Drama category: 27605 books
by Nicholas Pierpan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him . . . but there's just one thing I've got to take care of first. I've got to do something to make this right.
Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis....
by Jaki McCarrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
In the aftermath of The Troubles, two brothers near the border to the North, harbour a guilty secret...
“Look, there’s no rules of the road out there. Not any more. So how do ya live? Ya
use the only thing ya can. Best compass a man has. Only compass a man has. His
own heart.”
Set...
Coward Plays: 1
Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward
and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley,
Coward's first biographer.
Hay Fever, a comedy of bad
manners, concerns a weekend with friends of...
Coward Plays: 6
Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual
pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and
reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual
1920s, the play...
Williams Plays: 2
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads; Clubland; The Gift
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Second collection of plays by the award-winning young British playwright
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads: Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose against Germany at football
Clubland: Ben is married to Denise but on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right",...
Williams Plays: 4
Sucker Punch; Category B; Joe Guy; Baby Girl; There’s Only One Wayne Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
'[Williams's] plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' Observer
Sucker Punch: 'As usual with Williams, the dialogue is crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is just black and white.' The Times
Joe Guy: 'Williams's dialogue ricochets...
by Kefi Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
They don't care about the truth or changing anything. They just want to discredit us. Bury us under a load of insinuation and then shut us up by paying us off. I can't bear to bleed out my pain and it not mean anything.
When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred...
A Doll's House
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Set in modern-day Jamaica, Kingston 14 follows the story of James, a black British police officer, who is sent to Kingston to investigate the murder of an English tourist in a local hotel. Tied to Jamaica by his father who was born there, James struggles to lead a proper investigation when gang leader,...
An Enemy of the People
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward VI's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university...
by Jare Ajayi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
There is no gainsaying that evil is very much on the prowl on earth today. It is as though human beings have just ‘discovered’ an extra-ordinary aphrodisiac or opium from doing and inducing evil. Examples abound in various parts of the world to suggest that mankind appear to be more fiendish now...
Contemporary Welsh Plays
Tonypandemonium, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated, Llwyth (in Welsh), Parallel Lines, Bruised
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception.
Wales has famously celebrated its poets and novelists,...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go.
In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus...