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Plays

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Acts

Acts

By Riccardo Galgani

A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.

Published in volume Family: three plays
    The Visitor

    The Visitor

    By Iain Crichton Smith

    A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

    Published in volume Family: three plays
      The Monument

      The Monument

      By Colleen Wagner

      A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.

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      The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume I

      The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume I

      By Thornton Wilder

      Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.

      • Paperback£24.99
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      Pride's Crossing

      Pride's Crossing

      By Tina Howe

      A play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.

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      Just the Three of Us

      Just the Three of Us

      By Simon Gray

      A stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.

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      Trust

      Trust

      By Gary Mitchell

      A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.

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      The Devil's Charter

      The Devil's Charter

      By Barnabe Barnes

      A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

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      The Custom of the Country

      The Custom of the Country

      By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

      A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

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      This is a Chair

      This is a Chair

      By Caryl Churchill

      A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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      Two for the Show

      Two for the Show

      Scenes for student actors

      Edited by Brian Kennedy

      A fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.

      The Clink

      The Clink

      By Stephen Jeffreys

      A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

      Last Dance at Dum Dum

      Last Dance at Dum Dum

      By Ayub Khan Din

      A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.

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      Uncle Vanya

      Uncle Vanya

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Chekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going.

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      Arabian Nights

      Arabian Nights (Young Vic stage version)

      By Dominic Cooke

      A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

      Riddance

      Riddance

      By Linda McLean

      A chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a Glasgow tenement.

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      Spanish Plays

      Spanish Plays

      Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary Peate

      A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.

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      Peer Gynt

      Peer Gynt

      By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

      Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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