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“Now BarabbasÉ”
- £30.00
- Douglas Home's first play, its original West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 130 performances from 7 March to 28 June 1947. It concerns a variety of inmates at a British prison, including new arrivals, old hands and a convicted murderer sentenced to hang. The original cast included…
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A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
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A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
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A Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
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Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
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Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy
- £20.00
- From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century. He it was who most passionately, most powerfully and most memorably dramatized the traumatic birth of the nation. He it was who gave to the twentieth-century theatre a greater range of vivid and original…
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women (LAMDA)
- £9.00
- Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women contains a collection of speeches from plays written since 1985, suitable for both teenagers and young adults. The selections vary in content, tone and style, and are accompanied by a brief outline of the context and the setting. The compilation will provide any…
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Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance
- £40.00
- Libretto for Benjamin Britten’s Nō Play
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Epitaph for John Dillon: a play in 3 acts
- £30.00
- Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a familiar building caught at an angle which suddenly makes it look like something never seen before.' Harold Hobson, Sunday…
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Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
- £12.00
- The original text of Samuel Beckett's play which would be translated and performed in English in the same year as Endgame.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Heartbreak House et al
- £20.00
- Shaw’s Chekhovian tragicomedy set just before the 1st World War as ‘cultured and leisured Europe was drifting towards destruction’. Also includes Great Catherine and ‘Playlets of the War’.
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Inadmissable Evidence
- £30.00
- I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and…
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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Look Back In Anger
- £40.00
- Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it…
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Luther: a Play
- £25.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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-
“Now BarabbasÉ”
- £30.00
- Douglas Home's first play, its original West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 130 performances from 7 March to 28 June 1947. It concerns a variety of inmates at a British prison, including new arrivals, old hands and a convicted murderer sentenced to hang. The original cast included…
- Add to basket
-
A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
- Add to basket
-
A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
- Add to basket
-
A Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
- Add to basket
-
Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
- Add to basket
-
Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
- Add to basket
-
Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
- Add to basket
-
Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
- Add to basket
-
Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
- Add to basket
-
Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
- Add to basket
-
Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
- Add to basket
-
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
- Add to basket
-
Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy
- £20.00
- From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century. He it was who most passionately, most powerfully and most memorably dramatized the traumatic birth of the nation. He it was who gave to the twentieth-century theatre a greater range of vivid and original…
- Add to basket
-
Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
- Add to basket
-
Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women (LAMDA)
- £9.00
- Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women contains a collection of speeches from plays written since 1985, suitable for both teenagers and young adults. The selections vary in content, tone and style, and are accompanied by a brief outline of the context and the setting. The compilation will provide any…
- Add to basket
-
Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance
- £40.00
- Libretto for Benjamin Britten’s Nō Play
- Add to basket
-
Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
- Add to basket
-
End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
Epitaph for John Dillon: a play in 3 acts
- £30.00
- Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a familiar building caught at an angle which suddenly makes it look like something never seen before.' Harold Hobson, Sunday…
- Add to basket
-
Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
- £12.00
- The original text of Samuel Beckett's play which would be translated and performed in English in the same year as Endgame.
- Add to basket
-
Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
- Add to basket
-
Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
- Add to basket
-
Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
- Add to basket
-
Heartbreak House et al
- £20.00
- Shaw’s Chekhovian tragicomedy set just before the 1st World War as ‘cultured and leisured Europe was drifting towards destruction’. Also includes Great Catherine and ‘Playlets of the War’.
- Add to basket
-
Inadmissable Evidence
- £30.00
- I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and…
- Add to basket
-
Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Add to basket
-
Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
- Add to basket
-
Look Back In Anger
- £40.00
- Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it…
- Add to basket
-
Luther: a Play
- £25.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
- Add to basket