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  • av Willy Russell
    176

    A single-volume re-issue of the well-known play Educating Rita. The story centres on a working-class Liverpudlian woman's hunger for education.

  • av Joe Orton
    176 - 241

    Re-issue of this 60s classic

  • av Mike Bartlett
    201

    But that''s what this is, isn''t it? The ultimate bitch fight.When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . Mike Bartlett''s metrosexual play about love and longing provides us with questions of who we are and who we want to be. John''s refusal to fix his identity disturbs and disrupts the lives of those around him in this contemporary tale of sex without nudity and struggle without violence. Mike Bartlett''s punchy story takes a playful, candid look at one man''s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice.Cock premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 13 November 2009.It is published here in the Modern Classics series, featuring an introduction by Mark O''Thomas.

  • av UK) Prebble & Lucy (Playwright
    176 - 237

  • av Arnold Wesker
    201

    It's 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life.Roots is the remarkable centrepiece of Wesker's seminal post-war trilogy. It was first performed in 1959 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, before transferring to the Royal Court. It is the second play in a trilogy comprising Chicken Soup with Barley and I'm Talking About Jerusalem. It went on to transfer to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End.A true classic, Roots is an affecting portrait of a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change. This Modern Classic edition features an introduction by Glenda Leeming.

  • av Peter Whelan
    697

    A Modern Classic edition of this First World War play with supporting notes for students including a full introduction exploring the work's themes, context and history, classroom activities and a chronology.

  • av Caryl Churchill
    241

    A revised edition of this satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, which caused the inhabitants of London City to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. Since then it has provoked city financiers the world over to heated debate.

  • av Brendan Behan
    201

    An essential text in the development of modern British drama

  • av Patrick Marber
    247

    1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and Writers' Guild for Best West End Play

  • av Patrick Marber
    176 - 191

    "Closer" is a play which views love and sex like politics: its not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do.

  • av David Mamet
    227 - 621

    First staged in Britain in 1983, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. This Student Edition contains a full introduction, commentary and questions for study.

  • av Frank Wedekind
    176 - 257

    Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced

  • av Bertolt Brecht
    197 - 201

    Inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle, and written at the close of World War II, this parable is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It re-tells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed and fought over by two women.

  • av Mark (Playwright & UK) Ravenhill
    211 - 257

    -A Lyric Hammersmith production ... First performance of this production at the Lyric Hammersmith on 07 October 2016---Added title page.

  • av Martin McDonagh
    176 - 227

    A Student Edition of McDonagh's The Lonesome West, the final part of his trilogy set in a fictionalized and impoverished western Ireland village called Leenane, first produced in 1971.

  • av David Mamet
    181 - 211

    This play was published to coincide with its British premiere, directed by Harold Pinter, at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

  • av Edward Bond
    176

    A play set in London in the 60s reflecting a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estate

  • av Robert Bolt
    176

    Robert Bolt's tense play of conscience, made into a film starring Paul Scofield, charts the dramatic events leading to the execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535. More enters into political and moral conflict with King Henry VIII over king's intention to divorce Catherine of Aragon.

  • av Bertolt Brecht
    201 - 247

    In John Willett's translation, this edition contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases

  • av Bertolt Brecht
    176 - 188,99

    In Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece translated by John Willett features an extensive introduction and Brecht's notes and textual variants.

  • av Roy Williams
    201

    Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go.In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus - American powerhouse or naive cash cow? Having spent their youth in the same London boxing gym, vying for the favouritism of inspirational, foul-mouthed trainer Charlie Maggs, the two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are. Boxing has dominated their lives with an unhoped-for structure and meaning, but it becomes clear that it is no substitute for their health, family, and friends. Roy Williams' Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and black in the 1980s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won. With an introduction by Harry Derbyshire, Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Greenwich.

  • - Screenplay
    av Jonathan Harvey
    181 - 317

    Thamesmead is a tough estate for Jamie and Ste to grow up on, with Jamie's mother's latest unlikely boyfriend and Ste's violent, alcoholic father. This screenplay explores the flowering of love between the two boys on their South London estate as they discover their homosexuality.

  • av Dario Fo
    176 - 241

    A reissue of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a sharp satire on police corruption. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters' window.

  • av Abraham J. Heschel
    347

    Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.The Prophets provides a unique opportunity for readers of the Old Testament, both Christian and Jewish, to gain fresh and deep knowledge of Israel's prophetic movement. The author's profound understanding of the prophets also opens the door to new insight into the philosophy of religion.

  • av Jim (Playwright Cartwright
    176

    Two plays by the Lancashire playwright Jim Cartwright, author of Road. Two is an evocation of English pub life, in which two actors play a series of characters. Bed is a surreal journey into old age and sleep.

  • av Bertolt Brecht
    176 - 247

    This is David Hare's version of Brecht's classic play which was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995.

  • av Joe Orton
    201

    "Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph)

  • av Willy Russell & Jim Mulligan
    176 - 251

    This Student Edition of Willy Russell's successful folk opera, the story of two Liverpudlian brothers who grow up on opposite sides of the social tracks, includes biographical notes and an introduction to the play with guidance on its interpretation.

  • av Michael Frayn
    191 - 201

    The story is of one of the most famous investigations ever conducted by science into the mysteries of the world - and its disastrous ending in the even stranger mysteries of the world within.

  • av Shelagh Delaney
    176 - 261

    First issued by Methuen in 1959, this play was the first title in the "Modern plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoer This title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of titles in print .

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