Plays, playscripts
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Bacchae
£4.99Bacchae
The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
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Happy Days;
£8.99Happy Days;
Written in 1960, “Happy Days” was produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre, in November 1962.
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Hedda Gabler and Other Plays
£11.99Hedda Gabler and Other Plays
The play ‘Hedda Gabler’ portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for her entire family. An introduction explores Ibsen’s development as a dramatist and the language and psychology of his plays.
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Jerusalem
£9.99Jerusalem
Jez Butterworth’s hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play – a comic, contemporary vision of life in England’s green and pleasant land.
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Pravda
£10.99Pravda
First produced at the National Theatre in London in May 1985, ‘Pravda’ is a satirical play exploring the role of journalism in society. Taking its title from the Russian Communist Party newspaper, it is a satire on the mid 1980s newspaper industry, in particular the Australian media and press baron Rupert Murdoch. Lambert Le Roux is a media magnate striding his way through the regional papers en route to Fleet Street. Turning broadsheets tabloid, dumbing down the message and stretching the truth, Le Roux takes no prisoners as he creates a media monopoly out of a once-respected industry.
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Private Lives
£10.99Private Lives
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced from one another five years previously, arrive coincidentally at the same French hotel. They are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses, but find that the old bond between them cannot be swept aside.
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Pygmalion
£8.99Pygmalion
Shaw’s dramatization of a Cockney flower girl’s metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women’s independence.
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Pygmalion & Other Plays
£10.99Pygmalion & Other Plays
Three of George Bernard Shaw’s most famous plays with a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench.
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Saint Joan
£7.99Saint Joan
In ‘Saint Joan’, the play that led directly to his Nobel Prize for Literature, Shaw shines a light on the roots of nationalism, religious fervour and hero worship.
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Sara/Minna Von Barnhelm (Trans. Ernest Bell/Anthony Meech)
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The Author
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The Recruiting Officer
£9.99The Recruiting Officer
Revisions to this edition of The Recruiting Officer” include new notes
based on recent scholarly material and the editor’s further study of
the text, and an up-to-date reading list.ӣ9.99 -
The Revenger’s Tragedy
£4.99The Revenger’s Tragedy
A Jacobean tale of personal vengeance in a morally bankrupt world. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Talking Cure
£8.99The Talking Cure
Set at the beginning of the 20th century, this play from the Oscar-winning writer of the screenplay ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ explores the world of Jung and Freud.
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The Wonderful World of Dissocia
£10.99The Wonderful World of Dissocia
A two-play edition featuring Anthony Neilson’s companion plays, The Wonderful World of Dissociaand Realism, both produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. The text is published to coincide with the National Theatre of Scotland’s extensive tour of Dissocia from February til June 2007.
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Translations
£9.99Translations
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal.
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