Name: How to Date a Feminist
Brand: Samantha Ellis
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Samantha Ellis

How to Date a Feminist

$24.95

Kate likes her men tall, dark and smoldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve...

Steve is a feminist.

Can Kate overcome her love of lipstick, cupcakes and Heathcliff? Can Steve forgo the ethical confetti and learn to be a little bit more ravishing in bed? Can the two of them reinvent romance for the twenty-first century?

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Georg Büchner

Woyzeck

$28.95

The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne breathes new life into Georg Büchner's Woyzeck, one of the most extraordinary plays ever written.

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Ali Taylor

Cathy

$26.95

Forced out of London by spiraling living costs, Cathy finds herself in an unfamiliar town with no friends and no money; pushed to make choices she doesn't want to make...

Candid, poignant and intimate, Taylor's play Cathy offers a timely reflection on the lives of those at the sharp end of economic austerity, faced with impossible choices and an uncertain future.

Liam Williams

Travesty

$24.95

Ben doesn’t like Anna that much. She doesn’t take life seriously enough. And then a couple years go by and he’s in absolute floods and she just wishes things could be different.

A play about gender, the ethical dimensions of modern love, and a mandatory sillier third theme to make the whole thing seem less serious, in this case lemon tart.

Cover image for Travesty, isbn: 9781848426153

Elinor Cook

Pilgrims

$22.95

Dan and Will climb mountains. Aged eighteen, they climbed Everest. They became legends.

Rachel isn't interested in being a character in Dan's story. She intends to make her own. But with the thrill of a climb just days away, it's not just principles, but people, in danger.

Cover image for Pilgrims, isbn: 9781848425996

Joan Lindsay

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Stage Version)

$24.95

On a summer’s day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock...

In Wright’s chilling adaptation, five performers struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher while euphoria and terror reverberate throughout the community.

Cover image for Picnic at Hanging Rock (Stage Version), isbn: 9781848426214

Camilla Whitehill

Mr Incredible

$22.95

Adam is single. He doesn’t like it. He misses Holly. He deserves Holly. Doesn’t he?

Mr Incredible takes a sharp scalpel to modern relationships and what it is to be in love’.

This volume also contains Camilla Whitehill’s short plays One Thousand and One and Aloe Aloe.

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Matt Grinter

Orca

$24.95

Midsummer. The village must choose a new Daughter to sail with the fishing boats and bless the waters, keeping them safe from the roaming orcas for another year.

Fan hopes with all her heart to be chosen. But her sister Maggie says she must never go with the boats. Because something happened to Maggie out there. Something no one will admit.

Cover image for Orca, isbn: 9781848426160

Simon Block

Not a Game for Boys

$20.95

Once a week, three cabbies seek respite from their lives in a local table tennis league, and tonight they must win, or face the unthinkable oblivion of relegation. Deeper rivalries and competitive obsessions emerge as the team try to survive the pressure, but the real game takes place anywhere but at the table.

Phoebe Eclair-Powell

Epic Love and Pop Songs

$26.95

Remember your best friend? No, the other one. The one that liked to lie. Maybe it’s time they 'fessed up.

Doll is on the mic, Ted is on backing vocals. Set to the greatest love songs of all time, this is what happens when the lights come on, you’re singing, and you realize you might just have to grow up.

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Amy Ng

Shangri-La

$20.95

Bunny, a young woman from the officially designated 'Shangri-La' in the Himalayan foothills of China's Yunnan Province, has witnessed her family's livelihood destroyed by mass tourism. She dreams of escape as a globe-trotting photographer.

But what happens when the only thing you have to sell is your culture? When the only way to free yourself is to betray your roots?

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Stephen Jeffreys

The Libertine (2016 edition)

$24.95

The Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress sends him reeling, he is forced to reconsider everything he thinks and feels.

With all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration comedy, Jeffreys’ brilliant play is an incisive critique of life in an age of excess.

Cover image for The Libertine (2016 edition), isbn: 9781848425750

Trilby James

Contemporary Duologues: One Man & One Woman

$26.95

In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find a selection of the best contemporary scenes for two actors, one man and one woman.

Contemporary Duologues: One Man & One Woman

Ned Glasier

Brainstorm: The Original Playscript

$22.95

Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic, and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us.

The play is designed to be created and performed by a company of teenagers, drawing directly on their personal experiences. This edition contains a series of exercises, resources and activities to help create your own Brainstorm.

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Trilby James

Contemporary Duologues: Two Men

$26.95

In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find a selection of the best contemporary scenes for two male actors.

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Luke Norris

Growth

$28.95

Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made... it's a real ball ache.

Victoria Worsley

Feldenkrais for Actors

$30.95

The Feldenkrais Method uses movement to enable a performer to feel, adapt and respond in new ways not just in limited, habitual patterns thereby increasing physical, emotional, and mental potential. Written by an experienced actor, theatre-maker, and Feldenkrais practitioner, this book covers a range of topics and includes exercises that lead to more spontaneity, sensitivity, simplicity, and flexibility.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Crocodile

$20.95

Ivan is an actor who hasn’t achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when he is swallowed whole by a crocodile. Based on Dostoyevsky’s short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

Mike Bartlett

Wild

$26.95

Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching in KFC and making plans for the future. Today he's in Moscow, on the run and at risk of assassination. Loosely based on the case of CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden, this is a darkly comic play that explores the unexpected and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level.

Janice Okoh

Egusi Soup

$20.95

As the Anyias, a British-Nigerian family, pack their suitcases and prepare to head home to Lagos for a memorial service in honor of the late Mr Anyia, they soon realize they will need to get rid of some excess baggage first. Egusi Soup is a fast, furious and funny new family drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships.

Evan Placey

Girls Like That

$22.95

An urgent and explosive new play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.

When a naked photograph of Scarlett goes viral, she becomes the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons. But while rumors run wild and everyone forms an opinion, Scarlett just stays silent.

With roles for up to twenty-four young female actors (though it can also be performed by a smaller cast), the play is perfect for any schools, youth theatres or drama groups looking to tackle a contemporary subject in a theatrically exciting way.

Specially commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Girls Like That was developed through work with young people from the three theatres and first performed by their youth theatre companies in 2013.

"[Tackles] strong, relevant issues... a well-written, immaculately crafted and brave piece of energetic theatre." - A Younger Theatre

"An urgent, powerful and haunting examination... I can see this play becoming a very popular resource for 16+ groups and that will be no bad thing." National Drama Magazine

Evan Placey is a Canadian-British playwright. His other work includes Mother of Him, Holloway Jones, which won the Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People, and Pronoun, commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

Evan Placey

Pronoun

$22.95

A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever. But Isabella has now become a boy.

Pronoun was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK. Especially written for young actors, the play can be performed by a cast of seven, with some doubling of roles, or a much larger cast.

"Honest, touching and relevant as thought-provoking as it is engaging." - A Younger Theatre

Evan Placey is a Canadian-British playwright. His work includes Girls Like That, Mother of Him and Holloway Jones, which won the Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People.

Bea Roberts

And Then Come the Nightjars

$20.95

From the bloodbath of the foot-and-mouth crisis to developers consuming land for real estate, And Then Come the Nightjars charts one farm's struggle to survive the march of history. Fierce with rage and achingly tender in turn, Bea Roberts' play is a story of enduring friendship and a requiem for rural England.

Howard Brenton

Anne Boleyn

$26.95

Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family maneuvered into the King's bed or as a predator manipulating her way to power, Anneand her ghostare seen in a very different light in Howard Brenton's epic play.

Jessica Swale

Drama Games for Rehearsals

$26.95

A new title in the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series: another dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with dozens of drama games that can be used in rehearsals. This latest book from acclaimed playwright, director, and theater educator Jessica Swale is an invaluable resource for directors, teachers, students, and actors.

Julian Curry

Shakespeare on Stage: Volume 2

$30.95

A follow-up to Curry's popular Shakespeare On Stage.

Mike Bradwell

Inventing the Truth

$22.95

An accessible insider's guide to creating a play from scratch, from the award-winning author of The Reluctant Escapologist. Mike Bradwell serves up a clear and precise analysis of how an improvised play is put together, and how those same techniques can be invaluable even when working on a scripted play.

Harriet Walter

Brutus and Other Heroines

$26.95

Why didn’t Shakespeare write more roles for mature women? For Harriet Walter, the solution was to ignore the dictates of centuries of tradition, and to begin playing the mature male characters.

An exploration of the Shakespearean canon through the eyes of a self-identified "feminist actor" but, above all, a remarkable account of an acting career unconstrained by tradition or expectations.

Luke Dixon

Shakespeare Monologues for Men

$26.95

Fifty monologues for men drawn from across the Shakespeare canon. Each is prefaced with an easy-to-use guide to who is speaking, where, when, and to whom; what has just happened in the play; and what the character’s objectives are. In fact, it contains everything the actor needs to know before embarking on the audition!

Carlo Goldoni

The Servant of Two Masters

$12.95

Over two hundred and fifty years after it was written, this classic Italian comedy remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant. The plight of Truffaldino, desperately trying to keep two jobs afloat, has most recently delighted audiences in the smash-hit adaptation One Man, Two Guvnors. This is the original, a masterpiece of comic absurdity.

Jessica Swale

Drama Games for Devising

$22.95

For all levels creating new theater pieces from scratch and getting the creative juices flowing. Written with clear instructions on How to Play and notes on the Aim of the Game, it covers every aspect of the devising process: creating characters and scenarios, using stimuli, improvising dialogue, structuring the piece, and creating an ensemble.