at a great little price.
The story, told in flashback, of one of the 10,000 children sent by their parents to Britain from Nazi Germany to start a new life.
dramatisation of the classic Sunset Song. Lewis Grassic Gibbon published Sunset Song in 1932. Along with the two subsequent parts of what became a trilogy, it tells the story of Chris Guthrie through her country childhood and marriages before and …
Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life and capture it with a magical camera-everything else will be erased. Imagine that choosing this memory is your only way of passing through to eternity. Imagine that you have just one …
On the family estate outside Oslo at the turn of the nineteenth century, a man paces up and down an upstairs room. This is John Gabriel Borkman, once a famous entrepreneur, now reduced to penury and self-doubt following a prison sentence for …