Plays, Playscripts

Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Younger. Versatile, industrious,...

Despite the legacy of his eponymous award, Alfred Fagon's stage works have often been forgotten due to them not being available. This anthology of ...

Pembrokeshire, 1982. Things are going to change. This radical reworking of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard places the action in early 80s Wales, at t...

Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the ...

Despite the legacy of his eponymous award, Alfred Fagon's stage works have often been forgotten due to them not being available. This anthology of ...

This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as ...

A bloodcurdling howl is heard across a cold, moonlit moor; the spectral hound has claimed another victim. Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detecti...

The task of finding scene material for young actors that is within their experiential and emotional plane is a particular problem for the acting te...

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster’s inte...

Are you a theatre-maker looking for devising tools? A writer wanting to improve your dialogue? A director trying to create a story through improvis...

A collection of three plays for the Young Vic's participation programme Taking Part, written by award-winning playwright Luke Barnes: Men in Blue,...

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recog...

Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual...

The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.

First Published in 1966. This volume is a series of studies dealing with the authorship of sixteenth and seventeenth century plays. Many of the art...

This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-kn...

This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000. Lillian Manzor analyzes early ...

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new ...

Sophocles’ classic drama of a daughter’s revenge of her father’s murder has been translated into playable language for modern audiences. As an exam...

The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now...

Sensual gaiety is at the heart of this comic masterpiece which continues the merry tale of the little barber of Seville, a clever common man whose ...

This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the developm...

The collection includes four theatrical works of acclaimed Italian author, Dacia Maraini, in a dual-language format (Italian/English). The works ha...

It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The ...

Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason a...

London. 2016. A strange and unsettled time – where men and the violence of gangs rules the streets. In a dangerous world we hear a new voice – Imo...

Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason a...