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  • av Lucinda Coxon
    171

    Features a play that freeze-frames a generation negotiating intimacy and distance in the 21st century.

  • av Arthur Ransome
    171

    A new play by Helen Edmundson, with songs by Neil Hannon, based on Arthur Ransome's much-loved children's classic. Now a major new musical in London's West End.

  • av Jez Butterworth
    271

    Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, 'one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years' (Time Out). This first volume of his Collected Plays contains that play plus the three that followed, as well as two short one-person pieces published here for the first time - everything in fact that precedes Jerusalem, 'unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century' (Guardian). Plays One includes: Mojo, The Night Heron, The Winterling, Leavings (previously unpublished), Parlour Song and The Naked Eye (previously unpublished). Introducing the plays is an interview with Jez Butterworth specially conducted for this volume. 'The verbal menace of Harold Pinter [combined with] the physical violence of Quentin Tarantino' The Times on Mojo 'It's funny, it's sad, it's haunting and it is also strangely beautiful. Best of all, it is quite unlike anything you have seen before' Telegraph on The Night Heron 'Dazzling' Guardian on The Winterling 'Wickedly funny' Financial Times on Parlour Song

  • av Nancy Harris
    181

    Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic surgeon husband, Richard, has embarked on his latest charitable mission to Haiti, leaving the heavily pregnant Hazel to cope with a failing business and a problem son. This psychological drama is about the darker side of modern parenthood.

  • av Tom Wells
    161

    An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes. Amid the dreaming, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink? Things aren't going to plan for one family in Withernsea, Yorkshire. Pieces are falling off Martin's milk float as quickly as he's losing customers and something's up with Kath's kitchen sink. Billy is pinning his hopes of a place at art college on a revealing portrait of Dolly Parton, whilst Sophie's dreams of becoming a ju-jitsu teacher might be disappearing down the plughole. This volume also includes the monologue Spacewang. 'This is one of the best new plays I have seen anywhere this year, and I cannot recommend it too highly.' Charles Spencer, Telegraph 'Wells wrings more riches out of seemingly throwaway lines than a lot of writers manage in an entire play' Evening Standard

  • av Emily Bronte
    147 - 181

    Lucy Gough brings Emily Bronte's gothic tale of tortured love to the stage in all its turbulent, passionate glory. Wuthering Heights embodies the eternal pull between good and evil, dark and light, and heaven and hell.

  • av Hugh Janes
    171

    In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and terrifying secret that will change their lives forever...

  • - In Search of Cardenio
    av Gregory Doran
    211

    A woman seduced and a friend betrayed; desire, deceit and disguise in the heat and dust of Andalucia. RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran spent years investigating the mystery of Shakespeare's lost play. This is his story, a quest to discover and stage a missing masterpiece.

  • av Dawn King
    161

    A gripping and unsettling parable, Foxfinder is a darkly comic exploration of belief, desire and responsibility, set in a world both strange and familiar. William Bloor, a 'foxfinder', arrives at Sam and Judith Covey's farm to investigate a suspected contamination. He is driven by his education and beliefs to unearth and destroy an animal that threatens man's civilisation, and to remain free from its influence himself. As his investigations proceed, the events that follow change the course of all their lives - for ever. Winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Competition. 'Dawn King's play shines out like a beacon... the most compelling new work I have seen this year' Guardian

  • - And How to Write Your Own
    av Julian Woolford
    221

    Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well. In this book, Julian Woolford explores the musical-theatre canon to explain why and how some musicals work, why some don't, and what you should (and shouldn't) do if you're thinking of writing your own. Drawing on his experience as a successful writer and director of musicals, and as a lecturer in writing musicals at the University of London, Woolford outlines every step of the creative process, from hatching the initial idea and developing a structure for the work, through creating the book, the music and the lyrics, and on to the crucial process of rewriting. He then guides the reader through getting a musical produced, with invaluable advice about generating future productions and sustaining a career. The book includes dozens of exercises to assist the novice writer in developing their craft, and detailed case studies of well-known musicals such as Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, Miss Saigon, Little Shop of Horrors, Godspel and Evita. An essential guide for any writers (or would-be writers) of musicals, How Musicals Work is a fascinating insight for anyone interested in the art form or who has ever wondered what it takes to get from first idea to first night. 'If anyone knows how musicals work (I'm not sure I do), this highly entertaining dissection of every aspect of that bewildering art form reveals that Julian Woolford does.' Tim Rice 'Excellent... a useful source of information' The Stage

  • av Mike Bradwell
    161

    An accessible insider's guide to creating a play from scratch, from the award-winning author of The Reluctant Escapologist.

  • av Blake Morrison
    147

    Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison's play evokes the lives of the Bronte sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters.

  • av Rona Munro
    147

    A romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives, from a leading Scottish playwright.

  • av Mary Shelley
    287

    Patrick Sandford's acclaimed dramatisation of Mary Shelley's celebrated novel FRANKENSTEIN, a classic work of gothic fiction in the English canon.

  • av Thomas Heywood
    91

    Two women fight for their emotional survival in a rural wilderness dominated by men, money and an unbending morality.

  • av debbie tucker green
    171

    Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told. World premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 2011.

  • av Gary Mitchell
    161

    Two plays by a new, major award-winning Irish playwright.

  • - Reflections on Shakespeare
    av Peter Brook
    147

    In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays - all but one published here for the first time - Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, and how actors should approach Shakespeare's verse. He also revisits some of the plays which he has directed with notable brilliance, such as King Lear, Titus Andronicus and, of course, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Taken as a whole, this short but immensely wise book offers an illuminating and provocative insight into a great director's relationship with our greatest playwright. 'This book is an invaluable gift from the greatest Shakespeare director of our time... Brook's genius, modesty and brilliance shine through on every page.' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 'Exquisite... enthralling... This short, modest and brilliant book does more than many more grandiose tomes to renew the reader's fascination with the plays, and the theatre-goer's wonder at the extraordinary and diverse situations locked up inside the First Folio. It should be required reading at all universities and drama clubs' Guardian 'This volume positively seethes and sparkles with ideas... provides not only acute insights into the texts, but intriguing details of performance history, and a few morsels of grand theatrical gossip' - Scotsman 'Should be required reading for any aspiring young directors and actors but also all serious theatregoers... the writing is a model of clarity, the ideas challenging but sensible... it should be on every reader's bookshelf' - British Theatre Guide

  • av E. R. Braithwaite
    181

    An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, set against the austere backdrop of 1940s Britain.

  • - The Frazzled Drama Teacher's Guide to Devising
    av Joss Bennathan
    247

    An inspiring, practical handbook for anyone working with young people to make devised theatre.

  • av Stella Feehily
    147

    Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and interviews with aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists and photographers.

  • av Chris Hannan
    147

    Chris Hannan's play, written for Shakespeare's Globe, is a hectic and hilarious morality tale for the modern world. Sexy, feisty and real, it is a story about love at its dirtiest, maddest and most bittersweet.

  • av Henrik Ibsen
    147

    Ibsen's political comedy in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

  • av Stacey Gregg
    181

    An irreverent and unsettling play from rising new voice in Irish theatre Stacey Gregg, that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualised world. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.

  • av Kenneth Grahame
    161

    An enchanting adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's legendary animal adventure story, from the the author of Waterloo Station Theatre smash hit THE RAILWAY CHILDREN.

  • av Gareth Armstrong
    164

    A unique guide to every aspect of putting on your own solo show: choosing the subject, raising the finance, booking the venue - and performing it! 'The most valuable read for any performer who has ever thought "If only I could have some control over the way my career is going."' Maureen Lipman, from her Foreword

  • av Terence Rattigan
    191

    A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War. 1942. The Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast. RAF bomber pilot Teddy is celebrating a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. When Peter, Patricia's ex-lover and Hollywood heart-throb, arrives and an urgent bombing mission over Germany is ordered, Patricia finds herself at the centre of an emotional conflict as unpredictable as the war in the skies. This edition contains an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato. 'A three-handkerchief weepie that somehow manages to be both profoundly moving and wonderfully funny' Telegraph 'Devastating and uplifting' Evening Standard 'Tender, funny and overwhelmingly moving' The Arts Desk

  • av Sam Holcroft
    147

    Double Feature brings together - in two volumes of paired short plays - four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre. The plays premiered in a specially converted space at the National Theatre in July 2011. This volume contains Edgar & Annabel by Sam Holcroft and The Swan by DC Moore.

  • av Lynda Radley
    171

    A magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.

  • av Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    171

    An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.

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