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Present-day Dublin on Christmas Eve. John Plunkett is an undertaker. He is in his late fifties and a little worse for life. Like his Dickensian counterpart in "A Christmas Carol", he finds that the season brings forth its ghosts.

Two plays by the Nobel Prize-winning writer. "Anna Christie", first staged in 1921, is a sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute, and won a Pulitzer Prize for the author. "The Emperor Jones" is an expressionistic account of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects, first staged in 1920.

Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a car accident and he keeps seeing her ghost. As John recovers, with Ian's help, Ian himself is going under with troubles of his own.

Gus and Honor have been happily married for 32 years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a young female journalist assigned to "profile" Gus seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout is terrible.

A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.

ounded in the war in Iraq, a farmer's boy turned soldier returns home with injuries that have extraordinary consequences for his fiancee and his family. Lust, temptation, sibling rivalry and the pressures of the past combine with the struggle to maintain a rural existence.

Antony Sher's stunning performance for the Royal Shakespeare Company as a Richard III on crutches - the so-called 'bottled spider' - won him both the Laurence Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor of 1984. This book records - in the actor's own words and drawings - the making of this historic theatrical event.

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. This Drama Classics edition of Anton Chekhov's early tragedy of the disruptive presence of a glamorous actress and her lover is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Part of "Drama Classics" series, this title presents a translation of Anton Chekhov's play.

John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedy, glamorous backstage world of 1630s London theatre. Women are still not allowed on stage, their roles taken by precocious boys. Shank was one of the best, but is now reduced to teaching others the tricks of the trade.

One of the more popular plays of the Elizabethan period and a major influence on Hamlet.

Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, and everyone wants love. So, they push for it. This play is set in a world we all know: the world of work.

Graded exercises introduce the reader to the history and techniques of commedia, originating in mid-16th century Italy. Topics covered include: the commedia masks; mime and movement games; using face masks; and creating the roles. Illustrations demonstrate posture, gesture, costume and masks.

Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. In The Beaux Stratagem a pair of London gentlemen pose as a Lord and his servant in order to procure one handsome dowry to split between them. While Aimwell, the 'lord', works on the affections of Lady Bountiful's daughter Dorinda, his 'servant' Archer makes his bid for her son's wife. Edited and introduced by Simon Trussler.

A fresh and disturbing new play from the sure-fire, ever-fruitful Bush Theatre, London.

Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains: Icecream; Mad Forest; The Skriker; Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds (written with David Lan).

In Salford 1970: the Khan children, caught between bell-bottoms and arranged marriages, are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father's insistence on tradition, their English mother's laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world.

A masterpiece from one of the great dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age, Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

A look at a team of social workers. Angela breaks the rules to get things done her way. Shirley misses the old days, when protection came without a price. Their manager, Gordon, is screwing Angela whilst busy claiming on expenses. And for new comer Grace, it's a struggle not to piss anyone off.

Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, which ran for four years in London's West End; and an earlier monologue, A Night in November, exploring the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

A collaboration between three Scottish playwrights. The play focuses on seven characters whose worlds collide to create a modern mosaic about money and love. John, Carla, Al, Jo, Chris, James and Anita are all trying to work out the best currency in which to conduct their dealings with the world.

Imagine that you muct 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 the only way of passing through to eternity. Imagine that you have just one hour to choose...

Two plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

'Days of Wine and Roses' was a 1962 black and white movie directed by Blake Edwards and starring Jack Lemmon in his first 'dramatic' role as a young alcoholic who drags his much-loved wife with him into the swamp of addiction - from which eventually only he escapes.

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. Bacchae was first performed in Athens in 405 BC. At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.