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Mastering an American Accent: The Compact Guide

Mastering an American Accent: The Compact Guide

By Rebecca Gausnell

A step-by-step guide to learning and practising an American accent, for anyone who wants to use a General American accent with confidence in auditions and performance.

Two Billion Beats

Two Billion Beats

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.

SAUCE

SAUCE

By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.

Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
    All honey

    All honey

    By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

    A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.

    Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
      Tuesday

      Tuesday

      With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth

      By Alison Carr Translated by Daf James

      A funny and playful drama written specifically for young people, about what happens when the world literally turns upside-down. Bilingual edition: includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.

      Mojo Mickybo

      Mojo Mickybo

      By Owen McCafferty

      An unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred in Belfast during the 1970s.

      Mrs Delgado

      Mrs Delgado

      By Mike Bartlett

      A funny and poignant play for one actor that tells a story of desire, control, raised blinds and lowered boundaries. This edition also includes the monologue Phoenix.

      The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage

      The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (stage version)

      By Philip Pullman Adapted by Bryony Lavery

      The stage version of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, which is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

      Spring Awakening: A Musical

      Spring Awakening: A Musical

      By Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

      The groundbreaking rock musical about teenage sexuality, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik.

      Phoenix

      Phoenix

      By Mike Bartlett

      A powerful story of fire and destruction, self-deceit and the corrosion of trust.

      Published in volume Mrs Delgado
        100 Plays to Save the World

        100 Plays to Save the World

        By Elizabeth Freestone and Jeanie O'Hare

        A guide to one hundred brilliant plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate emergency.

        After Life

        After Life

        By Jack Thorne Original author Hirokazu Kore-eda

        A surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live – and to die.

        My Family and Other Animals

        My Family and Other Animals (stage version)

        By Gerald Durrell Adapted by Janys Chambers

        A delightful and inventive stage version of Gerald Durrell's well-loved memoir of a childhood growing up in Corfu.

        1984

        1984 (stage version)

        By George Orwell Adapted by Nick Hern

        A bold and powerful dramatisation of George Orwell's classic dystopia, ideal for any school, youth group or amateur company.

        The IT

        The IT

        By Vivienne Franzmann

        A darkly comic state-of-the-nation play exploring adolescent mental health and the rage within.

        Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays

        Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays

        By Young Jean Lee

        Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive.

        A Christmas Carol

        A Christmas Carol (Old Vic stage version)

        By Charles Dickens Adapted by Jack Thorne

        Charles Dickens' timeless classic, brought to life in a joyous new adaptation by Jack Thorne.

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