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Bond Plays: 2 (Contemporary Dramatists)

The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti Lear - "Bond's greatest (and biggest) play . ...

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Redundant (Modern Plays)

"You will come back though won't yere, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back." Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. But first she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who to trust. Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine Award for REDUNDAN...

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Sea Wall (Modern Plays)

There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful. Alex's story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles...

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Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle (Modern Plays)

Is this the strangest thing that two people have ever done in the history of the world? In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings people together? When two strangers meet by chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, their lives are changed forever. Multi-award-winning B...

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Country Music (Modern Plays)

Dramatic new play of crime and redemption by winner of Pearson Most Promising New Playwright Award, 2001 A story of crime and redemption, starting at the mouth of the River Thames and moving across England over twenty years. It begins with a life choice for Jamie Carris and ends with a re-union w...

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Earthquakes in London (Modern Plays)

It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone.... You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out. An all-pervasive f...

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Bond Plays: 1: Saved; Early Morning; The Pope's Wedding (Contemporary Dramatists)

"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ... the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ... Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent) Saved - "The most uncompromising, original and un-English English play of the sixties" (Observer); Early Morning - "A gar...

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Bond Plays: 8: Born; People; Chair; Existence; The Under Room (Contemporary Dramatists)

Edward Bond Plays:8 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved , Lear, The Pope's Wedding, and Early Morning. The volume comprises five new plays and two prose essays: Two Cups : introductory essay Born : the third play in the Colline Tetralogy (the first ...

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Alistair McDowall

X (Modern Classics)

“ McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss … a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi – and theatre – at its best.” The Stage Billions of miles from home, the lone...

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Trueman and the Arsonists (Modern Plays)

But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it. This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it. Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all ...

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Daniels Plays: 2: Gut Girls; Beside Herself; Head-rot Holiday; Madness of Esme and Shaz (Contemporary Dramatists)

Sarah Daniels is "a writer with a natural talent for disturbance" (Observer) Set in the gutting sheds of the slaughterhouse at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, The Gut Girls shows how the lives of the girls are changed when their work is made illegal - "Regarded as little better than...

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Anthony Neilson

Anthony Neilson Plays: 3: Relocated; Get Santa!; Narrative; Unreachable; The Prudes (Contemporary Dramatists)

Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with companies such as The Royal Court, The RSC and ...

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Alistair McDowall

Alistair McDowall Plays 2: X; The Glow; All of It; Northleigh 1940; Zero For the Young Dudes (Contemporary Dramatists)

ALISTAIR MCDOWALL 'uses language with virtuosity. He folds it, unfolds it, dirties it, mishandles it, and in doing so, he celebrates it...It is as a poet that he uses writing to honour its promises: to excite the imagination, to stimulate play, to provoke staging and to elevate the theatre.' Le Mo...

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Three Sisters (Modern Plays)

Loneliness is a terrifying thing. Three Sisters. Their brother, and his fiancé. The teacher, the doctor, the old woman, and the soldiers stationed nearby. A small town, in the middle of nowhere. Their world is going up in flames, one minute at a time. But can they create the change they're longin...

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Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (Volume 7)

Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written ...

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The Fallen Angel

In the gripping conclusion to Tracy Borman's Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges must face a dangerous new enemy deep within the court of James I Life has never been quiet for Frances Gorges at the court of King James, but after finding herself at the center of plots and conspiracies for many years b...

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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace

The behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace, painting a picture of the way its residents truly lived and examining the palace’s legacy, from French history through today The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France’s old regime, mi...

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Goya in the Palace of Greed: An Art History Mystery

A Royal Court Full of Secrets. A Killer Hidden in the Shadows. A Mystery Only One Woman Can Solve. Goya in the Palace of Greed is the second book in the Art History Mystery series. After her experience in Revenge Among the Renoirs , art restorer Jade Beckham swore she’d never step through the...

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Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653 (Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain)

This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth―the brief period of parliamentary republican rule (with no monarch, royal court, or House of Lords) between the execution of Charles I in 1649, and Cromwell’s seizure of power in 1653. It fo...

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Violet Made of Thorns

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A darkly enchanting fantasy about a lying witch, a cursed prince, and a sinister prophecy that ignites their doomed destinies—perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince . “Everything you want from an enemies-to-lovers fantasy starring morally gray characters.”— Buz...

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