Oberon Catalogue 2010/11

OBERON BOOKS Catalogue 2010/11

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O B E R O N B O O KS Catalogue 2010/11

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CONTENTS WELCOME TO OBERON ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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FOCUS ON PETER HALL

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FOCUS ON OBERON MASTERS ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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FOCUS ON ARNOLD WESKER –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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FOCUS ON THEATRE PRACTICE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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FOCUS ON RICHARD BEAN –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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FOCUS ON PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE & SCHOOLS –––––––––––––

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MONOLOGUES ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 102 PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE & SCHOOLS

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PUBLISHERS LETTER

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very publisher needs a spot of luck. Last year Oberon acquired two “lost” plays by John Osborne, which predate Look Back in Anger. They were discovered by academic, Jamie Andrews, in the archive of the Office of the Lord Chamberlain, now housed in the British Library. They had been misfiled under “Caborne”. Had these plays been published when they were performed briefly in 1954 they would never have been lost for over half a century. So we owe a lot to Andrews, not only for his enterprise and thorough research, but also for reminding us of the value of publication.

Gordon Dickerson, representing the John Osborne Estate, also wasted no time in steering Osborne’s lost plays into publication and back into production. (Before Anger p. 76.) The work of many playwrights might likewise have vanished from sight long ago were it not for drama publishers, academics and literary agents.

This year we celebrate Oberon’s 25th year. We began in 1986 with winners of the Mobil Play Writing competition produced at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. In the early years we managed only 20 to 30 titles a year. Today, from these modest beginnings Oberon has expanded to become the most prolific publisher of drama in the UK, presenting some 80 to 100 new titles a year, including theatre and dance books. In 2009/10 plays were published alongside productions at the Olivier, Cottesloe, Donmar, Royal Court, Tricycle, Soho, Hampstead, the RSC , Trafalgar Studios, Arcola, Arts, The Kings Head, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Belgrade Theatre, Welsh National Theatre, the West End, Broadway.

Dance, opera and music are featuring more strongly in our list. New Dance titles include the The Enchanted Pig, The Lion’s Face, The Royal Ballet Yearbook, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Ballet Boyz, A Guide to the Royal Opera House, and A Gift to the Audience by Judith Flanders, a new title in the Oberon Masters Series.

We have great hopes for the Oberon Masters Series, a series of pocket size hardbacks to include essays and monograms on the arts. Contributing authors so far include Ranjit Bolt, Nicholas Dromgoole, Mick Gordon, A. C. Grayling, Peter Hall, Andrzej Klimowski, Ruth Leon, Meredith Oakes, Roy Smiles, and Arnold Wesker with more in the pipeline.

James Hogan London, 2010

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PETER HALL

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SIR PETER HALL Sir Peter Hall needs no introduction. From his early days at Cambridge, through his founding of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, and later his fifteen years as Director of the National Theatre, he has built a reputation as the greatest living director of Shakespeare and all works for the English stage.

SHAKESPEARE’S ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS 3RD EDITION Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue; when to accent a word. His text is full of such clues; he heard the lines as he wrote them.

Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players is not only an invaluable resource for actors, but makes watching or reading Shakespeare a richer experience for us all. Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players has sold over 10,000 copies in two previous editions.

This is a new edition for a new generation, priced at only £9.99 to make it available to the widest possible audience. £9.99 ISBN 9781840029192

EXPOSED BY THE MASK Form and Language in Drama Described by Charles Spencer in the Sunday Telegraph as ‘The wisest and most stimulating short book about theatre since Peter Brook’s The Empty Space,’ Exposed by the Mask is now reprinted in the Oberon Masters series (see p.4).

In these four lectures Peter Hall draws on an immense store of experience in classical theatre, Shakespeare, opera and modern drama to argue that form and structured language paradoxically give freedom to power of thought and feeling.

The mask, which enabled actors in early Greek drama to express extreme emotion, may take many forms – the precise language of Beckett and Pinter, the classical form of Mozart’s operas, or Shakespeare’s verse, but that mask releases the power of emotion, not restrains. £9.99 ISBN 9781840029932

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OBE RON M ASTERS New Series - Essays on the arts

AC Grayling

AC Grayling

Mick Gordon

AGAINST ALL GODS

TO SET PROMETHEUS FREE

£9.99 ISBN 9781840027280 (pg.16)

£ 9.99 ISBN 9781840029628 (pg.16)

THEATRE AND THE MIND £9.99 ISBN 9781840028768 (pg.16)

Peter Hall EXPOSED BY THE MASK £9.99 [June 2010] ISBN 9781840029932 (pg.17)

Arnold Wesker WESKER ON THEATRE £9.99 [June 2010] ISBN 9781840029864 (pg.19)

Nicholas Dromgoole THE ROLE OF THE CRITIC £9.99 [June 2010] ISBN 9781840029734 (pg.15)

Forthcoming titles in the series

Ruth Leon

Roy Smiles

Ranjit Bolt

ON MUSICALS

FUNNY PEOPLE

£9.99 [Sept 2010] (pg.17) ISBN 9781849430180

£9.99 [Sept 2010] (pg.17) ISBN 9781849430340

THE ART OF TRANSLATION £9.99 [Sept 2010] (pg.15) ISBN 9781840028652

Meredith Oakes STRAVINSKY THE OUTSIDER £9.99 [March 2011] (pg.18) ISBN 9781849430487

Andrjez Klimowski ON ILLUSTRATION £9.99 [March 2011] (pg.17) ISBN 9781849431125

Judith Flanders A GIFT TO THE AUDIENCE £9.99 [Sept 2011] (pg.16) ISBN 9781849431156

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ARNOLD WESKER

ARNOLD WESKER Sir Arnold Wesker is one of Britain’s most important, prolific and well-known playwrights.

Knighted in 2006 for services to drama, he is the author of 42 plays and volumes of short stories, essays, poetry and journalism. His work has been translated into 18 languages, and his plays are performed worldwide.

WESKER’S POLITICAL PLAYS This is the latest in Oberon’s series of collections of Wesker’s plays, this one focusing on his political works for theatre.

It features some of his best-known and most celebrated work including 1962’s Chips With Everything, and forms a companion to Oberon’s previous collections of his Social Plays, Love Plays and Monologues (See Page 76, 102). £14.99 ISBN 9781840029543

“One of Wesker’s great strengths has always been his ability to extract general truths from his personal experience…. [He] is a realist who never loses his sense of human potential.”

Michael Billington from the introduction

ARNOLD WESKER WESKER ON THEATRE Essay Collection This addition to the Oberon Masters series of essay collections (see p.4) draws together some of Arnold Wesker’s most characteristic and inspiring reflections on drama. Wesker is widely recognised as one of the most important figures in modern British theatre. £9.99 ISBN 9781840029864

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DANCE Oberon’s strong relationship with The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet has produced some of the most beautiful and inspiring books available on this ever-popular art form.

ROYAL BALLET YEARBOOK 2009/10 Including a foreword from Monica Mason, director of the Royal Ballet, this is a lively look back on the past season as well as an overview of the new season. All the exits and entrances, comings and goings of company members are recorded in the Yearbook, which features stunning photographs and a chronology of the year’s events. Of particular interest to ballet fans, particularly younger ones, is an article on what it is actually like to be in the Royal Ballet from the perspective of a performer. £15.00 ISBN 9781840029390

ROYAL BALLET YEARBOOK 2010/11 Following on from the great success of the beautiful 2009/10 Royal Ballet Yearbook, this new edition for the 2010/11 Season will bring all ballet lovers up to date with the latest activities, performances and company news from the prestigious Royal Ballet. Packed full of beautiful photographs, exclusive insider insights and a preview of the new Season, this is one ballet book that is not to be missed! £15.00 [Sept 2010] ISBN 9781849430029

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET 20 years ago, Birmingham Royal Ballet took the brave step to set up on its own in Birmingham. It was the making of this marvellous company of dancers and dance makers. Now one of the foremost international ballet companies in the world, this book celebrates this story through stunning pictures.

Wonderful productions, wonderful dancers, a fairy tale made real. £20.00 [Sept 2010] ISBN 9781849430975

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THEATRE PRACTICE

THEATRE PRACTICE One of the most important aspects of Oberon’s list is its strong focus on theatre practice. Always practically focussed, the list supplies directors, lecturers, teachers, trainers and coaches with the tools they need for their rehearsals, classes or seminars.

HOW TO DO ACCENTS 2ND EDITION Edda Sharpe and Jan Haydn Rowles have clocked up a total of 25 years of professional dialect coaching between them; they are both highly respected and sought-after members of the profession, working at the highest professional level in theatre, film and television and providing dialect courses and training to the top drama schools worldwide.

In this groundbreaking book, they set out a wholly new way of learning to do accents, based on listening out for the ways in which accents are put together and then reconstructing them, producing a more natural and flexible sound.

Accessible and comprehensive, the book comes with a free CD to help guide the reader through the process and to put together a wide range of accents. Now in a second, thoroughly updated edition, it is an essential tool for drama students and amateurs alike.

New for 2010 is How to Do RP. Due out in September 2010, Edda Sharpe and Jan Haydn Rowles have produced a fantastic new guide on how to learn Received Pronunciation. This helpful new guide will be a great asset to all drama teachers, actors and students. (See Page 19) How To Do Accents £18.99 ISBN 9781840029574 How To Do RP £18.99 [Sept 2010] ISBN 9781840029901

CLASSIC VOICE Catherine Weate has been coaching voice for over twenty years. She has been Head of Voice at Rose Bruford College, Head of Voice and Vice Principal at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and Head of Examinations at LAMDA. Drawing on her extensive experience as a voice coach, Weate provides a comprehensive preparation for the vocal demands made by classical texts, particularly Greek Tragedy, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama and Restoration Comedy. Investigating the original requirements of such texts Weate makes sense of those demands for the contemporary actor in a clear and accessible way.

The book includes warm-up ideas, exercises to experiment with sound, word and rhythm and detailed workshop plans using specially selected extracts from classic plays. £12.99 ISBN 9781840028270

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RICHARD BEAN A relative latecomer to the stage, Richard Bean has certainly made up for lost time since his first play appeared at the Royal Court Upstairs in 1999, with commissions from the National Theatre, the Royal Court and the Bush, and a shower of awards for his work.

ENGLAND PEOPLE VERY NICE A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to the present day. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. The emerging pattern demonstrates that white flight and anxiety over integration is anything but new.

Commissioned by the National Theatre and written with scurrilous bravura, Richard Bean’s great sweep of a comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers across four tempestuous centuries, amid cutter mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists. £8.99 ISBN 9781840029000 M15 F7

LONDON ASSURANCE Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage. This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Opened in the National Theatre in 2010. £8.99 ISBN 9781840029994 M12 F6

THE BIG FELLAH Richard Bean’s latest is a controversial and hilarious play set amongst the expatriate Irish community of New York as they try to raise money for NORAID, the charitable organisation often accused of being an IRA front, on the eve of 9/11. £8.99 [Aug 2010] ISBN 9781840027754

Also Available by Richard Bean Plays One £14.99 9781840025699 (see page 78) Plays Two £14.99 9781840026627 (see page 78)

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YOUNG PEOPLES THEATRE

PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS Oberon is constantly adding to its list of high-quality plays for young people, and with the inclusion of work by one of Oberon’s most high-profile playwrights on GCSE drama courses it has recently published its first specially prepared School Edition.

DNA Dennis Kelly’s DNA was originally written for the National Theatre’s New Connections programme in 2008 (see p. 105). It has recently been set by AQA as a text for students taking GCSE Drama, and this specially prepared edition of the play features notes for students and teachers by Anthony Banks, Associate Director of the National Theatre’s Discover programme of education and public engagement. Banks, who has long been a supporter of Kelly’s brilliant writing for the stage, says ‘I’m delighted that such a vibrant exciting new piece of drama sits on our public examination syllabus.’ £7.99 ISBN 9781840029529

THE ENCHANTED PIG A co-production between The Opera Group, the Royal Opera House and the Young Vic, The Enchanted Pig has recently returned for a second production and international tour. The Daily Telegraph said that ‘the whole show casts a spell of wonder and delight,’ while the Guardian described it as ‘a source of magic and enchantment’.

Here Oberon presents Alasdair Middleton’s libretto, as beautiful as it is amusing.

Based on a Romanian folktale, it tells the story of Princess Flora and her marriage to a hairy, smelly pig. Of course, underneath that porcine exterior lives a prince trapped by a witch’s spell…(See Page 26) £8.99 ISBN 9781840029796

THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE Produced to great acclaim, this fantastic new play really will take children on the ride of their lives. An exciting and funny new play for children by the award-winning writer and director Mick Gordon, The Ride of Your Life formed part of Darwin200, celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin. This rollercoaster play sends you back in time, from the beginnings of life, through dinosaurs to DNA, and on into the future. How did we get here...and what might lie ahead? Mick Gordon answers these questions in a funny and uplifting way, perfectly suited for children aged 6+.

(See Page 104) £8.99 ISBN 9781840029581

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CARL HEAP’S SHAKESPEARES The National Theatre’s Primary Classics programme (aimed at KS2) combines the performance of a classic text with an engaging creative-learning programme. Now in its fifth year, it has enhanced the enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare for many children, and in some cases introduced them to the world of theatre for the first time.

The programme consists of an in-school performance of a Shakespeare play, supported by a series of workshops on areas such as character and plot, performance skills, music, design and movement. These editions, specially adapted for the programme by noted theatre practitioner Carl Heap for children in years 4, 5 and 6 (ages 8 - 11), preserve the core of the plot and retain the original language, yet are presented very much with the target audience in mind. In addition, Heap’s long and fruitful experience of touring with the programme is represented in his introductory notes, which enable teachers and practitioners alike to imagine or produce their own version. See Page 103 for more information.

TWELTH NIGHT £4.99 ISBN 9781840029833 MACBETH £4.99 ISBN 9781840029062 ROMEO AND JULIET £4.99 ISBN 9781840029093 PERICLES £4.99 ISBN 9781840029086 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM £4.99 ISBN 9781840029079

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VERBATIM

VERBATIM PLAYS London’s Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground-breaking ‘tribunal plays’ based on verbatim reconstructions of public inquiries. Several have been broadcast by the BBC on both television and radio, and have reached audiences of over 25 million people worldwide. In 2006 the theatre was awarded an Evening Standard Special Drama Award for ‘pioneering political work’.

THE GREAT GAME An extraordinary new collection of plays by some of Britain’s leading contemporary playwrights, this anthology brings together thirteen renowned playwrights on the subject of Afghanistan. The Great Game explores the politics, social affairs and history of a country that is likely to be the most important focus of British, European and American foreign policy for many years to come. £12.99 ISBN 9781840029222

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NEW VOICES Oberon is particularly proud to support new writing for the theatre; some of our most high-profile playwrights have been with us from the start of their careers when they, too, were ‘new voices’, and we are proud to publish them.

Atiha Sen Gupta

WHAT FATIMA DID Atiha Sen Gupta has been involved with Hampstead Theatre’s youth company, Heat&Light, since the age of 13. Whilst on the programme she wrote with Roy Williams and Tanika Gupta for the theatre’s annual new writing festival, Daring Pairings, and has been co-writing scripts for Channel 4’s Skins since it began. This, her first full-length play, was commissioned by the theatre when she was just 17.

Opening to four- and five-star reviews in 2009, it was described by Michael Billington as ‘the work of a writer with a future’.

The play is a provocative exploration of attitudes to identity, freedom and multiculturalism in contemporary London. As Charles Spencer put it in the Daily Telegraph, it ‘fizzes with strong characters and lively debate’. Fatima Merchant is feisty and strong-willed. At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. Suddenly, to her friends and family she is no longer the Fatima they thought they knew. (See page 105) £8.99 ISBN 9781840029765

Anya Reiss

SPUR OF THE MOMENT Anya Reiss wrote her first play when she was 14. She then joined the Royal Court’s Young Writers’ Programme, and when she was just 17 wrote Spur of the Moment, which so impressed the theatre’s artistic directors that the play was added to the Sloane Square theatre’s programme for 2010. Reiss is the second youngest playwright ever to have a play staged at the Royal Court.

The play focuses on 12-year-old Delilah, her warring parents, Nick and Vicky, and a lodger Daniel, who is brought in to ease the family’s financial difficulties. Delilah enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Whilst her parents throw verbal grenades at one another, they barely notice their 21-year-old tenant starting to notice her… (See Page 39) £8.99 ISBN 9781840029857

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PERFORMING ARTS FOCUS

NEW VOICES Oberon is particularly proud to support new writing for the theatre; some of our most highprofile playwrights have been with us from the start of their careers when they, too, were ‘new voices’, and we are proud to publish them.

NOBBY CLARKE STARF*CKER: THE ROLLING STONES LIVE IN LONDON ‘76 Starf*cker includes over 120 never-before-seen colour and black and white photos, capturing the the greatest rock n’ roll band in history in all their live glory. In the seventies, the Rolling Stones embarked upon their legendary European Tour ‘76, often known as the “Starf*cker” tour, in part due to the extraordinary lotus-shaped stage they played on.

During the tour, they set a standard for sheer rock ‘n’ roll energy that has yet to be surpassed. There to shoot the rollercoaster at its zenith - the concerts at London’s Earls Court Arena - was acclaimed photographer Nobby Clark. The result is captured in this remarkable volume, a timeless photographic document of the Rolling Stones at their peak.

Rediscovered 32 years on, these original images of the Stones in action still have the power to draw people in, capturing the raw energy of the Rolling Stones at their live best, and the feverish atmosphere of those Earls Court concerts.

A fantastic and enthralling book, filled with stunning photographs. One for the collection of every Rolling Stones fan. “[a] spectacular book of pictures” – The Express £20.00 ISBN 9781840028393 Hardback

VIRGINIA MCKENNA THE LIFE IN MY YEARS Virginia McKenna starred in some of the most popular and enduring movies of our time most notably, the phenomenally successful Born Free, in she starred with her husband Bill Travers. With the multi-award-winning Born Free both actors were at the peak of their careers, but the film and all it still stands for changed their lives. Its powerful message stayed with them and so began a lifetime of campaigning across the world to save animals from commercial exploitation, imprisonment in zoos and the loss of their natural habitat.

At the heart of this autobiography is a call to respect nature and all that it provides. Despite an exceptional career in cinema and theatre, Virginia McKenna pushed aside the glamour of movie stardom, the West End and Broadway to focus relentlessly on her personal mission with the Born Free Foundation or the plight of orphaned children across the world.

Now published in a paperback edition to coincide with the 50 year anniversary of the publication of the book Born Free, this book will inspire anyone who cares about the future of the planet and all the creatures dependent on it, including human beings. Packed full of colour photographs to illuminate her story, Virginia McKenna’s The Life in My Years is the inspirational story of an extraordinary life.

(See Page 18) £25.00 ISBN 9781840028980 Hardback Mar 2009 £12.99 ISBN 9781849430357 Paperback Sept 2010

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THEATRE PRACTICE AND BIOGRAPHY Oberon Books continues its strong tradition of publishing in all aspects of drama, including theatre practice and biography. Our theatre practice books are always practically focussed, supplying directors, lecturers, teachers, trainers and coaches with helpful and practical guides to work through. Our biographies of key figures in the theatre world continue to entertain readers and provide an insightful look into the lives of these leading lights in the British and international drama.

Nick Asbury

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EXIT, PURSUED BY A BADGER: An Actor’s Journey through History with Shakespeare To record his involvement as part of the ensemble for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s extraordinary Histories project, Nick Asbury wrote a blog for the RSC website. Through his engaging, observant, often hilarious words, we experience the camaraderie of actors, the terror of forgetting lines, thirty-three broadsword fights and, of course, the everpresent threat of being assaulted by demented badgers.

£9.99 9781840028928 Jun 2009

Cicely Berry

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FROM WORD TO PLAY

Ranjit Bolt

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THE ART OF TRANSLATION Without doubt one of our greatest translators, Ranjit Bolt is also a great British playwright. In this new book in the Oberon Masters series, Bolt shares the secrets of the translators art which is, of course, so much more than just plain translation.

£9.99 9781840028652 September 2010 Hardback

David Castillejo

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SPANISH CLASSICAL DRAMA This new publication is the only classified index and study of 1000 plays from classical Spanish dramatists including by Lope de Vega, Guillén de Castro, Salas Barbadillo, Tirso de Molina, Mira de Amescua, Vélez de Guevara, Ruiz de Alarcón, Moreto, Calderón, and others. Covering Spanish classical drama, this is the first book of it’s kind and will be a fantastic new addition to the libraries of all lovers of classical and Spanish drama.

£65.00

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Cicely Berry is the most influential voice coach of our time. In her astonishing new book she looks closely at the interchange between sound and rhythm in language, showing how it can change the nuance of the meaning and take director, actor and audience further into the world of the play.

Sept 2010 Hardback

Nicholas Dromgoole

THE ROLE OF THE CRITIC Nicholas Dromgoole has been a prominent and respected dance critic for most of his adult life. Who better therefore to take the reader through the role of this often misunderstood animal? This concise look at the role of the critic will surely prove to be a great addition to the bookshelves of all

In this book Cicely Berry instils a lifetime’s knowledge working to perfect the theatrical environment, to create an invaluable guide for professional and student actors alike, as well as an enlightening read for anyone interested in theatre and the power of the spoken word.

theatre lovers.

£14.99 9781840026016

£9.99 9781840029734 Jun 2010 Hardback

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THEATRE Judith Flanders

A C Grayling

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A GIFT TO THE AUDIENCE In A Gift to the Audience author and dance and arts critic Judith Flanders focuses our attention on the crucial relationship between the performer and the audience.

Great artists and great art is made by those performers who recognize that the audience, and not the performer or the critic, is paramount, a relationship has often been forgotten in favour of the prominence or self-importance of the performer. It is this relationship between the audience and the performer that should be beating heart of all performing arts, and in this exciting new addition to the Oberon Masters series, Flanders explains why.

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TO SET PROMETHEUS FREE: RELIGION, REASON AND HUMANITY A follow on from Against All Gods, in To Set Prometheus Free the renowned philosopher AC Grayling returns to the topic to further develop his argument for more secularism in society and sets our a fuller statement for the case against religion.

£9.99 9781840027280 Hardback

Peter Gill

£9.99 9781849431156 Sept 2011 Hardback

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APPRENTICESHIP Mick Gordon

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THEATRE AND THE MIND In this collection of essays, Gordon argues powerfully and persuasively that the theatre represents a physical corollary of the invisible workings of our minds.

Through a series of essays on story, protagonists, motivation and morality, Gordon’s contends that the story patterns and characters common to all theatre reflect the patterns and paradigms that our minds use to make themselves up, and that the preoccupations of theatrical exploration echo our minds’ urge for morality.

£9.99 9781840028768 March 2010 Hardback

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AGAINST ALL GODS A renowned philosopher and prolific author, Anthony Grayling’s writing has reached beyond academic circles, reflecting with resonance and power on some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society. In this new title, Grayling makes a timely and high-profile intervention in current debates concerning religion, arguing for a set of values based on reason, reflection and sympathy, taking his cue from the great ethical tradition of western philosophy. Now in it’s third reprint.

Apprenticeship is Peter Gill’s potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the ‘60s and his journey from being a young actor to becoming a director and playwright. Based on a recently re-discovered diary of his time acting in Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle at the RSC in the early 1960’s, world-renowned playwright, director and founder of the National Theatre Studio, Peter Gill, explores his reaction to that apprenticeship in the context of young directors training today.

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Peter Hall

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SHAKESPEARE’S ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS 3RD EDITION Shakespeare’s text is full of clues for the actor regarding speed of delivery, when to pause and which words to accent. In this edition, Peter Hall, our greatest living director of Shakespeare’s works, shows us how to interpret these clues and make watching, reading or acting Shakespeare a richer experience.

“Indisputably wise and true.... Wonderfully illuminating” Daily Telegraph praise for previous edition

£9.99 9781840029192 Nov 2009

£9.99 9781840028768 Hardback

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THEATRE Peter Hall

NEW Mark Leipacher

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EXPOSED BY THE MASK Form and Language in Drama In these four lectures Peter Hall reveals a lifetime of discoveries about classical theatre, Shakespeare, opera and modern drama. Reprinted to form part of the Oberon Masters series, this is a title that simply cannot be missed. “The wisest and most stimulating short book about theatre since Peter Brook’s ‘The Empty Space’” - Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph

NEW

CATCHING THE LIGHT This fascinating new book examines the working relationship between Sam Mendes, one of Britain’s leading directors of both stage and screen, and the actor Simon Russell Beale. These two leading lights of British dramatic production have worked together many times, and this new publication throws light on an intriguing partnership. Uniquely, this publication is written in an unusual format that reflects the stages of putting on a play, from casting, to rehearsal, performance and review. A must have for all theatre aficionados.

£14.99 9781840029697 Paperback Aug 2010

£9.99 9781840029932 Hardback June 2010

Roy Smiles Andrjez Klimowski

NEW

ON ILLUSTRATION Andrjez Klimowski is a prominent illustrator, whose work has been known to court controversy. Currently Senior Tutor in Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Klimowski‘s work has recently been subject of a retrospective at the National Theatre in London. Joining the Oberon Masters series is this new collection of essays on the subject of illustration, a book which will surely be of great delight to all art and illustration lovers.

FUNNY PEOPLE Roy Smiles’ the author of Pythonesque, Kurt & Sid, Ying Tong, A Walk with the Goons, Standup (the story of his inept years as a stand up comic in the 1980s), Good Evening – the story of the Beyond The Fringe team, and Les Sez, the story of Les Dawson’s life, examines comedy through the comedians, comedy shows and comedy movies that have influenced and uplifted his life. A fantastic read for comedy lovers.

£9.99 9781849430340

A chronicle of a seismic year in the life of writer and producer Michael Kustow. Shaken by the discovery he has cancer, he has to reinvent his beliefs. He ranges far and wide in time as the influences of his life flood back.

In Search of Jerusalem is a book of struggle, debate and emotion from one of the key figures in British culture.

£18.99 9781840028720

Leigh Lawson

NEW

THE DREAM In 1996 Leigh Lawson, actor and husband of the model Twiggy, was asked to spend a season playing both Oberon and Theseus in Adrian Noble’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the RSC. This is his odyssey, full of stories and anecdotes from throughout a theatrical career. It is a delight for anyone interested in what goes on behind the curtain, and what motivates anyone to tread the boards in the first place.

NEW

AN UNTIDY CAREER - CONVERSATIONS WITH GEORGE HALL

NEW

IN SEARCH OF JERUSALEM

Hardback Sept 2010

Lolly Susi

£9.99 9781849431125 Hardback Mar 2010

Michael Kustow

NEW

Lolly Susi’s interviews with the renowned actor and teacher George Hall. This new publication offers a unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest theatrical authorities and is packed full of revealing thoughts regarding the theatre and acting.

£9.99 9781840029895 June 2010

Ruth Leon

NEW

ON MUSICALS The world of musicals is beautiful, complex, hilarious, hardheaded, and improbable. It is as hard to make a great musical as it is to fly a spaceship to the moon and there are at least as many moving parts. Why is a great musical as significant a theatrical achievement as, say, King Lear? In this entertaining new title in Oberon Masters Series, Ruth Leon, an international authority on the musical theatre - writer, biographer, broadcaster, critic, stage director - tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors and the pioneers of the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic while trying to reveal the truth behind the eternal question - what are musicals and why do we love them?

£9.99 9781849430180 Sept 2010

£14.99 9781840028676 Nov 2008

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THEATRE Virginia McKenna

NEW

THE LIFE IN MY YEARS Virginia McKenna starred in some of the most popular and enduring movies of our time, most notably Born Free alongside her husband, Bill Travers. The film’s powerful message inspired them to start a worldwide campaign to save animals from ‘imprisonment’ in zoos and from loss of their natural habitat. A lifetime of memories and anecdotes have flooded back to form this book, which will inspire anyone who cares about the future of the planet and the creatures dependent on it.

Patrick O’Kane

TALKING STAGES Actor Patrick O’Kane recently gained a fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to explore the creative contribution that actors make to the theatre process. In this series of interviews with well-known stage actors, he discovers what the motivations and drawbacks of the job are.

9781840029567 £12.99 Due Feb 2011

Keith Osborn

WAVES Katie Mitchell and her collaborators devised an original work transposing the vision of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel The Waves into an entirely new form. The interwining narrative of six friends - from childhood to maturity and beyond - was rendered into a series of beautiful and poignant images onto a screen by live actors and musicians incorporating techniques taken from the theatre, radio and video production. This book combines the text from Woolf’s novel with the corresponding images in order to create a record of the production, and a work of art in it’s own right.

£19.99 9781840028805

NEW

SOMETHING WRITTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK

£25.00 9781840028980 Hardback Mar 2009 £12.99 9781849430357 Paperback Sept 2010

Katie Mitchell from the novel

by Virginia Woolf NEW

NEW

- An Actor’s Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company Following in the footsteps of Nick Asbury’s bestselling Exit Pursued by a Badger, actor and Royal Shakespeare Company blogger Keith Osborn tells the story of the company’s extraordinary 2008/9 season in Stratford and London, with much drama on and off stage. Keith’s blog was followed loyally by thousands of readers, as well as many David Tennant fans following Tennant’s portrayal of Hamlet. The book also contains new material covering the early parts of the season and the BBC’s filming of Hamlet in the summer of 2009 and is rounded out with many rehearsal and production photos taken throughout the season.

£ 10.99

9781840029789

May 2010

Elaine Paige

NEW

MEMORIES

Inspired by The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, this publication is a record of the highly acclaimed multimedia work devised by Katie Mitchell and the company

Celebrating 40 years on the stage, Elaine Paige tells the remarkable story of her life on stage in words and pictures, from her upbringing and earliest stage appearances to her many starring roles in the biggest musicals of modern times, including Cats, Evita, and Sunset Boulevard. Sharing moments of joy and regret. Fully illustrated and featuring a foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Memories is a revealing and funny insight into the life of a true national treasure.

£19.99 9781840028829

£25.00 9781840028522 Hardback

Katie Mitchell

NEW

...SOME TRACE OF HER

Meredith Oakes

NEW

STRAVINSKY THE OUTSIDER Meredith Oakes is a playwright and translator who has a passion for music, having studied music and violin with Gordon Bennett of the Sydney String Quartet. In addition to being an excellent playwright she has also written numerous librettos. In this new addition to the Oberon Masters series, Oakes examines the influence of Stravinsky and how the musical path he took changed the future of music for everyone.

£9.99 9781849430487 Due 2011

Simon Reade

NEW

DEAR MR. SHAKESPEARE… Letters to a Jobbing Playwright In Dear Mr. Shakespeare Simon Reade writes fictional letters, notes and e-mails from agents, film and theatre producers and directors in reply to Shakespeare’s imagined submission to them of the most famous plays in the English language. With a scholarly wit born of his years as Literary Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Reade has produced a sharp and novel companion to Shakespeare, the perfect gift for aficionados, actors, academics and audiences alike.

£9.99 9781840028294

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NEW

Daniel Rosenthal

NEW

THE NATIONAL

9781840027686

Jan Haydn Rowles; Edda Sharpe

NEW

TERENCE RATTIGAN

A new, fully-researched history of the National Theatre, covering its origins, the difficulties of its official opening during the strikeridden days of the 1970s, and the different qualities of its Artistic Directors: Laurence Olivier, Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and the present incumbent, Nicholas Hytner.

£25.00

Geoffrey Wansell

Hardback Due Mar 2011

NEW

As the author of ‘well-made’ plays such as The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version, Terence Rattigan was Britain’s most successful and popular playwright for many years.

Occasionally dismissed as an entertainer of the middle classes, Rattigan is revealed in this far-reaching and fascinating biography - the first since his death in 1977 - as possessing a far deeper and darker nature than many supposed.

£14.99 9781840028386

HOW TO DO ACCENTS 2ND EDITION

Stephen Unwin

NEW

THE WELL READ PLAY

A new edition of this essential guide.

Whether your accents are wonderful, wobbly or woefully embarrassing, How To Do Accents 2nd edition will give you the insight, tools and confidence to understand the structure of your new accent, providing you with plenty of practical guidance and top tips to keep it firmly in the right place. CD included free.

Stephen Unwin’s new book is both a perfect introduction to theatre and reading plays, and a useful resource for more experienced readers seeking to gain more from studying playtexts. Following the basic questions that directors and actors ask when first reading a play, it shows how story, language, character and subtext combine to create a dramatic whole.

£12.99 9781840027709 Sept 2010

£18.99 9781840029574

Jan Haydn Rowles; Edda Sharpe

NEW

HOW TO DO RP In every Drama School in every English speaking country, students have to learn Received Pronunciation (RP), and voice tutors have to teach it. But what exactly is it? How do you do it? How many varieties are there? And which one should they use when? This fantastic new guide will show you the way.

£18.99 9781840029901 Due 2010

Alan Shelley

NEW

ATHOL FUGARD: HIS PLAYS, PEOPLE AND POLITICS Athol Fugard’s plays have done more to document and provide a cultural commentary on Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer in the last century.

Alan Shelley’s study is an accessible but profound analysis of the man, his work and its influence, the social injustices that drive him, and the lives of those who people his remarkable plays.

£14.99 9781840028218

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Catherine Weate

NEW

CLASSIC VOICE Featuring sample texts, warm-up exercises and workshop plans, Classic Voice seeks to prepare actors for the unique vocal challenges encountered in the performance of classical texts, often in verse form with unfamiliar heightened language. Focusing in turn on Greek tragedy, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and Restoration comedy, this book is an essential resource for actors, directors and teachers.

£12.99 9781840028270

Arnold Wesker

NEW

WESKER ON THEATRE This exciting new book draws together some of Arnold Wesker’s most characteristic and inspiring reflections on drama, and acts as an important and timely reminder of just why it is that Wesker is widely recognised as one of the most important figures in modern British theatre.

£9.99 9781840029864 June 2010

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THEATRE Gunilla Anderman

Robert Butler

EUROPE ON STAGE

THE ART OF DARKNESS

Translation and Theatre

Staging the Philip Pullman Trilogy

This comprehensive study of the history of European plays in translation produced on the English stage looks at varying approaches to the foreign text as well as the need for new versions of the same play, and discusses the influence of European drama in translation and its contribution to and enrichment of English playwriting.

Robert Butler’s intimate backstage account takes us into workshops, rehearsals and production meetings where Philip Pullman’s bestselling trilogy His Dark Materials was transformed into six hours of drama. Lavishly illustrated with over 50 rehearsal and production photographs.

£19.99 9781840022209

£1.50 9781840025347 New chapter

£12.99 9781840024142 Hardback

Howard Barker / Eduardo Houth

Rose Collis

A STYLE AND ITS ORIGINS

CORAL BROWNE

Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Howard Barker, in the guise of his alter-ego Eduardo Houth, produces a unique exercise in self-description, partisan but without shrill self-justification. Barker/ Houth’s A Style and Its Origins is a literary creation, as befits its authorial origins; it is also a document of total originality and a rich source of dramatic and aesthetic history.

Renowned for her sparkling stage performances and the quickness of her wit, Coral Browne was a true original. From her early years in Australia to her final days in Hollywood as the wife of Vincent Price, this biography is an exhaustively-researched, humane and funny account of a remarkable woman.

‘This Effing Lady’

£19.99 9781840027648

£10.00 9781840027181

David Conville Keith Baxter

THE PARK

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY

Foreword by Judi Dench

Award-winning actor, director and playwright Keith Baxter’s absorbing and often hilarious memoirs of working with the greats.

Crammed with professional insights and behind-the-scenes anecdotes. ‘A comic masterpiece’ Sunday Times

The first 75 years of the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, written in inimitable style by the man who knows it best: David Conville, who has run the Theatre since 1962.

£7.99 9781840021172 Paperback

£15.00 9781840027341

£15.99 9781840020533 Hardback

Robert Butler

Jonathan Croall

THE ALCHEMIST EXPOSED

THE COMING OF GODOT

The Alchemist Exposed follows the company and creative team of Nicholas Hytner’s NT production as they strip back the years to reveal the dark arts of Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist. As the actors and director go back in time to unearth these characters, they discover that 1610 looks more and more like the present day.

In 2005 Sir Peter Hall directed a new production of Waiting For Godot, 50 years after he directed the English language world premiere. Jonathan Croall combines an account of this theatrical journey with an informative history of the play. Foreword by Sir Peter Hall.

£10.00 9781840026832

Barry Day

A Short History of a Masterpiece

£9.99 9781840025958

THIS WOODEN ‘O’ Shakespeare’s Globe Reborn Sam Wanamaker’s 25-year battle to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near to its original site by the Thames. With over 60 illustrations.

‘A lively, funny and very moving account of a remarkable theatrical dream’ Kenneth Branagh

£9.99 9781870259996 Paperback £19.99 9781870259491 Hardback

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THEATRE Albert J Devlin & Nancy M Tischler (eds)

John Fraser

CLOSE UP

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

An Actor Telling Tales John Fraser’s acclaimed autobiography takes us from the council estates of prewar Glasgow to the glamour of 1960s Hollywood and beyond. Funny, honest and acutely observant. The paperback includes a previously unpublished chapter.

Volume I, 1920–45 Lifting the lid on the private workings of Williams’ mind and revealing an eye for precise detail and dramatic structure, Volume I of the Selected Letters culminates in 1945 with Tennessee’s first Broadway success, The Glass Menagerie. Illustrated.

‘The wittiest and best-written showbusiness autobiography I have ever read’ Sunday Express

£8.99 £21.00

9781840025040

Paperback

9781840024579

Hardback

‘His letters are among the century’s finest’ New Yorker

£19.99 9781840022261 Hardback

Albert J Devlin & Nancy M Tischler (eds)

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Volume II, 1945–57 Featuring letters to (and sharp portraits of) Elia Kazan, Carson McCullers and Gore Vidal among others, this second volume covers the most successful and intensely creative period of Williams’ life, which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Illustrated.

£25.00

9781840022278 Hardback

Nicholas Dromgoole

PERFORMANCE STYLE AND GESTURE IN WESTERN THEATRE Until the beginning of the 20th Century, acting, rather than attempting to imitate ‘natural’ behaviour, consisted mainly of the graceful execution of a detailed vocabulary of stylised movement and gestures. In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of these styles.

£19.99 9781840025927 Hardback

Nicholas Dromgoole

THE PLAYWRIGHT AS REBEL Selected Essays on Theatre These collected essays on the theatre examine particular plays at key moments in drama history, reminding us that theatre plays a vital part in disseminating ideas, attitudes and assumptions at crucial moments of social and ideological change.

Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey (eds)

THEATRE OF CATASTROPHE New Essays on Howard Barker Fifteen varied essays discuss the style, language and vision of one of Britain’s most influential and controversial playwrights.

Focusing on different aspects of what Barker has called the Theatre of Catastrophe, an international range of academics and practitioners offer illuminating interpretations of his work.

£14.99 9781840026726 Paperback £30.00 9781840026948 Hardback

Mel Gussow

EDWARD ALBEE A Singular Journey Edward Albee electrified the theatre world with The Zoo Story and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Proclaimed playwright of his generation, he went on to win three Pulitzer Prizes for his searing and innovative plays. Illustrated.

£16.99 9781840021318 Hardback

Lyn Haill

ACTORS SPEAKING In 1986, Peter Gill, the then director of the National Theatre Studio, sent a group of young actors to interview their seniors about speaking on stage. The transcripts provide fascinating insights into the theatre of the past, but they also show how little has changed: the actor’s primary tools are still the body and voice. Actors interviewed include Harry Andrews, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Robert Stephens and Margaret Tyzack, with notes from John Gielgud.

Peter Gill provides an introduction.

£12.99 9781840027761

£12.99 9781840021479

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THEATRE Lyn Haill (ed)

Andrew Haydon (ed)

DARKNESS ILLUMINATED

RAW TALENT

Discussions on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials at the National Theatre

50 Years of the National Student Drama Festival Foreword by Timothy West

Transcripts of Platform talks with Philip Pullman, Rowan Williams, Nicholas Hytner, Nicholas Wright, actors and members of the production team for His Dark Materials, all chaired by Robert Butler, author of The Art of Darkness. The discussions throw light on the various aspects of adaptation and staging that brought Philip Pullman’s hugely successful epic to the Olivier stage.

£7.99 9781840024555

MAKING AN EXHIBITION OF MYSELF Autobiography of Sir Peter Hall Updated with a new concluding chapter, this is the story of a railway worker’s son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre.

‘It becomes a classic story...of an outsider who, through talent, energy and doggedness, fights his way to the inside...an unusually honest book’ Michael Billington

£12.99 9781840021158

PETER HALL’S DIARIES The Story of a Dramatic Battle Edited by John Goodwin, with a new introduction by Peter Hall Covering the period 1972–80, when Peter Hall oversaw the move of the National Theatre from the Old Vic to the South Bank. He vividly recounts eight years of intense creative activity, and the triumphs and frustrations of ‘a kind of war I had to win’, revealing the pressures on him as head of a great artistic enterprise under intense public scrutiny.

The National Student Drama Festival has been British theatre’s best-kept secret for the last fifty years. Published as part of the Festival’s golden anniversary, Raw Talent celebrates hundreds of student productions, and features reminiscences from many of the festival’s alumni, including Simon Russell Beale, John Nettles, Tim Pigott-Smith, Alex Jennings, Michael Billington, Alan Yentob, Polly Teale and Roger Michell. Illustrated.

£12.99 9781840025538

Miriam Karlin

SOME SORT OF LIFE Miriam Karlin’s life covers an inspirational 80 years of work in theatre and film, and the earliest life and days of television, working with some of our best known stars and directors. She talks to Jan Sargent about her early life during wartime London, the origins of her politics and her absolute commitment to justice. Her passionate views are reflected in her feelings about people and there are many revelations and intimate reflections on her relationships with friends and lovers.

£19.99 9781840027808 Hardback

Michael Kilgarriff

GRACE, BEAUTY AND BANJOS Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes

‘A stupendous book. It is the most absorbing book on the theatre I have ever read’ Harold Hobson, Sunday Times

A saucy backstage look at music hall, variety and vaudeville, illustrated with the posters and photographs of the time.

£15.99 9781840021028

£12.99 9781840021165 Paperback £19.99 9781840020083 Hardback

Will Hammond and Dan Steward (eds)

VERBATIM VERBATIM Techniques in Contemporary Documentary Theatre Verbatim theatre is the surprise success story of the modern stage. Here leading practitioners write polemically about the techniques, intentions and ethics of documentary theatre. Includes contributions from David Hare and Max Stafford-Clark, Alecky Blythe, Nicolas Kent, Richard Norton-Taylor and Robin Soans.

£14.99 9781840026979

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THEATRE Bernard Kops

Murray Melvin

SHALOM BOMB

THE ART OF THE THEATRE WORKSHOP

Scenes From My Life Bernard Kops emerged from the ‘angry young man’ explosion and quickly established himself as an opposition to the intellectual and political hypocrisies of that chaotic era. With numerous black and white illustrations.

‘A white-knuckle ride with Kops at your shoulder – a brilliant companion’ Joanna Lumley

£15.99 9781840021127 Hardback

The Art of the Theatre Workshop is a collection of images by people who worked closely with this legendary company in its early years. Over fifty photographs by John Spinner form the centre-piece of this collection, along with costume designs by Una Collins for Oh What a Lovely War and Ernest Brooks’ innovative lantern slides for The Good Soldier Schweik.

£20.00 9781840026917

Ruth Little & Emily McLaughlin

INSIDE OUT

Mervyn Millar

The Royal Court Theatre

THE HORSE’S MOUTH

This is the first book to tell the extraordinary story of the Royal Court. What’s true and what’s myth about those legendary first nights? Did anyone ever agree about anything?

Staging Morpurgo’s War Horse The latest in the ‘National Theatre at Work’ series follows the production of War Horse from early concept workshops onto the stage. Mervyn Millar’s unique perspective as a member of the creative team gives a rich insight into the way this stage version of Michael Morpurgo’s novel takes audiences on a journey through history.

‘The Royal Court has been at the centre of British cultural life for the past 50 years, an engine room for new writing and constantly transforming the theatrical culture’ Stephen Daldry

£20.00

9781840027631

Brian Masters

THUNDER IN THE AIR Great Actors in Great Roles Arguing that the work of great actors does not die with them but is passed down to inform the work of today’s stars, Masters brings together the rich tapestry of a unique tradition, using hilarious anecdotal evidence and historical fact. Illustrated.

‘Book of the Year’ Beryl Bainbridge, Daily Telegraph, 2000

£12.99 9781840027655

Journey of the

Tall

Horse Mervyn Millar

Mervyn Millar

JOURNEY OF THE TALL HORSE A Story of African Theatre

In 1826 a giraffe was transported from Egypt to France as a prize addition to the King’s private zoo. In 2004 its story was told with the help of puppet designs, actors, a story of african theatre dancers, stilt-walkers, music, costumes, graphics – and a life-size puppet giraffe.

Mervyn Millar’s eye-witness account captures the frustrations and rewards of being involved in this groundbreaking production.

Includes the playscript of Tall Horse by Khephra Burns. Illustrated includes the performance script of tall horse by khephra burns

£19.99 9781840021691 Hardback

Nichola McAuliffe

A FANNY FULL OF SOAP

£15.99 9781840025996

M2+puppets

The Story of a West End Musical

Bella Merlin

A hilarious new novel from renowned actress Nichola McAuliffe. Leading lady and one-time telly star Eleanor Woodwarde takes the lead in an overblown West End salsa musical. The producer’s volatile incompetence is matched only by the length of his cigar. A rival actress is after the number one dressing room. And the director can’t keep his hands to himself. Eleanor fears for her sanity, but at fifty quid a skull she knows the show must go on.

WITH THE ROGUE’S COMPANY

£15.99 9781840027440 Hardback £7.99

Henry IV at the National Theatre Bella Merlin follows the production from pre-rehearsal planning to opening night, charting the processes that make up two major productions in the Olivier Theatre, and provides a unique insight into the staging of two great Shakespeare plays.

£12.99 9781840025606

9781840027952 Paperback

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THEATRE Michael Pennington

Roland Rees

ARE YOU THERE, CROCODILE?

FRINGE FIRST

Inventing Anton Chekhov Acclaimed actor Michael Pennington retraces his ten-year exploration of Chekhov when preparing for the one-man show Anton Chekhov.

Includes the script of Anton Chekhov.

Illustrated.

‘A classic depiction of theatre work at its most visionary’ Simon Callow

£12.99 9781840024586 Paperback £19.99 9781840021929 Hardback

J B Priestley

THE ART OF THE DRAMATIST And Other Writings on Theatre Edited by Tom Priestley

The director of The Elephant Man and founder of the Foco Novo theatre company, interviews other pioneers of fringe theatre in the US and UK in the seventies and eighties.

‘Probably the best book on the emergent alternative theatre... mesmerically important and interesting.’ Observer

£8.99 9781870259309

John Whiting

AT EASE IN A BRIGHT RED TIE Edited & introduced by Ronald Hayman These essays and criticisms by playwright John Whiting first emerged during the most exciting and eventful decade in post-war British theatre: 1952–62.

£8.99 9781840020526

This new collection is part defence of theatre, part incisive criticism, and, in the renowned lecture ‘The Art of the Dramatist’, part instructive guide for would-be playwrights. The extracts are filled with Priestley’s warm plainspeaking, his characteristic wit and, above all, good sense.

£12.99 9781840022940

Denis Quilley

HAPPINESS INDEED An Actor’s Life A man of many parts, Denis Quilley’s acting career ranged from Shakespeare to Sondheim, via Chekhov, O’Neill and Beckett.

Musicals, comedies, tragedies – all were part of an extraordinary life of over 60 years of theatre, television and film, working with many of the greats of stage and screen.

£19.99 9781840022681 Hardback

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DANCE AND OPERA Oberon Books are proud to continue their great success in working with leading opera and ballet companies, most notably the Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet. In recent years Oberon have produced some beautiful books, most notably Pas de deux and The Royal Ballet Yearbook, with many more stunning books due to publish throughout 2010 and 2011.

PAS DE DEUX

NEW

Pas de deux records striking pas de deux from across The Royal Ballet’s repertory.

It includes classics such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, masterpieces by Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, who were instrumental in moulding the company’s repertory, as well as new works by leading choreographers of today.

£25.00

9781840027778 Full Colour Hardback

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET NEW 20 years ago, Birmingham Royal Ballet took the brave step to set up on its own in Birmingham. It was the making of this marvellous company of dancers and dance makers. Now one of the foremost international ballet companies in the world, this book celebrates this story through pictures. Wonderful productions, wonderful dancers, a fairy tale made real.

£20.00 9781849430975 Hardback Sept 2010

Royal Opera House NEW

THE ROYAL BALLET YEARBOOK 2009/10 NEW

TOCORORO

With a foreword by Dame Monica Mason, director of the Royal Ballet, this essential guide contains news on who has left and joined the organisation, photos of the company from the 2009 season, interviews with dancers on what life at the Royal Ballet is really like, articles and a preview of next season, a chronology of the company and much more. An essential read for anyone involved or interested in the world of dance.

In a series of stunning black and white and colour images, Tocororo: A Cuban Tale follows the creation of Carlos Acosta’s first piece of dance theatre as choreographer and star, from its rehearsals and world premiere in Cuba to its sell-out debut at London’s Sadlers Wells theatre. The magnificent photographs capture the immediacy and excitement of the show as it goes into rehearsal in Havana.

£15.00 9781840029390

A Cuban Tale

By Carlos Acosta Photographs by Angela Taylor

‘[Acosta’s] ballet-dancing has a unique three-way harmony: the street-boy’s fabulous athleticism, perfectionist classical manners, and a yearning, generous heart that is all the more striking because he shows it so naturally.’ Daily Telegraph

£20.00

9781840024883

Royal Opera House

THE ROYAL BALLET YEARBOOK 2010/11 NEW Following on from the great success of the beautiful 2009/10 Royal Ballet Yearbook, this new edition for the 2010/11 Season will bring all ballet lovers up to date with the latest activities, performances and company news from the prestigious Royal Ballet. Packed full of beautiful photographs, exclusive insider insights and a preview of the new Season, this is one ballet book that is not to be missed!

Michael Nunn and William Trevitt

NEW

BALLET BOYZ The Ballet Boyz company was founded in 2001 by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, previous lead dancers with The Royal Ballet.

This innovative new company has made a dramatic mark on the British dance scene thrilling audiences and dance critics alike with its exhilarating mix of award winning dance and film repertoire, performance style and high artistic standards. This illustrated guide to the Ballet Boyz is a joy to behold, and a must have for every dance lover, young or old.

£20.00

9781849430500 March 2011

£15.00 9781849430029 Sept 2010

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NEW

DANCE AND OPERA

Michael Birkett

NEW

Alasdair Middleton

THE STORY OF THE RING

THE ENCHANTED PIG

Illustrated by Elizabeth Bury Composed over a period of over twentyfive years between 1848-1874 the four Ring Cycle operas of Das Rheingold, Die Walkurie, Siegfried and Gotterdamerung total fifteen hours. Whilst each opera is often performed as a work in its own right, Wagner’s intention was that a full understanding of the Ring cycle required attendance at all four operas. This wonderful book not only helps readers gain that fuller understanding of The Ring Cycle, but is also a joy to read. Noted film producer Michael Birkett has gotten to the heart of the story to produce a narrative that will thrill and delight. This is the first English narrative version of the story since Arthur Rackham’s edition in 1910 and features Elizabeth Bury’s fabulous illustrations.

£20.00

9781840029383

Bill Cooper

Hardback

NEW

Nov 2009

NEW

THE ROYAL BALLET IN HOUSE A sumptuous photographic record of the first three years of Royal Ballet performances in the newly refurbished Royal Opera House. Over 200 full colour pictures of 43 ballets are featured, including masterpieces by the great choreographers Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, as well as new works by leading choreographers of today. Dancers pictured include Carlos Acosta, Roberto Bolle, Deborah Bull, Darcey Bussell, Alina Cojocaru, Jonathan Cope, Sylvie Guillem, Johan Kobborg, Irek Mukhamedov, Marianela Nuñez, Ivan Putrov, Tamara Rojo, Jaimie Tapper, Zenaida Yanowsky and Miyako Yoshida.

When you’re a princess you expect a fairytale wedding. You don’t expect your husband to be hairy, smelly and a genuine pig. Of course, underneath that porcine exterior lives a prince trapped by a witch’s spell… Based on a Romanian folktale and with music by Jonathan Dove and words by Alasdair Middleton, this is a terrifically funny and tuneful family treat.

£8.99

9781840029796

Dec 2009 F4 M5

John Snelson

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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WAGNER’S RING AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE This celebratory illustrated history charts the story of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Opera House from the first staging in 1892 to recent times. The pictorial record, drawn from the Royal Opera House Collections, includes many images never published before. Appendices list all the performances and their castings from 1892 on.

‘A handsome new volume chronicling more than a century of cycles at Covent Garden’ Anthony Holden, Observer

£35.00 9781840026023 Full Colour Hardback

£27.50 9781840023503 Full Colour Hardback

Glyn Maxwell

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THE LION’S FACE Developed by the award-winning The Opera Group, The Lion’s Face is a new opera which explores the issues surrounding dementia. It is a collaboration between poet Glyn Maxwell and composer Elena Langer. Compassionate, heartfelt, strikingly dramatic and often witty, The Lion’s Face is a musical tale of love, loss and family.

£ 8.99 9781840029949

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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE SERIES PLÁCIDO DOMINGO

MARGOT FONTEYN

And The Royal Opera Edited by Cristina Franchi

Prima Ballerina Assoluta of The Royal Ballet Edited by Cristina Franchi

Plácido Domingo, the greatest tenor of our time, is the subject of the first opera book in the Royal Opera House Heritage Series. Since his debut at the Opera House in 1971 Domingo has held a unique place amongst the great tenors. His mastery of the Italian and French dramatic tenor repertory has not stopped him finding fresh challenges, notably as a Heldentenor in Wagner and as an orchestral conductor. The book shows Domingo in rehearsal as well as in performance and includes pictures lent by the Domingo family.

Margot Fonteyn is The Royal Ballet’s legendary Prima Ballerina Assoluta, and the Company’s first ‘home grown’ ballerina.

Her Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 and confirmed The Royal Ballet as the major classical ballet company in the UK. She conquered American audiences in the same role when The Royal Ballet first appeared in New York in 1949.

Also included are photographs of her internationally acclaimed partnership with Rudolf Nureyev.

£20.00 9781840026221

£20.00

RUDOLF NUREYEV

FREDERICK ASHTON

9781840024609

And The Royal Ballet Edited by Cristina Franchi The first international ballet superstar, Nureyev defected from Russia in 1961 and first appeared with The Royal Ballet in 1962, partnering Margot Fonteyn in Giselle and the pas de deux from Le Corsaire. These performances saw the start of a legendary partnership that was to enthral audiences throughout the world. He also mounted versions of the classical ballets from his days with the Kirov Ballet and choreographed his own works. His phenomenal technique, his appetite for new dance experiences, and his flamboyant life-style brought ballet to the attention of a wider audience and raised the status of male dancing forever.

£20.00

Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Edited by Cristina Franchi The work of Frederick Ashton, Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, defined the English style of ballet.

Inspired to dance by Anna Pavlova, encouraged

by Ninette de Valois, Ashton’s career with The Royal Ballet, as dancer, choreographer and director, spans the Company’s history from its earliest days, and his influence is still seen today in the repertory and style that informs the Company.

£20.00

9781840024616

9781840024623

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Ballet Boyz was company founded in 2001 by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, both lead dancers with The Royal Ballet. This innovative new company has made a startling impact on the British dance scene thrilling audiences and dance critics alike with its exhilarating mix of award winning dance and film repertoire, performance style and high artistic standards. With more demi-gods than demi-pointes, this illustrated tribute to the Ballet Boyz is a joy to behold, and a must have for every dance enthusiast.

“Balletboyz have created a dance culture for the Radiohead generation” Jenny Gilbert, The Independent £20.00

copyright © Hugo Glendinning

9781849430500 March 2011

MODERN PLAYS

NEW

MODERN PLAYS As the UK’s most exciting theatre publisher, Oberon Books prides itself on diversity and range of its Modern Plays list. From young writers to old, British and international, Oberon Books has the most exciting list of young and new writers producing innovative and stimulating new drama.

Oladipo Agboluaje

NEW

Rikki Beadle-Blair

THE HOUNDING OF DAVID OLUWALE

FAMILYMAN Caesar Ramsay works hard for his family.

But the news his son Nelson reveals, sends Caesar’s seemingly ordinary life rapidly spinning out of his control! Fast, furious and very funny, Familyman asks some vital questions about 21st-century parenting.

In 1969, David Oluwale’s body was pulled from the River Aire in Leeds. Eighteen months later, two Yorkshire police officers were prosecuted for killing the Nigerian immigrant whist in police custody. Thirty nine years on, the details of Oluwale’s death still haunt the area. Agboluaje uses carefully selected accounts of Oluwale’s life to reveal how an optimistic and much loved showman became the tragic victim of police persecution and brutality.

£8.99 9781840029024

Oladipo Agboluaje

£8.99

Thomas Babe

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A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER 1am on a steamy summer night. A grubby police office in downtown NYC. Two cops and two crooks battle with wits and fists to uncover the truth about a murder. Sean is back from Vietnam and unable to find his way. Jimmy has the look of a choir boy, but the attitude of a punk. Kelly’s daughter is on the end of the phone with a gun to her temple. Jack can’t get through the shift without a fix.

In Vietnam America is locked in a war she shouldn’t have started.

Today history replays in the Middle East. Same talk, same struggle and morality’s still the victim.

£8.99 9781840028379 M4

£8.99 9781840029598 M3F5

Richard Bean

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THE ENGLISH GAME This new play from prolific British Playwright Richard Bean features The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. They gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad.

Simultaneously brilliantly funny, true and touching, The English Game is a timely and revealing look at the political and social tensions which underpin modern society.

£8.99 9781840028539 M13

Richard Bean

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ENGLAND PEOPLE VERY NICE A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today.

As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn arrive in Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture, showing that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new. Premiered at The National Theatre.

£8.99

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Lee, a soldier returning to Hull from two tours of Afghanistan, joins a losing pub quiz team, whose specialist subjects range from hallucinogenic drugs to the containerisation of Hull docks. Melissa has come to Hull to regenerate the city. Maybe she can be a shot of viagra for the team? A murderous black comedy, set in Hull’s black economy, with too many questions and all the wrong answers.

ÌYÀ-ILÉ (THE FIRST WIFE)

£8.99 9781840029253 M9F3

M3F4

PUB QUIZ IS LIFE

NEW

2010 Olivier Award Nominee for ‘Outstanding achievement in an affiliated theatre’

9781840028584

Richard Bean

M6F2

It’s 1989 in Lagos. Political hysteria and social change are sweeping Nigeria. Chief Adeyemi’s wife Toyin is turning 40 and, behind the mansion walls, the household is preparing for her party. But there are other distractions. Their troublesome sons, returning from college, are more interested in seduction and starting revolutions than their parents’ disintegrating marriage. Meanwhile Helen, the ambitious house girl, is waiting for her chance...

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9781840029000

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Richard Bean

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Victoria Brittain

NEW

THE BIG FELLAH

THE MEANING OF WAITING

Richard Bean’s latest is a controversial and hilarious play set amongst the expatriate Irish community of New York as they try to raise money for NORAID, the charitable organisation often accused of being an IRA front.

Eight women tell their stories – using their own words – stories of the unseen fallout of the war on terror in Britain. These are stories of real women, from cultures as varied as Palestine, Senegal , Jordan, Libya, St John’s Wood, and the English Midlands. They all came to the UK as refugees, or married refugees here. After 9/11 the world they loved here vanished almost overnight. One after another they were engulfed by isolation and private terror. The Meaning of Waiting is a powerful new work of verbatim theatre.

£8.99 9781840027754

Simon Bent

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PRICK UP YOUR EARS 1962. Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton - RADA graduates, aspiring playwrights, and sometime lovers - plot their rightful place at the centre of London’s literary scene. Joe is about to become the greatest, and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, while Ken stays indoors, re-decorating and sharing Joe’s success with their neighbour, Mrs Corden. West End production.

£8.99 9781840029451 M6F2

Thomas Bernhard

NEW

Translated by Meredith Oakes/ Andrea Tierney

£8.99 9781849430517 8775 M1F1

NEW

Gianina Carbunariu

KEBAB Translated by Philip Osment Leaving Romania to make it rich abroad, Madalina finds herself working in a Dublin kebab shop. Fortunately her boyfriend has a better prospect. She’ll be broadcast across the world and watched by thousands. It’s a new start and surely things will never be as bad as back home. Kebab explores some of the harsher realities of immigration and what people are willing to give up in the hope of a better life.

£8.99 9781840028096 M2F1

HELDENPLATZ THE BLOODY CHAMBER Bryony Lavery brings to thrilling life Angela Carter’s tale of seduction, perversion, blood and love (itself a radical re-thinking of the story of Bluebeard) in a shockingly beautiful portrait of the corruption of adolescence in this astonishing adaptation for the stage.

£8.99 9781840029956 Feb 2010 F6 M5

Torben Betts

£8.99

NEW

LIE OF THE LAND Set in the future, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a city couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them with The Answer?

£8.99

9781840028775 M1F1

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

NEW

BEHUD BEYOND BELIEF Behud (Beyond Belief) by controversial playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti whose previous play Behzti rocked the world after protests in Birmingham. The closure of the play sparked a vehement debate about offence and freedom of speech. In Behud, a playwright attempts to make sense of the past by visiting the darkest corners of her imaginations. Behud is an imaginative response, inspired by the events surrounding Behzti (see page 47), and the compelling story of an artist struggling to be heard

£8.99

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Angela Carter; Bryony Lavery

Highly acclaimed post war German playwright Thomas Bernhard has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria’s most controversial authors. He wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler’s Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever.

9781840028874 M6F2

Daragh Carville

NEW

THIS OTHER CITY Patrick and Gemma are typical examples of the upwardly mobile generation of the leafy suburbs - she a successful businesswoman, with her own chain of beauty salons, he a high-flying executive in her father’s burgeoning property empire. But the worm at the heart of their apparently happy marriage is his secret penchant for rough sex with young prostitutes. When this sordid fact becomes known to his wife and teenage daughter, their previously charmed lives, in tandem with the desperate existence of a hapless young girl from Moldova, collapse into freefall.

£8.99

9781849430494

Aug 2010

M3 F4

9781849430968 M8F2

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Dominic Cavendish

Ryan Craig

ORWELL: A CELEBRATION

NEW

HAPPY SAVAGES Two couples trample on friends and lovers as they search for happiness. In Fringe First and Peggy Ramsay award winner Ryan Craig’s play, their dialogue crackles with desperation and raw humour.

A theatrical homage to Orwell, featuring monologue adaptations of the novel Coming up for Air, two of his best-loved essays, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ and ‘A Hanging’, and a distillation of the Ministry of Love interrogation scenes from 1984 into a short, sharp, shocking vignette of man’s inhumanity to man. Trafalgar Studios 2009.

£8.99

9781840028782 M2F2

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Tim Crouch

£8.99 9781840029314 M3

THE AUTHOR In-Sook Chappell

NEW

‘I have the choice to continue. I have the choice to stop. Settle back into the warmth of the theatre. Relax as the story unfolds.

For you. With you. Of you. A story of hope, violence and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, turn to your neighbour. You’re here.’

THIS ISN’T ROMANCE After their parent’s death, siblings Han and Miso are forced into destitution and life upon the streets of Korea. However, Miso is rescued from poverty at the age of ten by an English family, and leaving her younger brother in Korea to fend for himself, she escapes to England and a life of prosperity.

Set in modern day Korea, This Isn’t Romance opens with the first meeting between the estranged siblings after their separation as children. Winner of the Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award 2007.

£8.99

Tim Crouch’s new play is about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator, and opened at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court in September 2009.

£8.99 9781840029505 M3F1

Lizzy Dijeh

9781840029109 F3 M2

Complicite

HIGH LIFE A powerful new play about teenage suicide and family bereavement. Two Nigerian families bound together by grief. One devastating secret set to tear them apart.

Reunited in grief, a wealth of secret motives, jealousy and insecurities are exposed. A mother’s loss turns into obsession.

NEW

A DISAPPEARING NUMBER Winner of the Evening Standard’s Best New Play Award 2007, A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of one of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time. A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too.

The mathematician GH Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genious Srinvasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.

£9.99 9781840028300 M3F2

Oliver Cotton

NEW

£8.99 9781840029055 M2F5

Will Eno

Mary Swanson just moved to Middletown. About to have her first child, she is eager to enjoy the neighborly bonds a small town promises. But life in Middletown is complicated: neighbors are near strangers and moments of connection are fleeting.

Middletown is a playful, poignant portrait of a town with two lives, one ordinary and visible, the other epic and mysterious.

£8.99 9781849430661 June 2011

Richard Everett

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ENTERTAINING ANGELS

In this, his first published stage play, Oliver Cotton draws on his own experience as he presents two actors—one English, the other American—marooned on location miles from anywhere, confined in their tiny dressing space by the unrelenting rain. Growing increasingly frustrated, they engage in a magnificently sustained verbal duel, a love-hate clash of cultures, countries and personalities.

9781840029963

NEW

MIDDLETOWN

WET WEATHER COVER

£8.99

NEW

As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases. But the return of her eccentric missionary sister Ruth, together with some disturbing revelations force Grace to confront the truth of her marriage.

£8.99

9781840029673 F4M2

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Lara Foot Newton

Mick Gordon

KAROO MOOSE In a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, South Africa, a young girl, Thomaza, struggles to survive. A violent and terrifying incident and a chance encounter with an escaped moose change her life forever.

A story of pain, redemption and hope, combining traditional African storytelling and magical realism, first produced by the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town.

£8.99

9781840029321

M4F2

ON EMOTION No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending.

They are what motivate our behaviour and influence our beliefs. Maverick theatremaker Mick Gordon’s new play uses and abuses the tools of the theatre, an art form which creates and manipulates feelings, to explore the complicated and crucial arena of human emotion.

£8.99

Tim Fountain

NEW

9781840028836

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DANDY IN THE UNDERWORLD With a childhood surrounded by alcoholism and petty cruelties, an adolescence of rebellion and punkish anarchy and an adulthood peppered with heroin addiction, voluntary crucifixion, failed suicide and a penchant for sex with prostitutes, Sebastian Horsley’s life was always destined to become a work of art. Based upon Horsley’s no-holds-barred memoir, this stage adaptation of modern day dandyism is due to be debuted at the Soho Theatre in 2010.

Mick Gordon

NEW

PRESSURE DROP Pressure Drop takes us to the heart of one family’s struggle to define home. Part play, part gig, part installation, it is a passionate account of what it is to be English today. In this new play, Gordon has collaborated with the legendary Billy Bragg, a great believer in British identity and this play features Bragg’s own lyrics.

£8.99

9781840029710

Apr 2010 F2M6

£8.99 9781849431149 M1 June 2010

Fraser Grace Pam Gems

THE LIFESAVERS

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PIAF From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame, Edith Piaf continues to be remembered and revered for her execeptional voice and extraordinary life. In this new edition of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her celebrated 1978 original, vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.

£8.99

A couple desperate for a baby. A boy who has seen too much. Watching over them all are the saviours; policing us into being human, protecting us from a world which is riven with fear. They call themselves the Lifesavers. Fraser Grace’s new play received its premiere at Theatre503 and the Mercury Theatre, Colchester in January 2009.

£8.99

9781840029178

M3F1

9781840028751 M9F5

Fraser Grace Steve Gilroy

Extraordinary stories, ordinary lives. This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women, who live in our street, and drink in our local, share their stories with warmth, humour and candour, as they reveal the real lottery of war. Winner of The Stage’s Best Ensemble at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

£8.99 9781840029482 F4

NEW

KING DAVID, MAN OF BLOOD

NEW

MOTHERLAND

Lucifer makes a wager with God and sets out to test the loyalty of his favourite son, King David, Man of Blood. David’s eyes are opened and for the first time he glimpses the demon inside his own god-like being. In the battle between heaven and earth which ensues, the innocent quickly fall and David’s challenge to God assumes cataclysmic proportions... King David, Man of Blood re-spins a classic biblical tale to devastating moral effect, fetching up on a very modern shore, where horror, tragedy, comedy and a terrible beauty co-exist. Opening at the Colchester, Mercury 2010.

£8.99

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Graham Greene; Francis

Clive

Tanika Gupta

MEET THE MUKHERJEES

OUR MAN IN HAVANA Adapted from the novel by Graham Greene

From prolific playwright Tanika Gupta, this play is about love, lust, relationships and the meeting of two families from culturally different backgrounds.

A hilarious and irreverent new adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, written by caricaturist Clive Francis for four actors playing over 30 roles. A classic tale of espionage and cunning subterfuge in the Cuban capital, Our Man in Havana was written in 1958 and adapted for the big screen the following year.

£ 8.99

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S-27 May is an idealist. She’s fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most.

So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer. But as the enemy pass one by one before her unflinching lens - both strange and familiar faces - can they shake her belief in this world she helped to create?

Inspired by the experiences of the Tuol Seng prison in Cambodia.

£8.99

9781840029307

M3F5

NEW

DREAM OF THE DOG KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2009. Richard and Patricia Wiley, an elderly white couple, have sold their farm to developers. It is the evening before they are due to leave.

Unexpectedly, one of their former black workers, ‘Look Smart’, turns up after a fifteen-year absence. Why did he leave all those years ago? What has brought him back? And why has he come now? Dream of the Dog is – in microcosm – a story of South Africa’s emerging democracy, challenging notions of truth and reconciliation, justice and revenge, memory and history. Transferred to West End in 2010.

£8.99

9781849431132

April 2010

M2F2

M4F1

Craig Higginson Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom

FOREPLAY

9781840028614

Craig Higginson

£8.99 9781840029536 M3F1

Sarah Grochala

NEW

NEW

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THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW DRESS

Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s infamous play La Ronde, Foreplay is set in modern-day South Africa, where, despite the spectre of AIDS, the merry-go-round of sex continues in full swing. Alongside Schnitzler’s original themes, the play addresses more specific concerns such as casual violence and political and religious corruption. The resulting play is funny, formally innovative, and utterly candid.

A new gripping psychological drama, The Girl in the Yellow Dress centres on a love story set in Paris between two apparently disparate characters, one a UK teacher and the other her Congolese student. A fascinating play from a leading South African writer.

9781840029260 M7F6

TOUGH TIME, NICE TIME

Carl Grose

NEW

GRAND GUIGNOL 1903. In the back streets of Monmartre, the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays performed, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night. A psychiatrist obsessed with the playwright’s gruesome dramas ingratiates his way into the company. But when he starts to unpick the author’s mind, the boundaries between theatre and truth begin to blur… Delighting in this lost theatrical form, Carl Grose’s demented new play works fast and loose with convention. A black comedy, a psychological thriller and an unrepentant splatter-fest, Grand Guignol is a fantastic new play.

£8.99 9781840029642 M7F2

£8.99 9781849430821 August 2010

Jon Haynes; David Woods

£8.99

9781840028317

M2

Ron Hutchinson

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TOPLESS MUM Ron Hutchinson’s powerful new satire on the media’s manipulation of the images of war. When a soldier returns home after serving in Afghanistan he tempts a newspaper editor with personal photos that seem to expose outrageous acts of brutality.

But when their authenticity is questioned, how far can the story be spun to stop the real truth leaking out…

£8.99

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A secret, a spa in Bangkok and two naked Germans… With its razor sharp dialogue and lightning pace, Tough time, Nice time is challenging, vividly imaginative and utterly absorbing.

9781840028638 M4F2

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Adrian Jackson; Farhana Sheikh NEW

D E N N I S K E L LY

ORPHANS

MINCEMEAT

NEW

Dennis Kelly

ORPHANS Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves. But the outside world comes crashing into their lives one day when Helen’s brother turns up. Covered in blood.

A narrative that crosses time and territory to find answers to questions of identity and matters of life and death, Mincemeat unravels the truths and the untruths surrounding a World War Two intelligence operation. It features testimony, speculation and outright lies: don’t miss the shocking truth behind an event that changed history

Dennis Kelly’s new play is a thrilling contemporary suspense story which takes its audience on a chilling journey into a world just outside the front door. This disturbing urban drama premiered at the Traverse Theatre in 2009

£8.99

£8.99 9781840029437 M2F1

9781840029352 M8F4

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Sam Peter Jackson

Ian Kennedy Martin

PUBLIC PROPERTY When popular news man Geoffrey Hammond is caught by photographers in a compromising position, he turns to his publicist Larry to find a way of spinning him out of what seems to be an impossible situation. As the media wait outside Larry’s house, hungry for a statement on the sex scandal of the century, an unexpected powerplay unfolds between the two men as they face the unavoidable question – is all publicity good publicity?

£8.99

9781840029772

M3

Franz Kafka; Colin Teevan NEW

KAFKA’S MONKEY

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THE BERLIN HANOVER EXPRESS Set in Berlin during the Autumn of 1942, Martin’s politically astute drama explores the implications of a country remaining neutral in a time of war. Focusing upon the connections between five diverse individuals thrown together by the War, The Berlin Hanover Express explores the internal conflict that arises between officials and diplomats as they try to carry on their routine business inside the Irish consulate, whilst outside RAF bombings decimate the Third Reich.

£8.99

9781840029017

M3F1

Sayan Kent

NEW

ANOTHER PARADISE

Imprisoned in a cage and desperate to escape, Kafka’s Monkey reveals his journey to become a walking, talking, spitting, smoking, hard-drinking man of the stage.

Based on the short story A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka, this new adaptation is by Colin Teevan. Kafka’s Monkey was performed to critical acclaim at the Young Vic Theatre in Spring 2009.

Sex, corruption and identity cards... Not your run of the mill combination, but then again, Another Paradise is no run of the mill play. Set in the not too distant future in which identity cards are compulsory and the individual is validated by a mere digital code, Another Paradise traces the lives of five individuals whose work, home and even sex lives are thrown into sheer confusion when their ‘official’ identities vanish.

£8.99

£8.99 9781840029208 M2F3

9781840029215

Dennis Kelly

F1

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Natasha Langridge

THE GODS WEEP The new play from award winning playwright Dennis Kelly, The Gods Weep focuses on the life of a CEO whose global business fragments around him as he loses his grip on reality. RSC production in 2010.

£8.99 9781840029925 F5 M9

Mar 2010

NEW

SHRADDHA The 2012 Olympics spells eviction for the generations of Romany Gypsies living in East London. 17 year old Pearl Penfold is one of them. As the bulldozers close in, Pearl falls in love with Joe, a boy from the local estate. Can Joe prove himself to Pearl and her family before they are gone forever? Shraddha premiered at the Soho Theatre in October 2009.

£8.99 9781840029659 M2F3

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Paul Lucas

KURSK A submarine is on patrol in the Arctic. The crew sleep, eat and drill, silently shadow their target while longing for home. Their lives, both extraordinary and mundane, are shattered by a global crisis from which uniquely personal stories emerge.

Inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000, Bryony Lavery’s play imagines the life of submariners, deep below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the cold war.

£ 8.99

9781840029369 M5

Bryony Lavery

NEW

THE WICKED LADY

HOW TO TELL THE MONSTERS FROM THE MISFITS Paul Lucas’ new black comedy is one of the most genuinely touching and heart warming plays ever written about murderous mayhem. Two dead dentists covered in lipstick makes for quite a week for the bumbling Detective Edwards. He gathers together a crack team of police minds to help him solve a case that seems to strike at the very heart of Middle England. But as more and more bodies show up in ever more bizarre circumstances, it’s not long before the crack team begins, to, well...crack.

£8.99

Adapted from the novel by Magdalen King-Hall Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked. Forced into a respectable marriage with a man she can’t love, she soon becomes bored and embarks on a secret life of gambling, highway robbery and murder. But she’s playing a dangerous game. Shadowed by betrayal, threatened by revenge, can Barbara escape her wicked life? Or will she be abandoned to a terrible fate?

£ 8.99

9781840029406

John Logan

M5F5

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RED

9781840029444

NEW

CHRONICLES OF LONG KESH Written by one of Northern Ireland’s most celebrated playwrights, Martin Lynch, this is the painful, shocking and hilarious story of Northern Ireland’s infamous prison - Long Kesh - told through the eyes of prison officers, Republicans and Loyalists, a rich assortment of patriots, chancers, leaders, wives, escapers and hypochondriacs! A huge crowd-pleaser, full wild, irreverent humour Chronicles of Long Kesh was the smash hit of the Edinburgh Festival 2009. Opened at the Tricycle Theatre in 2010.

9781849430005

Mustapha Matura

Mar 2010 M5F1

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PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES Playboy of the West Indies is a Caribbean re-working of J M Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. Initially produced in 1984, this play has enjoyed huge success all over the world, specifically proving very popular in the USA where it was nominated for four Jefferson Awards.

£ 8.99

“ A fresh, exciting portrait of a brilliant mind” Ben Brantley, New York Times

£8.99

9781840028621 M3F1

Martin Lynch

£8.99

Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his riches and praise became his ultimate undoing, premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in December 2009. 2010 Olivier Award nominee for Best New Play, transfered to Broadway 2010.

NEW

9781840029246

Jun 2010 M8 F6

Nichola McAuliffe

M2

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A BRITISH SUBJECT At the age of 18, Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British Subject, arrived in Pakistan. 24 hours later a taxi driver was dead and Tahir was tried for his murder. Condemned to hang in the Criminal Court he spent the following 18 years on death row. Don Mackay of the Daily Mirror was the only journalist to visit him in that time. A British Subject is the true account of what happened…

£ 8.99

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Ciaran McConville

Richard Milward

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SNOWBOUND

APPLES

The Connor brothers have always had to look after themselves. Tom is the charming business man, while for Alex small things can be overwhelming. But when Tom’s wife dies, it’s only Alex who can make Tom’s world work again. A beautiful new play about love.

adapted by John Retallack

£ 8.99

9781840028478

M3F4

Adapted for stage, Apples is set on a Middlesbrough council estate. This astonishing piece of writing by 23 year old Richard Milward is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf. Streams of poetic, impassioned and often hilarious words pour from five fifteen year olds as they negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere, sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling.

£8.99 9781849430982 M9F9 Jun 2010

Douglas Maxwell

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PROMISES PROMISES

Molière; Ranjit Bolt

Given her disreputable past, retired teacher Maggie Brodie knows she was a last minute choice for supply cover. Being patronised by the idiotic young headmaster is an indignity she can just about endure. But her frustrations increase when a silent Somalian child in her class, whom Maggie is inexplicably drawn to, is believed by her family and community to be possessed.

Opened at the Soho Theatre in 2010

THE GROUCH

£8.99

9781849430647 Mar 2010 F1

Glyn Maxwell

A modern version by Ranjit Bolt This witty new adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope by Ranjit Bolt tells the story of Alan. Journalist, intellectual and bohemian at heart, Alan is drowning in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade, how can he secure the affections of Celia - spoiled, feckless, fickle and the love of his life?

£8.99 9781840028355 M6F3

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LIBERTY

Juan Mayorga

Private jealousies and public fears, old alliances and new ideologies, panic legislation and political correctness all combine in this thrilling adaptation of Anatole France’s 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif. Well known poet Glyn Maxwell brings a colloquial verse of great fluidity and immediacy to a story that is both fresh and relevant.

£8.99

9781840028690 M15F3

Glyn Maxwell

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MIMI & THE STALKER Snatched from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight, schoolgirl Michelle Latchford was transformed into Hollywood’s hottest property: Mimi Luck. Now the reclusive Mimi is barricaded in her rural hideaway as a paparazzo lurks outside, scrutinised by her watchful agent, and haunted by the memory of the boy all the other kids called God.

£8.99

9781840028843

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M2F1

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NOCTURNAL Translated by David Johnston When you’re alone in a big city, how far would you go to make a new friend? Two men live in the same apartment block. One likes long walks, Greek myths and foreign languages. The other likes making lists, fixing bikes and blackmail. One day they bump into each other in a local café. Only this is no coincidence: one of them has been planning this moment for a very, very, very long time.

£8.99

9781840029239

M2F2

Dorota Maslowska NEW

A COUPLE OF POOR POLISH-SPEAKING ROMANIANS Translated by Lisa Goldman / Paul Sirett ‘The worst fucking thing is that the world wants to turn you into a grey rag, saluting in a line... like you, cold cut man. I don’t want to be like that.’ It’s dangerous to be different. After the ‘Rat, Scabs and Scroungers’ party there’s an hilarious, wild road trip across black ice, towards a cruel reality where being poor and alone is no longer a game. A new play from Polish literary phenomenon Dorota Maslowska performed at the Soho Theatre.

£8.99 9781840028461 M3F3

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WEDDING DAY AT THE CRO-MAGNONS Translated by Shelley Tepperman As the bombs fall in Lebanon, the CroMagnon family prepare for their narcoleptic daughter’s wedding feast. There are family feuds. The potatoes are rotten and the main course won’t die. And there’s the small matter of an absent bride groom...

An audacious and bitter comedy from a writer who knows first-hand what it feels like to be caught in a war zone. This is internationally award-winning writer Wajdi Mouawad’s UK debut.

£8.99

9781840028485 M3F3

Patrick Neate

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BABEL Stan Won’t Dance Whitbread prize-winning writer Patrick Neate collaborates with choreographic mavericks Liam Steel and Robert Tannion to produce a provocative new work.

Violent but beautifully choreographed polemics collapse our safe ivory towers of political correctness, and the audience are compelled to sift through the wreckage to uncover the truth of their downfall in the shards of sound-bites, celebrity and brand recognition. Written entirely in dynamic street verse, the piece places a lost voice back in the mouths of a strangled population, and asks fundamental questions about the Britain in which we live.

£9.99

NEW

THE DIVER Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism and betrayal, this play ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a contemporary murder.

9781840028683 M5F1

Mark Norfolk

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NAKED SOLDIERS There’s been a near fatal stabbing in a local park and a young teenager is in a critical condition. Seventeen year old Tony has been accused of what has been called a racially motivated crime and goes on the run. But he has chosen to hide out in a place where Jamal, an African refugee is also hiding. The two fugitives, forced to co-exist in their self imposed exile find themselves as hostages to fortune.

However, they must each set aside their preconceived prejudices as they discover things about themselves as human beings. A new play staged at Croydoon’s Warehouse theatre in 2010.

£8.99

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WHERE’S VIETNAM? 1968 and the sexual revolution is stuck in a traffic jam just outside Leeds, but two brothers are about to see beyond the city’s narrow perimeters. A fan of the Kray twins, Banks proudly models himself on Reggie Kray and pushes his gentle giant of a brother, Arthur, into the subservient role of Ronnie.

This is a black comedy about love, loyalty and not letting disability stand in the way of extreme violence.

£8.99

9781840028706 20+

Chris O’Connell

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ZERO Set twenty years from now, in the face of unabated nihilism, hundreds of torture camps have been created to extract information - at any cost - from those who aim to blow apart a world that is wealthy beyond its dreams. Alex, a translator at Camp Zero, wants to tell the world of the brutal regime within the walls of the camp, but as a consequence his life is suddenly in danger. Survival is of course paramount, death may be inevitable, but the truth has to be told. Zero is chaotic, fast, and furious. The play takes an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture, and the curse of censorship.

£8.99 9781840028812 M5*

Sean O’Connor; Tom Morris

JULIET AND HER ROMEO NEW

9781840029819 Jan 2010 M5

Hideki Noda; Colin Teevan

£8.99

Alice Nutter

Shakespeare’s tale of star crossed lovers is a classic play. However, this production is unique in that it uses Shakespeare’s text, but casts our lovers in their 80s, with their anxious children, not their parents, seeking to prevent an imprudent and costly match.

A story of a flourishing love affair in one generation, crushed by the financial and political concerns of another. Premiered at Bristol Old Vic in 2010

£8.99

9781849430814

April 2010 M7F4

Tamsin Oglesby

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REALLY OLD, LIKE FORTY FIVE Tamsin Oglesby is one of today’s most respected and established young playwrights. This new play from her is a furious comedy confronting head-on our embarrassment and fear about old age.

It exposes a society in which compassion vies with pragmatism and, by asking unequivocal questions, it comes up with some extraordinary answers. Premiered at The National Theatre in 2010.

£8.99 9781840029826 Jan 2010 F6M5

9781849430197 M3F1 May 2010

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Cosh Omar

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Gary Owen

THE GREAT EXTENSION

MRS REYNOLDS AND THE RUFFIAN

Hassan, a second generation Turk, leads a bachelor life in London’s suburbs.

The building work on his extension is progressing well despite legal threats from his reactionary neighbour. One morning he wakes up to the devastating realisation that something happened the night before that could have the direst consequences for him and his carefree lifestyle; something he…just can’t quite remember!

£8.99

9781840029727

Peter Oswald

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M9F3

NEW NEW

LUCIFER SAVED Lucian Willow has a dark past; so dark he can’t remember it.

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, a former Army Chaplain lives in a state of amnesia on his old comrade Lord Brook’s country estate, deep in the slumbering fields of England.

The arrival of a circus from across the channel - with its anarchic forces of magic and comedy - impels these wounded men to confront their horrifying and entangled past. Written in verse and prose, Lucifer Saved is an astonishing interweaving of modern story and Christian myth, of tragedy and comedy, by one of the UK’s foremost verse playwrights. Produced at the Finborough Theatre in October 2007.

Mrs Reynolds is a little old lady. Jay is a troubled youth. When he vandalises her lovingly tended garden, the authorities send him back to help her fix it. It seems a recipe for disaster - but human beings are more complex than the headlines. Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian explores human nature and friendship alongside the social climate of modern Britain giving a warm, funny and wise glimpse into the way we live now.

£8.99

9781849430654 April 2010 M2F3

Julia Pascal

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THE SHYLOCK PLAY When Warsaw Ghetto-escapee Sarah visits the Venice Ghetto she happens to witness a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice. Upon this chance encounter Sarah is confronted by the terrible story of ‘The Jew’ which touches her own life.

Through this emotive and provocative play Julia Pascal re-works Shakespeare’s controversial play, transposing the fervent theme of anti-Semitism raised by the bard, playing it out in a contemporary setting.

£8.99

9781840028126

M15F6

£8.99 9781840028072 M6F4

Gillian Plowman Peter Oswald

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WEYLAND Weyland is an epic poem, composed, learned and performed by Peter Oswald, which tells the story of Weyland, in Norse myth a smith who is crippled and imprisoned by the mad King Nud.

£8.99

9781840027679

CROOKED WOOD Crooked Wood is a black comedy about ruthless property developers cashing in on the property demand around the London Olympic site, who then find themselves faced with an elderly lady who refuses to move out from the last remaining house on their prime site.

£8.99

John Osborne

NEW

9781840028799 M3F2

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TOM JONES Henry Fielding’s classic comic novel is presented for the stage in a slightly altered version of John Osborne’s Oscar-winning screenplay for Tony Richardson’s 1964 film. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England’s West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbour’s daughter, Sophia Western. This adaptation makes for a fastmoving, rollicking and satisfying stage version of Fielding’s book.

£8.99 9781840029871 Sept 2010 M5F3

Joël Pommerat; Lutz Hübner; Jonas Hassen Khemiri

NEW

THEATRE CAFE PLAYS ONE Three exciting European plays from Theatre Cafe. Swedish writer Hassen Khemiri’s subversive play Invasion! is a comic masterpiece dealing with the lives of young immigrants in Stockholm. This Child has been one of the most talked about plays in France exploring the feelings that bind parents and children together. Lutz Hubner’s hard-hitting play Respect is based on the true story of an honour killing.

£11.99 9781840028935 M3F1; M9F14; M2F3

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Ursula Rani Sarma

THE CRACKS IN MY SKIN Award winning playwright Phil Porter presents his latest drama. Like everyone, Josefa needs a bit of a miracle to happen.

One summer’s night, with the help of a paddling pool, a baby dragon and a bottle of gin, it does. But how long can anything perfect last?

£8.99

9781840028348 M3F3

Giacomo Puccini

THE DARK THINGS Daniel is famous. He has walked away from disaster and turned it into art. As he prepares for the ultimate exhibition of his life, the headlines proclaim him unbreakable. But inside, Daniel is falling apart. His destiny collides with those of four other lost souls, helping them all to discover themselves and each other. A brave and brilliant new play about art, fame and death.

£8.99 9781840029635 M3F2 Oct 2009

NEW

Philip Ralph

LA BOHEME

£8.99

9781849430838 M3F3

Niklas Rådström

NEW

DEEP CUT

Translated by Robin Norton-Hale The writer, the lover, the artist, the flirt. Out tonight in Soho and falling in love. A new set of bohemians take over Soho Theatre and bar in this electric new English translation of La Bohème, a tale of love and tragedy, indulgence and excess. The Soho Theatre takes on opera for the very first time as Puccini’s La Bohème is retold for contemporary Soho with a talented, classically trained young cast.

This production was proclaimed the Critics’ Choice by The Times, The Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday.

NEW

18 year old Private Cheryl James from Llangollen was one of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002. Taken from original source material and powerful first hand testimonies, Deep Cut is a bold and compelling account of one family’s journey through a time they thought they’d never experience, to places they hoped they’d never be.

£8.99

9781840028744 M3F2

NEW

Dan Rebellato

MONSTERS

NEW

STATIC

Gabriella Berggren

Two ten year olds are brought in for questioning. A third boy has gone missing.

The investigator is gentle. The boys begin to talk. An unflinching play about the killing of James Bulger, stripped to the bone and faithful to the facts.

Static, a new co-production between Suspect Culture and Graeae Theatre Company, tells the story of a young woman who has lost her husband. Discovering a compilation tape that he made but never gave her, she becomes convinced it contains a secret message. What could the tape mean - and is he trying to communicate with her from beyond the grave?

£8.99 9781840029284 M2F2

£8.99

‘None of this should ever have happened.

Somebody should have given us a different life.’

Ursula Rani Sarma

NEW

THE MAGIC TREE Which comes first, loneliness or violence?

This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten.

The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past.

£8.99

9781840028669

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Anya Reiss

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SPUR OF THE MOMENT The debut play by Anya Reiss, written when she was seventeen, it looks at the distance between close family relations and a young girl on the brink of adolescence. 12 year old Delilah enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Whilst her parents throw verbal grenades at one another, they barely notice their 21 year old tenant starting to notice her. 2010 premiere at The Royal Court.

£8.99

9781840029857

Jul 2010 M2F6

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Amy Rosenthal

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Paul Sirett

ON THE ROCKS

BAD BLOOD BLUES

Based on true events, this is the story of women, and men, in love.

An uplifting and passionate comedy about four friends trying to live together, two marriages struggling for survival and a group of writers striving for creativity in the midst of war.

£8.99 9781840028591 M2F2

NEW

Falk Richter

NEW

STATE OF EMERGENCY

Are Africans being exploited as ‘guinea pigs’ to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/ AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Bad Blood Blues is a powerfully intense new play that leads us deep into a personal and sexual moral maze while confronting the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa.

£8.99

9781840029277

M1F1

Translated by David Tushingham A married couple live in what appears to be an ideal neighbourhood, protected from the dangers of the outside world.

But what happens when this utopian world becomes a new form of prison? Richter’s gripping play examines state control and self control and how the civic dream can turn into an Orwellian nightmare.

£8.99 9781840028966 M2F1

Paul Sellar

NEW

WORLDS END Kat is moving out of the London flat she shares with ex-boyfriend, Ben. Helping her are best friend, Thea, and new man in her life, Josh. Ben (who’s not even meant to be there) is hurt and angry, and still in love with Kat. But is it now too late to tell her…? Named one of the Daily Telegraph’s Top Ten Shows at 2007 Edinburgh Festival.

Paul Sirett

RUNNING THE SILK ROAD In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge - to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an “alternative” Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflict test friendships and soon threaten their chances of success. Weaving in and out of the contemporary story are magical and timeless Chinese myths.

£8.99

NEW

OTHELLO This is mating ground. There’s tension around the pool table, cues in hand. A world of broken glass and beatings in the car park.

It’s dog eat dog. And it’s about to kick off...

The country’s leading movement theatre company, Frantic Assembly, presents this electrifying take on Shakespeare’s most brutal and gripping thriller-tragedy of paranoia, jealousy, sex and murder.

£8.99

9781840028577 M4F3

Tadeusz Slobodzianek; Ryan Craig

£8.99 9781840028454 M2F2

William Shakespeare; Scott Graham; Steven Hoggett

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OUR CLASS A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, 1925. As the children grow up, their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then Nazi.

Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek confronts his country’s involvement in the atrocities of the last century and follows the one-time classmates into the next. Our Class had its world premiere at the National Theatre in September 2009

£8.99

9781840029468

M7F3

9781840028560 M7F2

Roy Smiles Adriano Shaplin

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THE TRAGEDY OF THOMAS HOBBES This world premier of award-winning playwright Adriano Shaplin’s new history play is set in 17th century London. The Civil War is over, the King has been executed, Oliver Cromwell has closed the theatres and the talk in the coffee houses is of revolution.

Meanwhile England’s most famous philosopher is poised to do battle with a fraction of young scientists... Premiered by The RSC.

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KURT AND SID In April 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, sits alone in an attic extension, about to pull the trigger of the gun in his hand and join the leagues of rock star deaths down the ages. But then he gets a visit...from the Sex Pistols’ frontman Sid Vicious. Kurt & Sid is an imaginary meeting between two music legends.

£8.99 9781840029420 M2

£8.99 9781840028881 M16

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Colin Teevan and Paul Heritage NEW

PYTHONESQUE See Cleese’s first audition. Hear the simpering paternalism of David Frost. Be touched by the religious furore over Life of Brian. Comprehend the true meaning of the coconuts in Monty Python and the Holy Grail! Roy Smiles’ play premiered at the Udderbelly’s Pasture - Cow Barn, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009.

£8.99 9781840029413 M4

AMAZONIA Fantasy and reality combine in this enthralling production, which through exploring the life and popular culture of the unique Amazonian landscape and its people, presents a vibrant glimpse into the hidden depths of the world’s greatest rainforest.

This play presents a unique cross-cultural collaboration entwining the themes of activism and climate change with a celebration of Brazilian culture.

£8.99 9781840028959

Roy Smiles

NEW

YEAR OF THE RAT

Leo Tolstoy; Nancy Harris

Isolated on a Scottish island in 1948 George Orwell is attempting to finish his last masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty Four, before ill health forces him off the island - a moving and funny journey into one of the great minds of the twentieth century.

£8.99

9781840028447 M3F1

Robin Soans

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MIXED UP NORTH A fiercely funny and moving new play about the difficulties of uniting divided racial communities, based on real events. Trish leads a youth theatre group for Asian and White teenagers in Burnley, Lancashire. As she struggles to share her artistic vision with a cast who think acting is “gay”, the compelling stories of the young stars unfold, along with a moving history of their town.

Will Trish bring her utopian dream to a triumphant conclusion?

£8.99

9781840029604

Kelly Stuart

M7F9

NEW

SHADOW LANGUAGE An American woman who has never left Nashville searches Turkey for a deported Kurdish man who has disappeared.

A darkly comic journey through a land where a language is illegal, history is drowned and illusions have to die if you want to survive.

£8.99

9781840028423 M6F7

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THE KREUTZER SONATA Based on the novella by Tolstoy A man boards a train: the confined space of the carriage triggers potent memories. Soon he is confessing to a terrible crime, one for which he holds Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata responsible. In this adaptation of Tolstoy’s scandalous novella, musicians and actors come together to bring the story to life for the stage.

£8.99

9781840029680

M1

Laura Wade

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POSH Acclaimed playwright Laura Wade explores the lives of the young, wealthy and privileged.

Are the high-jinks of the tail-coated Riot Club boys the last gasp of a dying breed? In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn’t the last huzzah: they’re planning a takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club. Posh is premiering at the Royal Court in 2010

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9781840029840

Arnold Wesker

Apr 2010 M12F2

NEW

GROUPIE Joe Sutton

NEW

COMPLICIT There’s a hard road; there’s an easy road - which one would you take? Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ben Kritzer finds himself faced with this very dilemma, as he stands in front of a Supreme Court Grand Jury. Will he defend his belief in the freedom of the press, or will he protect his family from the threats facing them? A political thriller bound to have you questioning your belief in the state and personal security.

£8.99

A middle-aged lady is moved by the autobiography of a famous, elderly painter. When she discovers that both of them were born in the same village she starts writing him letters to which the artist replies - hesitantly at first, but more regularly after some time. She proposes visiting the painter – a proposal he turns down. But when she shows up anyway, what she finds does not correspond to her picture of an artist’s life at all.

£8.99

9781840029550 Feb 2011

9781840029116 M2F1

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Anne Washburn

THE INTERNATIONALIST A Foreign Comedy Lowell, an American on a business trip, is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. They spend the night together and he thinks he’s in one of those great American movies where you go to a foreign land and there’s romance and adventure and the experience changes you. The next day at the office he discovers that he’s not in one of those movies, he’s in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, where there is no moral, and most importantly: no subtitles.

£8.99

9781840028546 M2F4

Lanford Wilson

NEW

SERENADING LOUIE A portrait of two suburban American couples exploring the destruction of their dreams and the loss of passion and purpose. The play centres on Carl and Alex, friends since college, who are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their 30s. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they are desperately trying to make sense of it all. Donmar Warehouse revival.

£8.99

9781840029970

Lawrence Wilson

Feb 2010 M2F2

NEW

LOST MONSTERS An isolated house in a forgotten valley has only the litter and noise from the surrounding motorway above as company. A flash of lightning and a freak car crash leave three runaways stranded and seeking refuge. As society whizzes by all around, they enter a world of dreams and nightmares. This new play for our time is brimming with savage humour, touching humanity and visual invention

£8.99

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Kay Adshead

BAGHDAD WEDDING

THE BOGUS WOMAN

‘In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It’s like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That’s just the way it goes.’

Against a backdrop of London and war-torn Baghdad, three friends grapple with their sexual, cultural and political identity.

A young woman arrives in a strange country. Though she has committed no crime, she is lied to by the authorities and confined, humiliated and racially and sexually abused. The country is Britain in 1997.

£8.99 9781840027839 M10F2

Peter Ackerman

THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T SAY PAST MIDNIGHT Six characters from wildly different backgrounds make love, war and hysteria late one night in the cultural, sexual and generational smorgasbord of Manhattan.

‘Sublimely ridiculous’ New Yorker

£7.99 9781840022094 F1

Kay Adshead

BONES At night, a young black boy is ‘questioned’ by a white South African policeman. A terrible incident and the truth is buried.

Thirty-six years later, when the truth is dug up, a tortured Jennifer watches over her dying husband. Bones is a ruthless excavation of South Africa in 2006 and, in an age of retribution and revenge, it is an anthem for hope.

£8.99 9781840026894 F2

£7.99 9781840023541 M4F2

Rodney Ackland

ABSOLUTE HELL Once condemned as an insult to the British people but now regarded as one of the best plays of its time, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War.

£7.99 9781870259194 M10F10

Kay Adshead

ANIMAL Set in a mythical England against ongoing war and civil insurrection, Animal is a dark tale of humanity’s struggle for progress. Will we choose to be Animals or Angels?

£7.99 9781840023930 M2F1

Kay Adshead

BITES In the last diner at the end of a world ravaged by war, seven courses of love, death and revenge are served by the ‘hired help’.

Oladipo Agboluaje

THE CHRIST OF COLDHARBOUR LANE A revolutionary preacher begs the crowds to ‘abandon the wilful peace’ that keeps them down. He tries to make them believe that things could be different. But when people pray only for a brand new car or a large KFC bucket, the citizens of Brixton need a miracle to happen…

£8.99 9781840027853 M3F3*

Oladipo Agboluaje

THE ESTATE A powerful yet comic tale of explosive family secrets and the dead hand of a corrupt patriarchy, inspired by Chekhov but set in contemporary Lagos, Nigeria.

£8.99 9781840026535 M6F3

‘Imaginative, fluent, funny and hideous’ Evening Standard

£7.99 9781840025361 M2F3

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Michel Azama

KALILA WA DIMNA

CROSSFIRE

or The Mirror for Princes

Translated by Nigel Gearing

Inspired by the fables Kalila Wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Islamic culture, this play places the work in its historical context – Iraq, circa 750 AD – one of the most turbulent moments in Eastern history and an age with many parallels to our own troubled times.

Characters caught in the crossfire, tumbling through the checkpoint between life and death. First performed in English at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

£8.99 9781840026702 M14F1

THE CRYSTAL DEN

Tariq Ali

THE ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSE The Home Secretary lies dead on his sofa. His wife Desdemona admits to murdering him. But why would anyone confess to such a crime?

£7.99 9781840023824 M2F2

Tariq Ali, Howard Brenton & Andy de la Tour

COLLATERAL DAMAGE War rages in the Balkans. While NATO bombs Serbia, the Kosovan Albanians are driven out of their homes. Europe is divided. In homes everywhere, people debate the rights and wrongs of the war.

£2.50 9781840021264

M1F1

Suzy Almond

SCHOOL PLAY Fifteen-year-old Charlie is determined to make her mark, but how? Front a gang? Ride a motorbike? Or take piano lessons? A fast, funny play about potential.

£7.99 9781840022377 M2F2

£7.99 9781870259347

M11F4

Marion Baraitser Exploring real events in the last two generations of the Marx family, through the eyes of South African born feminist Olive Schreiner – friend, witness and narrator of Eleanor Marx’s tragedy. £7.99 9781840022155 M4F5

Marion Baraitser

THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM Adapted from the novel by Olive Schreiner Two English cousins grow up in a South African semi-desert in the 1860s. They battle silently as they grow aware of the deceit of the adult world.

£7.99 9781840021677 M8F2

Howard Barker

DEAD HANDS Eff finds himself preoccupied with the mischievous idea of seducing his dead father’s mistress.

‘A fascinating meditation on loss and longing’ What’s On

£7.99 9781840024647 M2F1

Peter Asmussen

THE BEACH

Howard Barker

Translated by David Duchin

THE ECSTATIC BIBLE

In a deserted hotel on the coast, two couples meet for the first time. Together they are forced to confront the absurdity and loneliness of their mundane lives. But year after year they return, drawn back to one another and the freedom of their isolated world.

Provocative imagery and poetic language are suffused with a rich, dark humour in this intriguing collection of parables without morality.

£19.99 9781840024135 20+ (M&F) Hardback

£7.99 9781840026290 M2F2

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MODERN PLAYS Howard Barker

Neil Bartlett

THE FENCE IN ITS THOUSANDTH YEAR

IN EXTREMIS

A compelling and provocative epic about the downfall of a ruling monarchy.

‘Rarely is theatre so relentlessly rigorous, so remote and yet so ravishing.’ The Times

On 24 March 1895 Mrs Robinson, a society palm-reader, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. This play reveals the strange turmoil of that night, as a man at the height of his fame turns to a complete stranger for advice.

£7.99 9781840022056 M1F1

£7.99 9781840025712 M4F4

Neil Bartlett

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Howard Barker

THE SEDUCTION OF ALMIGHTY GOD Set during the English Reformation, Barker’s play describes the ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the appalling discovery that he possesses the power of life and death over others, both religious and secular.

£8.99 9781840027112

M5F3*

Russell Barr

From its opening image of Pip, alone on the windswept marshes, to the haunted darkness of Miss Havisham’s cobweb-strewn lair, Neil Bartlett’s inventive and atmospheric adaptation brings to thrilling theatrical life this classic exploration of childhood terrors and hopes – and adult dreams and regrets.

£8.99

9781840027266

M5F3*

Neil Bartlett

SISTERS SUCH DEVOTED SISTERS Welcome to a world of exploding pigeons, a fire hazard grandmother, Jack Russells driving cars, shoplifting and a boy’s first kiss.

‘Hilarious, excoriating and intensely moving’ Guardian

£7.99 9781840025675

From the novel by Charles Dickens

M1

Neil Bartlett

CAMILLE After La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils This version of Camille returns to the original novel for its shockingly frank and emotional portrayal of a woman who can afford anything, except to fall in love.

£7.99 9781840023602 M5F4

OLIVER TWIST Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens Neil Bartlett’s powerful version of Oliver Twist brings the dark underbelly of 19th-century London to vivid theatrical life.

£8.99

9781840024272

M10F3

John Barton

THE WAR THAT STILL GOES ON John Barton has adapted Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars and Plato’s Dialogue with Alcibiades to create a dramatic work that resonates through the centuries to speak clearly for our time.

£8.99 9781840026511 M12+4 unspecified

Trevor Baxter

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME Adapted from the short story by Oscar Wilde

Neil Bartlett

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol brings a boldly theatrical imagination to bear on a classic story.

Lord Arthur Savile is secure, wealthy and engaged, but learns that he is destined to commit a murder. How will he deal with the complexities of his now darkened destiny? To put it bluntly, whom should he kill?

£7.99 9781840025576 M5F3

‘Gets right to the frozen heart of Dickens’ classic Christmas tale’ Guardian

£7.99 9781840023992 M4F4

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MODERN PLAYS Rod Beacham

Richard Bean

LIES HAVE BEEN TOLD

IN THE CLUB

In this outstanding solo tour de force disgraced publishing magnate Robert Maxwell tries to persuade you of his point of view…if you can believe a word he says!

In Richard Bean’s political farce, an ambitious MEP is about to have his carefully cultivated image put to the test, as his Strasbourg hotel suite is invaded by a series

‘Blackly comic and immensely enjoyable’ Independent

of unexpected visitors

£7.99 9781840026580 M1

£8.99

9781840027570

M4F4

Rikki Beadle-Blair

BASHMENT An electrifying drama – hard hitting, tender and painfully funny.

About love, about hate – a play for our times.

‘Provocative and very timely…this is a brave play.’ Observer

£8.99

9781840025828

M9F1

Richard Bean

THE GOD BOTHERERS A dark and deeply funny tale of foreign aid workers in far-flung Tambia. Truly alternative entertainment, not for the faint hearted or politically correct. (Also available in Richard Bean Plays One, p 78.)

£7.99 9781840024159 M2F3

Richard Bean

HARVEST Ninety years in the life of a farming family, rendered with Richard Bean’s customary humour, respect for working life and adept stagecraft. Harvest won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play for 2005.

£8.99 9781840025941 M12F5

Richard Bean

THE MENTALISTS ‘War, poverty, corruption, spiralling taxes, bad behaviour, interpersonal violence and over-population. Do these things worry you?’ Middle-aged fleet manager Ted has hit on a utopian plan to change the way we live. (Also available in Richard Bean Plays One, p 78.)

£7.99 9781840022872 M2

Richard Bean

MR ENGLAND Why has middle manager Stephen England got up in the night and defecated on the living room carpet? His wife Judith doesn’t know, nor does his mother Irene. Only Andy, the gauche youth who regularly turns up uninvited to borrow his power tools, can save him (or destroy him). (Also available in Richard Bean Plays Two, p 78.)

£7.99 9781840021707 M2F2

Richard Bean

SMACK FAMILY ROBINSON

Richard Bean

If you’re a Robinson, family matters. And theirs is no ordinary family business – the Robinsons are drug dealers. Delivering a pure hit of dark comedy, Smack Family Robinson draws a fine white line between love and hate and then snorts the lot. (Also available in Richard Bean Plays Two, p 78.)

HONEYMOON SUITE

£7.99 9781840023732 M3F2

Three couples at different stages of life each spend an evening in the same hotel room. The connection between them reveals lives of hope, loss, achievement and failure. Honeymoon Suite was awarded the 2003 Pearson New Play of the Year Award. (Also available in Richard Bean Plays Two, p 78.)

£7.99 9781840024067 M3F3

Richard Bean

UNDER THE WHALEBACK Three generations of Hull men struggle with the legacies left to them by their fathers. Under the Whaleback was joint winner of the 2002 George Devine Award. (Also available in Richard Bean Plays One, p 78.)

£7.99 9781840022865 M8F1

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MODERN PLAYS Simon Bent

Simon Bent

ACCOMPLICES

UNDER THE BLACK FLAG

Eddie’s a handyman, Doreen keeps a clean house, John’s got a new hat and Paul’s back from college – but the Jacksons are living under siege. Sudden violence blows open their lives.

£7.99 9781840021714 M7F1

Simon Bent

THE ASSOCIATE ‘It’s not safe, the world is not a safe place. Have some more chicken.’ A pensioner has his council house redecorated by two self-employed chancers. A richly comic study of politics and wallpapering.

£7.99 9781840022780 M3

Simon Bent

ELLING Mummy’s boy Elling and his roommate, the uncouth, reluctant virgin Kjell Bjarne, are the Odd Couple of Oslo: a pair of confused souls taking their first steps in the outside world after years of isolated, institutional life. Given a flat in the city by social services, they must re-assimilate themselves into society or face a return to the asylum. So it’s simply a question of convincing their social worker that they really are ‘normal’ - even if it does feel safer sleeping in the wardrobe...Based on the award-winning cult film, Elling was first performed to great acclaim at the Bush Theatre in 2007, transferring to Trafalgar Studios in the West End.

£8.99 9781840027945 M4F3

Simon Bent

THE ESCAPOLOGIST Based on Houdini’s Box by Adam Phillips Quick-witted and sad, moving and absurd, The Escapologist uses live music, silent film and pitch-perfect dialogue to tell the stories of its characters – and the story of Harry Houdini, whose amazing stunts somehow relate to them all…

Simon Bent’s imaginative recreation of the early life of Stevenson’s classic anti-hero from Treasure Island, Long John Silver.

Set around the historical pirate republic of Rabat, this wild tale of high seas and low politics exposes the class hatreds and religious hypocrisy of the 17th century, as well as showing how Long John lost his leg…

£8.99 9781840026719 M14F3*

Torben Betts

THE LUNATIC QUEEN Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella are making plans to marry off their daughter Juana, religious, passionate – and quite mad. A brutal satirical drama and classical revenge tragedy.

‘Entertains and disturbs simultaneously…a tribute to Torben Betts’ ambition and vitality’ Observer

£8.99 9781840025309 M4F3*

Torben Betts

THE UNCONQUERED A fiercely intelligent young girl rejects the establishment by burying her head in her books, while her parents maintain a cocoon of domesticity around her. With the arrival of a mercenary soldier in the family home, the conflict between the regime and the girl threatens to destroy everything her parents have worked to achieve. A fast-moving story, in which the accepted values of civilisation are put under extreme, and perhaps even fatal, pressure.

£8.99 9781840027235 M2F2

‘Beguiling and elliptical’ Guardian

£8.99

9781840026498

M4F2

Simon Bent

SUGAR SUGAR

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

BEHSHARAM (SHAMELESS) Since their Mum left on a pilgrimage to India, life has been spiralling out of control for Sati and Jaspal.

In a Scarborough guesthouse, the arrival of the enigmatic Mr Wilson brings a sexual charge that electrifies the household and threatens to push it over the edge.

£7.99 9781840022490 M2F3

£7.99 9781840020335 M4F2

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

BEHZTI (DISHONOUR) A play about religious hypocrisy, Behzti caused riots at the Birmingham Rep when it premiered in 2004 and provoked heated debate about theatre and censorship.

£7.99 9781840025224 M3F4

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MODERN PLAYS Simon Bowen

Logan Brown with Matthew Benjamin

FREE

HOW TO ACT AROUND COPS

The successful and the damaged ricochet around the metropolis.

Emotion becomes a commodity with violent consequences in this savage play.

‘A brilliant new play about the whole of society driving around with something frightening, suspicious and unknown in the trunk of its car… Breathtaking, fast-moving brilliance’ The Scotsman

£7.99 9781840023008 M6F2

‘Dazzlingly enigmatic, cool, and entirely original’ nytheatre.com

£7.99 9781840024975 M4F1

Jyll Bradley

GIRL, WATCHING

Stephen Brown

Darkly comic and provocative, Girl, watching charts a young woman’s transformation from silent observer to vocal witness.

FUTURE ME Peter wants to know how to erase a hard drive. Harry wants to learn the guitar. Tim wants a change in the law. In an increasingly punitive society, have we lost the capacity to forgive? Or is forgiveness the biggest con of all?

£7.99 9781840023589 M1F2

Harold Brighouse

HOBSON’S CHOICE Adapted by Tanika Gupta Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dressmaking business and three daughters. But when he says his eldest daughter must give up all hope of getting married, she takes fate into her own hands.

An update of the classic comedy.

£7.99 9781840023831 M6F5

£8.99

9781840027587

M4F2

Simon Burt

UNTOUCHABLE Lou and Manni are 17, bestest friends since forever. They’re going to live up town, go clubbing and get off with boys. There’s only one bed but they can work round that. They’re untouchable.

Nothing is ever going to come between them.

Victoria Brittain & Gillian Slovo

GUANTANAMO

£7.99 9781840023190 F2

‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’ Using the testimony of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, their families and lawyers, Guantanamo questions how much the ‘war on terror’ is damaging Western democratic values.

Fermin Cabal

TEJAS VERDES Translated by Robert Shaw

‘The British Theatre, indeed every Briton should be proud of this play.’ Sunday Times

Fermín Cabal’s humane and powerful play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago during the Pinochet years in Chile.

£7.99 9781840024746 M15F1

‘An indispensable play for our times’ Sunday Times

£6.99 9781840025378 F6

Linda Brogan

BLACK CROWS A young black boy dances the shuffle better than anyone but that isn’t going to fill his belly. Teenager Hazel gives him what he wants. Older woman Leonora gives him what he needs. His mum Queenie is saving up to go to Jamaica and won’t give him anything more than a catering tin of beans.

The fight is on… Black Crows is a powerful story of three women and their love for one man. Linda Brogan’s new play creates a dark and vivid world of love, jealousy and hunger in 1970s Manchester.

£8.99

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Mark Catley

SCUFFER If Danny doesn’t come up with £800 by tonight a lady called Cathy will be dropping by with a baseball bat. He, his ex and her dad set off on a quest through Leeds to get him the dosh.

£8.99

9781840026641

M7F3

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MODERN PLAYS Mark Catley

Lin Coghlan

SUNBEAM TERRACE

KINGFISHER BLUE

You’re an agoraphobic drug dealer who suffers panic attacks.

Not good for business. Enter a teenage boy with a dangerous ambition, a lap dancer who’ll do anything for a hit and a hard man on a mission.

An urban tale of stuffed weasels, avocado sandwiches and dreams of escape.

£7.99 9781840021301 M4F1

£7.99 9781840025767 M4

Aimé Césaire

Lin Coghlan

A TEMPEST

MERCY

Translated by Philip Crispin

Somewhere south of London, in a web of flooded fields, five young people, a social worker and a chicken struggle to survive the night.

A witty and anti-colonialist revision of Shakespeare’s island fling: Prospero is an exiled tyrant, while Caliban becomes a mutinous figure who has clear affinities with Malcolm X.

‘Witty and observant…a sad, touching but often funny play’ Financial Times

£7.99 9781840024517 M5F1

£7.99 9781840021431 M11F1

Complicité Edgar Chias

LIGHT

ON INSOMNIA AND MIDNIGHT

Based on the book by Torgny Lindgren Adapted by Simon McBurney & Matthew Broughton

Translated by David Johnston

A man goes in search of love but returns to his village carrying a plague-ridden rabbit. The village is ravaged by sickness, and of those who survive, none any longer knows what is right or wrong.

In a big city hotel room, a man and the maid are talking. But the more they talk, the more danger they face, and neither knows where it will lead. On Insomnia and Midnight is a tale to frighten chambermaids in the night.

Premiered at The Royal Court

£7.99 9781840022032 M8F1

John Constable

£8.99 9781840026962 M1F1

THE SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES

Chris Chibnall

Folkloric resonances ancient and modern bring to life the issues of Creation, Fall and Redemption after the models of the ancient York, Wakefield and Chester mystery-play cycles.

KISS ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT

£9.99 9781840020991

Three am on a hot midsummer’s night in Manchester. A party in a shabby Victorian terrace house. Tony and Ruth meet in the back garden, while, on the floor above, Don and Edie are having a party of their own.

John Corwin

MF20+

NAVY PIER

£7.99 9781840022360 M2F2

Martin and Kurt are old college friends. They share youthful inspiration, ideals and ambition until Kurt’s superior talent takes him to New York, with Martin’s girlfriend into the bargain.

The Civilians

£7.99 9781840021998 M2F2

(I AM) NOBODY’S LUNCH

Alan Coveney

This latest creation from award-winning New York company The Civilians asks the thorny question: how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying? Also includes Gone Missing, stories of things lost and found…

A BUSY DAY

‘an elegant balance of intellectual inquisitiveness, political comment and sly entertainment’ Time Out New York

£7.99 9781840021752 M7F7

Adapted from the diaries of Fanny Burney A love story: London 1800. In the course of just one summer day we are tumbled into a world of frustrated love, mistaken identity, snobbery, and downright vulgar bad manners.

£8.99 9781840026931 M4F2*

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MODERN PLAYS Brendan Cowell

Tim Crouch

RABBIT

AN OAK TREE

Talented but extremely ‘wasted’ MC Spin is in dire need of a fix. It’s time to meet the girlfriend’s parents. This snappy, surreal farce brings the dysfunctional family to its knees.

A unique stage creation written around the death of a girl in a car accident, bringing together her father and the man responsible for her death, An Oak Tree contains that balance of accessible narrative, complex idea, rich theatricality and broad humour which characterises Tim Crouch’s work.

£7.99 9781840023947 M3F2

£7.99 9781840026030 M2

Ryan Craig

Tim Crouch

THE GLASS ROOM In a safe-house in the suburbs, human rights lawyer Myles Brody meets with a highprofile and controversial historian. She has been charged with denying the Holocaust, and he has agreed to defend her in court.

But as her guilt becomes apparent, Myles is forced to doubt his most sacred principles, question his belief in the right to free speech and acknowledge that he too has been denying the past.

£8.99

9781840027129

ENGLAND The grateful recipient of a heart transplant travels 4000 miles to thank the widow of the donor and to present her with a very special gift. But much more than a life has been lost. Written and performed in art galleries, England tells a compelling story for our times - a disturbing tale of transactions and translations, of culture and commerce, of one thing being placed inside another without thought for the consequences. Presented by two guides, it is a tour to the end of the world.

£8.99

9781840027990 M1f1

M2F2

Ryan Craig

Tracey Daley, Jo Martin & Josephine Melville

WHAT WE DID TO WEINSTEIN

SHOOT 2 WIN

Called on to explain his recent actions, Josh, a British-born soldier in the Israeli army, recalls his complicated relationship with his sceptical ex-girlfriend Sara and his dying father Max, a famous writer. Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award.

Vibrant and fun, Shoot 2 Win is a sassy play set in the world of ladies’ netball. First produced at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

£8.99

9781840025811

£7.99 9781840022803 F7

M5F2

Richard Davidson David Cregan

BADNUFF

SUMMER AGAIN

‘If you thought she was really good...she’d be badnuff.’ It’s Jay’s first day at St Peter’s and two things are clear – one, she doesn’t fit in, and two, neither does anyone else. But what’s Jay’s story and why won’t she tell it?

An anxious group of relations and dependants struggle for supremacy in this comedy of sex and politics.

‘Cregan is a unique writer, whose humour and extraordinary economy belies a real political and social involvement.’

Kingston Guardian

£7.99 9781840024340 M3F3

£7.99 9781840025170 M4F4

Simon Day

SPIKE A car salesman, alone in the showroom, performs an intimate act of love and worship. Pigeon, crashing through the plate-glass window, witnesses everything. Worlds collide. Lives swerve and skid. A pile-up of secrets, sex and sabotage.

£6.99

9781840022100

M3F3

Keith Dewhurst

BLACK SNOW Adapted from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov This hilarious send-up of the acting profession and Stanislavski’s naturalistic techniques is based on fact: the censorship and mutilation of Bulgakov’s own plays.

£7.99 9780948230455 M17F10

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MODERN PLAYS Dolly Dhingra

Neil D’Souza

THE FORTUNE CLUB

SMALL MIRACLE

As a disillusioned group of friends share memories and laughter they hatch a plan to escape the rat-race forever.

When Sadie, her mother, step-father and grandmother arrive at the caravan park of a religious shrine in rural Ireland, a series of increasingly weird happenings and crazy comedy ensue. It’s a hilarious spiritual roadtrip centred on the feuding family but is set against the backdrop of a much bigger question about religion and asks, is there

£7.99 9781840025453 M4F3

Dolly Dhingra

UNSUITABLE GIRLS Meet Chumpa Chamelli, bored secretary, girlfriend of laddish Ashok, and a woman who expects more from life. A classic Hollywood romance with full-on Bollywood song and dance.

£7.99 9781840022230 M12F7

something out there?

£8.99

9781840027846

M2F3

Dic Edwards

WITTGENSTEIN’S DAUGHTER

Mark Doherty

TRAD A fable about tradition in a mad place, Trad is the hilarious tale of hundred year old Thomas and his improbably ancient Da.

Alma Wittgenstein, bored by her neo-fascist husband, goes to Cambridge to investigate the values of her long-lost father, Ludwig.

£7.99 9781870259354 M2F2

‘Wonderfully, surreally funny’ Evening Standard

£8.99

9781840026528

M3F1

Andrew Doyle

BORDERLAND In a supposedly peaceful Northern Ireland, brothers Sean and Ciaran are standing at a crossroads, with one last delivery to make and a future to find. A stunning debut from Derry writer Andrew Doyle.

£7.99 9781840026054 M3

David Drane

SWANKILLER When a family is evicted from its country smallholding, Swankiller, the thrusting eldest son, tries his luck in the big city, where he discovers the brutal undertow beneath the city’s beguiling surface.

Zoltán Egressy

PORTUGAL Translated by Ryan Craig An intellectual from Budapest stops in a remote poverty-stricken village. He seduces the innkeeper’s daughter with his alluring sadness, but is pursued by his wealthy wife.

£7.99 9781840024661 M7F3

Will Eno

THE FLU SEASON No one in the middle of being in love ever sat down to write a love story: love is their inspiration, but the end of love is the reason for their existence…

‘Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights I’ve come across in a number of years’ Edward Albee

£7.99 9781840021004 M10+F10+

£7.99 9781840023701 M4F2

Nicholas Dromgoole

Will Eno

MARRIAGE IN DISGUISE

THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)

Molière’s plays transformed the writing of 17th-century comedy.

His private life was even more controversial than his plays.

£7.99 9781840022063 M8F3

An astonishing monologue, shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. Thom Pain is published with the short monologues Lady Grey (in everlower light) and Mr Theatre Comes Home Different.

‘One of those treasured nights in the theater that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and in a puddle of tears.’ New York Times

£7.99 9781840024524 M1•F1•M1

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MODERN PLAYS Will Eno

Lisa Evans

TRAGEDY: A TRAGEDY

VILLETTE

The sun has set over houses, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. The world is dark. A news team is on the scene.

Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë

£7.99 9781840022346 M4F1

Lisa Evans’ fast-moving adaptation of this sensational, gothic tale features fire, storms, ghosts, unrequited love and an intimate portrait of the bold and inspirational heroine, Lucy Snowe.

£8.99

9781840026405

M1F7*

Edoardo Erba

MARATHON

Peter Eyre

English version by Colin Teevan

CHÈRE MAÎTRE

Night-time. A country lane. Two men training run into their past and into their future.

£6.99 9781840021394 M2

The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand Adapted from the translations of Francis Steegmuller & Barbara Bray

Lisa Evans

After Sand’s spirited defence of Flaubert’s novel Salammbô in 1863, the two writers became friends, producing one of the great epistolary relationships of modern times.

EAST LYNNE

£7.99 9781840023053 M1F1

‘Absolutely not to be missed’ La Republica, Italy

Adapted from the novel by Mrs Henry Wood Lisa Evans’ adaptation rescues the heroine Lady Isabel Vane from the cloying sanctimony of this famous Victorian novel.

Jennifer Farmer

BULLETPROOF SOUL

£7.99 9781840025897 M2F4*

In Uganda, at a school for ex-child soldiers, charity worker Sol and his rebellious teenage sister Rena meet Alice. Alice is Rena’s age, but she’s seen worse – and done worse – than either of them realise.

As friendship develops, so does the risk of betrayal. A sharp, explosive play about trying to do the right thing.

Lisa Evans

GETTING TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN Now a young woman, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years – and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play.

£8.99

9781840027310

M5F2

£7.99 9781840023046 M3F4

Jennifer Farmer Lisa Evans

COMPACT FAILURE

JAMAICA INN

In a place where true friendship is gold dust, rules are made to be broken. Compact Failure explores the relationships between three women prisoners.

Adapted from the novel by Daphne du Maurier This evocative, atmospheric and chilling adaptation of Jamaica Inn has all the hallmarks of a great adventure classic: murder, mystery and malevolence.

‘Gripping…deeply affecting.’ Time Out

£7.99 9781840025187 F3

£7.99 9781840024098 M5F3

Simon Farquhar Lisa Evans

RAINBOW KISS

ONCE WE WERE MOTHERS

In his Aberdeen flat, a young man stakes everything on a one night stand. Rainbow Kiss is a hard-hitting comedy about life in the Granite City.

Three interweaved stories. Ali was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who cannot return. Milena, desperate to protect her children, carries a terrible secret.

£8.99 9781840026474 M3F1

£7.99 9781840024999 M1F7*

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MODERN PLAYS David Farr and Gisli ÖrnGardarsson

Dario Fo

METAMORPHOSIS

Adapted by Stephen Stenning from a translation by Rupert Lowe

Based on the story by Franz Kafka Kafka’s terrifying but bizarrely comic story bursts onto the stage in a theatrically explosive new version, first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith.

£8.99

9781840026887

ABDUCTING DIANA Anarchic and inspired comedy in which a kidnapped heiress proves to be a more competent criminal than those who abducted her.

£7.99 9781870259453 M5F2

M5F2

David Foley Sophie Faucher

LA CASA AZUL Inspired by the writings of Frida Kahlo Translated by Neil Bartlett In the electric calm of a blue room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. She is the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, and the life is one of struggle.

£7.99 9781840023480 M1F2

Trader Faulkner with John Goodwin

LOSING MY MARBLES A series of hilarious tales from Faulkner’s life, describing his extraordinary encounters with the great and famous.

SAD HOTEL In a house on the Florida coast in the early 1960s, the 15-year relationship between Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo dissolves under pressures of fame, failure and addiction.

£6.99

9781840020854

M4F2

Lara Foot Newton

TSHEPANG The Third Testament Inspired by a horrifying child rape, Tshepang is also ‘based on twenty thousand true stories’ – the number of child rapes estimated to occur in South Africa each year.

‘A shattering experience, fittingly difficult to forget.’ The Times

£7.99 9781840022421 M1

£6.99 9781840025316 M1F1 ‡

Alex Finlayson

Lara Foot Newton and Lionel Newton

TOBACCOLAND

HEAR AND NOW

A 70-year-old tobacco farmer loses faith in himself and in his way of life. Produced at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre.

Hear and Now is a twisted tale about a woman’s desperate love for a broken man.

£7.99 9781840020816 M7F1

‘Gripping, unique piece of theatre…moving and liberating’ Cape Argus

£8.99 9781840026757 M1F1

Georgia Fitch

ADRENALIN...HEART Leigh meets Angel and her life is turned upside down. Sex, race, drugs and verbals collide in this terrifyingly beautiful roller-coaster drama.

‘Fine fearless writing’ Time Out

£7.99 9781840023275 M1F1

Jon Fosse

THE GIRL ON THE SOFA English version by David Harrower A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, but she’s beginning to doubt her artistic ability.

£8.99 9781840023268 M4F5

Georgia Fitch

I LIKE MINE WITH A KISS

Jon Fosse

Celebrating her 39th birthday with a night out on the tiles, Louise and best friend Annie realise that, despite their best intentions, they’re still nowhere near ‘having it all’. With a few home truths to face up to, and their friendship teetering on the edge, will the morning after be too tough a pill to swallow?

Translated by Gregory Motton

£8.99

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NIGHTSONGS The couple have a child and life changes. He can’t go out and she can’t stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. First produced at the Royal Court.

£7.99 9781840022827 M3F2

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Pam Gems

THE TRUMPET MAJOR

MRS PAT

Adapted from the novel by Thomas Hardy

Mrs Patrick Campbell, Shaw’s favourite actress (and sparring partner), had a private life as troubled as her stage work was acclaimed. This is the most recent of Pam Gems’ informal portraits of compelling women from history.

The story of Anne Garland and her three suitors during the Napoleonic War. This adaptation of Hardy’s early novel captures the essence and dilemmas of rural life.

£7.99 9781840024531 M5F2*

Julian Garner

‘Should tickle most people’s fancy, theatre buffs or no.’

Dominic Cavendish The Daily Telegraph

SILENT ENGINE

‘Amused and diverted’ Benedict Nightingale, The Times

A hundred years ago the village fell into the sea. On a rocky ledge above the beach Bill and Anna recriminate, negotiate and strike bargains with God.

£8.99

£7.99 9781840023169 M1F1

Pam Gems

9781840026696

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THE SNOW PALACE Dameon Garnett

BREAK AWAY

The story of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska, a brave, lonely woman, as she writes her great play The Danton Affair.

£7.99 9781840020656 M3F3

Teenager Barbie-Jean heads off to the sun, sea and sand of Torquay, accompanied by her best friend Stella and fun-loving Auntie Pauline.

Rainald Goetz

‘The arrival of a perceptively class conscious and nuanced playwright.’ Time Out

JEFF KOONS

£7.99 9781840025491 M2F3

Translated by David Tushingham

Laurent Gaudé

A celebration of the kitsch contemporary artist of the same name, Jeff Koons is a playful assemblage of language, rhythmic and hypnotic, comic and profound.

BATTLE OF WILL Translated by David Greig The boss waits for the boy whose parents he killed, to make him his son. The boy pulls the trigger and misses. (Not available in US.)

£7.99 9781840023084 M8F2

Nigel Gearing

DICKENS IN AMERICA An imaginary lecture given by Charles Dickens on his travels to America in the 19th century, drawn from his own words.

‘Sharp and funny’ Financial Times

£7.99 9781840025033 M3F2*

Murray Gold

ELECTRICITY Katherine is creating a ‘quiet space’ in her living room. Or at least, that was the plan 17 weeks ago when the builders arrived. Now she thinks she may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or murder. Or both.

£7.99 9781840024371 M4F1

£7.99 9781840020663 M1

John Goodwin

A MOST SWEET POISON

Pam Gems

MARLENE

A play about sexual obsession. Set in nineteenth-century Paris and the French countryside, it centres on a passionate love affair between a young man and an older woman. The novel on which the play is loosely based was published in 1884, hugely popular in its day and notorious for its

Paris, 1970s. Legendary screen and stage actress Marlene Dietrich prepares for her performance. A hit in the West End and on Broadway.

£7.99 9781840020649 M1F2

supposed immorality.

£8.99

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MODERN PLAYS Fraser Grace

Mick Gordon and A C Grayling

BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE

GRACE Informed by conversations with Britain’s leading philosophers, theologians and scientists, including Professor Richard Dawkins, Rev Dr Giles Fraser, Professor John Gray, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Archbishop Rowan Williams and Tariq Ramadan, Grace is a considered exploration of the complex issues of faith and religion, presented through a moving, theatrical story. (Formerly On Religion.)

Witty and provocative, this play explores the conflict between despotism and liberalism in modern Zimbabwe.

‘Darkly comic and, finally, tragic’ Independent

£8.99 9781840026306 M3F1

Fraser Grace

FROBISHER’S GOLD When pirate-turned-explorer Martin Frobisher discovers a new land in the Arctic filled with riches, Elizabeth I glimpses a golden future of wealth, prestige and influence.

£8.99 9781840027143 M2F2

Mick Gordon and Marie de Hennezel

Frobisher’s Gold blends history, comedy and politics in a tale of imperial desire, improbable coincidences and bad dentistry.

ON DEATH Inspired by Intimate Death by Marie de Hennezel Can the dying teach us how to live? Inspired by the experiences of psychologist and care-worker Marie de Hennezel, we are asked to accompany people towards death.

£8.99

£8.99

Fraser Grace

9781840026078

M3F3*

9781840027099

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PERPETUA Mick Gordon and Paul Broks

ON EGO Inspired by Into the Silent Land by Paul Broks How does the brain create a sense of self? A philosopher watches as his wife’s brain tumour changes her personality. A startling exposé of the illusion of self.

£7.99 9781840026092 M2F1

ON LOVE An exhilarating account of love in its many guises. At times fitinducingly funny, at moments profoundly sad, we witness love at work.

‘Near perfect as a piece of experimental theatre’ Daily Telegraph

£7.99 9781840026085 M2F2*

WHO KILLED MR DRUM? A true story based on the book by Sylvester Stein

£8.99 9781840026108 M10F2

Tony Green

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

‘Epic, wildly ambitious, topically contentious.’ Guardian

COCOA Late at night, in an isolated house on the Yorkshire moors, a couple await the return of their estranged daughter. But when Charlotte arrives with news of a mysterious encounter on the nearby road, and a gift for the family to share, their happy reunion turns into a disturbing reawakening of the past. Cocoa is a haunting, psychological exploration of broken memories and damaged lives.

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Fraser Grace

Welcome to Liverpool, the world in one city: the working girl and the immigrant; the bouncer and the drag queen; the ruthless businessman with a vulnerable secret.

George Gotts

9781840027488

£7.99 9781840021226 M3F2

Set in 1950s Johannesburg, Who Killed Mr Drum? brings apartheid South Africa’s black underbelly jumping to life, and counts the cost of one man’s struggle to avoid oppression.

Mick Gordon

£8.99

A gripping play that looks at the irreconcilable differences that simmer beneath the surface of a liberal society.

M1F3

£7.99 9781840024968 M9F3

Tanika Gupta

THE COUNTRY WIFE Adapted from the play by William Wycherley William Wycherley’s most famous classic, adapted as a contemporary farce for the twenty-something generation.

£7.99 9781840025163 M7F4

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Jason Hall

FRAGILE LAND

GBS

Below the surface of their easy banter, Tas and Lux face thorny questions about home, nationhood and family: the everyday complexities defining a whole generation of young Londoners.

Rich and Sam meet up at the airport. They haven’t seen each other in years and they have practically nothing in common. But their father’s lying in a coma and the least they can do is find out why. This beautifully crafted two-hander tells the story of two brothers trying to get to the hospital in one piece – a hilarious tale of suburban misadventure.

£7.99 9781840023671 M4F2

Tanika Gupta

‘Smart, funny, and moving’ Toronto Eye Weekly

GLADIATOR GAMES

£8.99

On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offender Institution, 19 year old Zahid Mubarek was murdered by his cell mate. Using a mixture of dramatisation and verbatim evidence, this play looks at the way in which our society treats young offenders.

Michael Hastings

£7.99 9781840026245 M4F1

Tanika Gupta

INSIDE OUT

9781840027020

CALICO Paris, 1928. The young Samuel Beckett is introduced to James Joyce and his family, and soon becomes like a new son in the household. He finds himself drawn to Joyce’s gifted but troubled daughter Lucia... West End Production.

£7.99 9781840024050 M4F3

Teenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent family, they move from dreams to betrayal – with devastating results. The provocative story of how they fight for a better future.

Michael Hastings

TOM AND VIV Tom and Viv is an epic play of emotion which starts with hasty love and ends after 32 years in a social tragedy of cruel betrayal.

It has been described as one of the great plays of the late 20th century.

£7.99 9781840023527 F4

Tanika Gupta

SANCTUARY A London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir.

When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds.

M2

This new edition incorporates the changes Michael Hastings made for the acclaimed 2006 production at the Almeida Theatre.

£8.99

9781840026801

M3F3

£7.99 9781840023022 M3F3

Tanika Gupta

SUGAR MUMMIES Jamaica: a sensual paradise where the sun, sea and sand are free but anything more comes at a price. Welcome to the 21st century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love and liberation; but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. Toned torsos and slick sweet talk meet orange peel beneath the coconut trees in an exchange that leaves everyone short-changed.

Sugar Mummies is a funny, provocative and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfulls of female sex tourism.

Giles Havergal

DAVID COPPERFIELD Based on the novel by Charles Dickens The treacherous Uriah Heep, the jovial nurse Peggotty, the adorably dim-witted Dora, the improvident Mr Micawber and the egotistic and charming Steerforth come to life in this new adaptation of Dickens’ classic.

‘Dickens’ unforgettable characters are exuberantly made flesh.’

The Times

£8.99

9781840025705

M9F6 ‡

Graham Greene

£8.99 9781840026559 M5F4

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT

Edward Hall & Roger Warren

Adapted by Giles Havergal

ROSE RAGE

A stage version of the popular novel, first performed at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow before two West End productions and one on Broadway, winning an Olivier award on the way. (Not available in US)

Adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays This startling adaptation of the Henry VI trilogy tells the exciting story of the collapse of Henry VI’s empire and the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, from which arises the future Richard III.

£8.99 9781870259224 M15F8

£7.99 9781840022131 30+ (M&F)

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Rolf Hochhuth

THE STONEWATCHER

THE REPRESENTATIVE

Translated by Phil Porter

Translated by Robert David MacDonald

An autistic 25-year-old lives with his mother in a small village.

None of his friends can understand the rules of his special, closed universe, and their well-intentioned actions almost destroy him.

Hochhuth’s highly controversial epic about the Vatican’s complicity in the Nazi murder of Jews. Includes ‘Historical Highlights’ by Hochhuth and the essays ‘Hochhuth and Lessing’ by Walter Muschg and ‘The Deputy’ by Hannah Arendt.

£7.99 9781840024678 M7F4

£8.99 9781870259392 40+ (M&F)

Guy Helminger

VENEZUELA Translated by Penny Black At night in the stations of inner city Berlin, a gang of teenagers ‘surf’ trains. When the gang tries to cover up the accidental death of their eldest member, a bizarre utopian fantasy emerges – set in Venezuela.

Kerry Hood

MEETING MYSELF COMING BACK Catherine is ready to uncover her shocking past, to talk to her family at last. But she cannot speak. A tragic and funny play about isolation, identity and the search for a language of survival.

£7.99 9781840023657 M5

£7.99 9781840023350 M1F3

Paul Herzberg

Anthony Horowitz

THE DEAD WAIT

MINDGAME

An explosive journey through war, death and redemption told by three people caught in the insanity of a conflict and haunted by its horrors. Rich in language and visceral in impact, the play is based on a true story.

A puzzle-box of a play. A thriller that actually thrills. And a very dark comedy that twists and spirals towards a completely unexpected ending.

£7.99 9781840023428 M3F2

£7.99 9781840021738 M2F1

‘Ingeniously twisted shocker’ Daily Express

Derrek Hines

GILGAMESH

Ödön von Horváth

Gilgamesh is the most powerful man in Iraq.

A king, a demi-God and a fearsome tyrant, he thrives on the shame and suffering of his subjects, robbing them of their innocence to fuel his lust. But when the gods turn against him, an almighty battle of wills ensues, and a defiant Gilgamesh is forced to learn love, friendship, empathy and, in the end, mortality.

THE BELLE VUE

Gilgamesh is the world’s first known epic. In this electrifying stage adaptation, Derrek Hines has turned his highly acclaimed version of this ancient tale into a cutting-edge, 21st-century drama.

Tyrone Huggins

£8.99 9781840026542 M4F1*

Three people in a studio try to record the one track that will change their lives. Sounds...in Session provides a glimpse into the ruthless world of the music industry.

Rolf Hochhuth

£6.99

Translated by Kenneth McLeish A riotous political farce set in a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the twenties where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac.

£7.99 9781870259736 M4F2

SOUNDS...IN SESSION

9781840020960

M2F1

MOZART’S NACHTMUSIK Translated by Robert David MacDonald

Ron Hutchinson

Magdalena is Mozart’s pupil. Her husband discovers that she has been his lover. But she has another secret that will have terrible consequences for them both.

HEAD/CASE

£7.99 9781840022599 M2F1

How do you define yourself when you literally don’t know who you are anymore?

‘A compelling human drama and an intellectually unsettling work.’

Guardian

£7.99 9781840025408 M1F2

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MODERN PLAYS Tunde Ikoli

Dennis Kelly

SCRAPE OFF THE BLACK

DNA

London’s East End, 1973. Trevor organises a party for the release of his brother from Borstal. But his bingo-playing, pill-popping mother, has other plans...

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the coverup unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where’s the incentive to put things right?

£7.99 9781840020847 M2F2

£8.99

9781840028409

Paul Jepson & Tony Parker

LIFE AFTER LIFE This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives.

Dennis Kelly

DEBRIS When Michael finds a baby in some rubbish he decides to bring the child home and raise him himself.

£7.99 9781840023015 M5F1

‘Jet-black comedy and gut-wrenching poetry...its sheer energy and quirky originality are thrilling’ The Times

Judith Johnson

£7.99 9781840024333 M1F1

EVERY BREATH

Dennis Kelly

A thought-provoking, even-handed debate on animal experiments. Includes extensive extra material to encourage debate and further discussion in the classroom.

LOVE AND MONEY

£8.99 9781840026689 M2F2

Jess and David’s ideal blend of love and money is killing them. Funny but heartwrenching, this ingenious drama dares us to enter a dislocated world of bad debts and even worse desires.

Alex Jones

£8.99 9781840026955 M3F3*

‘Full of passion and intelligence’ Guardian Education

FIELDS OF GOLD Milk quotas, crop circles, a son who speaks to aliens and a daughter who wants his farm to go organic: Ben Handley has a lot to bear.

Dennis Kelly

£7.99 9781840025286 M3F3

OSAMA THE HERO

Péter Kárpáti

Gary’s not stupid. He just dares to see the world differently. When another act of violence unsettles those around him, Gary must shoulder the blame.

THE FOURTH GATE

‘Rampantly imaginative writing’ Independent

Translated by Dennis Kelly

£7.99 9781840025743 M3F2

Based on traditional Hassidic stories, this wise and funny play depicts a lost world where the celestial and the everyday go hand in hand.

Dennis Kelly

TAKING CARE OF BABY

£7.99 9781840024685 M4F2

Dawn Keeler

DAISY MILLER Adapted from the novel by Henry James As an intriguing tale of passion and romance unfolds, a young writer is confronted with a tragedy that will haunt him forever.

£7.99 9781840025989 M2F4

Dennis Kelly

AFTER THE END

Dennis Kelly’s ambitious new play tackles the complex case of Donna McAuliffe, a young mother convicted of the murder of her two infant children. In a series of probing interviews, the people in this extraordinary story, including Donna herself and her bewildered mother Lynn, reveal how they may have harmed those they sought to protect. Kelly’s ambitious play uses the popular techniques of documentary drama and verbatim theatre to explore how truth is compromised by today’s information culture.

£8.99

9781840027785

M3F3

After the explosion, Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with Mark. Can they survive the attack? Can they survive each other?

£7.99 9781840025804 M1F1

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Ash Kotak

SREBRENICA

HIJRA

Based on evidence to the UN war crimes tribunal, Srebrenica presents a devastating précis of the evidence behind the atrocity committed against Bosnian Muslims in 1995.

On holiday in India and avoiding his mother’s pleas to marry, British-born Asian Nils falls in love with Raj, who lives in a house of Hijras. A plan is hatched to smuggle Raj back to Wembley as Nils’ wife.

£7.99 9781840026276 M8F2

£7.99 9781840021912 M3F5

Kneehigh David Lan

CYMBELINE

TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL

Adapted by Emma Rice and written by Carl Grose from Shakespeare’s play Kneehigh turn their unique storytelling style to one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays. In a script packed with heart-stopping poetry and characteristic charm, their irreverent adaptation plays fast and loose with the Bard. The result is a wild, giddy and elemental adventure that swings from tragedy to comedy and back again. Never has confusion been such fun!

‘One of those occasions that make you glad to be alive’ The Times

£8.99

‘A compelling work of music-theatre’ Guardian

9781840027211

M5F3*

Based on the Biblical story, Tobias and the Angel is a one-act community opera with music by Jonathan Dove. Along with the libretto, there are interviews with the creative team, offering unique insights into the writing and performance of contemporary opera.

£8.99 9781840026825

John Kolvenbach Charles Laurence

GIZMO LOVE Gizmo Love is an insightful black comedy thriller that delves into the cut-throat world of Hollywood. When young screenwriter Ralph sells his life’s work to a faceless producer he is visited by Manny, a world-weary hack, who must pump up the script.

£8.99 9781840026856 M4

LOVE SONG Beane is an exile from life – an oddball.

His well-meaning sister Joan and brother-in-law Harry try to make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary on his apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy, and tries to unravel the story behind Beane’s mysterious new love Molly…

9781840027150

Classic comedy. After a fleeting romance with a customer, the heavyweight Vicky is persuaded to begin slimming.

£7.99 9781840023206 M3F1

Joanna Laurens

FIVE GOLD RINGS Henry has invited his two sons and their wives for Christmas. The opposing sexual needs of the two couples clash, interwine and explode.

John Kolvenbach

£8.99

MY FAT FRIEND

M2F2

£7.99 9781840023756 M3F2

Joanna Laurens

THE THREE BIRDS The Three Birds explores the extremes of love as two Athenian sisters are separated by a man who marries one but desires the other.

£7.99 9781840022049 M2F2

D H Lawrence

THE FIGHT FOR BARBARA £7.99 9781840023718 M4F3

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MODERN PLAYS Bryony Lavery

Nell Leyshon

PRECIOUS BANE

THE FARM

Adapted from the novel by Mary Webb

The farm is running at a loss, but Vic will do everything he can, work day and night. As the rural crisis deepens, tensions between the old and new worlds threaten to tear things apart.

A new world of industry and riches invades the idyllic peace of young Prue and the Sarn family farm, upsetting lifelong dreams and making wishes come true.

£7.99 9781840023299 M3F2

£7.99 9781840023862 M10F8+

Marcia Layne

Amber Lone

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DEADEYE

This play uses a rich mixture of English and Jamaican patois, creating the rows, raves and revelations of the struggle to make sense of the love thing. Winner of the Alfred Fagon Award.

£7.99 9781840023817 M2F3

Nell Leyshon

COMFORT ME WITH APPLES A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape, which won Nell Leyshon the Evening Standard Drama Award for Outstanding Newcomer 2005.

Zainab is nurturing plants from Kashmir and her husband Rafique is day-dreaming of million-pound homes in the Cotswolds.

Out on the streets, their mixed up son Tariq is rapidly going from bad to worse.

Daughter Deema is doing her best to hold it all together, but it’s time for them to learn a few home truths… Deadeye paints a fresh and uncompromising portrait of modern life, exposing the misunderstandings and hypocrisies that divide the generations.

£8.99

9781840027075

M3F3

‘Nothing at [this theatre] has so excited or enthralled me in years’ Evening Standard

Paul Lucas

£7.99 9781840026337 M2F3

THE STAR THROWERS

Nell Leyshon

Tom and Jess are disillusioned with the world and are going to make life simple from now on, but reckoned without the mysterious Slippy.

DON’T LOOK NOW

£7.99 9781840022919 M2F1

Based on the story

by Daphne du Maurier

Brian McAvera

Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try to escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen. Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, Daphne du Maurier’s classic thriller starts as a moving examination of grief but gradually becomes a chilling tale with a dark and terrifying climax.

£8.99

9781840027303

M4F4*

KINGS OF THE ROAD As TJ lies comatose in a hospital bed, his son Rinty seeks to keep him alive by the force of his will.

£7.99 9781840023909 M3

Brian McAvera

YO! PICASSO! Beside Picasso

Nell Leyshon

A verbally venomous exploration of power, friendship, sex, money and the nature of genius.

GLASS EELS

£7.99 9781840023473 M2

During a heady hot summer, a young woman’s sexual awakening is coloured by shadows of her early childhood.

Suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, Glass Eels dramatises the unconscious world of instinct where the lives of humans, plants and eels are all ruled by the primal rhythms of the wetlands.

Robert David MacDonald

THE ICE HOUSE The Ice House excavates the dark side of a burnt-out marriage and reveals the side-effects of sexual fantasy as an aphrodisiac.

£6.99

9781840020304

M2F1

£8.99 9781840027532 M3F2

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Duncan Macmillan

IN QUEST OF CONSCIENCE

MONSTER

Adapted from Into that Darkness by Gitta Sereny

Powerful, tense, frightening and humane, Monster deals with the relationships between teachers and pupils, young and old, generation and generation. Can people reach out to each other, or are the things which happen in our past too powerful for us to change?

A dramatisation of harrowing interviews with Treblinka concentration camp Kommandant, Franz Stangl.

£7.99 9781870259552

M1F1

Rachael McGill

£8.99 9781840027594 M2F1

THE LEMON PRINCESS Mike and his teenage daughter Becky are close. Then her behaviour starts to become very unusual. The Lemon Princess is the story of a very British family and a very British political coverup.

‘Harrowing and heartbreaking…quietly moving’ Guardian

£7.99 9781840025422 M3F2*

Duncan Macmillan

THE MOST HUMANE WAY TO KILL A LOBSTER A play about one woman’s journey back to her childhood home to stop her past flooding into the present.

‘Beautifully offbeat, wry and surprising.’ Time Out

John McGrath

£6.99 9781840025590 F1 (MF‡)

HYPERLYNX Heather Smithson works for MI5. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events. Where is the battleground? Who is the enemy?

Nirjay Mahindru

£7.99 9781840023381 F1

With his friends, Ravi aims to open a chic new joint to entice the posh crowd. But their problems start with a surprising discovery and a visit from quirky local Ken.

Malcolm McKay

£7.99 9781840025088 M4

THE BOTTLE

FORGOTTEN VOICES Adapted from the book by Max Arthur Five veterans of the First World War – four soldiers and a munitions factory worker – meet 50 years after the conflict and are overwhelmed by their memories of that terrible time: from the high hopes of recruitment, to the killing fields of the Somme, the terrifying, sucking mud of Paschendaele, the gas, the hunger at home and finally the relief and muted joy of victory.

£8.99 9781840027891 M4F1

Nirjay Mahindru

THE HOT ZONE Inspired by the Guardian dossiers of interviews at Guantanamo Bay, this illuminating and daring play looks at how the global ‘war on terror’ has rocked our perceptions of national and religious identity.

£7.99 9781840026399 M4F1

Nirjay Mahindru

MANDRAGORA, KING OF INDIA Michael McLean

THE ELECTRIC HILLS Kelisha’s dad was Top of the Pops. Onehit wonder. ’80s floor-filler. Now he’s over the hill, sleeping all day and running dead discos at night. An offbeat comedy drama about ambition, family and keeping the dream alive.

As his Queen gives birth to an heir, King Mandragora’s kingdom is plagued by a terrifying series of omens. Who are the alien creatures with chalky white skin – and what do they want?

£7.99 9781840024456 M4F2

£8.99 9781840027327 M2F2

Kenneth McLeish

ORPHEUS A 20th-century interpretation of the ancient myth written in the lyrical style of Greek tragedy.

£7.99 9781840020168 M4F3

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MODERN PLAYS Dino Mahoney

Douglas Maxwell

YO-YO

HELMET

A divorced schoolteacher visits the Cornish coast, expecting to spend time with his infant son, but a troubled teenage boy invades their weekend and refuses to go away.

The games shop where Helmet spends all his time has gone bankrupt. The downtrodden owner is left wondering what went wrong. But Helmet has a secret that could make things a lot worse for both of them.

£7.99 9781870259507

M2F1

£7.99 9781840022759 M2

Mick Mahoney

FOOD CHAIN Tony’s doing well for himself, and his family. But what do you do when what you own is who you are?

£7.99 9781840023763 M4F2

Douglas Maxwell

IF DESTROYED TRUE When his home town is awarded the title of ‘worst town in Scotland’, Vincent wants to double the prize money by defending the title the following year.

‘Heartbreakingly powerful….a wonder of grace and beauty’ Herald

Mick Mahoney

£8.99

9781840025637

M5F2 *

SACRED HEART In an empty church hall, former friends meet and are forced to face their impending futures whilst struggling to break free from the legacy of the past. First produced at The Royal Court

Douglas Maxwell

£7.99 9781840021066 M2F2

Adapted from The Flight of the Cassowary by John LeVert

Giuseppe Manfridi

CUCKOOS

MANCUB Amid the usual struggles of growing up, Paul faces a more pressing problem, as the people around him begin to display animal traits.

Translated by Colin Teevan

‘Creates a near perfect encapsulation of the world of the troubled teen.’ Herald

In Manfridi’s delightfully obscene comedy, Beatrice, Tito and Tobias discover that the future holds a different past for them.

Introduction by Peter Hall.

£7.99 9781840024753 M2F1*

£7.99 9781840021516 M2F1

Douglas Maxwell

MELODY Andrew G Marshall

COMING AROUND AGAIN In Armley, three family dramas interlink across almost a century.

First performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Melody’s got secrets. The tattoos up her arms tell part of the story, but the truth is a lot more complicated.

‘Funny, wise and touching’ Guardian

£8.99

9781840026634

M1F3

£7.99 9781840024500 M3F3

Douglas Maxwell Mustapha Matura

OUR BAD MAGNET

THREE SISTERS

In this dark and deliciously funny play the boundaries between fantasy and reality merge with unpredictable results, following four boys as they unlock the secrets of childhood and memory.

Based on the play by Chekhov ‘Fresh, funny and intriguing’ Financial Times

£7.99 9781840022445 M4

£8.99 9781840026436 M5F4

Douglas Maxwell

DECKY DOES A BRONCO Decky’s the smallest and the only one who cannot ‘bronco’. His friend David remembers the events of one summer as the boys must face unthinkable tragedy and are thrown into restless adulthood.

£7.99 9781840022438 M8

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MODERN PLAYS Douglas Maxwell

Sheridan Morley

VARIETY

NOËL AND GERTIE

The technological wonder of the talkies has cast a shadow over the music hall. Only the bravest performers tread the boards, in the hybrid world of cine-variety.

An entertainment drawn from the songs, letters, poems, films and diaries of Noël Coward. The ‘Gertie’ of the title is, of course, Coward’s great muse and collaborator, Gertrude Lawrence.

£7.99 9781840023312 M5F3

£7.99 9781840020229 M1F1+

Glyn Maxwell

Peter Morris

THE FOREVER WALTZ

GAUDEAMUS

Passion, retribution, fate and forgiveness collide in this contemporary take on Orpheus. Oberon Books also publishes two volumes of Glyn Maxwell’s plays (see page 85).

A satire on American campus life and attitudes, and a wry take on political correctness and sexual politics.

£7.99 9781840025910 M2F1

Juan Mayorga

‘Makes you laugh, fume and, above all, think’ The Times

£8.99 9781840026672 M1F2

Peter Morris

WAY TO HEAVEN Translated by David Johnston The heart of Europe, 1942: Children playing, lovers’ tiffs, a deserted train station and a ramp rising towards a hangar.

GUARDIANS Monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence.

£7.99 9781840026429 M1F1

‘Powerfully written’ Guardian

£7.99 9781840025774 M9F3

Tom Morris and Emma Rice

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

Philippe Minyana

HABITATS

Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Translated by Steve Waters Philippe Minyana’s unique style has made him one of most famous living French playwrights.

£7.99 9781840023107 M8F2

Wesley Moore

A RECKONING A successful architect, recently widowed, is visited by his daughter. What begins as a mourning of their loss quickly becomes confrontation over their past. (Not available in US)

It is 1945. A young airman, Peter Carter, jumps to certain death from his burning aircraft. His last words are to June, a girl he has never met. Following an angelic blunder, Peter miraculously survives and finds June in the flesh. But things are not so simple. To stay alive, Peter is forced to take himself, and the heavenly authorities, to the Universal Court of Appeal.

‘A phenomenal achievement’ Susannah Clapp, Observer

£8.99

9781840027815

M13F9

£7.99 9781840023688 M1F1

Tom Morris and Emma Rice Nick Moran with James Hicks

NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS

TELSTAR

Based on the novel by Angela Carter

The brief, explosive and bizarre life of the world’s first independent record producer: Joe Meek.

1899: the world crackles with possibilities – and its people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom.

Swinging above them all is a fierce, sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers.

‘Sensational, electrifying…absolutely superb’ Daily Telegraph

£8.99

9781840025880

M9F1*

£8.99 9781840026313 M6F2*

Abi Morgan

John Mortimer

TINY DYNAMITE

HOCK AND SODA WATER

An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike twice.

£7.99 9781840022414 M2F1

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Henry, in the autumn of his years, is transported back to the key episodes of his life, and warns his younger self as man and boy of a life to come.

£7.99 9781840022582 M6F3

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Gregory Motton

NAKED JUSTICE

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DIAMOND

When 17-year-old Byron is accused of murder, the case looks closed, since the police have his confession. A subtle comedy of manners and morals.

£7.99 9781840022216 M9F2

Two former lovers re-unite for a weekend after 30 years. Both think the other has betrayed their love. They fight it out as a storm grows out at sea.

£8.99 9781840026252 M1F1

John Mortimer

A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER

Janet Munsil

A Voyage Round My Father is one of John Mortimer’s greatest theatrical successes: a celebration of the author’s eccentric, brave, impossible, Shakespeare-quoting father, struck blind in middle age.

SMOKING WITH LULU

£8.99

9781840026573

M10F6*

Inspired by the meeting between 1920s movie icon Louise Brooks and critic Kenneth Tynan, who spent three days with her for a New Yorker profile.

£7.99 9781840022841 M1F2

Tom Morton-Smith

Darren Murphy

SALT MEETS WOUND

TABLOID CALIGULA

From 11th Century Samarkand, through the Great Fire of London, to a disused weapons facility in the remotest place on earth, Salt Meets Wound is an epic odyssey spanning a thousand years. Tom Morton-Smith’s debut is a magnificently ambitious delve into the jigsaw pieces of modern events and history.

Ageing criminal and wannabe businessman Robert believes he can make dreams become flesh, filling his young protégé Joe with tales of underworld glamour.

£7.99 9781840025736 M2F1

Amani Naphtali

‘Crackles with vicious insight and humour’ Time Out

RAGAMUFFIN

£8.99

Set in the Supreme Court of African Justice, the play presents the trial of Ragamuffin, an allegorical character drawn from the black experience.

9781840027525

M5F3

Gregory Motton

£7.99 9781840022186 M4F3

GENGIS AMONGST THE PYGMIES Gengis Khan has won the competition to become leader of the nation. He has plans to sell his people the one commodity they haven’t already got: the noose.

Leyla Nazlı

£7.99 9781840023466 M6F4

In a remote mountain village in Eastern Turkey, a father tries to hold onto everything he has created, but everything and everyone seems to stand against him. This deeply moving and personal play is set in the turbulent political climate of Turkey in the 1980s.

SILVER BIRCH HOUSE

Gregory Motton

GOD’S ISLAND This lyrical comedy concerns God’s relationship with his creations, and Man’s destiny, including fascinating versions of stories from the Bible.

£6.99

9781840021905

£8.99

9781840027877

M4F5*

M19F8

Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan Gregory Motton

THE BEE

A HOLIDAY IN THE SUN

One evening, Mr Ido arrives home from work to find his wife and child being held hostage by an escaped murderer, and decides to take control and embark on an extraordinary course of revenge.

This hilarious third and penultimate part of Gregory Motton’s expanding comic trilogy mixes swoops of imaginative absurdity with acutely observed set pieces from everyday life.

£8.99

9781840025200

M3F1

‘Make a beeline for it’ Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

£8.99

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MODERN PLAYS Marie N’Diaye

Richard Norton-Taylor (ed)

HILDA

THE COLOUR OF JUSTICE

Translated by Sarah Woods

The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

Mme Lemarchand, a well-to-do woman and megalomaniac, draws her innocent cleaner, Hilda, into a trap from which there is no escape. (Not available in US)

A dramatic reconstruction of the hearings into the death of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, which erupted into national outcry.

£6.99

9781840023091

M1F2

£7.99 9781840021073 30+ (M&F)

Ákos Nemeth

Richard Norton-Taylor (ed)

CAR THIEVES

JUSTIFYING WAR

Translated by Ché Walker

Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry

A dry, quirky, fast, rude and extremely funny snapshot of the urban scene in Hungary today.

Based on the transcripts from Lord’s Hutton’s Inquiry into the death of David Kelly, this tribunal play reveals the inner workings of the BBC, the Ministry of Defence and Downing Street.

£7.99 9781840024708 M7F4

£7.99 9781840024173 M12F2

Hideki Noda

RED DEMON

Amélie Nothomb

Translation & adaptation by Roger Pulvers

HUMAN RITES

In a land far away, a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing village. The villagers decide he is a demon and must be destroyed.

Translated by Natalie Abrahami

£7.99 9781840023572 M6F2

Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalising ménage-à-trois between a Professor, his assistant, and a student, only the books bear witness to their plight.

Mark Norfolk

£7.99 9781840025392 M2F1

KNOCK DOWN GINGER Luke is fifteen and looking for respect. Growing up on an estate isn’t easy, especially when your mother’s got a new man in her life.

£7.99 9781840023794 M4F1

Mark Norfolk

WRONG PLACE Roddy is about to lose his son Trevor to prison, as well as his job and his marriage. And just when things couldn’t get worse, Trevor’s Uncle Monty shows up.

£7.99 9781840024005 M3

Richard Norton-Taylor (ed)

BLOODY SUNDAY Scenes from the Saville Inquiry **** ‘The Tricycle’s latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating yet’ The Times

£7.99 9781840025682 M12F5

Maureen O’Brien

THE CUTTING Judith is in prison, on remand, accused of killing her mother. From the moment the police came to question her she has not spoken.

Alex, a child psychiatrist with experience of mutism, battles against her silence until at last he breaks the dam.

£7.99 9781840023213 M1F1

Chris O’Connell

HANG LENNY POPE/ CLOUD:BURST Can a family find hope for the future? Chris O’Connell’s compelling new play Hang Lenny Pope explores the possibility that love might return, and redemption be found, for a couple whose lives have been battered by the experience of parenting a violent son. Both touching and funny, Hang Lenny Pope is an urban love story with a truly macabre twist. Also includes the monologue Cloud:Burst.

£8.99

Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent

CALLED TO ACCOUNT Two leading barristers: Philippe Sands QC (for the prosecution) and Julian Knowles (for the defence) tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq. They examined a number of distinguished witnesses, and the arguments and testimony gathered, were edited into a play by Richard Norton-Taylor.

9781840027334

M2F2 M1

Chris O’Connell

HYMNS Four men reunite to mourn the loss of a close friend but time and events have had a corrosive effect on them.

‘Clever, beautiful. Observant, and better than that, brave.’

Scotsman

£7.99 9781840025484 M4

£8.99 9781840027457

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Tamsin Oglesby

TALL PHOENIX

THE WAR NEXT DOOR

In a city that rose from devastation, the past clashes with the future in a story of sex, violence and revenge.

Tamsin Oglesby’s black comedy takes a satirical and subversive look at the world we live in today – one of multi-culturalism and blurred boundaries. And one in which violence is right on our own doorstep – no matter where we come from.

‘Has an abrasive timeliness.’ Guardian

£7.99 9781840025118 M4F3

Kaite O’Reilly

£8.99

HENHOUSE Exploring the breakdown of a family against the background of civil war, Henhouse poses a simple question: how can we live together?

‘Has the punch and spareness of the late Sarah Kane’ The Times

£7.99 9781840025095 M3F2

Meredith Oakes

9781840027297

M3F2

Cosh Omar

THE BATTLE OF GREEN LANES Erol, a Turkish Cypriot boy, is seeing a Greek Cypriot girl, while his two new friends want him to join the holy fight to re-establish the Islamic State.

£7.99 9781840025156 M9F2

THE EDITING PROCESS Meredith Oakes’ comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding.

John Osborne

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

£7.99 9781870259460 M5F3

Adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde

Meredith Oakes

A stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic story of a man who preserves his youth, while his portrait deteriorates with age and corruption.

FAITH Nightmarish contradictions face a group of soldiers in an isolated farmhouse on the edge of battle.

£7.99 9781870259804 M5F1

Meredith Oakes

SCENES FROM THE BACK OF BEYOND Bill is sustained by his deep sense of a wider culture and an improving world. The only thing the human race needs to do is learn.

When he meets a person who embodies this idea, he naturally likes them. Especially if his wife doesn’t. Set at the end of the 1950s, Scenes From the Back of Beyond explores the comfort, hopes and fragility of family life in a new Sydney suburb. Premiere at The Royal Court

£8.99 9781840027082 M4F2

Meredith Oakes

SHADOWMOUTH A fifteen-year-old runaway is taken in by an older man. Both live at night: the man on his balcony, watching from afar, while the boy is drawn deeper into the city’s underworld.

Oberon also publishes a collection of Oakes’ plays (see page 76).

£7.99 9781840021035 M11F5

Philip Osment

BURIED ALIVE A young woman who admires the work of a famous photojournalist starts to investigate his life, and uncovers a disturbing family history.

£6.99

9781840021974

M5F4

Philip Osment

THE UNDERTAKING A sad and sometimes comic story of five friends who journey into the Irish countryside to scatter the ashes of Henry, who has died of AIDS.

£7.99 9781870259873

M4F1

Peter Oswald

AUGUSTINE’S OAK The first play to be commissioned for the new Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: the story of St Augustine’s mission to reconcile the Christians of the Celtic Church with the authority of Rome.

£7.99 9781840021288 M16F9

£7.99 9781840026795 M3F2

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MODERN PLAYS Peter Oswald

Mervyn Peake

THE GOLDEN ASS

GORMENGHAST

From the novel by Lucius Apuleius

Adapted by John Constable

A curious young man finds himself transformed into an ass, and he encounters the chaos of human desire from a new, servile perspective.

In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.

£7.99 9781840022858 30+ (M&F)

Peter Oswald

ODYSSEUS Odysseus returns to Ithaka to find his palace in the hands of violent men. These mortal enemies are overcome, but the ghosts of war are not so easily vanquished.

‘A gloriously impossible realisation of Mervyn Peake’s soaring flight of fancy’ Guardian

£8.99 9781840026733 M4F3*

Pentabus

£7.99 9781840021387 M7F3

WHITE OPEN SPACES Peter Oswald

THE RAMAYANA

In 2004 Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, asked if the countryside is guilty of a ‘passive apartheid’.

The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set his wife Sita free from the demon Ravana.

Pentabus, BBC Radio Drama and nine writers spent a week in Shropshire exploring this question. These plays are the result…

£7.99 9781840022018 M18F4

£8.99 9781840026863 (monologues)

M4F3

Peter Oswald

THE STORM In this new version of the Roman comedy by Plautus, Peter Oswald combines high comedy, slapstick and pathos to examine ideas of freedom and slavery, loss and rediscovery.

£8.99 9781840025859 M5F3+

Sarah Phelps

MODERN DANCE FOR BEGINNERS A series of encounters linked by a liaison in a hotel bedroom, this is a cruelly comic play about love and sex.

£7.99 9781840023435 M1F1*

Cecilia Parkert

WITNESS

Phil Porter

Translated by Kevin Halliwell

STEALING SWEETS AND PUNCHING PEOPLE

A woman can only tell her own story of survival by translating the stories of others. This version won the Gate Theatre’s Translation Award 2000.

£7.99 9781840023374 F1

Adolescence, sexuality and guilt come together in this richly theatrical, macabre and often hilarious play about ordinary life going horribly wrong.

£7.99 9781840024043 M2F2

Ben Payne with Stan Won’t Dance

SINNER Based on the events surrounding the Soho nail bombing, Sinner combines text with choreography.

David Pownall

GETTING THE PICTURE

‘Intoxicating, full of power and urgency.’ Dance Europe

Tennessee, 1845. Ex-president Andrew Jackson is preparing to have his photograph taken, when a young Northern Irish woman interrupts…

£7.99 9781840024982 M2

£6.99

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9781840020076

M3F3

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J B Priestley

PARADISE LOST

JOHNSON OVER JORDAN

Based on the epic poem by John Milton

Robert Johnson begins a frightening, lurid and emotional journey into the afterlife. Memories and secret desires threaten to overwhelm him.

Defeated in battle and exiled from Heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire with his army of rebels around him. Consumed with envy, he plots his bitter revenge – to destroy God’s delight in his newest creation. As exhilarating as it is profound, Milton’s extraordinary masterpiece is brought to life in Ben Power’s stunning adaptation for the stage.

‘Sublime and thrilling’ Daily Telegraph ‘What a great script this is all round… Splendid’ Daily Mail

£8.99

9781840026665

M4F2*

£7.99 9781840022483 M7F5

Erwin Riess

HAWKING’S DREAM Translated by Penny Black What does Stephen Hawking, world famous astro-physicist, dream about? Sex amongst the stars, inflatable whales and nightmarish political figures…

£7.99 9781840020397 M5F3

David Pownall

INNOCENT SCREAMS Dawn, Coronation Day 1953. The artist Francis Bacon works on his portrait of Pope Innocent X, inspired by Velazquez’ masterpiece and his own deep absorption in human carnality. The chaotic studio is populated by characters possessing the power of change, who come to life in a satirical interplay of art, history, sex and politics.

Fabrice Roger-Lacan

MEMBERS ONLY Translated by Christopher Campbell An intimate, fast moving, cruel and tender comedy about friendship, obsession and the absurdity of desire.

£8.99 9781840026610 M2

David Rudkin

£8.99 9781840026115 M4F2

AFORE NIGHT COME

David Pownall

The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. But corrupted land yields a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts and pesticide begins to fall...

NIJINSKY: DEATH OF A FAUN

£7.99 9781840022391 M12F2

In an asylum, Nijinsky hears of the death of his ex-lover, the great impresario Diaghilev, and fears for his own life. Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole.

Ugljesa Sajtinac

£7.99 9781840020007 M1

HUDDERSFIELD Translated by Chris Thorpe

J B Priestley

A painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Sajtinac, first performed in this version at West Yorkshire Playhouse.

DANGEROUS CORNER

£7.99 9781840024494 M5F1

At a dinner party, a cigarette box and and an ill-considered remark spark off a relentless series of revelations.

£7.99 9781840022513 M3F4

David Salter

BROADWAY IN THE SHADOWS J B Priestley

EDEN END Stella Kirby once left home to find freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned.

£7.99 9781840022544 M4F3

In the depths of the cruellest prison in American history, an inmate known as ‘The Smilemaker’ keeps his brothers’ spirits buoyant and their hopes of survival alive with stories of love and sacrifice among the tenements and theatres of Manhattan.

£8.99

9781840027044

M6F2*

Roland Schimmelpfennig

ARABIAN NIGHT Translated by David Tushingham A hot and enchanted summer’s evening in a German tower block.

£7.99 9781840022988 M3F2

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Adriano Shaplin

THE WOMAN BEFORE

PUGILIST SPECIALIST

Translated by David Tushingham

A soaring and timely premiere dissecting the American military’s hunt for evil in foreign lands.

Frank doesn’t recognise the woman at the door. She’s come to remind him of a promise made twenty years before.

£8.99

9781840024104

M3F1

‘Lets us peer into the heart of darkness.’ Evening Standard

£7.99 9781840025729 M2F3

Adriano Shaplin

SWITCH TRIPTYCH

Mark Schultz

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY

A sexy play about labour history, Switch Triptych examines clashing ideologies – old versus young, man against machine, immigrant versus native.

£7.99 9781840026214 M2F3

An unsettling and startingly authentic examination of complacency culture and the politics of beauty.

‘An astonishing piece of work on every level’ Herald

Do Shaw

£7.99 9781840026344 M4F2

BACK TO THE LAND

Werner Schwab

Back to the Land takes a warm-hearted look at the lives and loves of a group of Land Girls during World War Two making the best of life in a hostel in the North East of England.

HOLY MOTHERS

£7.99 9781840023305 M5+F15+

Translated by Meredith Oakes This horrifically funny masterpiece signalled the meteoric rise to fame of the young Austrian, Werner Schwab.

Do Shaw

£6.99

WASHBOARD BLUES

9781840021134

F3

A heart-warming community play for a large cast and a wide audience, Washboard Blues tells the story of ordinary women in the 1950s. In a municipal wash-house a group of friends meet and talk their way through the weekly laundry. Love, lies and laughter; deprivations, delights and dreams.

Paul Sellar

2 GRAVES Jack, son of darts legend Bobby Tops, seeks revenge on those he believes are responsible for his father’s downfall.

2 Graves is a challenging piece of contemporary verse which explores the terrifying dangers of violence and revenge.

‘A work of rare skill and intense artistry’ Daily Mail ‘A careful character study of London’s fetid underbelly’ Scotsman

£8.99

9781840027136

M1

£8.99 9781840026368 F18

Shelley Silas

CALCUTTA KOSHER Two sisters return to the crumbling Calcutta home of their childhood, and are forced to re-examine the reality of their lives in the light of a hidden past.

‘A wise, compassionate, moving play’ Sunday Times

Richard Shannon

£7.99 9781840024302 M1F4

THE LADY OF BURMA In her cell in Rangoon’s Insein prison, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi – incarcerated by Burma’s military dictatorship for almost 20 years – tells her story. This powerful one-woman play vividly portrays the life and message of the world’s most famous prisoner of conscience.

£8.99

9781840027860

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F1

Shelley Silas

FALLING Pete and Linda have everything, except the most fashionable acccessory of the season – a baby. But surely there’s more to life than procreation?

£7.99 9781840023282 M1F3

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Robin Soans

MERCY FINE

TALKING TO TERRORISTS

Mercy Fine will be going back home – but home was where her life went so badly wrong…

From peacemakers, journalists and hostages to the ones who crossed the line: these are their stories. Based on interviews conducted by the author and cast.

£8.99 9781840026375 F4

Lee Simpson and Phelim McDermott

‘I will be astonished if the year turns up a more important, illuminating or moving play than this.’ Daily Telegraph

£8.99

9781840025620

M5F3*

THEATRE OF BLOOD Actor Edward Lionheart hacks his revengeful way through the Bard’s bloody works.

‘Biliously funny…an ingenious and gory delight.‘ Daily Telegraph

£8.99

9781840025781

M9F3 ‡

Paul Sirett

THE BIG LIFE

Rafael Spregelburd

STUPIDITY Translated and adapted by Crispin Whittell A vibrantly imaginative comedy for quick-change actors from a major force in Argentine theatre: five very different groups of people interact in the rooms of a Las Vegas motel.

£7.99 9781840025149 M3F2*

Based on Love’s Labour’s Lost, this huge hit is an energetic musical, a quartet of love stories and a dazzling comedy all rolled into one.

Rhashan Stone

TWO STEP

‘A joyous affair’ The Times

Thirty-two years after Lenny left Mona, he reappears at her door – with his new clothes, new teeth, new wife, and new life.

It’s all too much for Mona to stomach.

£7.99 9781840024418 M6F6

Paul Sirett

£7.99 9781840025019 M2F2

LUSH LIFE Paul Sirett’s musical drama uses the songs made famous by Ella Fitzgerald to illustrate the defining moments of one woman’s life.

£7.99 9781840025613 F6

Ken Taylor Paul Sirett

STAYING ON

RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL

Adapted from the novel by Paul Scott

Adapted from the book by Shawn Levy The most famous entertainers on the planet, the Rat Pack’s world was full of charisma, talent, gambling, drink, drugs and girls.

Post-Independence India: the lives of an ex-pat couple have begun to crumble, as the winds of change sweep through the modern state.

£7.99 9781840021837 M8F4

£7.99 9781840023411 M5

Roy Smiles

YING TONG Under pressure to write the ultimate Goon show, Spike Milligan is planning his escape from a mental institution dressed only in his pyjamas. **** ‘Remarkable play… Extremely funny’ Guardian

Colin Teevan

ALCMAEON IN CORINTH This original play completes Teevan’s translation and reimagining of Euripides’ last great trilogy: Iphigeneia in Aulis, Alcmaeon in Corinth and Bacchai.

£7.99 9781840024852 M2F9

£7.99 9781840025255 M4

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Catherine Tregenna

HOW MANY MILES TO BASRA?

ART AND GUFF

Southern Iraq, April 2003: four British soldiers, a BBC reporter and their Iraqi translator embark on an unauthorised mission deep into the war-torn country’s desert. Developed from Colin Teevan’s highly acclaimed radio play, this examines how definitions of truth and responsibility become blurred in times of war.

‘As stark, shocking and terrifying as anything I’ve heard’ Observer

£8.99 9781840026900 M8F3

Lost in the big city, Art and Guff are desperate to make it. There’s two weirdos downstairs and their giros keep disappearing. Is it any wonder they’re paranoid?

£6.99

9781840022247

M3F1

Paul Tucker

ROOM TO LET An ordinary couple, living a cosy life together, enjoy simple daily pleasures – bingo, TV, ketchup and dreams of holiday camps. The only thing missing is marriage itself.

£7.99 9781840021257 M2F1

Colin Teevan

MISSING PERSONS

Jouko & Juha Turkka

Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths.

CHERISHED DISAPPOINTMENTS IN LOVE

‘Colin Teevan writes with beautiful old-school lyricism’ Independent on Sunday

£6.99

9781840026467

Monologues (M5)

Colin Teevan

Adapted by Bryony Lavery A woman of a certain age is in love with Finland’s youngest philosopher. Her rival is a sergeant major who means to make a man of him.

£7.99 9781840022520 M2F2

SVEJK Based on The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek

Serge Valetti

A winning adaptation of Hasek’s comic masterpiece, in which the seeming idiot Svejk’s very idiocy helps him survive the horrors of the First World War.

LE PUB!

£7.99 9781840021196 M10F4

Colin Teevan

Translated by Richard Bean Mr Globul is about to fight the inspectors, prompt a revolution, hide in a crowd of refugees, dress as a barrel and live on as a travelling puppeteer.

£6.99

9781840023114

30+ (M&F)

THE WALLS Dublin, the night before Christmas. Mr and Mrs Walls are preparing for the arrival of their son Joseph and his new bride, Mary, from London. Premiered at The National Theatre.

Laura Wade

£6.99 9781840021530 M6F2

Laura Wade’s absorbing, structurally sophisticated play about the effect death has on the living won the George Devine Award 2005.

BREATHING CORPSES

Andy de la Tour

‘Brilliantly handled. A terrifying tour de force.’ Sunday Times

QUESTION TIME

£7.99 9781840025460 M4F3

Angela, a ‘Blair babe’, is on course for a Cabinet post, but then a journalist gets hold of a document that could end her career…

£7.99 9781840024166 M2F3

Steve Trafford

A CLOUD IN TROUSERS During the Russian Revolution, Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lili and Osip Brik are a troubled ménage à trois, trying to live out the revolutionary ideal of free love.

£7.99 9781840025064 M2F2

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Reza de Wet

COLDER THAN HERE

THE BROTHERS

Myra is dying...on her own terms – right down to painting her own coffin – to the consternation of her husband and daughters.

During a night-long vigil preceding the funeral of their brother Kostia, Anton and Aleksander Chekhov are drawn into an agonising and explosive confrontation with each other – and with deeply hidden aspects of themselves. As the play unfolds, it becomes a searing portrayal of human misery and the redemptive power of the

‘A perceptive, refreshing approach to a painful and complex subject.’ Time Out

£7.99 9781840024715 M1F3

Laura Wade

creative impulse.

OTHER HANDS

£8.99 9781840022353 M2F1

In an age where things that don’t work and can’t be mended are thrown away, what do we do with something as human and messy as love?

Hugh Whitemore

£8.99

PACK OF LIES

9781840026504

M2F2

In Hugh Whitemore’s acclaimed play, an ordinary couple and their teenage daughter are astonished to discover that their neighbours and close friends are suspected

by MI5 to be spies.

James Walker

PROVING MR JENNINGS Poor Mr Jennings! Imagine the improbable: a situation involving a nurse, a doctor, a secret agent, a bunker and a bomb, not to mention your wife. And all you, a humble lawyer, were expecting was a heart transplant…

£8.99

9781840027198

M4F2

Michael Wall

£8.99

9781840027006 M3F5

Toby Whithouse

BLUE EYES AND HEELS Packed with hilarious one-liners, this razor-sharp media satire was first performed at Soho Theatre in a production starring Martin Freeman.

£8.99 9781840026382 M2F1

WOMEN LAUGHING There are many moments when Colin and Tony want to smother the laughs of their wives. The two couples fight for every inch of their lives.

£7.99 9781840021561 M2F2

Crispin Whittell

CLEVER DICK

Michael Weller

Socorro, New Mexico, 17 June 1945: the great American scientist Richard Feynman finds himself entangled in a twisting tale of mistaken identity, espionage, and Einstein’s most famous equation.

WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR

£8.99 9781840026740 M3F2

Ten years on, two lovers meet in a hotel room far from their homes. What the Night is For poses timeless questions in a lively and original way. Gillian Anderson starred in the West End.

Michael Wilcox

£7.99 9781840023558 M1F1

MRS STEINBERG AND THE BYKER BOY

Jean-Paul Wenzel

In a charity shop, the old order is threatened by the arrival of Matty, who seduces Peter and then radically transforms the shop.

RISING BLUE

£7.99 9781840021721 M2F3

Translated by Lin Coghlan André and Lucie have retired to the country. As he examines the secrets of the cosmos, he unravels his fragile sanity, and Lucie is left to pick up the pieces.

£7.99 9781840023077 M1F2

Trevor Williams

TALKIN’ LOUD Joshua is attacked at gunpoint. Suddenly the pressure’s mounting and he’s ready to explode.

‘From first to last the language crackles with energy’ Time Out

£7.99 9781840024722 M5F1

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Sarah Woods

FEMME FATALE

VISIBLE

Rookie reporter Joe is sent to investigate The Black Widow, the mysterious beauty whose rich husbands have all met with unfortunate accidents.

Visible boldly challenges how we guard our wealth and our ‘right to happiness’: do we sometimes lose sight of the wider world around us?

£7.99 9781840025354 M4F2*

£8.99

Laurence Wilson

Madani Younis

URBAN LEGEND

SILENT CRY

A grandfather, a father, a son. Three broken men in one stagnant household. The memory of a wife and mother and the beautiful songs she used to sing.

A death in police custody leads to an ordinary family looking for justice from a system that has no answers.

9781840026658

M4F2

£7.99 9781840025071 M4F3

£7.99 9781840024906 M4

Phil Wilmott

DICK BARTON Based on the 1940s BBC radio serial, these critically acclaimed and hugely successful plays are “Deliriously funny. [They] poke fun at English heart-of-oak heroics with all the attendant class distinctions and tender regard for the little woman” (Jeremy Kingston, The Times). Includes Dick Barton Special Agent & Dick Barton and the Curse of the Pharaoh’s Tomb

£7.99 9781840021493 M11 F7*, M9 F4*

Lloyd Withers

NO SWEAT A car factory somewhere in the Midlands: when a take-over looms, the guys are forced to question their loyalties, and discover who their real mates are.

£7.99 9781840022995 M6F1

Sarah Woods

SOAP Nothing is simple in the world of soaps. Just as it seemed Aussie heart-throb Thorn’s future was all mapped out, the unscripted arrival of attractive East End pub landlady Lorna sends him into a spin.

£7.99 9781840025101 M4F4

Sarah Woods

TRIPS Bold, funny and technologically astonishing, Trips is an imaginative account of six Birmingham housemates on a night out.

£6.99

9781840021103

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MODERN COLLECTIONS The Oberon Books Modern Collections include volumes from prominent authors such as Howard Barker and Richard Bean as well as collections of plays grouped around a theme. There is something for everyone, and our collections always prove to be great value for money.

Various

Howard Barker

NEW

THE GREAT GAME: AFGHANISTAN

PLAYS FOUR

Published as part of the Tricycle Theatre’s Afghanistan festival in April 2009, this anthology brings together thirteen renowned playwrights on the subject of Afghanistan. The Great Game explores the politics, social affairs and history of a country that is likely to be the most important focus of British, European and American foreign policy for many years to come. US tour 2010.

£12.99 9781840029222 M11F4

Various

NEW

PARIS CALLING The six plays in this volume were presented in British theatres as part of Paris Calling, the season of Franco-British performing arts which took place in January – August 2009. Taken together, they provide an intriguing and provocative snapshot of the state of French theatre: sensuous and intellectual; serious and playful; at times defiantly anti-naturalistic; and shot through with a lyrical and musical sensibility rarely, if ever, encountered on the British stage.

£14.99

In I Saw Myself a woman’s longing to understand her compulsion to transgress the laws of her society comes into collision with the conventions of an art form. In the weaving of a tapestry Barker’s thirteenthcentury heroine privileges private life over public responsibility. A critical moment in social decay is also at the centre of The Dying of Today, in which a stranger who luxuriates in the telling of bad news observes the effects of his devastating narrative on a humble barber. The barber’s recovery from pain, and the beauty of his sensibility, bring the two strangers into an emotional proximity.

Barker’s most experimental work in form and content is probably Found in the Ground, a mobile, musical work set during the last days of an aged Nuremberg judge. In The Road, the House, the Road. Erasmus’ obscure colleague Aventinus was found dead on a wintry road. How he arrived at his solitary death forms the subject of this speculation on scholarship, mischief and the murderer’s vocation.

£14.99 9781840028515

Howard Barker

Judith • (Uncle) Vanya • A House of Correction • Hurts Given and Received

NEW

The latest collection of works from Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.

The Last Supper • Seven Lears • Hated Nightfall • Wounds to the Face

PLAYS FIVE

£14.99 9781840029611 Sept 2010

The Last Supper places the suicide of a Christ-like prophet in the context of modern chaos. Seven Lears takes its inspiration from the significant absence in Shakespeare’s play - that of Lear’s wife. Hated Nightfall concerns a lightly fictionalised version of the Russian royal family. Wounds to the Face explores our complex relations with our own appearance.

£14.99 9781840028867 Jun 2009

NEW

PLAYS SIX

9781840029345 Oct 2010

Howard Barker

NEW

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Howard Barker

NEW

SLOWLY / HURTS GIVEN AND RECEIVED In Slowly barbarians approach the palace of a decaying culture, and four princesses debate their fate. Decorum demands suicide. But, for some, the possibility of life is all too compelling. In a culture of conformity, it may not be up to the individual to decide... In Hurts Given and Received Barker re-examines the creative life of the artist through one of his most fascinating and appalling creations. Provocative ideas, pungent poetic language, and savage wit build a thoughtprovoking allegory of the artist’s relationship with society.

Premiered at the Riverside Studios, London 2010

£8.99

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Will Eno

NEW

LOBSTER / VANTASTIC

NEW

OH, THE HUMANITY and other good intentions

Two new plays from award-winning writer Russell Barr that consider what it means to live in confined spaces. Vantastic focuses on the life of Pam, her pet dog Shaggy, her family and friends. They are all on holiday together, in two caravans. Stuck. A mysterious young man arrives and changes all their lives forever. In Lobster Chatty and her grandson Tobias live in a nuclear bunker. Tobias has never been allowed out and wanted a friend. Chatty found him one - the boy with no name.

Together they live in the bunker. Today is Tobias’s Birthday. They are all waiting for the end of the world.

£8.99

NEW

9781840029802

The five short plays that make up Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions move toward feeling by way of thought, and toward gratitude by way of loss. These plays feature people alone or in pairs, or both, attempting to present themselves in the best light, or ultimately, desperately, in any light. Features plays: Behold the Coach, in Sorrow, Uninsured; Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rain; Enter the Spokeswoman, Sideways; The Bully Composition and Oh, the Humanity

£9.99 9781840028324 M2F1

Nov 2009

Yael Farber Richard Bean

NEW

PLAYS THREE Harvest • In The Club • The English Game • Up On Roof Four recent plays from one of the most interesting voices writing for British theatre today. Includes Harvest, first produced at the Royal Court Theatre and winner of the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play in 2005. ‘Wonderful lightness of touch...[his dialogue] takes your breath away.’ The Daily Telegraph on Up on the Roof.

£ 14.99 9781840029130 M7F4; M6F4; M14; M5F1

Dic Edwards NEW

TWO IMMORALITY PLAYS: THE PIMP / SOLITUDE These new plays from one of Wales’ hottest and most controversial new writers are a fascinating read. Includes The Pimp, a brilliantly observed period piece featuring Charles Baudelaire, with authentic language and social mores, but still liberally peppered with horrible brutality between characters.

Visceral, gut wrenching theatre shot through with humanity. Also includes Solitude.

£8.99 9781840028133 M2F1

NEW

THEATRE AS WITNESS Yael Farber’s trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa.

£9.99

9781840028201 M2F1

Pam Gems, Richard France, Jackie Skarvellis NEW

MOVIE ICONS Take three genuine silver screen icons and transfer them to the small stage. That is the simple premise behind this unique collection of monologues. Marlene is about, of course, the divine Ms Dietrich and is written by Pam Gems, Obediently Yours Orson Welles, is by long time fan Richard France and James Dean is Dead (Long Live James Dean) is from the pen of Jackie Skarvellis.

As monologues these are ideal for students preparing an audition piece, as well as being perfect reading for all fans of these movie icons.

£12.99 9781840027693 Jun 2010

Dennis Kelly

NEW

PLAYS ONE Dennis Kelly’s Plays One is made up of a collection of his highly successful plays including: Love and Money - Jess and David’s ideal blend of love and money is killing them. Funny but heart wrenching, this ingenious drama dares us to enter a dislocated world of bad debts and even worse desires.

Osama the Hero - Gary’s not stupid. He just dares to see the world differently. When another act of violence unsettles those around him, Gary must shoulder the blame.

Debris - When Michael finds a baby in some rubbish he decides to bring the child home and raise him himself.

After the End - After the explosion, Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with Mark. Can they survive the attack? Can they survive each other?

£14.99 9781840028034 M1F1; M1F3; M1F1; M3F3

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Meredith Oakes

Arnold Wesker

NEW

MEREDITH OAKES COLLECTED PLAYS

WESKER’S POLITICAL PLAYS

This collection features seven well-received and critically-acclaimed plays by the critically acclaimed playwright and critic Meredith Oakes. This collection includes The Neighbour, The Editing Process (here presented in a revised version), Faith, Her Mother and Bartok and Shadowmouth.

£14.99 9781840029666 June 2010

Deirdre Osborne (Editor)

NEW

HIDDEN GEMS: SIX EXPERIMENTAL NEW PLAYS BY BLACK BRITISH WRITERS This distinctive new volume of drama by black British playwrights exemplifies how experiments with form, subject-matter and genre can serve to centralise the experiences of black people in local, national and international contexts of culture, politics and performance.

£14.99 9781840028430

John Osborne

NEW

BEFORE ANGER Look Back in Anger was not John Osborne’s first performed play – two of his early plays, thought to have been lost, were rediscovered in 2008, and are presented for the first time here. A fascinating insight into the development of a theatrical genius.

Includes The Devil Inside Him & Personal Enemy.

£10.99 9781840029031 M5F3 • M5F3

Racine

NEW

NEW

THREE PLAYS Berenice • Translated and adapted by Neil Bartlett Phèdre • Britannicus Translated by Robert David MacDonald

This is the latest in Oberon’s successful series of Wesker collections, this one focusing on his political plays. The selection featured here showcases some of his best-known work including 1962’s Chips With Everything, perhaps the most celebrated of his plays, concerning the fate of a group of RAF conscripts who begin 8 weeks of square bashing which sees them grow from a shambles into an efficient team.

£ 14.99 9781840029543 June 2010

Arnold Wesker

NEW

WESKER’S LOVE PLAYS Two critics – Michael Billington in The Guardian, and the late Ronald Bryden in The Observer have described Arnold Wesker as an outsider. It’s true, and the reason is that unlike most playwrights, he is unpredictable.

These tender plays about love brilliantly confirm that unpredictability from a writer best known for his powerful social dramas.

Wesker’s Love Plays includes The Four Seasons, Love Letters on Blue Paper & Lady Othello.

£14.99 9781840027914 M1 F1, M3 F1, M3 F6 *

Arnold Wesker

NEW

WESKER’S SOCIAL PLAYS A new collection from prominent Breitish playwright Arnold Wesker, this latest volume of Oberon Books’ Wesker series includes the author’s most performed work The Kitchen (1957) - produced in sixty cities, from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo, from Paris to Moscow, from Montreal to Zurich. The volume also contains The Rocking Horse Kid, Voices on the Wind, Denial and When God Wanted a Son.

£12.99 9781840028898 M18 F12*, M2 F7, M14 F9*, M1 F2

In Berenice, love and personal happiness are set against public duty.

Phèdre concerns a princess with an overwhelming infatuation for her stepson. Britannicus lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos.

£14.99 9781840027617 M5F2 M3F5 M6F3

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Howard Barker

FOUR PLAYS

PLAYS ONE

Sweet Talk • Alterations • In the Mood • El Dorado

Victory • The Europeans • The Possibilities • Scenes from an Execution

Sweet Talk is a moving and humorous look at a marriage in crisis.

Alterations is an entrepreneur’s comedy set in a tailor’s shop with just two sewing machines and an ironing board. In the Mood focuses on two Caribbean Second World War veterans, whose nostalgia is interrupted by an alcoholic friend. In El Dorado a grandson returns to his middle class family home to lay some ghosts to bed.

£12.99 9781840021790

M3F3 M5F1 M3F2 M3F3

Rodney Ackland

PLAYS ONE

The first volume in Oberon’s new edition of Howard Barker’s plays explores the tragic form defined by Barker as Theatre of Catastrophe. Victory, set in the English Civil War, follows the ethical voyage of a widow; The Europeans takes the Siege of Vienna as the background for a young woman’s insistence on her right to her own identity; and Scenes from an Execution shows an independent artist’s struggle against the Venetian state. The Possibilities are disturbing short plays set in various times and cultures.

£14.99 9781840026122

M16F3 M20F7 M4F3 M28F6

The Dark River • After October In The Dark River, set in the late 1930s, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater ignoring the events of a politically unstable Europe. In After October a young playwright scents possibilities of escape into the extravagance of the time.

£8.99 9781870259545 M6F3 M5F6

Rodney Ackland

PLAYS TWO Smithereens • Strange Orchestra • Before the Party • The Old Ladies In Smithereens a woman embarks on a rebellious love affair in defiance of her family. Strange Orchestra deals with love and betrayal among rootless twenty-somethings. Before the Party involves a murder that lurks beneath the surface of a socially respectable household. The Old Ladies depicts three women’s need to cling to cherished items for mental and physical survival.

Introduction by Michael Hastings.

£12.99 9781840020885

M5F7 M5F6 M2F5 F3‡

Arthur Adamov

DEAD SOULS / SPRING 71 Translated by Peter Meyer Arthur Adamov’s avant-garde and often political plays were grouped with the Theatre of the Absurd, but he felt that they were about life, and that life, while often difficult, was never absurd. This volume brings together his two major works in acclaimed translations by Peter Meyer, originally commissioned and produced by BBC Radio.

Howard Barker

PLAYS TWO The Castle • Gertrude – The Cry • Animals in Paradise • 13 Objects The Castle shows returning Crusaders bringing home their prisoner, an Arab architect. The passion of Hamlet’s Gertrude for Claudius is at the centre of Gertrude – The Cry. Animals in Paradise provoked great unrest on its first showing. 13 Objects is a moving exploration of the investment we make in inanimate things.

£14.99 9781840026481 M11F5 M4F3 M12F5 M20F12

Howard Barker

PLAYS THREE Claw • Ursula • He Stumbled • The Love of a Good Man Four plays by one of Britain’s leading dramatists. Claw concerns an underprivileged young man watching his so-called superiors. Ursula is Barker’s typically intriguing take on the legend of St Ursula. He Stumbled is a fable concerning an anatomist and a dying king. In The Love of a Good Man we witness the mass burial of the dead.

£14.99 9781840026764 M10F4 M2F11 M6F3 M11F2

£12.99 9781840026849 M16F5* M18F7*

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Torben Betts

PLAYS ONE

PLAYS TWO

The Mentalists • Under the Whaleback • The God Botherers

Incarcerator • Five Visions of the Faithful • Silence and Violence • The Biggleswades • The Last Days of Desire

Three acclaimed plays from one of our best playwrights. In The Mentalists, middle-aged manager Ted hits on a utopian plan to change the way we live. Under the Whaleback presents the life of a Hull trawlerman, in the crew’s quarters of a distant water trawler.

The God Botherers is a dark and deeply funny tale of foreign aid workers in far-flung Tambia...

‘A writer of beguiling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart’ Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph

Betts’ hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator was a Time Out Critics’ Choice. Five Visions of the Faithful is a series of uncompromising narratives exploring freedom, faith, death and desire. In Silence and Violence the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor. The Last Days of Desire is Betts’ first radio play, and The Biggleswades exposes the casual torture at the centre of a marriage. Introduction by David Pownall.

£12.99 9781840022001

M5F1 M9F4 M2F1 M2F1 M3F2

£14.99 9781840025699 M2 M10+ M2F3

Robert Bolt Richard Bean

PLAYS ONE

PLAYS TWO

•

Toast • Mr England • Smack Family Robinson • Honeymoon Suite The four plays in this volume display Bean’s great strengths: humour, psychological acuity, innovative structures, a sure theatrical sense. Includes his first great success Toast. Introduction by Jack Bradley.

£14.99 9781840026627 M7 M2F2 M3F2 M3F3

Flowering Cherry • The Tiger and the Horse • Gentle Jack

The hero of Flowering Cherry is a dreamer who cannot relate to ordinary office life, while The Tiger and the Horse depicts the struggle between idealism and a career. And Bolt shows another side to his considerable talents with the pantheistic parable Gentle Jack.

Foreword by Sarah Miles.

£9.99 9781840021578

Simon Bent

M4F3 M3F3 M16F6

Robert Bolt

THREE PLAYS Goldhawk Road • Wasted • Bad Company Three acclaimed plays by an original and exciting voice in the theatre. Simon Bent has worked extensively at the National Theatre. Goldhawk Road and Bad Company premiered at the Bush Theatre.

£9.99 9781870259644 M5F3 M5F3 M6F2

PLAYS TWO The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew • Vivat! Vivat Regina! • State of Revolution In this second volume, Bolt develops along more Brechtian lines.

In Vivat! Vivat Regina! he uses a broad historical canvas and skilful theatrical invention. State of Revolution sets out to prove that Lenin was an admirable man ‘possessed by a terribly wrong idea’.

Includes Bolt’s children’s play, The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew.

£12.99 9781840021585

M23 M25F5 M6F2

Torben Betts

PLAYS ONE

John Bowen

A Listening Heaven • Mummies and Daddies • Clockwatching

PLAYS ONE

A Listening Heaven unravels one family’s inability to grieve for a dead son. Mummies and Daddies brutally and hilariously lays bare the empty heart of consumerism. In Clockwatching, a despotic man descends into helplessness when his servile wife falls seriously ill. Introduction by Connal Orton.

£9.99 9781840021769

M2F4 M3F3 M3F2

After the Rain • The Disorderly Women • Little Boxes • Singles John Bowen’s plays, like his novels, are preoccupied with myth, manipulation and self-deceit. Bowen’s first major success as a playwright was with the epic and unconventional stage version of his novel, After the Rain, in 1966.

£9.99 9781840020359 M9F3 M6F7 M4F5 M3F2

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Dic Edwards

THREE PLAYS

AMERICANA

The Family Dance • Odds on Oblivion • The Great Aunts

Utah Blue • Over Milk Wood

The Family Dance shows the crises of a family group. Odds on Oblivion brings together academic high-mindedness and gambling on the horses. In The Great Aunts, a young woman is dangerously ill and means to escape her family by marrying money.

£12.99 9781840025217

Utah Blue is a powerful reworking of the story of Gary Gilmore, the man who famously insisted the state carry out the death penalty it had imposed upon him. In Over Milk Wood we follow a character from Dylan Thomas’ work, as he heads into the Bronx.

£8.99 9781840021592 M2F2 M5F4

M4F3 M3F2 M2F5

Dic Edwards Ann Coburn

ASTRAKHAN (WINTER)

THREE PLAYS

Astrakhan (Winter) • the fourth world • Manifest Destiny, an opera libretto Poems

Get Up and Tie your Fingers • Safe • Devil’s Ground Get Up and Tie Your Fingers dramatises the daily lives of the herring lassies and fishwives of the 19th-century fishing communities on the Scottish Borders. In Safe, a group of parents have to face up to the dilemmas of modern parenting. Devil’s Ground is the tragedy of an individual family when forced to stand and face its own destruction.

£12.99 F3 M2F3 M3F2 9781840023640

John Constable

SHA-MANIC PLAYS

In the dramatic works, Astrakhan (Winter), the fourth world and Manifest Destiny, Dic Edwards creates narratives from a troubled imagination which confront our comfortable, often complacent domesticity.

£12.99 9781840025965 M6F5 M2F1 M5 F2

Dic Edwards

FRANCO’S BASTARD / LOLA BRECHT Two plays for a post-modern Europe in which language is used not to communicate but to excommunicate.

Black Mas • Dead Man’s Handle • Iceman • The False Hairpiece

£9.99 9781840023060

Four darkly mysterious plays with a shamanic theme by one of Britain’s most offbeat playwrights.

Dic Edwards

£12.99 9781870259903

M3F1 M3F1 M2F1 M3F2

THREE PLAYS Casanova Undone • Looking for the World • Long to Rain Over Us

David Cregan

THREE PLAYS Whispers Along the Patio • Nice Dorothy • The Last Thrash In Whispers Along the Patio, two paintings bring five lonely people together to dine by candlelight. In Nice Dorothy a 50 year-old spinster and a 25 year-old man fall in love across a crowded room. In The Last Thrash a pupil at prep school is discovered smoking cannabis just as royalty is due to arrive. Introduction by Sam Walters.

£12.99 9781840022452

M3F1 M1F2

M3F2 M8F5 M6F4

Keith Dewhurst

WAR PLAYS

The height of the terror of the French Revolution, a prisoner-ofwar camp, and Greece under the Generals. These are the settings for three powerful, witty and disturbing plays by Welsh playwright Dic Edwards.

£9.99 9781870259293 M1F2 M3F3 M4F1

Dic Edwards

WALT WHITMAN AND OTHER POEMS Walt Whitman and other poems is the most recent work of poet and playwright Dic Edwards. It is his first collection. The poems here have been described by leading poet Robert Minhinnick (editor of Poetry Wales) as displaying ‘tremendous power’ and ‘original imagery’.

£8.99 9781840028140

The World Turned Upside Down • The Bomb in Brewery Street • Corunna!

Three magnificent plays by the distinguished screen writer and playwright.

£9.99 9781870259637 M33F10 M18F5 M18F2

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David Foley

THE GERMAN TETRALOGY

THREE PLAYS

The Strange Case of Martin Richter • The Dead of Night • The Buglar Boy – and his Swish Friend • Onefourseven Four ‘Germanic’ plays from Stanley Eveling, long associated with Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre.

£14.99 9781840025477

M5F1 M5F2 M6F2 M7+

Mother Caldwell • The Last Days of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, in Exile • Suffering the Witch Three plays about America’s troubled relationship with God. ‘David Foley is a rich new find’ Donald Lyons, New York Post

£12.99 9781840024739 M3F2 M5F2 M2F3

Jon Fosse

PLAYS ONE Alfred Fagon

PLAYS 11 Josephine House • The Death of a Black Man • Lonely Cowboy Jamaican-born Fagon’s characters struggle to live in a hostile British culture as exiles from their spiritual home, with explosive consequences. This collection spans the whole of Fagon’s short but remarkable writing career.

£9.99 9781840021370

M4F2 M2F1 M5F3

Someone is Going to Come • The Name Translated by Gregory Motton The Guitar Man • The Child Translated by Louis Muinzer In these four varied plays, Jon Fosse’s unique linguistic style, at once poetic and everyday, magnifies the love and pain of ordinary people seeking to live their lives.

£12.99 9781840022704

M2F1 M3F3 M1 M3F3

Alex Finlayson

Jon Fosse

PLAYS

PLAYS TWO

Misfits • Winding the Ball

A Summer’s Day • Translated by Louis Muinzer Dream of Autumn • Translated by Kim Dambæk Winter • Translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn

Misfits looks at the break up of Marilyn Monroe’s marriage to Arthur Miller. Winding the Ball is a luridly funny play in which desperate ambition translates into senseless violence.

£8.99 9781870259699

M16F9 M7F4

Dario Fo

PLAYS The Pope and the Witch • The First Miracle of the Boy Jesus Translated by Ed Emery From the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of Europe’s greatest comic writers; for over thirty years Dario Fo has led the field in political satire.

£8.99 9781870259583 M8F5 M1

In A Summer’s Day, an old widow remembers the day when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm. Dream of Autumn shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family. In Winter a businessman meets a fascinating, mercurial woman, but he may have mistaken her intentions.

‘A great writer...absolutely stunning...a genius’ Bonnie Greer, Newsnight Review (BBC)

£12.99 9781840023848 M2F4 M2F3 M1F1

David Foley

THE MURDERS AT ARGOS / CRESSIDA AMONG THE GREEKS The Murders at Argos is a funny and horrifying riff on the Oresteia with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks revisits Troilus and Cressida, the classic tale of love and betrayal amid the chaos of war.

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Jon Fosse

Christopher Fry

PLAYS THREE

PLAYS ONE

Mother and Child • Sleep My Baby Sleep • Afternoon • Beautiful • Death Variations Translated by May-Brit Akerholt

The Lady’s Not for Burning • A Yard of Sun • Siege

Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. In Sleep my Baby Sleep, three people in a strange place try to decipher their predicament through linguistic and visual association. In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat for sale, never quite understanding one another. A man takes his family back to his childhood valley in Beautiful, where the past disrupts the present. Death Variations explores aspects of death: death of love, of relationships, and finally the death of a young person.

£12.99 9781840024784

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Jon Fosse

PLAYS FOUR And We’ll Never Be Parted • Translated by Louis Muinzer The Son • Translated by May-Brit Akerholt Visits • Translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black Translated by May-Brit Akerholt And We’ll Never Be Parted shows a woman anxiously waiting for her husband. In The Son a young man has a score to settle with his parents’ neighbour. In Visits, a teenager turns to her brother for help. Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black shows Fosse’s compression of theatrical time and space at its most concentrated.

£12.99 9781840024791

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Robin French Bear Hug • Breakfast Hearts • Choir Play

Christopher Fry

PLAYS TWO Venus Observed • The Dark is Light Enough • Curtmantle Fry’s ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’ plays – Venus Observed and The Dark is Light Enough – are joined by the historical play Curtmantle, about Henry II. All three focus on a compelling central character who dominates those around them.

£14.99 9781840027723 M6F4 M13F3 M20F6

Christopher Fry

PLAYS THREE The Firstborn • The Boy with a Cart • A Phoenix Too Frequent • Thor, with Angels • A Sleep of Prisoners • Caedmon Construed • A Ringing of Bells This third volume of Christopher Fry’s original plays brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy – The Firstborn, based on the Biblical story of the plagues of Egypt – and his six one-act plays.

Deborah Gearing

Three short, sharp plays by Robin French, one of Paines Plough/Channel 4‘s Future perfect writers in 2005 and recently chosen by The Observer as one of Britain’s brightest up and coming talents. Bear Hug was chosen as part of the Royal Court’s Young Playwrights Season in 2004.

9781840027419

£14.99 9781840027716 M8F3 M9F3 M20F20

£14.99 9781840027730 M10F3 M8F5CC M1F2 M9F3 M4 M4F3 M5F1

THREE PLAYS

£8.99

Christopher Fry’s most famous work, The Lady’s Not for Burning – ‘Spring’ in his set of ‘Seasonal Plays’ – is joined by the ‘Summer’ play A Yard of Sun, and a previously unpublished early play, Siege, based on the story of Aucassin and Nicolette.

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BURN / ROSALIND Burn: One lazy afternoon, down on the riverbank, the friends Birdman never had narrate the story of his last dramatic day.

Rosalind: A Question of Life tells the story of a passionate scientist who was written out of the history books.

‘Achieves serious pathos and intensity’ Financial Times on Burn

£8.99 9781840026597

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Nigel Gearing

Jonathan Hall

JANIS IN THE CHELSEA • ELGAR’S TENTH MUSE • MEETING MR WILDE

THREE PLAYS

In three biographical scenarios, about Janis Joplin, Edward Elgar and Oscar Wilde, Gearing explores the disparity between art and the infinitely more messy ‘rag-and-bone shop of the heart’.

£9.99 9781840021615

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Flamingos • Mr Elliot • The Coffee Lover’s Guide to America Three insightful comedy dramas exploring modern life from a gay perspective.

‘Humane, funny and wonderfully well observed’ Time Out

£12.99 9781840024562

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Pam Gems

HIGH TIDE

PLAYS ONE

You Were After… •

by Steven Bloomer Lyre •

by Megan Walsh Ned and Sharon •

by Sam Holcroft Weightless

by Sarah Cuddon

Piaf • Camille • Queen Christina Three plays focusing on the lives of incredible women. Characterised by vivid stagecraft and life-affirming humour, they offer unflinching views of social and sexual relations.

£14.99 9781840022797

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A collection of plays from the High Tide festival, which is devoted exclusively to young writers. This three-day festival includes readings and productions of new plays at The Cut Theatre in Halesworth, Suffolk.

Fraser Grace Naomi Wallace

£8.99

TWO INTO WAR Gifts of War • The Retreating World • Butterfly Fingers • A State of Innocence Four very different plays that study the effect of war on very different individuals.

‘Taut and beautifully written…an inspiration…’ Observer

£9.99 9781840025668

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Noah Haidle

PLAYS ONE Rag and Bone • Mr Marmalade • Vigils Three plays from one of New Yorks’ most exciting young writers, produced to great acclaim off-Broadway.

‘Haidle writes with an informed heart and with a big career ahead of him’ NY Times

£14.99 9781840027501 M5F2 M4F2 M3F1

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Christopher William Hill

THREE PLAYS Inglorious Technicolour • Death to Mr Moody • The Jonah Lie In Inglorious Technicolour, a burnt-out art teacher uses his connections in the London art world to give a schoolboy the chance of a future. When the title character of Death to Mr Moody appears to have struck one of his pupils, her friends think up different ways of killing him… The Jonah Lie is a large-scale youth theatre play, first produced by the theatre group Hall for Cornwall.

£14.99 9781840026320

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Jacqueline Holborough

THREE PLAYS The Garden Girls • Dreams of San Francisco • The Way South In The Garden Girls, we see the shifting allegiances of five women working in the prison garden. Dreams of San Francisco concerns an all-female theatre group. In The Way South, hunger-striking political prisoner Jo is observed by her warily sympathetic warden Casey.

‘Living, riveting drama.’ The Times on The Garden Girls

£14.99 9781840025248

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Ödön von Horváth

Donald Howarth

PLAYS ONE

FOUR PLAYS

Sladek • A Sexual Congress Translated by Penny Black

Sugar in the Morning • All Good Children • A Lily in Little India • Three Months Gone

Two plays portraying the losers in what von Horváth called ‘the gigantic battle between the individual and society’.

£9.99 9781840021332

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Ödön von Horváth

Includes Sugar in the Morning, performed in 1959 at the Royal Court. The other plays form a trilogy that rails against the conservative claustrophobia of the post-war years and celebrates self-mockery, flower power, the permissive society and the rise of the more ‘feminine’ man. Introduction by Ian McKellen.

PLAYS TWO

£9.99 9781840020984

Italian Night • Translated by Meredith Oakes Tales from the Vienna Woods • Translated by Christopher Hampton

Kneehigh Theatre

These plays describe the decay of a society haunted by inflation, succumbing to a rising tide of fascism.

£9.99 9781840021523

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TRISTAN & YSEULT The Bacchae • The Wooden Frock • The Red Shoes A collection of plays from the acclaimed Cornish theatre company.

‘Highly original and inventive...altogether excellent’ Independent

£9.99 9781840025644 M6F2+ M5F2+ M5F4+ M5F5+

Ödön von Horváth

TWO PLAYS

Bernard Kops

Don Juan Comes Back from the War • Translated by Christopher Hampton Figaro Gets Divorced • Translated by Ian Huish

PLAYS ONE

Two modern classics by the Austrian dramatist. Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed at the National Theatre.

Figaro Gets Divorced shows an aristocratic couple and their servants on the run from a revolution.

Playing Sinatra • The Hamlet of Stepney Green • Ezra In The Hamlet of Stepney Green Sam Levy dies, but returns to seek forgiveness, particularly from his son. Playing Sinatra explores with humour our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape the traps in life. Ezra looks at the incarceration of the poet Ezra Pound.

£9.99 9781840020717

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Bernard Kops Roger Howard

PLAYS TWO

THREE WAR PLAYS

Dreams of Anne Frank • On Margate Sands • Call in the Night

White Sea • A Break in Berlin • Partisans Three supremely inventive plays set in the cruellest decades of 20th-century Europe, with characters suffering extreme conditions which are nonetheless their everyday lives. With a kind of noble absurdity, these intense and compassionate plays are moving dramas of dark times.

£12.99 9781840023916 M8F2 M2F2 M7F8

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Dreams of Anne Frank won the Time Out award for Best Play in 1993. On Margate Sands is a humorous and poignant portrait of a group of dispossessed mental patients, who manage to survive against all the odds. Call in the Night examines the guilt of the only survivor of a family which was wiped out by the Nazis.

£9.99 9781840021325

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Bernard Kops

Frederick Lonsdale

PLAYS THREE

PLAYS ONE

The Dream of Peter Mann • Enter Solly Gold • Who Shall I Be Tomorrow?

Aren’t We All? • The Last of Mrs Cheney • On Approval • Canaries Sometimes Sing Edited & Introduced by Clifford Williams

The Dream of Peter Mann is a bold exploration of life in a world threatened by nuclear annihilation. In Enter Solly Gold, Kops’ protagonist fleeces a family of vulgar snobs. In Who Shall I Be Tomorrow? a deluded woman tries to flee reality in a world of daydreams.

£12.99 9781840021776

£9.99 9781840020731

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Claire Luckham

Iain Landles

PLAYS ONE

WAR TRILOGY

Trafford Tanzi • The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble • The Seduction of Anne Boleyn

The Siege • The Angel of Mons • Berezina These three plays – respectively set in sixteenth-century Malta, on the Western Front during the Great War and at the end of Napoleon’s Russian campaign – present the fragility of human nature in a brutal world.

Trafford Tanzi, performed throughout the world, is a highly original, gritty and comic play with music. Set in a wrestling ring, it tells the story of Trafford Tanzi from battered baby to queen of the wrestling ring and then to the fight of her life against her husband.

£8.99 9781870259682

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Mikhail Lermontov

LERMONTOV

THREE PLAYS

A STRANGE MAN • TWO BROTHERS

Three Plays Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A Strange Man • Two Brothers Translated by Stephen Mulrine Masquerade translated by Robert David Macdonald

Witty and sophisticated society comedies written in the 1920s, when Lonsdale was at the height of his popularity in the West End, on Broadway and throughout the repertory circuit.

MASQUERADE Translated by Robert David MacDonald

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Brian McAvera

PICASSO’S WOMEN Eight monologues in which the women in Picasso’s life, used and often abused by the great painter, tell their own stories.

£12.99 9781870259866

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A Strange Man reflects Lermontov’s progressive attitudes towards serfdom. Two Brothers was strongly influenced by the works of Schiller. Due to censorship, Masquerade’s first production took place some 25 years after Lermontov’s death in a duel.

Robert David Macdonald

£14.99 9781840027600 Paperback

In these four plays, Robert David MacDonald has created imaginary worlds, stylish, witty and frightening: a fictitious meeting between the mistresses of Hitler and Mussolini; the rarified atmosphere of the Diaghilev ballet; the backstage world of the playwright John Webster; and the gruesome picture of the notorious philosopher de Sade and his intimate friends.

Henry Livings

PLAYS ONE Eh? • Honour And Offer • Stop It Whoever You Are • The Ffinest Ffamily In The Land • Don’t Touch Him He Might Resent It

PLAYS Webster • Summit Conference • Chinchilla • De Sade Show

£12.99 9781840025002

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Robert David MacDonald

In these surreal farces set in ordinary places, Livings shows the lightness of touch he brings to that point at which the truly bizarre invades the everyday. Introduction by Philip Hedley.

PLAYS TWO

£12.99 9781840020441 M4F2 M3F1 M10F2 M3F2 M6F3

De Sade Show presents a gruesome picture of the notorious philosopher and his intimate friends. Salto Mortale takes the audience by tortuous route to the circus, while Persons Unknown examines the whys and wherefores of one of history’s most celebrated and puzzling unsolved crimes.

De Sade Show • Salto Mortale • Persons Unknown

£12.99 9781840022254

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Wolf Mankowitz

Adrian Mitchell

PLAYS

PLAYS WITH SONGS

The Samson Riddle • The Bespoke Overcoat • The Hebrew Lesson • It Should Happen to a Dog • The Mighty Hunter

Tyger Two • Man Friday • Satie-Day/Night • In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency

This volume provides a selection of Mankowitz’s best work for the stage. It also includes his essay on The Samson Riddle and an introduction by his official biographer Anthony Dunn.

In Tyger Two, William Blake continues his fight against fashionable fools. Satie-Day/Night celebrates Erik Satie. Man Friday offers Friday’s view of the empire-building Crusoe. In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency takes us for a bumpy ride on the worst airliner in the world.

£14.99 9781870259408

‘Mr Mankowitz has a perfect ear for the rhythm and idiom of East End speech…hilarious and mournful by turn and tinged throughout with poetry.’ Kenneth Tynan

Abi Morgan

£12.99 9781840026993 M5F2* M4 M4 M2 M2

TWO PLAYS

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Splendour • Tender

Glyn Maxwell

PLAYS ONE The Lifeblood • Wolfpit • The Only Girl In The World The Lifeblood depicts the last days of Mary Queen of Scots; Wolfpit brings alive the extraordinary chronicle of the Green Children of Suffolk; and love comes to Mary Kelly, The Only Girl in the World, otherwise known as the last victim of Jack the Ripper.

‘Maxwell is the best dramatic poet now at work in English’ Daily Telegraph

Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of a city, four women wait. With wit and delight in the unusual, Splendour peels back the cruel veneer of our lives to reveal the beating heart within. Tender, set in a city of fast talk and chance encounters, asks how much faith can we put in other people.

£12.99 9781840024036

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John Mortimer

£14.99 9781840025903 M7F1 M7F3 M1F1

COLLECTED PLAYS, VOLUME ONE

Glyn Maxwell

A Voyage Round My Father • Collaborators • The Dock Brief • What Shall We Tell Caroline? • Lunch Hour

PLAYS TWO Broken Journey • Best Man Speech • The Last Valentine The Last Valentine and the monologue Best Man Speech are published alongside Broken Journey, which uses the same source as the Kurosawa film Rashomon to explore the events surrounding a brutal rape and murder.

‘A bit like watching an Alan Bennett monologue being hijacked by Marilyn Manson’ Independent on Broken Journey

In The Dock Brief an unsuccessful murderer meets an even more unsuccessful barrister. Lunch Hour is a three-hander about stolen intimacy and ill-fated pretence. A Voyage Round My Father is a celebration of an irrascible and eccentric father. Collaborators is the story of a perilously insecure marriage.

£12.99 9781840022148

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John Mortimer

£14.99 9781840026153 M3F2 M1 M3F4

COLLECTED PLAYS, VOLUME TWO

Michael Meyer

The Wrong Side of the Park • Mill Hill • Bermondsey • Knightsbridge • Marble Arch • Edwin

THREE PLAYS ABOUT IBSEN AND STRINDBERG Lunatic and Lover • A Meeting in Rome • The Summer in Gossensass Michael Meyer is widely regarded as a leading authority on Ibsen and Strindberg. The three short plays in this volume provide intriguing insights into the personalities and often contrasting views of these two formidable dramatic figures.

£9.99 9781840021936

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In The Wrong Side of the Park, a wife’s memories of her husband are disturbed by a new lodger. The four short plays that make up Come As You Are are all named after parts of London. As for Edwin, no one’s quite sure who he is.

£12.99 9781840022773 M3F3 M2F1 M2F2 M2F2 M2F2 M2F1

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Chris O’Connell

PLAYS THREE

STREET TRILOGY

Two Stars for Comfort • The Prince of Darkness • The Judge • The Fear of Heaven • I Spy Collect Your Hand Baggage

Car • Raw • Kid From the adrenaline-fuelled anarchy of a car theft and the ritualised violence of teenage gangs, to the new beginning offered by a baby in the womb, life on the dirty side of the tracks is shown without compromise or sentimentality.

Six plays by one of our premier dramatists.

£14.99 9781840027013 M8F5 M4F1 M11F5 M5F2 M3F2 M6F5

Gregory Motton

John Osborne

AMBULANCE / DOWNFALL Two startlingly original plays by the innovative Gregory Motton.

Both plays premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Lindsay Posner.

£8.99 9781870259613

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Gregory Motton

PLAYS TWO Looking At You (Revived) Again • A Message for the Broken-Hearted • The Terrible Voice of Satan • Lazy Brién During the mid-and late-eighties, Gregory Motton was mistakenly billed as ‘a chronicler of urban decline under Thatcher’.

These four plays reveal that he is much more than that.

£9.99 9781840020205

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FOUR PLAYS A Sense of Detachment • The End of Me Old Cigar • Jill and Jack • A Place Calling Itself Rome A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem and a close study of sexual warfare. A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

£9.99 9781840020748

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John Osborne

PLAYS FOR ENGLAND The Blood of the Bambergs • Under Plain Cover • Watch it Come Down The Blood of the Bambergs is a satirical account of a royal wedding. Under Plain Cover depicts a marriage in crisis that becomes a ‘tabloid human interest’ story. Watch it Come Down is the story of a man waiting for death.

Gregory Motton

PLAYS THREE

£9.99 9781840020373

Cat and Mouse (Sheep) • In Praise of Progress • A Little Satire • A Monologue Cat and Mouse (Sheep) was premiered at Theatre de l’Odéon, Paris. In Praise of Progress was commissioned by BBC Radio 3.

A Little Satire focuses on the general election of 1997, and was commissioned for The Gate Theatre’s History of European Satire season.

£9.99 9781840020212

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Philip Osment

PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Who’s Breaking? • Listen • Sleeping Dogs • Wise Guys Four plays that ask the question: can young people caught up in self-destructive cycles break free of them?

‘Taut, non-preachy… Work this beautiful deserves a large audience’ The Scotsman on Who’s Breaking?

Jimmy Murphy

£14.99 9781840022728

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TWO PLAYS The Kings of the Kilburn High Road • Brothers of the Brush The Kings of the Kilburn High Road depicts a group of Irish men, long resident in England, reviewing their lives after the death of a friend. In Brothers of the Brush, a group of decorators misuse each other for their own advantage.

£9.99 9781840021844

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Fiona Padfield

STRIP / SNAPSHOTS Amid Soho strip clubs, sexual fantasy and loneliness, Strip is the story of a stripper and her relationship with her sado-masochistic lover. Snapshots is a powerful look at the institutional violence wrenching at the experience of motherhood.

£9.99 9781840021660

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Julia Pascal

David Pinner

CROSSING JERUSALEM AND OTHER PLAYS

THE STALIN TRILOGY Lenin in Love • The Teddy Bears’ Picnic • The Potsdam Quartet

Crossing Jerusalem • The Golem • Year Zero • St Joan Crossing Jerusalem describes 24 hours in the life of an Israeli family, as personal and political history bursts into the present. The Golem is inspired by the medieval Yiddish legend. Year Zero is a bitter-sweet satire set in the north of France in the 1940s. St Joan sets Joan of Arc against the sweep of world history.

£12.99 9781840023619 M5F3 M3F1+ 20+(M&F) F2+

Lenin in Love exposes the sadistic proclivities of one of the foremost political leaders of the 20th century. The Teddy Bears’ Picnic shows Stalin playing relaxed host and bon viveur in his country retreat.

The Potsdam Quartet features four embittered musicians hired to entertain Stalin, Truman, Attlee and Churchill as they ‘divide up the world’.

£12.99 9781840024463

Julia Pascal

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THE HOLOCAUST TRILOGY David Pinner

Theresa • A Dead Woman on Holiday • The Dybbuk

THREE POWER PLAYS The Drums of Snow • Richelieu • Prince of Traitors

Theresa is based on secret research into the Channel Island occupation by the Nazis and the collaboration of the residents with the Holocaust. A Dead Woman on Holiday is a love story set during the Nuremberg trials. The Dybbuk pays homage to Anski’s great Russian classic, tracing the final moments of five irreligious Jews.

£9.99 9781840020946

These plays dramatise the ‘great men’ of three vital periods in British and French history: Charles I and Cromwell; Richelieu and Louis XIII; Napoleon and Talleyrand. ‘[Pinner’s] use of language is remarkable for its sheer aural beauty.’ San Francisco

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Chronicle

Julia Pascal

£14.99 9781840025972 M16F3* M8F3 M7F3

THE YIDDISH QUEEN LEAR / WOMAN IN THE MOON

David Pownall

In The Yiddish Queen Lear, a once-famous actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. Woman in the Moon is a dream play inspired by both the Faust legend and the testimonies of French, Austrian and German survivors from Camp Dora.

£9.99 9781840022537 M4F7 M7F5

THE COMPOSER PLAYS Master Class • Music to Murder By • Elgar’s Rondo • Elgar’s Third The creative artist in conflict with destructive external pressures and corrosive internal tensions is a recurring theme in David Pownall’s meticulously crafted plays.

£9.99 9781870259415 M4 M3F2 M13F5 M16F8

David Pinner

LADY DAY • REVELATIONS

David Pownall

In Lady Day Katya discovers her husband and best friend are having an affair, so hibernates in the woods, hoping to reinvent her life.In Revelations a mysterious stranger comes to the aid of a village ravaged by storms.

THE LANCASTER PLAYS

£9.99 9781840023855

These four plays were major building blocks in creating an audience for the new Duke’s Playhouse in Lancaster. Gaunt and Lile Jimmy Williamson focus on the myth and reality of power surrounding two local legends; Buck Ruxton is based on a notorious double murder in 1936. A Tale of Two Town Halls is a comedy cartoon on the IMF crisis of the mid-seventies.

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David Pinner

MIDSUMMER • ALL HALLOWS’ EVE

Gaunt • Lile Jimmy Williamson • Buck Ruxton • A Tale of Two Town Halls

£14.99 9781840026443

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In Midsummer two pairs of lovers transform themselves, but the changes affect others too. All Hallows’ Eve is a ghost story exploring one of the greatest taboos.

£9.99 9781840023367

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J B Priestley

PLAYS FOR ONE PERSON

PLAYS ONE

Rousseau’s Tale • Crates On Barrels • Later

Laburnum Grove • When We Are Married • Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon

The fate of the monologue has too often relied on storytelling.

These three solo plays focus instead on arguments for self. In Rousseau’s Tale, the revolutionary philosopher demands freedom from sexual guilt. In Crates on Barrels, the disciple of the great Cynic, Diogenes, daily risks his life at the bidding of his master’s ideas. In Later, Sonia justifies deserting her family to join the Russian Revolution.

£9.99 9781840020106

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Three mischievous domestic comedies about respectability gone awry. In Laburnum Grove George Radfern’s friends and relations want a share of his wealth, until they find out where it’s come from. When We Are Married features three high-minded couples who discover they were never properly married. And in Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon a bank manager turns rebel when a voice tells him to pack in his position and stay at home.

£12.99 9781840022926 M6F3 M7F7 M6F3

David Pownall J B Priestley

PLAYS ONE

PLAYS TWO

An Audience Called Edouard • Livingstone and Sechele • Richard III Part Two • Motocar This volume brings together four of Pownall’s most popular stage plays. In An Audience Called Edouard Karl Marx is brought to life from Manet’s painting ‘Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’. Livingstone and Sechele tells the story of a missionary who only made one convert.

Motocar is an intriguing story set in the linen room of a mental hospital for blacks two weeks before Independence, while Richard III Part Two ingeniously examines the uses and abuses of history.

£9.99 9781840020762

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They Came to a City • Summer Day’s Dream • The Glass Cage Three dramas investigating the individual’s responsibility to his or her family and community. In They Came to a City, a mixed bag of Britons find themselves outside a strange city. In Summer Day’s Dream, three representatives of the new world order disturb the tranquil lives of an English family. Hypocrisy and redemption are brought to the fore in The Glass Cage.

£12.99 9781840022933

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David Pownall

PLAYS TWO Beef • My Father’s House • The Viewing • King John’s Jewel • Black Star Cultural terrorism, parental power, nuclear war, the failure of monarchy, the cult of celebrity: this volume brings together five varied flights of intellect and imagination, all constructed as launching pads for themes from the decade of politically inspired self-seeking: the 1980s.

£12.99 9781840020779

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David Pownall

RADIO PLAYS An Epiphanous Use of the Microphone • Beef • Ploughboy Monday • Flos • Kitty Wilkinson • Under the Table An Epiphanous Use of the Microphone was commissioned and performed by the BBC for the 75th anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio drama. This and five previously unpublished David Pownall scripts, each an award-winner, make a collection of some of this country’s finest radio plays.

£9.99 9781840020342 M17F5 M5F2 M14F7 M23F4 M6F11 M14F4

John Retallack

COMPANY OF ANGELS Hannah and Hanna • Virgins Risk • Club Asylum Since its foundation in 2001, Company of Angels, founded by writer-director John Retallack, has set new and uncompromising standards in theatre for young people. This collection represents the full breadth of the company’s achievement so far.

‘A little scorcher that gets right to the heart of community tensions.’ Guardian on Hannah and Hanna

£9.99 9781840027259 F2 M3F2* M2F2 M3F2*

Sol B River

PLAYS Moor Masterpieces • To Rahtid • Unbroken In Moor Masterpieces Othello, James Baldwin, Solomon, Duke Ellington and Martin Luther King talk about the past, present, slavery and liberation. To Rahtid is a monologue, written in Jamaican patois. Unbroken is the text of a dance piece.

£5.99 9781870259828

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Sol B River

Paul Sirett

PLAYS TWO

PLAYS TWO

48–98 • Walk Against Fear • Making Waves • The White Witch of Rose Hall • Two Tracks and Text Me

Worlds Apart • Crusade • This Other Eden • International Café

48–98 mixes documentary footage with scenes of domestic conflict. The radio drama Walk Against Fear tells of the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. In Making Waves a West Indian Pentecostal Minister is stationed in a rural Welsh parish. The White Witch of Rose Hall is the story of a plantation owner and suspected witch. In Two Tracks and Text Me, a stray text message links Friday-night revellers with the fate of a young girl desperate for help.

Three of the plays in Paul Sirett’s new collection examine the increasingly topical issue of the relationship between East and West. In the fourth, This Other Eden, a mismatched string quartet, riven by social and political differences, gradually falls apart.

£14.99 9781840024821 M6F5 M6F2 M3F2

Paul Sirett

THREE PLAYS

£12.99 9781840022667 M5F2 M14F5 M3F4 M11F2 M5F2

A Night in Tunisia • Skaville • Jamaica House

Lesley Ross

A Night in Tunisia describes the fall of a great jazz musician through self-doubt and guilt. In Jamaica House two characters in a tower block due to be demolished decide whether their lives are worth leaving the building for. Skaville is about desire, escape, violence and music in the late 1970s.

THE JOLLY FOLLY OF POLLY, THE SCOTTISH TROLLEY DOLLY The title play is joined by four other bite-size pieces of theatre: My Brother’s Conversion, Madam Butterfly’s Child, Manhattan Breast Company (forming the New York Threesome) and Mad Margaret’s Revenge. All deal with perception: the characters in these theatrical hors d’œuvres find their view of themselves at odds with the way the rest of the world sees them.

‘Five Stars – Unmissable’ Guardian (on Polly)

£9.99 9781840025415

M1 M1 F1 F2 F1+

Ursula Rani Sarma

...TOUCHED... / BLUE

£12.99 9781840022322 M6F4 M3F1 M1F1

Kerstin Specht

MARIELUISE • THE TIME OF THE TORTOISE Translated by Rachael McGill Specht’s impressionistic biography of playwright Marieluise Fliesser and The Time of the Tortoise, in which two immigrants continue to argue after death about how they came to their ignominious end.

In …Touched… Cora and Mikey yearn for a life without secrets, without darkness, without despair. In Blue three childhood friends in a seaside town devise a deadly daily ritual to break the repetition of small-town life. One dark night, things go horribly wrong.

‘Poetically sensitive yet punchy…full of fresh, arresting turns of phrase…a pleasure.’ Observer (on Marieluise)

£9.99 9781840022698

Johnny Speight

M3F1 M2F1

£7.99 9781840024944M8 F10 M3F2+

THREE PLAYS Adriano Shaplin

If There Weren’t Any Blacks You’d Have To Invent Them • The Compartment • The Knacker’s Yard

THREE PLAYS Wreck the Airline Barrier • Victory at the Dirt Palace • Pugilist Specialist In Wreck the Airline Barrier, three motivational speakers board a plane which develops problems. In Victory at the Dirt Palace, two rival news anchors, father and daughter, go head to head. The awardwinning Pugilist Specialist details the conflicts between four US soldiers on a secret mission to assassinate a foreign leader.

Three hard-hitting plays from one of the 20th century’s most controversial writers, best known for his TV series Till Death Us Do Part.

£9.99 9781840020809

M12F4 M2 M4F1

‘Pumps out one-liners like a Schwarzenegger Woody Allen’ Daily Telegraph on Pugilist Specialist

£12.99 9781840024890

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MODERN COLLECTIONS Botho Strauss

Reza de Wet

THREE PLAYS

A RUSSIAN TRILOGY

The Park • Seven Doors • Time and the Room Translated by Jeremy Sams

Three Sisters Two • Yelena • On the Lake

Botho Strauss rose to fame in the 1970s through his work with Peter Stein at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre and has since garnered numerous international awards and a reputation as Germany’s leading contemporary playwright.

Three pieces inspired by the life and work of Chekhov. Yelena uses the characters from Uncle Vanya to focus on interpersonal dramas of family. Three Sisters Two offers a vision of the collapse of value systems at a time of revolution. On the Lake re-stages the symbolist play within the play from The Seagull.

£14.99 9781840024760 M11F5 M5F4* M8F3*

£12.99 9781840021684

Colin Teevan

Reza de Wet

TWO PLAYS

TWO PLAYS

The Big Sea • Vinegar and Brown Paper

A Worm in the Bud • Concealment

In The Big Sea cancer patients play games to pass the time, and soon they are on a journey into the unknown. Vinegar and Brown Paper charts the collapse of a relationship through soap operas, the Dutch Masters and Christ’s walk to Calvary. Introduction by Jack Bradley.

In A Worm in the Bud, Katy stays in England, while her sister Emma travels to South Africa, leading to obsession and madness for both of them. Concealment, also set in South Africa, concerns a doctor and his two daughters: one a spinster, the other a widow with secrets about the events surrounding her missionary husband’s death.

£9.99 9781840022285

M3F2 M1F2

Peter Tinniswood

9781840024920 F2 M1F2

Ted Whitehead

TWO PLAYS FOR ONE The Last Obit • On the Whole it’s Been Jolly Good Two witty monologues about individuals at the ends of their careers. Careers not without incident; lives not without sadnesses and joys.

£7.99 9781840023336

£11.99

M3F6 M3F2 F5

F1 M1

PLAYS The Foursome • Alpha Beta • The Sea Anchor • The Punishment Sexual conflict is the main theme of Ted Whitehead’s three longer plays in this collection. In the short play, The Punishment, an offending student submits to the questionable authority of a headmaster.

£14.99 9781840022223

M2F2 M1F1 M2F2 M2

Reza de Wet

PLAYS ONE

John Whiting

Missing • Crossing • Miracle Translated by the Author and Steven Stead

PLAYS ONE

Three dramatic, folkloric, ostensibly naive pieces of Afrikaner storytelling, dealing with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal order.

£9.99 9781840021455

M1F3 M1F3 M3F3

No More A-Roving • Conditions of Agreement • Saint’s Day • A Penny for a Song Saint’s Day was one of Whiting’s most controversial pieces, winning the Festival of Britain play competition in 1951. A Penny for a Song was revived in the West End in 2000.

£9.99 9781840020502

Reza de Wet

M4F2 M3F2 M3F1 M11F3

PLAYS TWO African Gothic • Good Heavens • Breathing In African Gothic tells the story of the final danse macabre of a brother and sister on a derelict country farm. Good Heavens is a comedy thriller with the dark poetic heart of a folk tale. In Breathing In, two soldiers encounter a mother and daughter during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Introduction by Marthinus Basson.

£14.99 9781840024807

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Charles Wood

PLAYS TWO

PLAYS THREE

Marching Song • The Gates of Summer • No Why • A Walk in the Desert • The Devils • Noman • The Nomads Edited & Introduced by Ronald Hayman

Ms Courage • Fill the Stage with Happy Hours • Red Star

The Gates of Summer is a comedy set in and about a country house in Greece immediately before the First World War. The Devils was produced at the Aldwych with Dorothy Tutin and Diana Rigg and provides the basis for Ken Russell’s film of the same name.

Ms Courage is a brutal yet darkly comic reworking of Mother Courage. Fill the Stage with Happy Hours is a comedy set in a rundown theatre. Red Star tells the story of an actor with an uncanny resemblance to Stalin.

£14.99 9781870259859 35+(M&F) M2F6 M22F4

Sarah Woods

£12.99 9781840020519 M3F2 M4F3 M5F4 M3F2 M19F5 M9F7 M4F2

GRACE / CAKE

Yasmin Whittaker Khan

Bombarded by choices and plagued by the ticking of her biological clock, the heroine of Grace is about to turn thirty. In Cake, Mum and her family of culinary implements try to create the perfect cake and lasting happiness.

BELLS

£9.99 9781840024258

Azma Dar

M2F1 M1F1+

CHAOS Bells: Bells Club is a butcher’s shop by day and a brothel by night. Chaos: Mr Rizvi’s ambitions to become a local councillor are thrown into turmoil when his son decides to go and fight in Afghanistan.

£8.99 9781840025545

M3F2 M3F2

Charles Wood

PLAYS ONE Veterans • Across from the Garden of Allah Veterans is one of Charles Wood’s major contributions to British drama. John Gielgud and John Mills led the cast in its Royal Court premiere. Across from the Garden of Allah was first produced in the West End with Glenda Jackson and Nigel Hawthorne.

£9.99 9781870259835 M7F2 M2F1

Charles Wood

PLAYS TWO H • Jingo • Dingo Three plays that bitterly satirise the romance and heroics of battle.

H presents a vivid picture of the Indian Army during the mutiny of 1857. Jingo is set during the fall of Singapore. Dingo is set in the Western desert during the Second World War.

£9.99 9781870259842 M26F1 M8F2 M15

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CLASSIC DRAMA Oberon’s classic drama list contains all the usual favourites and more. This list includes both collections and single editions and whether it’s new adaptations or translations, these classic plays are a must for every theatre lover.

Jane Austen; Simon Reade

Euripides; Alistair Elliot

NEW

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE The ultimate romantic comedy, Jane Austen’s story of the five Bennet sisters and their relentless pursuit of suitable husbands is one of the best-loved novels ever written, constantly topping the polls of favourite books. A fresh and invigorating adaptation by Simon Reade, former Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic.

£8.99 9781840029512 M7F10 Nov 2009

Dion Boucicault

NEW

LONDON ASSURANCE Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage. This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Opened at The National Theatre in 2010.

£8.99

9781840029994

Yael Farber

MOLORA Based on the Oresteia Trilogy Acclaimed writer and director Yael Farber reworks the ancient Greek Oresteia Trilogy, in which Klyemnestra and Elektra, mother and daughter, face one another in a dramatic confrontation. Their attempts to come to terms with their violent past echo the testimonies given in the wake of apartheid all over South Africa as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Farber uses the ancient Greek tragedy as a metaphor through which to revisit the horrors endured by the black majority at the hands of the white minority. But unlike the original Oresteia trilogy, Farber has modified the story to break the cycle of violence, reflecting South Africa’s own transformation in the 1990s.

£8.99 9781840028553 M1F2

Yael Farber

NEW

RAMAYANA A stage adaptation of this ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon. It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king.

£8.99

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PHAETHON In Euripides’ Classical myth Phaethon is the claimed mortal son of the sun god Helios, who is tragically killed following his ill-fated attempt to command his father’s chariot, an act he assumes in a bid to reinforce his divine paternity. Within his text Euripides’ explains how Phaethon’s death has come about, and in the process reveals a tale of seduction, fated promises and dark secrets.

Only a quarter of Euripides original version of Phaethon has survived the sands of time, leaving a void only recently filled through the imaginative reconstruction created by Alistair Elliot.

£8.99 9781840028973 M7F3

William Shakespeare

NEW

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST

May 2010 M12F6

NEW

NEW

In this early Shakespeare play, four young men swear to devote themselves to uninterrupted study for three years. But when four young ladies come to visit they discover that their oaths are very hard to keep. Famous for its dazzling wit and exquisite word play, Love’s Labour’s Lost is a rare jewel that should not be missed. This version was directed by Sir Peter Hall, in 2008.

£4.99

9781840027884 M13F5

Heinrich von Kleist

NEW

PRINCE OF HOMBURG Adapted by Dennis Kelly Heroic commander of the Prussian cavalry, the Prince of Homburg dreams of victory, glory and fame. But reckless disobedience during a crucial military operation leads the Prince into his greatest battle yet. A new adaptation by Dennis Kelly due on at the Donmar Warehouse in summer 2010.

£8.99 9781849430999 Jul 2010

9781840029888 Sept 2010

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CLASSIC DRAMA Calderón

THREE PLAYS The Mayor of Zalamea Life’s a Dream The Great Theatre of the World Adapted by Adrian Mitchell £12.99 9780948230264 M19F3 M9F2 9(M&F)

Cervantes Aeschylus

PEDRO, THE GREAT PRETENDER

PROMETHEUS BOUND

Translated by Philip Osment. Produced by The Royal

Translated by James Kerr

Shakespeare Company.

‘[Its] real modernity lies in its moving, Mandela-like image of the individual’s power to resist oppression’ Guardian.

£8.99 9781840024432 M14F6*

£7.99 9781840026351 M3F1+chorus

Aeschylus

Chekhov

THE CHERRY ORCHARD Version by Peter Gill

SUPPLIANTS

£9.99 9781870259538 M8F5 Paperback

Sophocles

£19.99 9781870259750 M8F5 Hardback

AJAX Translated by James Kerr

Chekhov

£8.99 9781840021059 M5F15 M6F2

THE CHERRY ORCHARD A new version by Pam Gems

Aristophanes

£8.99 9781840027389 M8F5

LYSISTRATA Translated by Ranjit Bolt

Chekhov

‘As rude and raucous as a hen night’ Guardian.

IVANOV

£7.99 9781840026450 M3F4+chorus

Version by David Harrower £7.99 9781840023398 M8F6

Beaumarchais

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

Chekhov

Translated & adapted by Roger Cogo-Fawcett & Braham Murray

THE SEAGULL

‘A wittily condensed translation’ Michael Billington.

Version by Peter Gill

£7.99 9781840023770 M8F4

£7.99 9781840021509 M7F6

Chekhov

UNCLE VANYA Translated and adapted by Bryony Lavery £8.99 9781840027396 M5F4

Corneille

THREE MASTERPIECES The Liar • The Illusion • Le Cid Translated by Ranjit Bolt £9.99 9781840021240 M10F4 M10F4 M7F4

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CLASSIC DRAMA Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Feydeau

HOUSE OF DESIRES

THREE FARCES

Translated by Catherine Boyle.

Fitting for Ladies • A Close Shave Sauce for the Goose Translated by Peter Meyer

RSC production.

£8.99

9781840024449

M6F3*

£12.99 9781840023961 M4F6 M14F4 M10F6

Dumas

THE TOWER

Feydeau

Translated by Charles Wood

WHERE THERE’S A WILL...

Hugo

Translated by Nicki Frei

RUY BLAS

£7.99 9781840023787 M4F2

Translated by David Bryer £12.99 9781840025330 M18F2‡ M16F4

Goethe

FAUST PARTS I & II Euripides

Translated by Robert David MacDonald.

BACCHAI

Adopted by the Open University for its From Enlightenment to Romanticism, c.1780–1830 course.

Translated by Colin Teevan

£9.99 9781870259118 M15F4

£7.99 9781840022612 M3+

Goethe Euripides

IPH...

A version of Iphigeneia in Aulis by Colin Teevan

TASSO / CLAVIGO Translated by Robert David MacDonald £9.99 9781840021622 M3F2 M4F2

£7.99 9781840023039 M4F3+

Gogol Euripides

MEDEA Translated by Alistair Elliot Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole.

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR Translated and adapted by Alistair Beaton £7.99 9781840025835 M16F8

£8.99 9781870259361 M9F5

Feydeau

AN ABSOLUTE TURKEY Translated by Nicki Frei & Peter Hall £8.99 9780948230745 M9F9

Feydeau

FROM MARRIAGE TO DIVORCE Better Late • One Month Early Take your Medicine like a Man Don’t Walk About with Nothing On Translated by Peter Meyer £9.99 9781870259705 M2F2 M2F4 M4F3 M5F1

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CLASSIC DRAMA Ibsen

A DOLL’S HOUSE Adapted by Bryony Lavery £7.99 9781840024326 M4F4

Ibsen

THE LADY FROM THE SEA In a version by Pam Gems

Goldoni

£7.99 9781840022070 M5F3

VOLUME TWO Don Juan • Friends and Lovers • The Battlefield Translated by Robert David MacDonald £9.99 9781870259378 M6+F3 M4F2 M11+F4

Von Kleist

THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG Translated by Neil Bartlett with David Bryer £7.99 9781840022674 M12F2

Maxim Gorky

Von Kleist

THE LOWER DEPTHS

THREE PLAYS

Adapted by Phil Willmott

Prince Friedrich Von Homburg • The Broken Pitcher • Ordeal By Fire Translated by Noel Clark

£8.99 9781840028942

M8F5

Hauptmann

£9.99 9781840021233 M13F2 M6F5 M19F8

ROSE BERND Translated by Dennis Kelly

Labiche

‘Dennis Kelly’s translation is muscular and full of memorable lines’ Guardian

THE THREESOME

£8.99 9781840025514 M8F5

THREE DANISH COMEDIES NO Heiberg JEPPE OF THE HILL THE SCATTERBRAIN Holberg Translated by Michael Meyer £9.99 9781840020601 M3F1 M7F1 M14F4

Ibsen

THREE MAJOR PLAYS

Translated by Neil Bartlett £7.99 9781840021554 M4F4

Lenz

THREE PLAYS The Soldiers • Translated by Robert David MacDonald The New Menoza • Translated by Meredith Oakes The Tutor • Translated by Anthony Meech £9.99 9781870259330 M14F9 M7F4 M14F9

Peer Gynt • Rosmersholm When We Dead Waken Translated by David Rudkin

Lesage

£14.99 9781840022339 M20F20 M4F2 M3F3

TURCARET Translated & adapted by John Norman £7.99 9780948230189 M7F5

Ibsen

BRAND Translated & adapted by Robert David MacDonald £7.99 9781870259279

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CLASSIC DRAMA Lessing

Molière

TWO PLAYS

LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME

Sara • Translated by Ernest Bell Minna Von Barnhelm • Translated by Anthony Meech

Translated by Nick Dear

£9.99 9780948230295 M5F5 M7F3

DON JUAN

£7.99 9780948230530 M12+F4

Molière Translated by Neil Bartlett

Lessing

£7.99

M8F3

9781840024395

TWO JEWISH PLAYS The Jews • Nathan the Wise Translated by Noel Clark £9.99 9781840022087 M5F2 M6F3‡

Molière

THE HYPOCHONDRIAC New version by Richard Bean £8.99 9781840026177 M4F3

Lorca

YERMA

Molière

Adapted by Pam Gems In this adaptation, Pam Gems has stripped the text back to the poetic core of Lorca’s words in all their epic glory.

£7.99 9781840023626 M4F11

THE HYPOCHONDRIAC Translated by Gerard Murphy

GEORGE DANDIN / SCAPIN

Marivaux

Translated by Ranjit Bolt

THE DISPUTE

£8.99 9781870259385 M4F3 M5F2 M7F3

Translated by Neil Bartlett £6.99

9781840021080

M5+F5

Molière

THE MISANTHROPE Marivaux

Version by Ranjit Bolt

THE ISLAND OF SLAVES

£7.99 9781840020328 M7F3

Translated by Neil Bartlett £7.99 9781840022971 M3F2

Molière

THE MISER/THE IDIOT Marivaux

Versions by Ranjit Bolt

TWO PLAYS

£9.99 9781840022162 M6F3 M5F5

The Triumph of Love • Translated by Braham Murray and Katherine Sand The Game of Love and Chance • Translated and adapted by Neil Bartlett £12.99 9781840027464 M4F3 M4F2 OBERON CLASSICS

Mérimée

THE CONSPIRATORS Translated by Paul Vaughan £7.99 9781899791101 M9F2

M A R I VAUX

Two Plays THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE Translated by Braham Murray and Katherine Sand

THE GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE Translated and adapted by Neil Bartlett

THREE SISTERS AFTER CHEKHOV • BY MUSTAPHA MATURA

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CLASSIC DRAMA Musset

SEVEN PLAYS Translated by Peter Meyer Marianne • Fantasio • Don’t Trifle With Love • The Candlestick • A Diversion • A Door Must Be Open Or Shut • You Can’t Think Of Everything • £12.99 9781840025866 M7F2

Molière

M12F2+M4F3+M7F2

M2F2

M1F1 M3F2

TARTUFFE Translated by Ranjit Bolt

Otway

£7.99 9781840022605 M11F5

THE SOLDIERS’ FORTUNE £8.99 M8F3* 9781840026870

Molière

TWO PLAYS

Ostrovsky

Tartuffe • The Sisterhood Translated & adapted by Ranjit Bolt

PLAYS TWO

Molina

The Forest • Artistes and Admirers • Wolves and Sheep • Sin and Sorrow • Translated by Stephen Mulrine

THE RAPE OF TAMAR

£12.99 9781840021981 M9F3 M8F4 M10F4 M7F4

£8.99

9780948230509 M9F6 M5F5

Translated by Paul Whitworth £7.99 9780948230943 M13+F9

Pirandello

AS YOU DESIRE ME Molina

New version by Hugh Whitemore

TAMAR’S REVENGE

£8.99

9781840025842

M4F5

Translated by James Fenton £8.99

9781840024425

M11 F3

Pirandello

ENRICO FOUR Musset

Translated by Robert David MacDonald

THREE PLAYS

£7.99 9781870259217 M11F2

The Candlestick • A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut • Translated by Peter Meyer Don’t Fool with Love • Translated & adapted by Declan Donnellan Three plays by one of France’s most important, influential and original dramatists.

£9.99 9780948230592 M7F2 M1F1 M5F3

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CLASSIC DRAMA Pirandello

Schiller

THREE PLAYS

PLAYS THREE

The Rules of the Game • in a version by David Hare Man, Beast and Virtue • The Mountain Giants • in versions by Charles Wood

Joan of Arc • William Tell Translated by Robert David MacDonald

9781840024388

PROFESSOR BERNHARDI

£14.99 9781840026207 M16F5 40+(M&F)

Schnitzler Translated by Samuel Adamson

Pushkin

£8.99 9781840025521 M19F1

BORIS GODUNOV THE LITTLE TRAGEDIES

Scribe

Boris Godunov • The Miserly Knight • Mozart and Salieri • The Stone Guest • A Feast in Time of Plague • Translated by Stephen Mulrine

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

£9.99 9781840022629

Seneca

M20+F4

M5

M3

M6F2

M4F2

Translated by Ranjit Bolt Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. £7.99 9781840024951 M5F2+

HERCULES Translated by Ranjit Bolt

Rostand

£7.99 9781870259897

M4F2

CYRANO DE BERGERAC Translated by Ranjit Bolt £8.99

9781840027518

Shakespeare

M28F7

AS YOU LIKE IT Edited by Roger Warren

Schiller

£4.99

9781840025279

M15F5‡

MARY STUART Translated by Peter Oswald, West End and Broadway ‘Terrific theatre, terrific Schiller.’ The Times

£8.99

9781840025798

M13F3

Shakespeare

HAMLET Edited by Stephen Unwin

Schiller

£4.99

9781840025873

PLAYS ONE

Shakespeare

The Robbers • Passion and Politics Translated by Robert David MacDonald

KING LEAR

‘Robert David MacDonald...did more than anyone to rescue Schiller from British neglect’ Michael Billington, Guardian

M20+F3

Edited by Stephen Unwin £7.99 9781840023220 M12F3

£14.99 9781840026184 M13F1 M8F4

Schiller

PLAYS TWO Don Carlos • Mary Stuart Translated by Robert David MacDonald £14.99 9781840026191 M10F4 M10F4

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CLASSIC DRAMA Strindberg

EASTER Translated by Gregory Motton £7.99 9781840025552 M3F3

Strindberg

THE PLAYS, VOLUME ONE Shakespeare

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

The Father • Miss Julie • The Comrades • Creditors • Translated by Gregory Motton £9.99 9781840020625 M5F3 M1F2 M5F5 M2F1

Adapted by Gregory Doran Lyrics by Ranjit Bolt. RSC Production

Strindberg

£8.99

THE PLAYS, VOLUME TWO

9781840027228

M17F7

Edited by Edward Hall & Roger Warren

The Storm • The Burned Site • The Ghost Sonata • The Pelican • The Black Glove • The Great Highway • Translated by Gregory Motton

£7.99 9781840023633 M13F4

£12.99 9781840020861

Shakespeare

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

M6F3 M10F4 M8F6 M2F3 M4F4 M13F7

Shakespeare

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Edited by Roger Warren £4.99 9781840025750

M14F4+978

J M Synge W B Yeats

SHADOWS

Shakespeare

Riders to the Sea • The Shadow of the Glen • Purgatory •

ROMEO AND JULIET

RSC productions

Edited by Stephen Unwin & Michael Cronin

£6.99

9781840020274

M3F3 M3F1 M2

£1.99 9781840023923 M11F4

Toller Shakespeare

PLAYS ONE

TWELFTH NIGHT

Transformation • Masses Man • Hoppla, We’re Alive!

Translated & introduced by Alan Raphael Pearlman Preface by Charles Wood.

Edited by Stephen Unwin £4.99

9781840024777

M11F3

Sophocles

ANTIGONE Version by Declan Donnellan £7.99 9781840021363 M6F3

£9.99 9781840021950 M21+F7+ M1F1 M25+F5

Turgenev

PLAYS

Translation by Keith Dewhurst

A Month in the Country • Stony Broke • One of the Family • The Bachelor • Lunch at his Excellency’s • A Provincial Lady • Translated by Stephen Mulrine

£7.99 9781870259934 M5+

£8.99 9781840020489

Sophocles

PHILOCTETES

M8F5 M10F1 M10F3 M8F3 M10F1 M5F2

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CLASSIC DRAMA Lope de Vega

Vondel

THE DOG IN THE MANGER

LUCIFER

Translated by David Johnston

Translated & adapted by Noel Clark

£8.99 9781840024357 M11F5

£7.99 9780948230370 M8

Lope de Vega

Wedekind

MADNESS IN VALENCIA

FRANZISKA

Translated by David Johnston

Adapted by Eleanor Brown from a translation by Philip Ward

PERIBAÑEZ Translated by Nick Drake

£7.99 9781840020823 M17F7

£8.99 9780948230660 M7F3 M16F7

Wedekind Lope de Vega

THE LULU PLAYS

FUENTE OVEJUNA LOST IN A MIRROR

Earth Spirit & The Marquis of Keith • Pandora’s Box Translated & adapted by Steve Gooch

Adapted by Adrian Mitchell Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole

£9.99 9780948230387 M13F2 M12F5

Famed National Theatre Production

Wedekind

£9.99 9780948230233 M17F6 M6F5

MUSIK Translated by Neil Fleming

Lope de Vega

‘Funny, disturbing and gripping’ Independent

PLAYS ONE

£8.99 9781840025507 M4F4

The Innocent Child of La Guardia • The Jewess of Toledo • Translated by Michael Jacobs

Wyspianski

£10.99 9781840021448 M21F8 M20F5

Translated by Noel Clark

THE WEDDING £7.99 9781840020410 M15F12

Lope de Vega

PLAYS TWO

Zola

A Bond Honoured • Adapted from La Fianza Satisfecha by John Osborne The Labyrinth of Desire • Translated by Michael Jacobs

THÉRÈSE RAQUIN Translated by Pip Broughton £7.99 9780948230134 M4F3

£9.99 9781840021806 M5F2 M6F3

Vicente

THE BOAT PLAYS The Boat to Hell • The Boat to Purgatory • The Boat to Heaven • Translated and adapted by David Johnston £9.99 9780948230806 all 30+ (M&F)

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MONOLOGUES THE OBERON BOOK OF MODERN MONOLOGUES FOR MEN and

THE OBERON BOOK OF MODERN MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN Edited by Catherine Weate These two new volumes each collect over forty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years, published by Oberon Books.

Bringing together specially selected speeches by essential modern dramatists such as Linda Brogan, Laura Wade, Deborah Gearing, Glyn Maxwell, Adriano Shaplin, Neil Bartlett, David Pownall, Torben Betts, Howard Barker, Chris O’Connell, Richard Bean, Tanika Gupta, Will Eno, Meredith Oakes, Abi Morgan, Tom Morris & Emma Rice, and Dennis Kelly, they are a unique and useful resource for amateur, student, and professional actors alike, participating in acting classes, contests, auditions and rehearsals.

Edited by Catherine Weate, the books are helpfully arranged according to age suitability - Teens, Twenties, Thirties, Forty plus - and set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance context.

£8.99 9781840028256 Paperback (Men) £8.99 9781840028263 Paperback (Women)

“... there is sufficient scope here for anyone in search of the piece to impress… I’d highly recommend these books” Teaching Drama, Summer Term issue 2010

THE OBERON BOOK OF MODERN DUOLOGUES Edited by Catherine Weate A new collection of nearly 50 scenes for two actors, again drawn from the unique roster of the UK’s leading independent drama publisher.

This time the scenes are arranged according to gender suitability with background information about the plays from which they are taken.

Catherine Weate has been voice coaching for over twenty years in England, Australia, Hong Kong and India. She has been Head of Voice at Rose Bruford College, Head of Voice and Vice Principal at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and Head of Examinations at LAMDA.

£8.99

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Arnold Wesker

WESKER’S MONOLOGUES This anthology of monologues taken from Wesker’s plays offers actors and students of drama a range of audition pieces covering themes such as friendship, death, old age, political disillusion, failed love and self-discovery fuelled by emotions ranging through anger, joy, hope, fear, outrage, love, bewilderment, guilt and comic irony.

£12.99 9781840027921

Cocteau / Feydeau

THIRTEEN MONOLOGUES Translated by Peter Meyer. Illustrations by Cocteau and Klimowski. £8.99 9781870259620

Neil Bartlett

SOLO VOICES Monologues 1987–2004 Collected for the first time in print, nine monologues produced over more than a decade by one of British Theatre’s most fiercely individual voices, including A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, Night After Night and The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin.

‘A writer who can change the way people feel’ Observer

£12.99 9781840024654

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PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS Oberon Books believe that drama is a crucial element to every child’s education. In this section, we list all of our plays for children and schools. Where available, details of teachers notes and special schools editions are included.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PRIMARY CLASSICS Produced by the National Theatre’s Discover programme, the Primary Classics series aims to introduce children aged 7 to 11 to Shakespeare. These version of the plays, adapted and originally directed by Carl Heap, preserve the core of Shakespeare’s plot and retain the original langauge, yet are presented very much with the target age group in mind. Carl Heap’s introduction will help readers, teachers and practitioners alike to imagine or produce their own version. Specially low-priced for schools and teachers.

William Shakespeare; Carl Heap

William Shakespeare; Carl Heap

MACBETH

ROMEO AND JULIET

‘What’s done cannot be undone’

’The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.’

Three weird sisters, an eerie prophecy and a lust for power start a spiral of betrayal which has disastrous consequences.

£4.99

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What’s in a name? Imagine being born into the wrong family in the wrong place at the wrong time; and then you meet your true

M4F3 love...

William Shakespeare; Carl Heap

£4.99

TWELFTH NIGHT

’...in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!’

‘Nothing that is so is so.’

With all the dark undercurrents of the traditional fairytale, Shakespeare weaves in farce, slapstick, romance and revelry into some of his most lyrical poetry to create what is perhaps his most joyous play.

9781840029079

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

£4.99

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One of Shakespeare’s best known comedies, a story of love in disguise, separated twins and yellow garters.

£4.99

9781840029833

William Shakespeare; Carl Heap

PERICLES ‘The world to me is like a lasting storm’ An exciting tale of shipwrecks and magic, villains and heroes, and a child’s fight for survival in a foreign land. Join Pericles on his epic travels of adventure and discovery.

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Ann Coburn

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NEW PLAYS FOR CHILDREN TO ACT The Wish Collector •

by Oladipo Agboluaje The Acme Thunderer •

by Lin Coghlan Of the Terrifying Events on the Hamelin Estate •

by Philip Osment The Wish Collector by Oladipo Agbolauje. A magical epic whirling from a playground in Britain to a village in Sierra Leone; The Acme Thunderer by Lin Coghlan. A funny, moving family drama of pigeons and siblings, set amid the Blitz; Of the Terrifying Events on the Hamelin Estate by Philip Osment. A high-spirited contemporary satire bringing the Pied Piper legend up-to-date. Three 30 minute plays by leading playwrights for children to act, commissioned by the Unicorn, one of the world’s foremost companies creating theatre with young people at its core.

£8.99

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Alice Bartlett

ALEX AND THE WINTER STAR In this hilarious sequel to Alex and The Warrior, Alex and Cat are once again faced with keeping the unruly Warrior under control, not an easy feat. Incorporating the themes of friendship and what it means to belong, Alex and the Winter Star is not only jam packed with adventure, danger and magic, but is underlined by important concepts and issues. Ideal for young actors and schools, Alex’s new adventures are sure to capture the imagination of young readers, sending them spinning into a mystical world of possibilities.

£8.99

When the canal burst its banks and a holy statue arrived through her bedroom floor, no one was more surprised than 12-year-old Veronica.

With the help of her best friend she sets about using her new-found skills to create something magical within her ailing community.

NOT IN MY NAME

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Written by Alice Bartlett at the request of Lancashire Constabulary, the play imagines a terror attack on a small northern town, including a graphic scene with the bomb exploding, We hear from people involved, including the authorities and friends and relations of the attacker (a local Muslim lad radicalised as a result of social exclusion).

It uses verbatim interviews (actual words spoken by individuals with experience of events comparable to those portrayed in the play, though the play itself is a fictional account) which makes for greater verisimilitude. “This play will be a powerful resource for schools and community groups in the years to come” - Superintendent Andy Pratt, Prevent Lead, Lancashire Constabulary

£8.99

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Lewis Carroll Adapted by Laura Wade

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ALICE The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won’t stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life that’s less than perfect. In this new adaptation by renowned playwright Laura Wade, you can follow Alice as she escapes her bedroom to find adventure in a topsy-turvy world. Based on Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Wade’s adaptation breathes fresh life into a much-loved story about rabbit holes, pocket watches and talking caterpillars.

£8.99

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YOU CAN SEE THE HILLS Growing up’s hard to do, and in a Pennine town it isn’t any easier, as adolescent Adam finds as he tries desperately to navigate his way through secondary school, first love, plenty of lust, and swimming survival lessons. A crackling, candid and captivating coming-of-age drama.

£8.99

FIT is about attempting to FIT in and trying to stand out in a culture where everything from not liking sport to wearing the wrong trainers is ‘gay’. The play was developed to address the growing problem of homophobic bullying in Britain’s schools and was especially created for Key Stage 3 (KS3) students, specifically complementing various learning objectives from the National Curriculum, particularly PHSE and Citizenship. Includes Teachers Notes.

9781840028416 M9F10

Matthew Dunster

£8.99 9781840029499 M11 F6*

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THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE Join Charlie and his dog Fitz as they jump onboard The Ride of Your Life - a rollercoaster which will send you back in time, from the beginnings of life, through dinosaurs to DNA, and on into the future.

How did we get here...and what might lie ahead? This exciting and funny new play for children by the award-winning writer and director Mick Gordon is part of Darwin200, celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin. It will help answer all the big questions as well as some smaller ones too! Will Fitz find a way to make himself more handsome? Will Charlie get his homework in on time? And will life ever be the same again?

£8.99 9781840029581 M2

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WHAT FATIMA DID….

At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab.

Suddenly, to her friends and family she is no longer the Fatima they thought they knew.

What Fatima Did… is a funny and provocative exploration of attitudes to identity, freedom and multiculturalism in contemporary London. “lively provocative play... This is the work of a writer with a future” - The Guardian

£8.99

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WHITER THAN SNOW/DIARY OF AN ACTION MAN Two plays by one distinctive voice. Diary of An Action Man and Whiter Than Snow reveal an imagination that has raised the writer Mike Kenny onto the international stage. Renowned for producing multilayered, stimulating children’s plays, his work also appeals to adults. Refreshingly bold, adeptly sculpted and highly original, these texts draw audiences into the real myths of childhood and challenge our perceptions of normality.

£9.99 9781840029185 M4F5 M6F3

Tanika Gupta

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WHITE BOY Rikki’s mates come from all over the world, and as far as they’re concerned they are all ‘breddas’. But when tragedy befalls one of them, Rikki’s forced to ask himself the serious question – what does it mean to be a white boy in Britain today?

Written by an award winning playwright, this topical play explores race and identity in modern Britain and would be a perfect play for schools.

£8.99

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Alex Jones

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Douglas Maxwell

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THE MOTHER SHIP Eliot is 18 and under severe stress. There’s no girlfriend in sight, his best mate has stopped swearing and his pregnant step-mum is even more stressed than he is.... and then, having got the call from outer space to say that The Mother Ship is leaving and coming to take him home, his disabled brother Gerry disappears.

And it’s all Eliot’s fault.... The Mother Ship is a fantastically funny new adventure about what it means to be young, to be different, this is a new major play for young people.

A National Theatre of Scotland Production.

£8.99 9781840028331 M5 F1

I’M A MINGER! Welcome to the world of 14-year old Katie as she battles her way through the bitches, the chavs, the misery of school discos and the desperate search for a worthy boyfriend. A turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen. Touring in 2010.

£8.99 9781840028737 F1

Dennis Kelly

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Douglas Maxwell

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THE MIRACLE MAN Holding on to your virginity, getting a ring for your pains and something to believe in, that’s what Dawn, Rob and Fawziya want.

Ozzy, their loser PE teacher needs to believe in something too. It will all be fine when the Miracle Man gets here. Won’t it?

£8.99 9781849430326

DNA (SCHOOLS EDITION) A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where’s the incentive to put things right? DNA is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very dark heart. DNA is a set text for AQA English GCSE Exam Now features notes for teachers and group activity suggestions for the classroom

£7.99 9781840029529 M8F3

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PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS NEW

TWO PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: The Flying Machine; Smashed Eggs Two fun and action packed plays for young people, written by renowned children’s writer Phil Porter. Contains The Flying Machine, winner of Arts Council Childrens Award and Smashed Eggs.

£8.99 9781840028645

Philip Pullman; Simon Reade

THE SCARECROW AND HIS SERVANT NEW Outrageously zany and filled with non-stop surprises, Simon Reade’s theatrical adaptation of The Scarecrow and His Servant, renowned author Philip Pullman’s fictional children’s tale, is an enchanting play for young readers and performers. Delve into the magical world of Scarecrow as you accompany him as Jack, his trusty help-mate, and together you can embark on adventures that will make your head spin.

£8.99 9781840028997 M10F6

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Pam Gems

OLD KING COLE

THE LITTLE MERMAID

An original and riotous treatment of the familiar Old King Cole story by one of Britain’s funniest actor/writers.

Adapted from the story by Hans Christian Andersen

£7.99 M16F2 9781870259125

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Anthony Clark

This powerful new version of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale reveals the spectacle of the worlds below and above the sea, and the sadness of unfulfilled romance between a mermaid and a prince.

£5.99

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PINOCCHIO Adapted from the story by Carlo Collodi Pinocchio decides he wants to be a real boy. This can only happen if he learns to be good, but however hard he tries, Pinocchio just can’t help getting into mischief.

£7.99 M9F2+ 9781840025293 KS 2/3 (7–14)

Anthony Clark

Pat Hutchins

THE HOUSE THAT SAILED AWAY Illustrated by Laurence Hutchins Blood-thirsty pirates, a kidnapping and buried treasure are some of the adventures in store for a family when their house floats out to sea.

£7.99 13 (MF) 9781840020977 KS 2 (7–11)

THE RED BALLOON Adapted from the screenplay by Albert Lamorisse

Pat Hutchins

Anthony Clark’s enchanting musical adaptation of Albert Lamorisse’s classic French film follows the adventures of a lonely Parisian boy and a stray balloon which befriends him.

I’M THE KING OF THE CASTLE!

£7.99 M12F3 9781840020793 KS 2 (7–11)

Anthony Clark

WINNIE THE WITCH Adapted from the book by Korky Paul & Valerie Thomas Winnie the Witch uses her magic to solve some very practical problems. This play for children aged 3 to 6 brings together the first three books in the ‘Winnie the Witch’ series.

I’m the King of the Castle! • Sam Smith, Crime Buster • The Tale of Thomas Meade • Illustrated by Laurence Hutchins Three short new plays for children by one of our best-loved children’s authors. Specially written for performance in schools and youth groups, with advice on staging and design.

£7.99 17+(MF) 9781840022551 KS 1 (3–6)

£7.99 M7F4+ M10F4+ M10F4+ 9781840024869 (7–11)

Ann Coburn

Adrian Mitchell

ALEX AND THE WARRIOR

ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Alex wants Grandad home from hospital for Christmas, so he asks his favourite computer game character to come and help. But when The Warrior steps out of the screen, Alex begins to wonder what he’s let himself in for.

£7.99 M4F1 9781840025026 KS 2 (7–11)

Adapted from the books by Lewis Carroll Both of Lewis Carroll’s timeless children’s stories are magically brought to life in this adaptation by Adrian Mitchell.

£7.99 50+(MF) 9781840022568 KS 2 (7–11)

Lisa Evans

Adrian Mitchell

STAMPING SHOUTING AND SINGING HOME

THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE

It is 1950s America, the Deep South: Lizzie and her family long for progress, inspired by Sojourner Truth, freedom fighter, and just one of the many heroes the history books forgot. Lisa Evans’ joyful and moving play is interspersed with the uplifting words of Negro Spirituals.

£8.99

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Adapted from the novel by C S Lewis Four children are evacuated from London during the Blitz. Exploring the Professor’s house, they stumble across a wardrobe and soon find themselves caught up in a deadly struggle between good and evil.

£7.99 M21F12 9781840020496 KS 3 (11–14)

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Philip Osment

THE MAMMOTH SAILS TONIGHT!

PALACE OF FEAR

The Mammoth is set to carry Princess Alysoun from Norway to Scotland, where she is to marry King Andrew the Bold. But she falls in love with Sir Patrick Spens, the bravest captain on the seven seas. A passionate, funny, subversive play.

This epic fantasy journey follows the path of two children as they travel to the mystical palace where all fears known to mankind are locked away.

£7.99 M8F5 9781840025057 KS 2 (7–11)

£7.99 M21F7 9781840021349 KS 3 (11–14)

David Pownall Adrian Mitchell

THE DREAM OF CHIEF CRAZY HORSE

THE PIED PIPER Adrian Mitchell’s triumphant musical adaptation for children of Browning’s The Pied Piper. This new edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original National Theatre production.

‘A potent and imaginative piece of work’ Independent

This epic play for performance by children covers 10,000 years in the history of the American Indian, and the new European colonists.

£7.99 50+(MF) 9781840020755 KS 2 (7–11)

£7.99 M11F10 9781870259095 KS 2 (7–11)

Simon Reade

Adrian Mitchell

NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

THE SIEGE An epic play, specifically for schools, which shows how brave and peaceful actions can result in a vision of a brighter future.

From the novel by Geraldine McCaughrean

£7.99 M40F22 9781870259675 KS 3/4 (11–16)

One day Kai is snatched away by the Snow Queen and taken to her icy palace. Gerda sets out to find her friend and free him from the grasp of the wicked queen.

Forty days below the decks of a ship in relentless storms. Squalid conditions, a cargo of animals and the man in charge claims he is acting on God’s orders. Written for an ensemble cast, Not the End of the World tells the exhilarating and gripping story of the world’s first natural disaster, and the making of the world’s first Middle Eastern religious fanatic.

£8.99

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THE SNOW QUEEN

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Simon Reade

TWO BEATRIX POTTER PLAYS

PRIVATE PEACEFUL

Jemima Puddle-Duck and Her Friends Peter Rabbit and His Friends

Private Peaceful • Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp • The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

Many favourite Beatrix Potter characters are brought vividly to life in both drama and songs by a large and adaptable cast.

£7.99 M2F4* 9781840022896 KS 1/2 (5–7)

Barbara Norden

METEORITE Searching for their mother, Andy, Helen and Luke find a strange world at the end of a mobile phone, where a massive meteorite is on its way to smash their streets to bits.

£4.99

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Philip Osment

LITTLE VIOLET AND THE ANGEL Puppetry, music and song combine to create this wondrous family show for audiences of 6+. Winner of the Peggy Ramsay Award.

Three brilliant adaptations from books for young people. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, Private Peaceful tells the moving story of a young soldier in the trenches of World War I. Philip Pullman’s Aladdin puts a cynical spin on the familiar story, while in Jill Tomlinson’s delightful classic a fledgling barn owl conquers his fears.

‘Heart-breaking clarity and simplicity...a masterly stage adaptation’ Daily Mail on Private Peaceful

£9.99 9781840026603

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Emma Reeves

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES Adapted from the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery The classic story of the misadventures of the impetuous but kindhearted Anne Shirley.

£7.99 M3F12 9781840025385 KS 3/4 (11–16)

£7.99 M7F4 9781840022179 KS 2 (6–9)

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Jess Walters

CARRIE’S WAR

’LOW DAT

Based on the novel by Nina Bawden

Written after Jess Walters went ‘undercover’ as a school pupil, this verbally fascinating comedy is about when and where to ’low dat.

During the Second World War, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village. But the countryside has dangers and adventures of its own – and a group of characters who will change Carrie’s life for ever. Emma Reeves has created a stunning stage adaptation of Nina Bawden’s much loved classic account of life as an evacuee in the 1940s. This edition includes teachers’ notes and activities for classes based on the play.

£7.99 9781840025583 M3F3

Phil Willmott

TREASURE ISLAND This is the first adaptation of Treasure Island with great parts for both male and female performers. Inspired by real-life female adventurers, Phil Willmott has changed the gender of several of the central characters without compromising the spirit of Stevenson’s classic novel.

‘Ceaselessly involving telling of a cracking story’ Evening Standard

£8.99

M6F4*

9781840027204

Emma Reeves

LITTLE WOMEN Adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott Emma Reeves’ captivating stage version of Alcott’s classic tale.

£7.99 M6F9 9781840025231 KS 3/4 (11–16)

Lesley Ross

THE 40-MINUTE TEMPEST / KING RAM

‘A delightful blend of the salty and the silly’ Independent

£8.99 M13F8* 9781840026924

Phil Willmott

UNCLE EBENEZER Adapted from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol This musical version, narrated by Scrooge’s reforming nephew, can be staged by small groups or with a company of over 20.

KS 3/4 (11–16) £7.99 40+(MF) 9781840023176

The 40-Minute Tempest uses puppetry to bring to life the magical world of Prospero’s island. Based on King Lear and produced at, The National theatre, the protagonist of King Ram has a foolish plan to split his lands between his daughters.

£7.99 M1F1+ M6F3 9781840023138 KS 3 (11–14)

Colin Teevan

MONKEY! A Tale from China The exciting and hilarious tale of Monkey and his friends as they accompany the monk Tripitaka on a sacred quest.

£7.99 38+ (MF) 9781840022575 KS 2 (7–11)

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INDEX AUTHOR INDEX Abbensetts, Michael Four Plays, 77 Alterations, 77 In the Mood, 77 El Dorado, 77 Sweet Talk, 77 Abdulrazzak, Hassan Baghdad Wedding, 43 Ackerman, Peter Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, 43 Ackland, Rodney Absolute Hell, 43 Plays One, 77 After October, 77 Dark River, 77 Plays Two, 77 Before the Party, 76 The Old Ladies, 76 Smithreens, 76 Strange Orchestra, A, 76 Acosta, Carlos Tocororo, 25 Adamov, Arthur Dead Souls / Spring ‘81,77 Adshead, Kay Animal, 43 Bites, 43 The Bogus Woman, 43 Bones, 43 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, 93 Suppliants, 93 Agboluaje, Oladipo The Hounding of David Oluwale, 29 Ìyà-Ilé (The First Wife), 29 The Chris of Coldharbour Lane, 43 The Estate, 43 Class Acts, 104 Al-Bassam, Sulayman Kalila Wa Dimna, 44 Alcott, Louisa May Little Women, 109 Ali, Tariq Collateral Damage, 44 The Illustrious Corpse, 44 Almond, Suzy School Play, 44 Anderman, Gunilla Europe on Stage, 20 Aristophanes Lysistrata, 93 Asbury, Nick Exit, Pursued by a Badger, 15 Asmussen, Peter The Beach, 44 Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice, 92 Azama, Michel Crossfire, 44 Babe, Thomas A Prayer for My Daughter, 29 Baraitser, Marion The Crystal Den, 44 The Story of an African Farm, 44 Barker, Howard / Eduardo Houth A Style and Its Origins, 20

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FOCUS Barker, Howard Theatre of Catastrophe, 21 Dead Hands, 44 The Ecstatic Bible, 44 The Fence in Its Thousandth Year, 45 The Seduction of Almighty God, 45 Plays Four, 74 Dying of Today, The, 74 Found in the Ground, 74 I Saw Myself, 74 Road, the House, the Road, The, 74 Plays Five, 74 Hated Nightfall, 74 Last Supper, The, 74 Seven Lears, 74 Wounds to the Face, 74 Plays Six 74 House of Correction, A, 74 Hurts Given and Received, 74 Judith, 74 (Uncle) Vanya, 74 Slowly / Hurts Given and Received, 74 Plays One, 77 Europeans, The, 77 Possibilities, The, 77 Scenes from an Execution, 77 Victory, 77 Plays Two, 77 13 Objects, 77 Animals in Paradise, 77 Castle Gertrude, The, 77 Cry, The, 77 Plays Three, 77 Claw, 77 He Stumbled, 77 Love of a Good Man, The, 77 Ursula, 77 Barr, Russell Such Devoted Sisters, 45 Lobster Vantastic, 75 Bartlett, Alice, Not in My Name, 104 Bartlett, Neil Camille, 45 A Christmas Carol, 45 In Extremis, 45 Great Expectations, 45 Oliver Twist, 45 La Casa Azul, 52 Racine: Three Plays, 76 The Prince of Homburg, 95 The Threesome, 95 The Dispute, 96 The Island of Slaves, 96 Marivaux: Two Plays, 96 Don Juan, 96 Solo Voices, 102 Barton, John The War Still Goes On, 45 Bawden, Nina Carrie’s War, 109 Baxter, Keith My Sentiments Exactly, 20

Baxter, Trevor Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime, 45 Beacham, Rod Lies Have Been Told, 46 Beadle-Blair, Rikki Familyman, 29 Bashment, 46 Fit, 104 Bean, Richard The English Game, 29 Pub Quiz Is Life, 29 England People Very Nice, 9, 29 The Big Fellah, 9, 30 The God Botherers, 46 Harvest, 46 Honeymoon Suite, 46 In The Club, 46 The Mentalists, 46 Mr England, 46 Smack Family Robinson, 46 Under the Whaleback, 46 Le Pub!, 71 Plays Three, 75 The English Game, 75 In the Club, 75 Harvest, 75 Up on Roof, 75 Plays One, 78 The God Botherers, 78 Mentalists, The, 78 Under the Whaleback, 78 Plays Two, 78 Honeymoon Suite, 78 Mr England, 78 Smack Family Robinson, 78 Toast, 78 London Assurance, 92 The Hypochondriac, 96 Beaumarchais The Marriage of Figaro, 93 Benjamin, Matthew How to Act Around Cops, 48 Bent, Simon Prick Up Your Ears, 30 Accomplices, 47 The Associate, 47 Elling, 47 The Escapologist, 47 Sugar, Sugar 47 Under the Black Flag, 47 Three Plays, 78 Wasted, 78 Bad Company, 78 Goldhawk Road, 78 Bernhardt, Thomas Heldenplatz, 30 Berry, Cicely From Word to Play, 15 Betts, Torben Lie of the Land, 30 The Lunatic Queen, 47 The Unconquered, 47 Plays One, 78 Clockwatching, 78 Listening Heaven, A, 78 Mummies and Daddies, 78 Plays Two, 78 Five Visions of the Faithful, 78

Incarceration, 78 Last Days of Desire, The, 78 Silence and Violence, 78 Bhatti, Gurpreet Kaur Behud (Disgrace), 30 Behsharam (Shameless), 47 Behzti (Dishonour), 47 Birkett, Michael The Story of the Ring, 26 Bloomer, Steven High Tide, 82 Bolt, Ranjit The Art of Translation, 5, 15 The Grouch, 36 Lysistrata, 93 Corneille: Three Masterpieces, 94 George Dandin / Scapin, 96 The Misanthrope, 96 The Miser / The Idiot, 96 Tartuffe, 97 Believe It or Not, 98 Cyrano de Bergerac, 98 Hercules, 98 The Merry Wives of Windsor, 99 Bolt, Robert Plays One, 78 Flowering Cherry, 78 Gentle Jack, 78 Tiger and the Horse, 78 Plays Two, 78 State of Revolution, 78 Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew, 78 Vivat! Vivat! Regina, 78 Boucicault, Dion London Assurance, 92 Bowen, John Plays One, 79 After the Rain, 79 Disorderly Women, The, 79 Little Boxes, 79 Singles, 79 Bowen, Simon Free, 48 Bradley, Jyll Girl, Watching, 48 Brenton, Howard Collateral Damage, 44 Brighouse, Harold Hobson’s Choice, 48 Brittain, Victoria The Meaning of Waiting, 30 Guantanamo, 48 Brogan, Linda Black Crows, 48 Broks, Paul On Ego, 54 Brown, Logan How to Act Around Cops, 48 Brown, Stephen Future Me, 48 Browne, Felicity Three Plays, 79 Family Dance, 79 Great Aunts, The, 79 Odds on Oblivion, 79

Burt, Simon Untouchable, 48 Butler, Robert The Alchemist Exposed, 20 The Art of Darkness, 20 Cabal, Fermin Tejas Verdes, 48 Calderón Three Plays, 93 Great Theatre of the World, The, 93 Mayor of Zalamea, The, 93 Life’s a Dream, 93 Campbell, Christopher Members Only, 68 Campbell, Ken Old King Cole, 96 Carbunariu, Gianina Kebab, 30 Carroll Alice, 104 Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass, 107 Carter, Angela Bloody Chamber, The, 30 Carville, Daragh This Other City, 30 Castillejo, David Spanish Classical Drama, 15 Catley, Mark Scuffer, 48 Sunbeam Terrace, 49 Cavendish, Dominic Orwell: A Celebration, 31 Cervantes Pedro, The Great Pretender, 93 Césaire A Tempest, 49 Chappell, In-Sook This Isn’t Romance, 31 Chekhov Are You There Crocodile?, 24 The Cherry Orchard (Gems), 93 The Cherry Orchard (Gill), 93 Ivanov, 93 The Seagull, 93 Uncle Vanya, 93 Chias, Edgar On Insomnia and Midnight, 49 Chibnall, Chris Kiss Me Like You Mean It, 49 Civilians, The (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch, 49 Clark, Anthony The Red Balloon, 107 Winnie the Witch, 107 Pinocchio, 107 Clarke, Nobby Starfucker, 14 Coburn, Anne Three Plays, 80 Devil’s Ground, 80 Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, 80 Safe, 80

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FOCUS Alex and the Winter Star, 104 Alex and the Warrior, 107 Cocteau Thirteen Monologues, 102 Coghlan, Lin Kingfisher Blue, 49 Mercy, 49 Rising Blue, 72 Class Acts, 104 The Miracle, 104 Collis, Rose Coral Browne, 20 Complicite A Disappearing Number, 31 Light, 49 Constable, John Gormenghast, 67 Sha-manic Plays, 79 The Southwark Mysteries, 49 Conville, David The Park, 20 Cooper, Bill The Royal Ballet In House, 26 Corneille Three Masterpieces, 94 Illusion, The, 94 Le Cid, 94 Liar, The, 94 Corwin, John Navy Pier, 49 Cotton, Oliver Wet Weather Cover, 31 Coveney, Alan A Busy Day, 49 Cowell, Brendan Rabbit, 50 Craig, Ryan Happy Savages, 31 Our Class, 40 The Glass Room, 50 What We Did to Weinstein, 50 Portugal, 51 Cregan, David Three Plays, 79 Last Thrash, The, 79 Nice Dorothy, 79 Whispers Along the Patio, 79 Croall, Jonathan The Coming of Godot, 20 Crouch, Tim The Author, 31 An Oak Tree, 50 England, 50 de la Cruz, Sor Juana Ines House of Desires, 94 Cuddon, Sarah High Tide, 82 D’Souza, Neil Small Miracle, 51 Daley, Tracey Shoot 2 Win, 50 Dar, Azma Chaos, 91 Davidson, Richard Badnuff, 50 Day, Barry This Wooden ‘O’, 20 Day, Simon Spike, 50

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Devlin, Albert J The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume One, 21 The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume Two, 21 Dewhurst, Keith Black Snow, 50 War Plays, 79 Bomb in Brewery Street, 79 Corunna, 79 World Turned Upside Down, 79 Philoctetes, 99 Dhingra, Dolly The Fortune Club, 51 Unsuitable Girls, 51 Dickens, Charles Christmas Carol, A, 45 Great Expectations, 45 Oliver Twist, 45 Dickens in America, 55 David Copperfield, 57 Uncle Ebenezer, 110 Dijeh, Lizzy High Life, 31 Doherty, Mark Trad, 51 Doyle, Mark Trad, 52 Drane, David Swankiller, 52 Dromgoole, Nicholas The Role of the Critic, 15 Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre, 21 The Playwright as Rebel, 21 Marriage in Disguise, 51 Dumas The Tower, 94 Dunster, Matthew You Can See the Hills, 104 Edwards, Dic Wittgenstein’s Daughter, 51 Two Immorality Plays: The Pimp and Solitude, 75 Americana, 79 Astrakhan (Winter), 79 Franco’s Bastard / Lola Brecht, 79 Three Plays, 80 Walt Whitman and Other Poems, 80 Egressy, Zoltán Portugal, 51 Elliot, Alistair Phaethon, 92 Eno, Will Middletown, 31 The Flue Season, 51 Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), 51 Tragedy: A Tragedy, 51 Oh, The Humanity, 75 Erba, Edoardo Marathon, 51 Euripides Alcmaeon in Corinth, 70 Phaethon, 92 Bacchai, 94 Iph…, 94

Medea, 94 Evans, Lisa East Lynne, 52 Getting to the Foot of the Mountain, 52 Jamaica Inn, 52 Once We Were Mothers, 52 Vilette, 52 Stamping Shouting and Singing Home, 107 Eveling, Stanley The German Tetralogy, 80 Burglar Boy - and his Swedish Friend, The, 80 Dead of Night, The, 80 Strange Case of Martin Richter, The, 80 Everett, Richard Entertaining Angels, 31 Eyre, Peter Chère Maître, 52 Fagon, Alfred Plays, 80 Farber, Yael Theatre as Witness, 75 Molora, 92 Ramayana, 92 Farmer, Jennifer Bulletproof Soul, 52 Compact Failure, 52 Farquhar, Simon Rainbow Kiss, 52 Farr, David Metamorphosis, 52 Faucher, Sophie La Casa Azul, 52 Faulkner, Trader Losing My Marbles, 52 Feydeau Thirteen Monologues, 93 An Absolute Turkey, 94 From Marriage to Divorce, 94 Three Farces, 94 Where There’s A Will…, 94 Finlayson, Alex Tobaccoland, 59 Plays, 81 Fitch, Georgia Adrenaline…Heart, 53 I Like Mine With a Kiss, 53 Flanders, Judith A Gift to the Audience, 5, 16 Fo, Dario Abducting Diana, 53 Plays, 80 First Miracle of the Boy Jesus, The, 80 Pope and the Witch, The, 80 Foley, David Sad Hotel, 53 The Murders at Argos / Cressida Among the Greeks, 80 Three Plays, 80 Last Days of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, in Exile, The, 80 Mother Caldwell, 80 Suffering the Witch, 80 Foot Newton, Lara Karoo Moose, 32 Tshepang, 53

Hear and Now, 53 Fosse, Jon The Girl on the Sofa, 53 Nightsongs, 53 Plays One, 80 Child, The, 80 Guitar Man, The, 80 Name, The, 80 Someone is Going to Come, 80 Plays Two, 81 Dream of Autumn, 81 Summer’s Day, A, 81 Winter, 81 Plays Three, 81 And We’ll Never Be Parted, 81 Son, The, 81 Visits, 81 Plays Four, 81 Son, The, 81 Visits, 81 And We’ll Never Be Parted, 81 Fountain, Tim Dandy in the Underworld, 32 France, Richard Movie Icons, 75 Franchi, Cristina Frederick Ashton, 27 Margot Fonteyn, 27 Placido Domingo, 27 Rudolf Nureyev, 27 Francis, Clive Our Man in Havana, 33 Fraser, John Close Up, 21 French, Robin Three Plays, 81 Bear Hug, 81 Breakfast Hearts, 81 Choir Play, 81 Fry, Christopher Plays One, 81 Lady’s Not for Burning, The, 81 Siege, 81 Yard of Sun, A, 81 Plays Two, 81 Curtmantle, 81 Dark is Light Enough, The, 81 Venus Observed, 81 Plays Three, 81 Boy With a Cart, The, 81 Caedmon Construed, 81 Firstborn, The, 81 Phoenix Too Frequent, A, 81 Ringing of Bells, 81 Sleep of Prisoners, A, 81 Thor, With Angels, 81 Fry, Michael The Trumpet Major, 51 Garner, Julian Silent Engine, 53 Garnett, Dameon Break Away, 53 Gaudé, Laurent Battle of Will, 54 Gearing, Deborah Burn and Rosalind, 82

Gearing, Nigel Crossfire, 44 Dickens in America, 54 Janis in the Chelsea / Elgar’s Tenth Muse / Meeting Mr. Wilde, 82 Gems, Pam Piaf, 32 Marlene, 54 Mrs Pat, 54 The Snow Palace, 54 Movie Icons, 75 Plays One, 82 The Cherry Orchard, 93 The Lady from the Sea, 95 Yerma, 96 The Little Mermaid, 107 Gill, Peter Apprenticeship, 16 Gilroy, Steve Motherland, 32 Goethe Faust Parts I & II, 94 Tasso Clavigo, 94 Goetz, Rainald Jeff Koons, 54 Gogol The Government Inspector, 94 Gold, Murray Electricity, 54 Goldoni Volume Two, 95 Battlefield, The 95 Don Juan, 95 Friends and Lovers, 95 Goodwin, John Peter Hall’s Diaries, 22 Losing My Marbles, 52 A Most Sweet Poison, 54 Gordon, Mick Theatre and the Mind, 4, 16 On Emotion, 32 Pressure Drop 32 Grace, 55 On Death, 55 On Ego, 55 On Love, 55 The Ride of Your Life, 104 Gorky, Maxim The Lower Depths, 95 Gotts, George Cocoa, 55 Grace, Fraser King David, Man of Blood, 32 The Lifesavers, 32 Breakfast with Mugabe, 55 Frobisher’s Gold, 55 Perpetua, 55 Who Killed Mr Drum?, 55 Two Into War, 82 Graham, Scott Othello, 92 Grayling, A.C. Against All Gods, 4, 16 To Set Prometheus Free, 4, 16 Grace, 55 Green, Tony The Kindness of Strangers, 55 Greene, Graham Our Man in Havana, 33

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INDEX Travels With My Aunt, 56 Gritzner, Karoline Theatre of Catastrophe, 21 Grochala, Sarah S-27, 33 Grootboom, Mumelelo Paul Foreplay, 33 Grose, Carl Grande Guignol, 33 Cymbeline, 59 Gupta, Atiha Sen What Fatima Did…, 105 Gupta, Tanika Meet the Mukherjees, 33 Hobson’s Choice, 48 The Country Wife, 55 Fragile Land, 55 Gladiator Games, 55 Inside Out, 56 Sanctuary, 56 Sugar Mummies, 56 White Boy, 105 Gussow, Mel Edward Albee, 21 Haidle, Noah Plays One, 82 Mr Marmalade, 82 Rag and Bone, 82 Vigils, 82 Haill, Lyn Actors Speaking, 21 Darkness Illuminated, 21 Hall, Edward Rose Rage, 56 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 99 Hall, Jason GBS, 56 Hall, Jonathan Three Plays, 81 Coffee Lover’s Guide to America, 81 Flamingos, 81 Mr Elliot, 81 Hall, Sir Peter Exposed by the Mask, 3, 17 Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players 3rd Edition, 3, 16 Making An Exhibition of Myself, 22 Peter Hall’s Diaries, 22 An Absolute Turkey, 94 Hammond, Will Verbatim, 22 Harris, Nancy The Kreutzer Sonata, 41 Hastings, Michael Calico, 56 Tom and Viv, 56 Hauptmann Rose Bernd, 95 Havergal, Giles David Copperfield, 56 Travels With My Aunt, 56 Hay, János The Stonewatcher, 56 Haydn Rowles, Jan How to do Accents, 19 How to do RP, 19 Haydon, Andrew Raw Talent, 22 Haynes, Jon Tough Time, Nice Time, 33

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FOCUS Heap, Carl Macbeth, 103 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 103 Pericles, 103 Romeo and Juliet, 103 Twelfth Night, 103 Heiberg Three Danish Comedies / No, 95 Helminger, Guy Venezuela, 57 de Hennezel, Marie On Death, 54 Herzberg, Paul The Dead Wait, 57 Hicks, James Telstar, 63 Higginson, Craig Dream of the Dog, 33 Girl in the Yellow Dress, 33 Hill, Christopher William Three Plays, 82 Death to Mr Moody, 82 Inglorious Technicolour, 82 Jonah Lie, The, 82 Hines, Derrek Gilgamesh, 57 Hochhuth, Rolf Mozart’s Nachtmusik, 57 The Representative, 57 Hoggett, Steven Othello, 92 Holborough, Jacqueline Three Plays, 83 Garden Girls, The, 83 Dreams of San Francisco, 83 Way South, The, 83 Holcroft, Sam High Tide, 82 Hood, Kerry Meeting Myself Coming Back, 57 Horowitz, Anthony Mindgame, 58 von Horváth, Ödön The Belle Vue, 57 Plays One, 83 Sexual Congress, A, 83 Sladek, 83 Plays Two, 83 Italian Night, 83 Tales From Vienna Woods, 83 Two Plays, 83 Don Juan Comes Back From the War, 83 Figaro Gets Divorced, 83 Houth, Eduardo / Howard Barker A Style and It’s Origins, 20 Howard, Roger Three War Plays, 83 Break in Berlin, A, 83 Partisans, 83 White Sea, 83 Howarth, Donald Four Plays, 83 All Good Children, 83 Lily in Little India, A, 83 Sugar in the Morning, 83 Three Months Gone, 83

Hübner, Lutz Theatre Café Plays One, 38 Huggins, Tyrone Sounds...In Session, 57 Hugo Ruy, Blas, 94 Hutchins, Pat The House That Sailed Away, 107 I’m the King of the Castle!, 107 Hutchinson, Ron Topless Mum, 33 Head/Case, 57 Ibsen Three Plays About Ibsen & Strindberg, 85 Lunatic and Lover, 85 Meeting in Roma, A, 85 Summer in Gossensass, The, 85 Brand, 95 A Doll’s House, 95 The Lady from the Sea, 95 Three Major Plays, 95 Peer Gynt, 95 Rosmersholm, 95 When We Dead Waken, 95 Ikoli, Tunde Scrape Off the Black, 57 Jackson, Adrian Mincemeat, 34 Jackson, Sam Peter Public Property, 34 Jepson, Paul Life After Life, 58 Johnson, Judith Every Breath, 58 Johnston, David On Insomnia and Midnight, 49 Way to Heaven, 63 Jones, Alex Fields of Gold, 59 I’m a Minger!, 105 Kafka, Franz Kafka’s Monkey, 34 Metamorphosis, 51 Karlin, Miriam Some Sort of Life, 22 Kárpáti, Péter The Fourth Gate, 58 Keeler, Dawn Daisy Miller, 58 Kelly, Dennis DNA, 10, 58 The Gods Weep, 34 Orphans, 34 After the End, 58 Debris, 58 The Fourth Gate, 58 Love and Money, 58 Osama the Hero, 58 Taking Care of Baby, 58 Plays One, 75 After the End, 75 Debris, 75 Love and Money, 75 Osama the Hero, 75 The Prince of Homburg, 92 Rose Bernd, 95 DNA (Schools Edition), 105

Kennedy, Martin Ian The Berlin Hanover Express, 34 Kenny, Mike Whiter Than Snow / Diary of an Action Man, 105 Kent, Nicolas Srebrenica, 59 Called to Account, 65 Kent, Sayan Another Paradise, 34 Khemiri, Jonas Hassen Theatre Café Plays One, 38 Kilgarriff, Michael Grace, Beauty and Banjos, 22 Von Kleist The Prince of Homburg, 92, 95 Three Plays, 95 Broken Pitcher, The, 95 Ordeal by Fire, 95 Prince Friedrich von Homburg, 95 Klimowski, Andrjez On Illustration, 5, 17 Kneehigh Theatre Cymbeline, 59 Tristan & Yseult, 83 Kolvenbach, John Gizmo Love, 59 Love Song, 59 Kops, Bernard Bill Shalom Bomb, 23 Plays One, 83 Ezra, 83 Hamlet of Stepney Green, The, 83 Playing Sinatra, 83 Plays Two, 84 Call in the Night, 84 Dreams of Anne Frank, 84 On Margate Sands, 84 Plays Three, 84 Dream of Peter Mann, The, 84 Enter Solly Gold, 84 Who Shall I Be Tomorrow?, 84 Kotak, Ash Hirja, 60 Kustow, Michael In Search of Jerusalem, 17 Labiche The Threesome, 95 Lan, David Tobias and the Angel, 59 Landles, Iain War Trilogy, 84 Siege, The, 84 Angels of Mons, The, 84 Berezina, 84 Langridge, Natasha Shraddha, 34 Laurence, Charles My Fat Friend, 59 Laurens, Joanna Five Gold Rings, 59 The Three Birds, 59 Lavery, Bryony The Bloody Chamber, 30 Kursk, 35 The Wicked Lady, 35

Precious Bane, 59 Cherished Disappointments in Love, 71 Uncle Vanya, 93 A Doll’s House, 95 Lawrence, D H The Fight for Barbara, 95 Lawson, Leigh The Dream, 17 Layne, Marcia Off Camera, 60 Leipacher, Mark Catching the Light, 17 Lenz Three Plays, 95 New Menoza, The, 95 Soldiers, The, 95 Tutor, The, 95 Lermontov, Mikhail Three Plays, 84 Masquerade, 84 Strange Man, A, 84 Two Brothers, 84 Leon, Ruth On Musicals, 5, 17 Lesage Turcaret, 95 Lessing Two Plays, 96 Minna Von Barnhelm, 96 Sara, 96 Two Jewish Plays, 96 Jews, The, 96 Nathan the Wise, 96 Leyshon, Nell Comfort Me With Apples, 60 Don’t Look Now, 60 Glass Eels, 60 The Farm, 60 Little, Ruth Inside Out, 23 Livings, Henry Plays One, 84 Don’t Touch Him He Might Resent It, 84 Eh?, 84 Finest Family in the Land, 84 Honour and Over, 84 Stop It Whoever You Are, 84 Logan, John Red, 35 Lone, Amber Deadeye, 61 Lonsdale, Frederick Plays One, 84 Lorca Federico Garcia Yerma, 96 Lucas, Paul How to Tell the Monsters from the Misfits, 35 The Star Throwers, 60 Luckham, Claire Plays One, 84 Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble, The, 84 Seduction of Anne Boleyn, The, 84 Trafford Tanzi, 84

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Matura, Mustapha Three Sisters, 96 Playboy of the West Indies, 35 Maxwell, Douglas Promises, Promises, 36 Decky Does a Bronco, 62 Helmet, 62 If Destroyed True, 62 Mancub, 62 Melody, 62 Our Bad Magnet, 62 Variety, 62 The Mother Ship, 105 The Miracle Man, 105 Maxwell, Glyn Liberty, 36 Mimi and the Stalker, 36 The Forever Waltz, 63 Plays One, 85 Lifeblood, The, 85 Only Girl in the World, The 85 Wolfpit, 85 Plays, Two, 85 Best Man Speech, 85 Broken Journey, 85 Last Valentine, The, 85 The Lion’s Face, 26 Mayorga, Juan Nocturnal, 36 Way to Heaven, 63 McAuliffe, Nichola A Fanny Full of Soap, 23 A British Subject, 35 McAvera, Brian The Kings of the Road, 60 Yo! Picasso!, 60 Picasso’s Women, 84 McConville, Ciaran Snowbound, 36 McDermott, Phelim Theatre of Blood, 70 McGill, Rachael The Lemon Princess, 61 Marieluise / The Time of the Tortoise, 90 McGrath, John Hyperlynx, 61 McKay, Malcolm Forgotten Voices, 61 McKenna, Virginia The Life in My Years, 14, 18 McLaughlin, Emily Inside Out, 23 McLean, Michael The Electric Hills, 61 McLeish, Kenneth The Belle Vue, 57 Orpheus, 61 Melville, Josephine Shoot 2 Win, 50 Melvin, Murray The Art of Theatre Workshop, 23 Mérimée The Conspirators, 96 Merlin, Bella With the Rogue’s Company, 23 Meyer, Michael Three Plays About Ibsen and Strindberg, 85 Lunatic and Lover, 85

Meeting in Roma, A, 85 Summer in Gossensass, The, 85 Three Danish Comedies / Jeppe of the Hill / The Scatterbrain, 96 Middleton, Alasdair The Enchanted Pig, The, 10, 26 Millar, Mervyn The Horses Mouth, 23 Journey of the Tall Horse, 23 Milward, Richard Apples, 36 Minyana, Philippe Habitats, 63 Mitchell, Adrian Plays With Songs, 85 In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency, 85 Satie-Day/Night, 85 Man Friday, 85 Tyger Two, 85 Calderon: Three Plays, 93 Fuente Ovejuna / Lost in a Mirror, 100 Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass, 107 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, 107 The Mammoth Sails Tonight, 108 The Pied Piper, 108 The Siege, 108 The Snow Queen, 108 Two Beatrix Potter Plays, 108 Jemima Puddleduck and Her Friends, 108 Peter Rabbit and His Friends, 108 Mitchell, Katie Waves, 18 Some Trace of Her, 18 Molière The Grouch, 36 Marriage in Disguise, 50 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 96 Don Juan, 96 The Hypochondriac, 96 The Hypochondriac / George Dandin Scapin, 96 The Misanthrope, 96 The Miser / The Idiot, 96 Tartuffe, 97 Molina The Rape of the War, 97 Tamar’s Revenge, 97 Moore, Wesley A Reckoning, 63 Moran, Nick Telstar, 63 Morgan, Abi Tiny Dynamite, 63 Two Plays, 85 Splendour, 85 Tender, 85 Morley, Sheridan Nöel and Gertie, 63 Morris, Peter Gaudeamus, 63 Guardians, 63

Morris, Tom Juliet and Her Romeo, 37 A Matter of Life and Death, 63 Nights at the Circus, 63 Mortimer, John Hock and Soda Water, 63 Naked Justice, 64 A Voyage Round My Father, 64 Collected Plays, Volume One, 85 Collaborators, 85 Dock Brief, The, 85 Lunch Hour, 85 What Shall We Tell Caroline?, 85 Collected Plays, Volume Two, 86 Bermondsey, 86 Edwin, 86 Knightsbridge, 86 Marble Arch, 86 Mill Hill, 86 Wrong Side of the Park, The, 86 Plays Three, 86 Collect Your Hand Baggage, 86 Fear of Heaven, The, 86 I Spy, 86 Judge, The, 86 Prince of Darkness, The, 86 Two Stars for Comfort, 86 Morton-Smith, Tom Salt Meets Wound, 64 Motton, Gregory Nightsongs, 53 Gengis Among the Pygmies, 64 God’s Island, 64 A Holiday in the Sun, 64 The World’s Biggest Diamond, 64 Jon Fosse: Plays One, 80 Ambulance Downfall, 86 Plays Two, 86 Lazy Brién, 86 Looking At You (Revised) Again, 86 Message for the Broken Hearted, A, 86 Terrible Voice of Satan, The, 86 Plays Three, 86 Cat and Mouse (Sheep), 86 In Praise of Progress, 86 Little Satire, A, 86 Easter, 99 Strindberg: The Plays Volume One, 99 Strindberg: The Plays Volume Two, 99 Mouawad, Wajdi Wedding Day at the Cromagnons, 37 Munsil, Janet Smoking with Lulu, 64

Murphy Darren Tabloid Caligula, 64 Murphy, Jimmy Two Plays, 86 Brothers of the Brush, 86 Kings of the Kilburn High Road, The, 86 Musset Three Plays, 97 Candlestick, The, 97 Don’t Fool With Love, 97 Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut, A, 97 Seven Plays, 97 Candlestick, The, 97 Diversion, A, 97 Don’t Trifle With Love, 97 Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut, A, 97 Fantasio, 97 Mariane, 97 You Can’t Think of Everything, 97 N’Diaye, Marie Hilda, 65 Naphtali, Amani Ragamuffin, 65 Nazlı, Leyla Silver Birch House, 64 Neate, Patrick Babel, 37 Nemeth, Àkos Car Thieves, 66 Newton, Lionel Hear and Now, 53 Noda, Hideki The Diver, 37 The Bee, 64 Red Demon, 65 Norden, Barbara Meteorite, 108 Norfolk, Mark Naked Soldiers, 37 Knock Down Ginger, 65 Wrong Place, 65 Norton-Hale, Robin La Boheme, 39 Norton-Taylor, Richard Bloody Sunday, 65 The Colour of Justice, 65 Justifying War, 65 Called to Account, 65 Nothomb, Amélie Human Rites, 66 Nunn, Michael Ballet Boyz, 25 Nutter, Alice Where’s Vietnam?, 37 O’Brien, Maureen The Cutting, 65 O’Connell, Chris Zero, 37 Hang Lenny Pope / Cloud: Burst, 65 Hymns, 65 Tall Phoenix, 66 Street Trilogy, 86 Car, 86 Kid, 86 Raw, 86 O’Connor, Sean Juliet and Her Romeo, 91

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Wise Guys, 86 Lope De Vega: Plays Two, 100 Osment, Philip Kebab, 30 Buried Alive, 66 The Undertaking, 66 Plays for Young People, 87 Pedro the Great Pretender, 93 Class Acts, 104 Little Violet and the Angel, 108 Palace of Fear, 108 Ostrovsky Plays Two, 97 Oswald, Peter Lucifer Saved, 38 Weyland, 38 Augustine’s Oak, 66 The Golden Ass, 67 Odysseus, 67 The Ramayana, 67 The Storms, 67 Mary Stuart, 98 Otway The Soldiers’ Fortune, 98 Owen, Gary Mrs Reynolds, and the Ruffian, 38 Padfield, Fiona Strip / Snapshots, 87 Paige, Elaine Memories, 18 Parker, Tony Life After Life, 58 Parkert, Cecilia Witness, 67 Pascal, Julia The Shylock Play, 38 Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, 87 Golem, The, 87 Saint Joan, 87 Year Zero, 87 The Holocaust Trilogy, 87 The Yiddish Queen Lear / Woman in the Moon, 87 Payne, Ben Sinner, 67 Peake, Mervyn Gormenghast, 67 Pennington, Michael Are You There Crocodile?, 24 Pentabus White Open Spaces, 67 Persson, Johan Pas de Deux, 25 Phelps, Sarah Modern Dance for Beginners, 67 Pinner, David Lady Day / Revelations, 87 Midsummer / All Hallows’ Eve, 87 The Stalin Trilogy, 87 Lenin in Love, 87 Potsdam Quartet, The, 87 Teddy Bear’s Picninc, The, 87 Three Power Plays, 87 Pirandello As You Desire Me, 97 Enrico Four, 98 Three Plays, 98

Man, Beast and Virtue, 98 Mountain Giants, The, 98 Rules of the Game, The, 98 Plowman, Gillian Crooked Wood, 38 Pommerat Joël Theatre Café Plays One, 38 Porter, Phil The Cracks in My Skin, 39 The Stonewatcher, 56 Stealing Sweets and Punching People, 67 Two Plays for Young People, 106 Power, Ben Paradise Lost, 68 Pownall, David Getting the Picture, 67 Innocent Screams, 68 Nijinksky: Death of a Faun, 68 The Composer Plays, 88 The Lancaster Plays, 88 Plays for One Person, 88 Rousseau’s Tale, 88 Crates on Barrels, 88 Later, 88 Plays One, 88 An Audience Called Edouard, 88 Livingstone and Sechele, 88 Motocar, 88 Richard III Part Two, 88 Plays Two, 88 Beef, 88 Black Star, 88 My Father’s House, 88 King John’s Jewel, 88 Viewing, The, 88 Radio Plays, 88 An Epiphanous Use of the Microphone, 88 Beef, 88 Flos, 88 Kitty Wilson, 88 Ploughboy Monday, 88 Under the Table, 88 The Dream of Chief Crazy Horse, 108 Priestley, J B The Art of the Dramatist, 24 Dangerous Corner, 68 Eden End, 68 Johnson Over Jordan, 68 Plays One, 88 Laburnum Grove, 88 Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon, 88 When We Are Married, 88 Plays Two, 88 Glass Cage, The, 88 Summer’s Day Dream, 88 They Came to a City, 88 Puccini, Giacomo La Boheme, 39 Pullman, Philip The Art of Darkness, 20 Darkness Illuminated, 21 The Scarecrow and His Servant, 106

Pushkin Boris Gudunov / The Little Tragedies, 98 Quilley, Denis Happiness Indeed, 24 Rabey, David Ian Theatre of Catastrophe, 21 Racine Three Plays, 76 Berenice, 76 Britannicus, 76 Phèdre, 76 Rådström, Niklas Monsters, 39 Ralph, Philip Deep Cut, 39 Reade, Simon Dear Mr Shakespeare, 18 Pride and Prejudice, 92 The Scarecrow and His Servant, 106 Not the End of the World, 108 Private Peaceful, 108 Rebellato, Dan Static, 39 Rees, Roland Fringe First, 24 Reeves, Emma Anne of Green Gables, 108 Carrie’s War, 109 Little Women, 109 Retallack, John Apples, 36 Company of Angels, 88 Rice, Emma Cymbeline, 59 A Matter of Life and Death, 63 Nights at the Circus, 63 Richter, Falk State of Emergency, 40 Reiss, Anya Spur of the Moment, 13, 39 Riess, Erwin Hawking’s Dream, 68 River, Sol B Plays, 88 Moor Masterpieces, 88 To Rahtid, 88 Unbroken, 88 Plays Two, 89 48-98, 89 Making Waves, 89 Two Tracks and Text Me, 89 Walk Against Fear, 89 White Witch of Rose Hall, The, 89 Roger-Lacan, Fabrice Members Only, 68 Rosenthal, Amy On the Rocks, 40 Rosenthal, Daniel The National, 19 Ross, Lesley The Jolly Folly of Polly the Scottish Trolley Dolly, 89 The 40-minute Tempest / King Ram, 109

Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, 98 Rudkin, David Afore Night Come, 77 Ibsen: Three Major Plays, 95 Sajtinac, Ugljesa Huddersfield, 68 Salter, David Broadway in the Shadows, 68 Sarma, Ursula Rani The Magic Tree, 39 The Dark Things, 39 …Touched… / Blue, 89 Schiller Mary Stuart, 98 Plays One, 98 Passion and Politics, 98 Robbers, The, 98 Plays Two, 98 Don Carlos, 98 Mary Stuart, 98 Plays Three, 98 Joan of Arc, 98 William Tell, 98 Schimmelpfennig, Roland Arabian Night, 68 The Woman Before, 69 Schnitzler Professor Bernhardi, 99 Schultz, Mark A Brief History of Helen of Troy, 69 Schwab, Werner Holy Mothers, 69 Scribe Believe It or Not, 98 Sellar, Paul World’s End, 40 2 Graves, 69 Seneca Hercules, 98 Shakespeare Dear Mr Shakespeare, 18 The Shylock Play, 38 A Tempest, 49 Rose Rage, 56 Cymbeline, 59 Love’s Labour’s Lost, 92 Juliet and Her Romeo, 92 Othello, 92 As You Like It, 98 Hamlet, 98 King Lear, 99 The Merry Wives of Windsor, 99 A Midsummer Nights Dream, 99 Much Ado About Nothing, 99 Romeo and Juliet, 99 Twelfth Night, 99 Macbeth, 103 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 103 Pericles, 103 Romeo and Juliet, 103 Twelfth Night, 103 Shannon, Richard The Lady of Burma, 69 Shaplin, Adriano Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, The, 40

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INDEX Pugilist Specialist, 70 Switch Triptych, 70 Three Plays, 90 Pugilist Specialist, 90 Victory at the Dirt Palace, 90 Wreck the Airline Barrier, 90 Sharpe, Edda How to do Accents 2nd Edition, 8, 19 How to do RP, 19 Shaw, Do Back to the Land, 69 Washboard Blues, 69 Sheikh, Farhana Mincemeat, 34 Shelly, Alan Athol Fugard: His Plays, People and Politics, 19 Silas, Shelley Calcutta Kosher, 69 Falling, 69 Mercy Fine, 70 Simpson, Lee Theatre of Blood, 70 Sirett, Paul A Couple of Poor PolishSpeaking Romanians, 36 Bad Blood Blues, 40 Running the Silk Road, 40 The Big Life, 70 Lush Life, 70 Rat Pack Confidential, 70 Plays Two, 89 Crusade, 89 International Café, 89 This Other Eden, 89 World’s Apart, 89 Three Plays, 89 Jamaica House, 89 Night in Tunisia, A, 89 Skaville, 89 Skarvellis, Jackie Movie Icons, 75 Slobodzianek, Tadeusz Our Class, 40 Slovo, Gillian Guantanamo, 48 Smiles, Roy Funny People, 5 Kurt and Sid, 40 Pythonesque, 41 Year of the Rat, 41 Ying Tong, 70 Snelson, John An Illustrated History of Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Opera House, 26 Soans, Robin Mixed Up North, 41 Talking to Terrorists, 70 Sophocles Ajax, 93 Antigone, 99 Philoctetes, 99 Specht, Kerstin Marieluise / The Time of the Tortoise, 89 Speight, Johnny Three Plays, 89 Compartment, The, 89 If There Weren’t Any Blacks You’d Have To Invent Them, 89 Knacker’s Yard, The, 89

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Spregelburd, Rafael Stupidity, 70 Steward, Dan Verbatim, 22 Stone, Rhashan Two Step, 70 Strauss, Botho Three Plays, 90 Park, The, 90 Seven Doors, 90 Time and the Room, 90 Strindberg Three Plays About Ibsen and Strindberg, 85 Lunatic and Lover, 85 Meeting in Roma, A, 85 Summer in Gossensass, The, 85 Easter, 99 The Plays Volume One, 99 Comrades, The, 99 Creditors, 99 Father, The, 99 Miss Julie, 99 The Plays Volume Two, 99 Black Grove, The, 99 Burned Site, The, 99 Ghost Sonata, The, 99 Great Highway, The, 99 Pelican, The, 99 Storm, The, 99 Stuart, Kelly Shadow Language, 41 Susi, Lolly An Untidy Career: Conversations with George Hall, 17 Sutton, Joe Complicit, 41 Synge, J M Shadows, 99 Playboy of the West Indies, 105 Taylor, Ken Staying On, 70 Teevan, Colin Kafka’s Monkey, 34 The Diver, 37 Amazonia, 41 Marathon, 51 Cuckoos, 62 The Bee, 64 Alcmaeon in Corinth, 70 How Many Miles to Basra?, 71 Missing Persons, 71 Svejk, 71 The Walls, 71 Two Plays, 90 Big Sea, The, 90 Vinegar and Brown Paper, 90 Bacchai, 94 Iph…, 94 Monkey!, 109 Theatre Café Theatre Café Plays One, 38 Child, The, 38 Invasion!, 38 Respect, 38 Tinniswood, Peter Two Plays for One, 90 Tischler, Nancy M The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume One, 21

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume Two, 21 Toller Plays One, 99 Hoppla, We’re Alive!, 99 Masses Man, 99 Transformation, 99 Tolstoy, Leo The Kreutzer Sonata, 41 Trafford, Steve A Cloud in Trousers, 71 Tregenna Catherine Art and Guff, 71 Trevit, William Ballet Boyz, 25 Tucker, Paul Room to Let, 71 Turgenev Plays, 99 The Bachelor, 99 Lunch At His Excellency’s, 99 Month in the Country, A, 99 One of the Family, 99 A Provincial Lady, 99 Stony Broke, 99 Turkka Jouko & Juha Cherished Disappointments in Love, 71 Unwin Stephen The Well Read Play, 19 Valetti, Serge Le Pub!, 71 Various The Great Game: Afghanistan, 74 Paris Calling, 74, 93 de Vega, Lope Spanish Classical Drama, 15 The Dog in the Manger,100 Madness in Valencia / Peribañez, 100 Fuente Ovejuna / Lost in a Mirror, 100 Plays One, 100 Innocent Child, The, 100 Jewess of Toledo, The, 100 Plays Two, 100 Bond Honoured, A, 100 Labyrinth of Desire, The, 100 Vicente The Boat Plays, 100 Vondel Lucifer, 100 Wade, Laura Posh, 41 Breathing Corpses, 71 Colder Than Here, 72 Other Hands, 72 Alice, 104 Walker, Ché Car Thieves, 66 Walker, James Proving Mr Jennings, 72 Wall, Michael Women Laughing, 72

Wallace, Naomi Two Into War, 82 Walsh, Megan High Tide, 82 Walters, Jess ‘Low Dat, 109 Wansell, Geoffrey Terrence Rattigan, 19 Warren, Roger Rose Rage, 56 Washburn, Anne The Internationalist, 42 Weate, Catherine Classic Voice, 19 The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men, 102 The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women, 102 The Oberon Book of Modern Duologues, 102 Wedekind Franziska, 100 The Lulu Plays, 100 Musik, 100 Weller, Michael What the Night is For, 72 Wenzel, Jean-Paul Rising Blue, 72 Wesker, Arnold Wesker on Theatre, 6, 19 Groupie, 41 Wesker’s Love Plays, 76 Wesker’s Political Plays, 6, 76 Wesker’s Social Plays, 76 Wesker’s Monologues, 102 de Wet, Reza The Brothers, 72 Plays One, 90 Crossing, 90 Miracle, 90 Missing, 90 Plays Two, 90 African Gothic, 90 Breathing In, 90 Good Heavens, 90 A Russian Trilogy, 90 On the Lake, 90 Three Sisters Two, 90 Yelena, 90 Two Plays, 90 Concealment, 90 Worm in the Bud, A, 90 Whitehead, Ted Plays, 90 Alpha Beta, 90 Foursome, The, 90 Punishment, The, 90 Sea Anchor, The, 90 Whitemore, Hugh Pack of Lies, 72 Whithouse, Toby Blue Eyes and Heels, 72 Whiting, John At Ease in a Bright Red Tie, 24 Plays One, 90 Conditions of

Agreement, 90 No More A-Roving, 90 Penny for a Song, A, 90 Saints Day, 90 Plays Two, 91 Devils, The, 91 Gates of Summer, The, 91 Marching Song, 91 No Why, 91 Nomads, The, 91 Noman, 91 Walk in the Desert, A, 91 Whittaker, Khan Yasmin Bells, 91 Whittell, Crispin Stupidity, 70 Clever Dick, 72 Wilcox, Michael Mrs Steinberg and the Byker Boy, 72 Williams, Trevor Talkin’ Loud, 72 Willmott, Phil Femme Fatal, 73 Dick Barton, 73 The Lower Depths, 95 Treasure Island, 109 Uncle Ebenezer, 109 Wilson, Lanford Serenading Louie, 42 Wilson, Laurence Urban Legend, 73 Wilson, Lawrence Lost Monsters, 42 Withers, Lloyd No Sweat, 73 Woolf, Virginia Waves, 18 Wood, Charles Plays One, 91 Across from the Gardens of Allah, 91 Veterans, 91 Plays Two, 91 Fill the Stage With Happy Hours, 91 Ms Courage, 91 Red Star, 91 Plays Three 91 Dingo, 90 H, 90 Jingo, 90 The Tower, 94 Pirandello: Three Plays, 98 Toller: Plays One, 99 Woods, David Tough Time, Nice Time, 33 Woods, Sarah Hilda, 65 Soap, 72 Trips, 72 Visible, 73 Grace / Cake, 91 Woolf, Virginia Waves, 18 Wyspianski The Wedding, 100 Yeats, W B Shadows, 99 Younis, Madani Silent Cry, 73 Zola Therese Raquin, 100

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Antigone, 99 Apples, 36 Apprenticeship, 16 Arabian Night, 77 Are You There Crocodile?, 24 Aren’t We All?, 84 Art and Guff, 71 Art of Darkness, The, 20 Art of the Dramatist, The, 24 Art of Theatre Workshop, The, 23 Art of Translation, The, 5, 15 As You Desire Me, 97 As You Like It, 98 Associate, The, 47 Astrakhan (Winter), 79 At Ease in a Bright Red Tie, 24 Athol Fugard: His Plays, People and Politics, 19 Augustine’s Oak, 66 Author, The, 31 B is for Black, 76 Babel, 37 Bacchai, 94 Bachelor, The, 99 Back to the Land, 69 Bad Blood Blues, 40 Bad Company, 78 Badnuff, 50 Baghdad Wedding, 43 Ballet Boyz, 25 Barker: Plays Five, 74 Barker: Plays Four, 74 Barker: Plays One, 77 Barker: Plays Six 74 Barker: Plays Three, 77 Barker: Plays Two, 77 Bashment, 46 Battle of Green Lanes, 66 Battle of Will, 54 Battlefield, The 95 Beach, The, 44 Bean: Plays One, 78 Bean: Plays Three, 75 Bean: Plays Two, 78 Bear Hug, 81 Beautiful, 81 Bee, The, 64 Beef, 88 Beef, 88 Before Anger, 76 Before the Party, 77 Behsharam (Shameless), 47 Behud (Disgrace), 30 Behzti (Dishonour), 47 Believe It or Not, 98 Belle Vue, The, 57 Bells, 91 Bent: Three Plays, 78 Berenice, 76

Berezina, 84 Berlin Hanover Express, The, 34 Bermondsey, 86 Bespoke Overcoat, The, 85 Best Man Speech, 85 Betts: Plays One, 78 Betts: Plays Two, 78 Big Fellah, The, 9, 30 Big Life, The, 70 Big Sea, The, 90 Birmingham Royal Ballet, 7, 25 Bites, 43 Black Crows, 48 Black Grove, The, 99 Black Snow, 50 Black Star, 88 Blood of the Bambergs, The, 87 Bloody Chamber, The, 30 Bloody Sunday, 65 Blue, 89 Blue Eyes and Heels, 72 Boat Plays, The, 100 Bogus Woman, The, 43 Bolt: Plays One, 78 Bolt: Plays Two, 78 Bomb in Brewery Street, 79 Bond Honoured, A, 100 Bones, 43 Boris Gudunov, 98 Bottle, The, 61 Bowen: Plays One, 79 Boy With a Cart, The, 81 Brand, 95 Break Away, 53 Break in Berlin, A, 83 Breakfast Hearts, 81 Breakfast with Mugabe, 55 Breathing Corpses, 71 Breathing In, 90 Brief History of Helen of Troy, A, 69 Britannicus, 76 British Subject, A, 35 Broadway in the Shadows, 68 Broken Journey, 85 Broken Pitcher, The, 95 Brothers of the Brush, 86 Brothers, The, 72 Brown Girl in the Ring, 74 Browne: Three Plays, 79 Bulletproof Soul, 52 Burglar Boy - and his Swedish Friend, The, 78 Buried Alive, 66 Burn and Rosalind, 82

Burned Site, The, 99 Busy Day, A, 49 Byker Boy, The, 95 Caedmon Construed, 81 Cake, 91 Calcutta Kosher, 69 Calderón: Three Plays, 93 Calico, 56 Call in the Night, 84 Called to Account, 65 Camille, 45 Canaries Sometimes Sing, 84 Candlestick, The, 97 Car Thieves Car, 86 Carrie’s War, 109 Castle, The, 77 Cat and Mouse (Sheep), 86 Catching the Light, 17 Chaos, 91 Chère Maître, 52 Cherished Disappointments in Love, 71 Cherry Orchard, The (Tr Gems), 93 Cherry Orchard, The (Tr Gill), 93 Chinchilla, 84 Choir Play, 81 Christ of Coldharbour Lane, The, 43 Christmas Carol, A, 45 Chronicles of Long Kesh, 35 Class Acts, 104 Classic Voice, 19 Claw, 77 Clever Dick, 72 Clockwatching, 78 Close Up, 21 Cloud in Trousers, A, 71 Cloud: Burst, 65 Coburn: Three Plays, 79 Cocoa, 55 Coffee Lover’s Guide to America, 82 Colder Than Here, 72 Collaborators, 85 Collateral Damage, 45 Collect Your Hand Baggage, 86 Colour of Justice, The, 65 Comfort Me With Apples, 60 Coming Around Again, 63 Coming of Godot, The, 20 Compact Failure, 52 Company of Angels, 88

Compartment, The, 89 Complicit, 41 Composer Plays, The, 88 Comrades, The, 99 Concealment, 90 Conditions of Agreement, 90 Conspirators, The, 96 Coral Browne, 20 Corneille: Three Masterpieces, 94 Corunna, 79 Country Wife, The, 55 Couple of Poor PolishSpeaking Romanians, A, 36 Cracks in My Skin, The, 39 Crates on Barrels, 88 Creditors, 99 Cregan: Three Plays, 79 Cressida Among the Greeks, The, 80 Crooked Wood, 38 Crossfire, 44 Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, 87 Crossing, 90 Crusade, 89 Crystal Den, The, 44 Cuckoos, 62 Curtmantle, 81 Cutting, The, 65 Cymbeline, 59 Cyrano de Bergerac, 98 Daisy Miller, 58 Dandy in the Underworld, 32 Dangerous Corner, 68 Dark is Light Enough, The, 81 Dark River, 77 Dark Things, The, 39 Darkness Illuminated, 22 David Copperfield, 56 De Sade Show, 85 De Vega: Plays One, 100 De Vega: Plays Two, 100 De Wet: Plays One, 90 De Wet: Plays Two, 90 De Wet: Two Plays, 90 Dead Hands, 44 Dead of Night, The, 80 Dead Souls, 77 Dead Wait, The, 57 Deadeye, 61 Dear Mr Shakespeare, 18 Death of a Black Man, The, 81 Death to Mr Moody, 82 Death Variations, 81

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10, 26 End of Me Old Cigar, The, 84 England, 50 England People Very Nice, 9, 29 English Game, The, 29, 75 Enter Solly Gold, 84 Entertaining Angels, 31 Escapologist, The, 47 Estate, The, 43 Europe on Stage, 20 Europeans, The, 77 Every Breath, 58 Exit, Pursued by a Badger, 15 Exposed by the Mask, 3, 17 Ezra, 83 Fagon: Plays, 81 Faith, 67, 77 Falling, 69 Family Dance, 79 Familyman, 29 Fanny Full of Soap, A, 23 Fantasio, 97 Farm, The, 60 Father, The, 99 Faust Parts I & II, 94 Fear of Heaven, The, 86 Femme Fatal, 73 Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The, 45 Fields of Gold, 59 Figaro Gets Divorced, 83 Fight for Barbara, The, 95 Fill the Stage With Happy Hours, 91 Finest Family in the Land, 84 Finlayson: Plays, 81 First Miracle of the Boy Jesus, The, 80 Firstborn, The, 82 Fit, 104 Five Gold Rings, 59 Five Visions of the Faithful, 78 Flamingos, 82 Flos, 88 Flowering Cherry, 78 Flue Season, The, 52 Fo: Plays, 80 Foley: Three Plays, 80 Food Chain, 62 Foreplay, 33 Forever Waltz, The, 63 Forgotten Voices, 61 Fortune Club, The, 52 Fosse: Plays Four, 81 Fosse: Plays One, 80

Fosse: Plays Three, 81 Fosse: Plays Two, 81 Found in the Ground, 74 Foursome, The, 90 Fourth Gate, The, 58 Fragile Land, 55 Franco’s Bastard, 79 Franziska, 100 Frederick Ashton, 27 Free, 48 French: Three Plays, 81 Friends and Lovers, 95 Fringe First, 24 Frobisher’s Gold, 55 From Marriage to Divorce, 94 From Word to Play, 15 Fry: Plays One, 81 Fry: Plays Three, 81 Fry: Plays Two, 81 Fuente Ovejuna, 100 Funny People, 5, 17 Future Me, 48 Game of Love and Chance, 96 Garden Girls, The, 83 Gates of Summer, The, 91 Gaudeamus, 64 GBS, 56 Gems: Plays One, 82 Gengis Among the Pygmies, 64 Gentle Jack, 78 George Dandin, 96 German Tetralogy, The, 80 Gertrude - Cry, The, 77 Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, 79 Getting the Picture, 67 Getting to the Foot of the Mountain, 52 Ghost Sonata, The, 99 Gift to the Audience, A, 5,16 Gilgamesh, 57 Girl in the Yellow Dress, 33 Girl on the Sofa, The, 53 Girl, Watching, 48 Gizmo Love, 59 Gladiator Games, 55 Glass Cage, The, 88 Glass Eels, 60 Glass Room, The, 50 Glyn Maxwell: Plays One, 85 Glyn Maxwell: Plays, Two, 85 God Botherers, The, 46, 77 God’s Island, 64 God’s Weep, The, 34 Goethe Parts I & II, 94

Golden Ass, The, 67 Goldhawk Road, 78 Goldoni: Volume Two, 95 Golem, The, 87 Good Heavens, 90 Gormenghast, 67 Government Inspector, The, 94 Grace (Gordon), 54 Grace (Woods), 91 Grace, Beauty and Banjos, 22 Grande Guignol, 33 Great Aunts, The, 79 Great Expectations, 45 Great Extension, The, 38 Great Game: Afghanistan, The, 74 Great Highway, The, 99 Great Theatre of the World, The, 93 Grouch, The, 36 Groupie, 42 Guantanamo, 48 Guardians, 63 Guitar Man, The, 80 H, 91 Habitats, 63 Haidle: Plays One, 82 Hall: Three Plays, 82 Hamlet of Stepney Green, The, 83 Hamlet, 98 Hang Lenny Pope, 65 Happiness Indeed, 24 Happy Savages, 31 Harvest, 46, 74 Hated Nightfall, 74 Hawking’s Dream, 68 He Stumbled, 77 Head/Case, 57 Hear and Now, 53 Hebrew Lesson, The, 85 Heldenplatz, 30 Helmet, 62 Henhouse, 66 Her Mother and Bartok, 76 Hercules, 98 Hidden Gems: Six Experimental Plays by Black British Writers, 76 High Life, 31 High Tide, 82 Hilda, 65 Hill: Three Plays, 82 Hirja, 60 Hobson’s Choice, 48 Hock and Soda Water, 63 Holborough: Three Plays, 83 Holiday in the Sun, A, 64

Holy Mothers, 69 Honeymoon Suite, 46, 77 Honour and Over, 84 Hoppla, We’re Alive!, 99 Horses Mouth, The, 23 Hot Zone, The, 61 Hounding of David Oluwale, The, 29 House of Correction, A, 74 House of Desires, 94 House That Sailed Away, The, 107 How Many Miles to Basra?, 71 How to Act Around Cops, 48 How to do Accents, 19 How to do RP, 19 How to tell the Monsters from the Misfits, 35 Howarth: Four Plays, 83 Huddersfield, 68 Human Rites, 66 Hurts Given and Received, 74 Hymns, 65 Hyperlynx, 61 Hypochondriac, The, 96 (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch, 49 I Like Mine With a Kiss, 53 I Saw Myself, 74 I Spy, 86 I’m the King of the Castle!, 107 Ibsen: Three Major Plays, 95 Ice House, The, 60 Idiot, The, 96 If Destroyed True, 62 If There Weren’t Any Blacks You’d Have To Invent Them, 89 Illusion, The, 94 Illustrious Corpse, The, 44 I’m a Minger!, 105 In Extremis, 45 In Praise of Progress, 86 In Quest of Conscience, 60 In Search of Jerusalem, 17 In The Club, 46, 74 In the Mood, 77 In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency, 85 Incarceration, 78 Inglorious Technicolour, 82 Innocent Child, The, 100 Innocent Screams, 68

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Kops: Plays One, 83 Kops: Plays Three, 84 Kops: Plays Two, 84 Kreutzer Sonata, The, 42 Kursk, 35 Kurt and Sid, 40 La Boheme, 39 La Casa Azul, 52 Laburnum Grove, 88 Labyrinth of Desire, The, 100 Lady Day, 87 Lady from the Sea, The, 95 Lady of Burma, The, 69 Lady’s Not for Burning, The, 81 Lancaster Plays, The, 88 Last Days of Desire, The, 78 Last Days of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, in Exile, The, 80 Last of Mrs Cheney, The, 84 Last Supper, The, 74 Last Thrash, The, 79 Last Valentine, The, 85 Later, 88 Lazy Brién, 86 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 96 Le Cid, 94 Le Pub!, 71 Lemon Princess, The, 61 Lenin in Love, 87 Lenz: Three Plays, 95 Lermontov: Three Plays, 84 Lessing: Two Jewish Plays, 96 Lessing: Two Plays, 96 Liar, The, 94 Liberty, 36 Lie of the Land, 30 Lies Have Been Told, 46 Life After Life, 58 Life in My Years, The, 14, 18 Lifeblood, The, 85 Life’s a Dream, 93 Lifesavers, The, 32 Light, 49 Lily in Little India, A, 83 Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The, 107 Lion’s Face, The, 26 Listen, 87 Listening Heaven, A, 78 Little Boxes, 79 Little Mermaid, The, 107 Little Satire, A, 87 Little Tragedies, The, 98

Little Violet and the Angel, 108 Little Women, 109 Livings: Plays One, 84 Livingstone and Sechele, 88 Lobster Vantastic, 75 Lola Brecht, 79 London Assurance, 92 Lonely Cowboy, 81 Lonsdale: Plays One, 84 Looking At You (Revised) Again, 86 Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime, 45 Losing My Marbles, 52 Lost in a Mirror, 100 Lost Monsters, 42 Love and Money, 58, 75 Love of a Good Man, The, 77 Love Song, 59 Love’s Labour’s Lost, 92 ‘Low Dat, 109 Lower Depths, The, 95 Lucifer Saved, 38 Lucifer, 100 Luckham: Plays One, 84 Lulu Plays, The, 100 Lunatic and Lover, 85 Lunatic Queen, The, 47 Lunch at His Excellency’s, 99 Lunch Hour, 85 Lush Life, 70 Lyre, 82 Lysistrata, 93 Macbeth, 103 MacDonald: Plays Two, 85 MacDonald: Plays, 84 Madness in Valencia, 100 Magic Tree, The, 39 Making An Exhibition of Myself, 22 Making Waves, 89 Mammoth Sails Tonight, The, 108 Man Friday, 85 Man, Beast and Virtue, 98 Mancub, 62 Mandragora, King of India, 61 Mankowitz: Plays, 85 Marathon, 51 Marble Arch, 86 Marching Song, 91 Margot Fonteyn, 27 Mariane, 97 Marieluise, 89 Marivaux: Two Plays, 96 Marlene, 54

Marriage in Disguise, 51 Marriage of Figaro, The, 93 Mary Stuart, 98 Mary Stuart, 98 Masquerade, 84 Masses Man, 99 Matter of Life and Death, A, 63 Mayor of Zalamea, The, 93 Meaning of Waiting, The, 30 Medea, 94 Meet the Mukherjees, 33 Meeting in Roma, A, 85 Meeting Mr. Wilde, 82 Meeting Myself Coming Back, 57 Melody, 62 Members Only, 68 Memories, 18 Mentalists, The, 46 Mercy Fine, 70 Mercy, 49 Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 99 Message for the Broken Hearted, A, 86 Metamorphosis, 53 Meteorite, 108 Middletown, 31 Midsummer Night’s Dream (Heap), A, 103 Midsummer Night’s Dream (Unwin), A 99 Mighty Hunter, The, 85 Mill Hill, 86 Mimi and the Stalker, 36 Mincemeat, 34 Mindgame, 58 Minna Von Barnhelm, 96 Miracle (de Wet), 90 Miracle Man, The, 105 Miracle, The (Coghlan), 104 Misanthrope, The, 96 Miser, The, 96 Misfits, 81 Miss Julie, 99 Missing Persons, 71 Missing, 90 Mixed Up North, 41 Moj of the Antarctic, 76 Molière: Two Plays, 97 Molora, 92 Monkey!, 109 Monologue, A, 86 Monster, 61 Monsters, 39 Month in the Country, A, 99 Moor Masterpieces, 88 Morgan: Two Plays, 85

Mortimer: Collected Plays, Volume One, 85 Mortimer: Collected Plays, Volume Two, 86 Mortimer: Plays Three, 86 Most Humane Way to Kill a Lobster, The, 61 Most Sweet Poison, A, 54 Mother and Child, 81 Mother Caldwell, 80 Mother Ship, The, 105 Motherland, 32 Motocar, 88 Motton: Plays Three, 86 Motton: Plays Two, 86 Mountain Giants, The, 98 Movie Icons, 75 Mozart’s Nachtmusik, 57 Mr Elliot, 82 Mr England, 46, 77 Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon, 88 Mr Marmalade, 82 Mrs Pat, 54 Mrs Reynolds, and the Ruffian, 38 Mrs Steinberg and the Byker Boy, 72 Ms Courage, 91 Much Ado About Nothing, 99 Mummies and Daddies, 78 Murders at Argos, 80 Murphy: Two Plays, 86 Musik, 100 Mussett: Seven Plays, 97 Mussett: Three Plays, 97 My Fat Friend, 59 My Father’s House, 88 My Sentiments Exactly, 20 Naked Justice, 64 Naked Soldiers, 37 Name, The, 80 Nathan the Wise, 96 National, The, 19 Navy Pier, 49 Ned and Sharon, 82 New Menoza, The, 95 Nice Dorothy, 79 Night in Tunisia, A, 89 Nights at the Circus, 63 Nightsongs, 53 Nijinksky: Death of a Faun, 68 No More A-Roving, 90 No Sweat, 73 No Why, 91 No, 95 Nocturnal, 36

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INDEX Nöel and Gertie, 63 Nomads, The, 91 Noman, 91 Not in My Name, 104 Not the End of the World, 108 Oakes: Collected Plays, 76 Oberon Book of Modern Duologues, The, 102 Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men, The, 102 Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women, The, 102 Odds on Oblivion, 79 Odysseus, 67 Of the Terrifying Events on the Hamelin Estate, 104 Off Camera, 60 Oh, The Humanity, 75 Old King Cole, 107 Old Ladies, The, 77 Oliver Twist, 45 On Approval, 84 On Death, 54 On Ego, 54 On Emotion, 32 On Illustration, 5, 17 On Insomnia and Midnight, 49 On Love, 55 On Margate Sands, 84 On the Lake, 90 On Musicals, 5, 17 On the Rocks, 40 Once We Were Mothers, 53 One of the Family, 99 Onefourseven, 80 Only Girl in the World, The 85 Ordeal by Fire, 95 Orphans, 34 Orpheus, 61 Orwell: A Celebration, 31 Osama the Hero, 58, 75 Osborne: Four Plays, 86 Ostrovsky: Plays Two, 97 Othello, 40 Other Hands, 72 Our Bad Magnet, 62 Our Class, 40 Our Man in Havana, 33 Pack of Lies, 72 Palace of Fear, 108 Paradise Lost, 68 Paris Calling, 74, 77 Park, The (Conville), 20 Park, The (Strauss), 90 Partisans, 83 Pas de Deux, 25

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Passion and Politics, 98 Pedro, The Great Pretender, 93 Peer Gynt, 95 Pelican, The, 99 Penny for a Song, A, 90 Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre, 21 Peribañez, 100 Pericles, 103 Perpetua, 55 Persons Unknown, 85 Peter Hall’s Diaries, 22 Peter Rabbit and His Friends, 108 Phaethon, 92 Phèdre, 76 Philoctetes, 99 Phoenix Too Frequent, A, 81 Piaf, 32 Picasso’s Women, 84 Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 66 Pied Piper, The, 108 Pimp, The, 75 Pinocchio, 107 Pirandello: Three Plays, 98 Place Calling Itself Rome, A, 86 Placido Domingo, 27 Playboy of the West Indies, 35 Playing Sinatra, 83 Plays for England, 87 Plays for Young People, 87 Plays With Songs, 85 Playwright as Rebel, The, 21 Ploughboy Monday, 88 Pope and the Witch, The, 80 Portugal, 51 Posh, 42 Possibilities, The, 77 Potsdam Quartet, The, 87 Pownall: Plays for One Person, 88 Pownall: Plays One, 88 Pownall: Plays Two, 88 Pownall: Radio Plays, 88 Prayer for My Daughter, A, 29 Precious Bane, 59 Pressure Drop 32 Prick Up Your Ears, 30 Pride and Prejudice, 92 Priestley: Plays One, 88 Priestley: Plays Two, 88 Prince of Darkness, The, 86

Prince of Homburg, The, 95 Private Peaceful, 108 Professor Bernhardi, 98 Prometheus Bound, 93 Promises, Promises, 36 Provincial Lady, A, 99 Proving Mr Jennings, 72 Pub Quiz Is Life, 29 Public Property, 34 Pugilist Specialist, 70 Pugilist Specialist, 89 Punishment, The, 90 Pythonesque, 41 Rabbit, 50 Racine: Three Plays, 76 Rag and Bone, 82 Ragamuffin, 65 Rainbow Kiss, 53 Ramayana (Farber), 92 Ramayana, The (Oswald), 67 Rape of the War, The, 97 Rat Pack Confidential, 70 Raw, 86 Raw Talent, 22 Really Old, Like Forty Five, 37 Reckoning, A, 63 Red Demon, 65 Red Star, 91 Red, 35 Red Balloon, The, 107 Representative, The, 57 Respect, 38 Revelations, 87 Richard III Part Two, 88 Ride of Your Life, The, 104 Ringing of Bells, 81 Rising Blue, 72 River: Plays Two, 89 River: Plays, 88 Road, the House, the Road, The, 74 Robbers, The, 98 Role of the Critic, The, 15 Romeo and Juliet (Unwin and Cronin), 99 Romeo and Juliet (Heap), 103 Room to Let, 71 Rose Bernd, 95 Rose Rage, 56 Rosmersholm, 95 Rousseau’s Tale, 88 Royal Ballet In House, The, 26 Royal Ballet Yearbook 2009/10, The, 7, 25 Royal Ballet Yearbook 20010/11, The, 7, 25 Rudolf Nureyev, 27

Rules of the Game, The, 98 Running the Silk Road, 40 Russian Trilogy, A, 90 Ruy, Blas, 95 S-27, 33 Sacred Heart, 62 Sad Hotel, 53 Safe, 79 Saint Joan, 87 Saint’s Day, 90 Salt Meets Wound, 64 Salto Mortale, 85 Samson Riddle, The, 85 Sanctuary, 56 Sara, 96 Satie-Day/Night, 85 Scapin, 96 Scarecrow and His Servant, The, 106 Scatterbrain, The, 95 Scenes from an Execution, 77 Scenes from the Back of Beyond, 66 Schiller: Plays One, 98 Schiller: Plays Three, 98 Schiller: Plays Two, 98 School Play, 44 Scrape Off the Black, 57 Scuffer, 48 Sea Anchor, The, 90 Seagull, The, 93 Seduction of Almighty God, The, 45 Seduction of Anne Boleyn, The, 84 Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume One, 21 Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume Two, 21 Sense of Detachment, A, 86 Serenading Louie, 41 Seven Doors, 90 Seven Lears, 74 Sexual Congress, A, 83 Shadow Language, 41 Shadowmouth, 67, 77 Shadows, 99 Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players 3rd Edition, 3, 16 Shalom Bomb, 23 Sha-manic Plays, 79 Shaplin: Three Plays, 89 Shoot 2 Win, 50 Shraddha, 34 Shylock Play, The, 38 Siege (Fry), 82 Siege, The (Landles), 84

Siege, The (Mitchell), 108 Silence and Violence, 78 Silent Cry, 73 Silent Engine, 53 Silver Birch House, 64 Singles, 79 Sirrett: Plays Two, 89 Sirrett: Three Plays, 89 Sisterhood, 98 Skaville, 89 Sladek, 83 Sleep My Baby Sleep, 81 Sleep of Prisoners, A, 81 Sleeping Dogs, 87 Slowly, 74 Smack Family Robinson, 46, 77 Small Miracle, 51 Smithreens, 77 Smoking with Lulu, 64 Snow Palace, The, 54 Snow Queen, The, 108 Snowbound, 36 Soap, 72 Soldiers, The, 95 Soldiers’ Fortune, The, 97 Solitude, 75 Solo Voices, 102 Some Sort of Life, 22 Some Trace of Her, 18 Someone is Going to Come, 80 Something Dark, 76 Something Written in the State of Denmark, 18 Son, The, 81 Sons of Charlie Paora, 76 Sounds...In Session, 57 Southwark Mysteries, The, 49 Spanish Classical Drama, 15 Speight: Three Plays, 89 Spike, 50 Splendour, 85 Spring ‘81, 77 Spur of the Moment, 13, 39 Srebrenica, 59 Stalin Trilogy, The, 87 Stamping Shouting and Singing Home, 107 Star Throwers, The, 60 Starfucker, 14 State of Emergency, 40 State of Revolution, 78 Static, 39 Staying On, 70 Stealing Sweets and Punching People, 67

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INDEX Stonewatcher, The, 56 Stony Broke, 99 Stop It Whoever You Are, 84 Storm, The, 99 Storms, The, 67 Story of an African Farm, The, 44 Story of the Ring, The, 26 Strange Case of Martin Richter, The, 80 Strange Man, A, 84 Strange Orchestra, A, 77 Strauss: Three Plays, 90 Stravinsky the Outsider, 5, 18 Street Trilogy, 86 Strindberg: The Plays Volume One, 99 Strindberg: The Plays Volume Two, 99 Stupidity, 70 Style and Its Origins, A, 20 Such Devoted Sisters, 45 Suffering the Witch, 80 Sugar in the Morning, 83 Sugar Mummies, 56 Sugar, Sugar 47 Summer Again, 50 Summer in Gossensass, The, 85 Summer’s Day Dream, 88 Summer’s Day, A, 81 Summit Conference, 84 Sunbeam Terrace, 49 Suppliants, 93 Svejk, 71 Swankiller, 51 Sweet Talk, 77 Switch Triptych, 70 Tabloid Caligula, 65 Taking Care of Baby, 58 Tales from Vienna Woods, 83 Talkin’ Loud, 72 Talking Stages, 18 Talking to Terrorists, 70 Tall Phoenix, 66 Tamar’s Revenge, 97 Tartuffe, 97 Tasso Clavigo, 94 Teddy Bear’s Picnic, The, 87 Teevan: Two Plays, 90 Tejas Verdes, 48 Telstar, 63 Tempest, A, 49 Tender, 85 Terrence Rattigan, 19 Terrible Voice of Satan,

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The, 86 Theatre and the Mind, 4, 16 Theatre as Witness, 75 Theatre Café Plays One, 38 Theatre of Blood, 70 Theatre of Catastrophe, 21 Therese Raquin, 100 They Came to a City, 88 Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, 43 Thirteen Monologues, 102 This Child, 38 This Isn’t Romance, 31 This Other City, 30 This Other Eden, 89 This Wooden ‘O’, 20 Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), 51 Thor, With Angels, 81 Three Birds, The, 59 Three Danish Comedies, 95 Three Farces, 94 Three Months Gone, 83 Three Plays About Ibsen and Strindberg, 85 Three Sisters Two, 90 Three Sisters, 96 Three War Plays, 83 Threesome, The, 95 Thunder in the Air, 23 Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew, 78 Tiger and the Horse, 78 Time and the Room, 90 Time of the Tortoise, The, 89 Tinniswood: Two Plays for One, 90 Tiny Dynamite, 63 To Set Prometheus Free, 4, 16 To Rahtid, 88 Toast, 78 Tobias and the Angel, 59 Tobaccoland, 59 Tocororo, 25 Toller: Plays One, 99 Tom and Viv, 56 Tom Jones, 38 Topless Mum, 33 …Touched…, 89 Tough Time, Nice Time, 33 Tower, The, 95 Trad, 51 Trafford Tanzi, 84 Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, The, 40 Tragedy: A Tragedy, 51 Transformation, 99

Travels With My Aunt, 56 Treasure Island, 109 Trips, 72 Tristan & Yseult, 83 Triumph of Love, The, 96 Trumpet Major, The, 51 Tshepang, 53 Turcaret, 95 Turgenev: Plays, 99 Tutor, The, 95 Twelfth Night (Heap), 103 Twelfth Night (Unwin), 99 Two Beatrix Potter Plays, 108 Two Brothers, 84 Two Immorality Plays, 75 Two Into War, 82 Two Plays for Young People, 106 Two Stars for Comfort, 86 Two Step, 70 Two Tracks and Text Me, 89 Tyger Two, 85 Unbroken, 88 Uncle Ebenezer, 109 (Uncle) Vanya, 74 Uncle Vanya, 93 Unconquered, The, 47 Under Plain Cover, 87 Under the Black Flag, 47 Under the Table, 88 Under the Whaleback, 46, 77 Undertaking, The, 66 Unsuitable Girls, 51 Untouchable, 48 Up on Roof, 75 Urban Legend, 73 Ursula, 77 Variety, 62 Venezuela, 57 Venus Observed, 81 Verbatim, 22 Veterans, 91 Victory at the Dirt Palace, 89 Victory, 77 Viewing, The, 88 Vigils, 82 Vilette, 53 Vinegar and Brown Paper, 90 Visible, 73 Visits, 81 Vivat! Vivat! Regina, 78 von Horváth: Plays One, 83 von Horváth: Plays Two, 83 von Horváth: Two Plays, 83

von Kleist: Three Plays, 96 Voyage Round My Father, A, 64, 85 Walk Against Fear, 89 Walk in the Desert, A, 91 Walls, The, 71 Walt Whitman and Other Poems, 80 War Next Door, The, 66 War Still Goes On, The, 45 War Trilogy, 84 Washboard Blues, 69 Wasted, 78 Watch It Come Down, 87 Waves, 18 Way South, The, 83 Way to Heaven, 63 Webster, 84 Wedding Day at the Cro-magnons, 37 Wedding, The, 100 Weightless, 82 Well Read Play, The, 19 Wesker on Theatre, 6, 19 Wesker’s Love Plays, 76 Wesker’s Monologues, 102 Wesker’s Political Plays, 6, 76 Wesker’s Social Plays, 76 Wet Weather Cover, 31 Weyland, 38 What Fatima Did…, 105 What Shall We Tell Caroline?, 85 What the Night is For, 72 What We Did to Weinstein, 50 When We Are Married, 88 When We Dead Waken, 95 Where There’s A Will…, 94 Where’s Vietnam?, 37 Whispers Along the Patio, 79 White Boy, 105 White Open Spaces, 67 White Witch of Rose Hall, The, 89 White Sea, 83 Whitehead: Plays, 90 Whiter Than Snow, 105 Whiting: Plays One, 90 Whiting: Plays Two, 91 Who Killed Mr Drum?, 55 Who Shall I Be Tomorrow?, 84 Who’s Breaking?, 87

Wicked Lady, The, 35 William Tell, 98 Winding the Bell, 81 Winnie the Witch, 107 Winter, 81 Wise Guys, 87 Wish Collector, The, 104 With the Rogue’s Company, 23 Witness, 67 Wittgenstein’s Daughter, 51 Wolfpit, 85 Woman Before, The, 69 Woman in the Moon, 87 Women Laughing, 72 Wood: Plays One, 91 Wood: Plays Three 91 Wood: Plays Two, 91 World Turned Upside Down, 79 World’s Biggest Diamond, The, 64 World’s End, 40 World’s Apart, 89 Worm in the Bud, A, 90 Wounds to the Face, 74 Wreck the Airline Barrier, 89 Wrong Place, 65 Wrong Side of the Park, The, 86 Yard of Sun, A, 81 Year of the Rat, 41 Year Zero, 87 Yelena, 90 Yerma, 96 Yiddish Queen Lear, The, 87 Ying Tong, 70 Yo! Picasso!, 60 You Can See the Hills, 104 You Can’t Think of Everything, 97 You Were After…, 82 Yo-Yo, 62 Zero, 37

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