I Just Stopped by to See the Man

$18.95

Jesse is the last of the great Blues singers. A mistaken identity in a car crash when he was 60 results in everybody thinking he’s dead. A rock-music megastar from England tracks Jesse down to his humble house in the Mississippi Delta and persuades him to join the band’s farewell concert. But Jesse’s "resurrection" provokes more than the fan’s idolatry.

Japes

$18.95

Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then share the woman they both love. They have a daughter, but who is the father? Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, Simon Gray’s funny, sardonic new play Japes is driven by involuntary cruelties, damaging accidents of fate of the terrible ravages of time.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

$20.95

Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus.

Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.

Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and ‘reality’ in the twenty-first century.

Emma

$18.95

"Ebullient and mischievous" (The Times) adaptation of Austen's famous story of social snobbery and coming of age.

Riddance

$20.95

A dark and disturbing play by an up-and-coming Scots writer about violence within the family.

The Girlfriend Experience

$20.95

A true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise... in a seaside brothel.

Tessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the 'Girlfriend Experience', a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.

As the women stoically strive to make a living in a competitive market, their personal lives start to crumble. Will they ever have loving relationships outside work and enjoy being girlfriends themselves?

The Girlfriend Experience continues the verbatim-theatre technique Alecky Blythe developed in Come Out Eli and Cruising The play is created entirely from conversations recorded inside an actual brothel, edited and replicated on stage in all their uncanny verisimilitude.

Lucky Seven

$18.95

A comedy about growing up, class, love, disappointment and hope, inspired by the Seven Up television series.

Working-class Alan, upper-class Catherine and middle-class Tom are part of a social litmus test, reunited every seven years to expose themselves to the nation. But waiting on the sofa for director David to arrive, they reveal far more to each other than they ever will to camera.

The House of Bernarda Alba

$26.95

Lorca's passionate all-women play, in a new version by Rona Munro.

A Place at the Table

$20.95

Adam, a writer is recruited for television by a novice script editor, who sees Adam not for his talents but for his the wheelchair he sits in. Simon Block's biting satire of ambition and political correctness is an examination of the lengths to which people will go, to secure a place at the table of power.

Last Dance at Dum Dum

$18.95

A new drama of Anglo-Asian affairs from the author of East is East.

The Lady from the Sea

$10.95

In a new translation by Pam Gems, the author of Stanley, Piaf and The Snow Palace.

Four Nights in Knaresborough

$22.95

The four assissins of Thomas Becket take refuge in a Knaresborough castle as public opinion turns against them. Corcoran "pulls off something surprising--this comedy of anarhronism often feels authentically medieval."—Observer

From Both Hips

$26.95

Two more blackly comic gems from the author of Howie the Rookie.

King of the Fields

$16.95

Ayshire, 1935. A man barely alive collapses in the yard of his old home. He received by his brother, a successful businessman in the tough rural community, and his brother's wife, who shows un unsettling interest in the new arrival...

Trust

$20.95

The new play by the Belfast writer, Gary Mitchell, who shot to fame with In a Little World of Our Own .

Hansel and Gretel

$18.95

Stuart Paterson's reworking of the Hansel and Gretel tale, taking his usual delirious liberties with the original, with the requisite piling on of vulgarity, plenty of jokes and a healthy supply of pyrotechnics.

Family

$20.95

An intrigung and provocative triple bill of new plays by three very different writers.

In Praise of Love

$26.95

An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, In Praise of Love is a fictional play based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison’s wife Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer. The ending is "among the most perfectly crafted and economically effective passages anywhere in British drama."—Michael Darlow

Peer Gynt

$10.95

Peer's quest for the meaning of life.

The Winslow Boy

$20.95

Just filmed by David Mamet, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Jeremy Northam, The Winslow Boy is based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five shilling postal order. An eminent—and initially unsympathetic—QC takes on the case, and the boy has to withstand the full might of the Royal Naval Establishment seeking to discredit him.

Kes

$22.95

"Splendid new version" (The Times) of the well-known film and novel--a bestseller for over thirty years.

Uncle Vanya

$10.95

A new edition of Chekhov's classic.

Cressida

$26.95

John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedy and glamorous backstage world of London theatre in 1630s. Women are still not allowed on stage, their roles being taken by precocious boys. Shank has been one of the best, but is now grudgingly reduced to teaching others the tricks of the trade...

Separate Tables

$28.95

Separate Tables consists of two linked one-acts set in a rundown residential hotel in Bournemouth.

Drummers

$18.95

Written from the inside, a dark and funny new play about burgulars and burgulary.

Wright: Five Plays

$25.95

Ranging back over twenty years, this volume contains a rich selection of work by a writer who has also been a quiet power behind the scenes of British theatre for three decades. Includes: Treetops, One Fine Day, The Custom of the Country, The Desert Air, and Mrs. Klein.

She Stoops to Conquer

$10.95

The best-loved English comedy of the 18-century mocks the snobbery of London through the manipulations of the country, embodied in Tony Lumpkin. She Stoops to Conquer also celebrates the virtues of "laughing comedy," which Goldsmith advocated over the prevalent sentimental forms of his contemporaries. Regularly revived on stage.

The School for Scandal

$10.95

Sheridan's most successful play, often considered the apex of English comedy.

Spanish Plays

$29.95

A first collection of modern Spanish plays translated by English playwrights commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre.

The Clink

$22.95

Re-issue of riotous black comedy about entertainers at the Court of Elizabeth I--a precursor of Shakespeare in Love.

The Cavalcaders

$20.95

New edition of two "wonderful, wistful" tragi-comedies set in Roche's southern Irish home town of Wexford.

Just the Three of Us

$18.95

A new black comedy by Simon Gray.

Edward II

$10.95

The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece.

Disco Pigs and Sucking Dublin

$24.95

Two plays by the winner of the Best Fringe Production Award at the 1996 Dublin Festival.

Angels & Saints

$18.95

Two shocking but deeply humane plays in one volume from the arrival of a "talent to watch"--Daily Telegraph

Lulu

$20.95

Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper, who she deliberately leads on. This is Nicholas Wright’s new version of Wedekind’s early 20th century erotic drama.

The Spanish Tragedy

$10.95

One of the more popular plays of the Elizabethan period and a major influence on Hamlet.

The Deep Blue Sea

$22.95

A play sparked by the suicide of actor, Kenneth Moragn, with whom Rattigan had been in love.

Chimps

$18.95

A bitingly witty play about the loyalty and trust a couple must give each other.

Children of the Sun

$10.95

A prophetic play from pre-Revolutionary Russia.

A Flea in Her Ear

$10.95

The wife of an insurance magnate, suspicious that her husband is having an affair, sends him a lascvicious invitation from an "anonymous" admirer, just to see if he’ll show. The action of A Flea in Her Ear, one of the best-known French farces, takes us to the sleazy Lanterne Rouge Hotel with a fine crop of mocking, mistaking, insulting, groping, kicking and mimicing, all in a spanking new translation.

Don Juan

$10.95

Molière's most controversial play.

The Cherry Orchard

$10.95

A new translation of Chekhov's masterpiece.

The Master Builder

$10.95

One of Ibsen's best-known late plays.

The Late Middle Classes

$18.95

A new black comedy by Simon Gray.

The White Devil

$10.95

Webster's other masterpiece of Jacobean tragedy.

Flight

$20.95

A bold new adaptation of Bulgakov's epic satire by renowned author Ron Hutchinson.

Tearing the Loom

$24.95

Two plays by a new, major award-winning Irish playwright.

Howie the Rookie

$22.95

Yes! Yet another brilliant young Irish playwright makes his debut.

Naked

$18.95

A rarely-seen Pirandello in a fresh adaptation by the author of Mrs. Klein.

Nuremberg

$22.95

A "gripping, meticulous reconstruction" (Independent) of the 1946 War Crimes Trial.

All for Love

$10.95

Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy.

The Learned Ladies

$10.95

Moliere's witty critique of 17th century feminism.

Bacchae

$10.95

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.

Ecstasy

$26.95

A comedy of low-life manners from the man whose "strength is his satirical observation of English tribal customs."--Guardian (UK)

The Thickness of Skin

$18.95

The newest play from the author of My Heart's a Suitcase and Low Level Panic.

John Gabriel Borkman

$18.95

A new translation of the Ibsen classic.

According to Hoyle

$20.95

A clever and moving "boys' play" about poker and male bonding.

Scotland Plays

$22.95

An engaging new collection of recent plays from Scotland.

Hotel

$22.95

A new piece, commissioned by the innovative music/dance/theatre group Second Stride, which shows eighteen characters simultaneously experiencing one night in the same hotel.

An Italian Straw Hat

$10.95

One of Labiche's most successful farces, An Italian Straw Hat presents viciously accurate observations of the bourgeoisie as the protaganist, pursued by an entire wedding party, quickly moves from mishap to mishap.

The Clearing

$20.95

The brilliany original play by a rising young British playwright.

A Good Night Out

$30.95

The classic manifesto on popular theatre reissued.

Churchill: Plays Three

$34.95

Includes:Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Shriker, Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds, as well as an introduction by the author.

Letters to George

$22.95

Letters to George is a director's handbook of techniques written from inside the theatre; a brand new kind of rehearsal log.

Waiting Room Germany

$20.95

A kaleidoscopic view of ordinary lives on both sides of a forcibly re-unified Germany.

The Alchemist

$8.95

Jonson's comic masterpiece, recently revived at the National Theatre with Simon Callow in the title role.

Passing Places

$24.95

The successful new comedy by a well-known Scottish playwright.

Dora: A Case of Hysteria

$18.95

An avowedly feminist, wickedly funny exposé of Freud's sexually obsessed methods. Troubled by her "neurotic" symptoms, Dora was sent to Freud by her father. Despite clear indications of sexual harassment and abuse by one of her father's friends, Freud insisted Dora's symptoms were caused by repressed sexual desire.

Bad Weather

$18.95

A provocative new play by a well-established writer.

Your Turn to Clean the Stair and Fugue

$28.95

Two plays by the winner of the 1991 Susan Smith Balckburn Award for the best play by a woman in the English speaking world.

Naked Thoughts That Roam About

$29.95

The late John McGrath spent his life campaigning for a popular theatre that was politically engaged. His campaign most famously took the form of his founding 7:84, a theatre company named after the statistic that announced 7% percent of the Great Britain’s population owns 84% of the nation’s wealth. Naked Thoughts That Roam About is a selection of his writing on theatre spanning a 40-year period, from his undergraduate days to "Theatre and Democracy," written in 1999.

The Day I Stood Still

$18.95

The newest play by the multi award-winning author of My Night with Reg.

Bartholomew Fair

$10.95

Jonson's most ambitious and flamboyant comedy, often considered the culmination of his career.

A Going Concern

$18.95

London, 1966: In the dilapidated workshop of Chapel and Sons--an ailing family business specializing in the manufacture of billiard tables--three generations conspire against each other for control of a firm which might yet be turned into a goldmine as the white heat of the technological revolution approaches.

The Crack in the Emerald

$31.95

Includes: The Lament for Arthur Cleary by Dermot Bolger, Low in the Dark by Marina Carr, Misogynist by Michael Harding and The Hamster Wheel by Marie Jones.

After the Dance

$26.95

The critically acclaimed drama by one of England's most successful mid-century playwrights.

Smelling A Rat

$20.95

Smelling A Rat, Mike Leigh's classic comedy, is propelled by his "wonderful gift for conversation so rock-bottom-boring that is is hilarious." (Observer)

The Mill on the Floss

$26.95

A new dramatization by a powerful young playwright of the classic George Eliot novel.

Grace

$18.95

"A hugely entertaining look at the hypocrisy of evangelism and a savage attack on the Americanization of the British way of life. It's a triumph."--Sunday Express (UK) "If I see nothing again until the end of the millennium, I will feel that theatre has fulfilled its function as the Cassandra of its age."--Daily Mail (UK)

French Without Tears

$20.95

The play that established Rattigan's name and ran for over 1000 performances in the '30s.

The Way of the World

$10.95

The quintessential Restoration comedy.

Pentecost

$22.95

The newest play by one of England's leading playwrights.

Latin-American Plays

$34.95

Plays by five of the most famous Latin-American authors to have emerged over the last 30 years.

Masterclass (for Men)

$29.95

An extensive guide to acting with over a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama.

The Seagull

$10.95

A new translation of the first of Chekhov's four great plays.

Woyzeck

$10.95

A new translation of the Büchner play considered the forerunner of most modern drama.

The Devil is an Ass

$10.95

A great neglected comedy by the great Elizabethan/jacobean playwright.

Masterclass (for Women)

$29.95

An extensive guide to acting with over a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama.

The Playboy of the Western World

$10.95

The best known of all Irish plays.

The Oresteia

$10.95

The great trilogy that is the wellspring of Western drama.

The Beaux' Stratagem

$10.95

On of the best-known and one of the most-revived Restoration comedies.

The Duchess of Malfi

$10.95

The best-known of the Jacobean tragedies; an exemplary model of the "tragedy of blood."

The Maiden Stone

$20.95

the winner of te first ever £50,000 Peggy Ramsey Award, by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

Ubu

$10.95

The satirical farce now acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the 20th century.

Guid Sisters: Three Plays

$26.95

Three of this leading gay French-Canadian writer’s best plays: The Guid Sisters, Manon/Sandra and Albertine in Five Times.

Volpone

$10.95

Jonson's comic masterpiece whichh illustrates the manipulations and schemes people concoct out of greed.

The Importance of Being Earnest

$10.95

One of the best-loved clasic English comedies

Scot-Free

$34.95

Includes: Writer's Cramp by John Byrne, Losing Venice by John Clifford, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn by Chris Hannan, The Letter Box by Ann Marie di Mambro, Dead Dad Dog by John McKay and The Steamie by Tony Roper.

'Tis a Pity She's a Whore

$10.95

A pocket-sized Drama Classics edition.