Plays, Playscripts

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have ...

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ...

January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. Meanwhi...

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UKs most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development m...

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UKs most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development m...

Sonya Kellys rapier wit and intelligent awareness of the human condition, allied to consummate stagecraft skills, have made for what will probably ...

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe...

Sonya Kellys rapier wit and intelligent awareness of the human condition, allied to consummate stagecraft skills, have made for what will probably ...

The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic sh...

This collection brings Crotherss best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued relevance to life in the 21st c...

This collection brings Crotherss best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued relevance to life in the 21st c...

'What's wrong with wanting to dance?' When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard....

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other. Abe and Julia are high-profile celebriti...

Why Athena? I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and all that. In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle. At...

You cant live your life thinking everything you text will become public knowledge. Censoring yourself is no way to live. Everyone needs Jim. His m...

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical a...

I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I dont kno...

Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays is a play anthology that maps the impact of emotional, social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the quali...

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because Im just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like. Wel...

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SWORDSMEN...* A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost...

The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a politics of subtraction far removed from party ...

The plays of María Martínez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of t...

Since her early break-through at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995, where she won the George Devine award and was joint winner of the Verity Bargate ...

Dont know where I stand with the weatherman these days. One day its all warm and breezy and the next old Jack Frost comes to take the skin off your...

Fifteen years of disconnected sparks to do the damage. To stop her beautiful fantastical brain from working. Fall in love in my early 20s, get ma...

Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy scenes, each one is based ...

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change. Through script and photographs this book documents the show I'm a Pho...

Matura's play not only offers a potted guide to Trinidadian ethnicity, economics and politics, but also a potent metaphor for the post-colonial pro...

Stop it. Stop it! Everyone! We're on holiday, we're meant to be having a nice time. What the hell is wrong with you? Tomas and Ebba are determined...

Tim Price's Salt, Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love and family set against a mythical backdrop. Set on the Pembrokeshire coas...

A new adaptation of Henry James's classic novella adapted for the stage by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. This adaptation was first staged at the Almeida Thea...

I want to be iconic. I want to be beautiful, reckless, feared, hated, ahead of the times. I want to be different, I want to be dangerous . . . Lo...

Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tip...

This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lyn...

I stand at my open window. I feel like I'm on the edge of reality. April 1982. The Falkland Islands are invaded by Argentine forces. The shockwave...

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other ...

Friendship makes us fresh. And doth beget new courage in our breasts. A new play for young people and schools, created from Shakespeares works. I...

I dance in the horror of grief.Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing...

Two plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell. Surfacing NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. Shes definitely not overwhelme...

'I think your son just made ten thousand pounds' Manny dreams of being a big dog but right now he's hocking fake designer goods, living with his ...

No what I think is there are people who are suffering and you cant go through your life as if they arent there and you dont help them? If everyone ...

This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two bre...

This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two bre...