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Based on the Sunday Times bestseller which inspired one of this century's most treasured films, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel takes us on a journey to India with an eclectic group of British retirees as they embark on a new life. The luxury residence is...

Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. Hansard is an intimate domestic drama about a long and troubled marriage. It is also a comedy about politics and identity and the failings of the ruling class. Set around the passing of the...

As Stella leaves her job at the shopping channel, Alex prepares for a night out, and Paula can't stop thinking of the girl who's gone missing, her face all over the news. Slowly the missing girl weaves her way through all their lives in the course of a...

The small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green is still suffering under the yoke of alien invasion. Well, we say 'suffering', quite a lot of the villagers don't seem bothered. But with this being a pilot scheme for a full-scale invasion of Earth,...

As the first woman ever to be accepted into the gardening club, plain,practical Val is grateful to Tom for all his friendly help and advice in sowingher allotment. When Tom's attractive and glamorous wife becomes jealousof his relationship with her, Val...

Sarah and Phil had recently separated when their son, Joe, was killed while playing football alone in a playground. Now Phil visits the same playground every day and sits on a bench, waiting for Joe to appear so he can talk to him.1 woman, 1 man, 1 boy

Lacking in self esteem? Then enrol in Camp Confidence. That's what Maria (terrified of birds), Blanche (agoraphobic), Donna (single mum on probation) and Cherry (obsessive cleaner) have done. Led by the harrassed Julia and her assistant Fiona, the four...

A man obsessed with pinning the blame for his wife's accident on someone enters the Driscoll home and shatters their marriage.-1 woman, 2 men

Detention on a Saturday? These four girls are keeping tight-lipped on why they're there. When a power outage plunges them into darkness, the girls use subverted folktales to break the ice. As they delve into their stories, they discover parallels that...

Tabitha is - or rather was - a cat, the property of Lavinia, a dear old lady, who lives with two other dear old ladies in an apartment house owned by Mrs Trellington. Now as a landlady Mrs Trellington has some very unattractive and even tactless habits:...

When successful financial adviser Lewis Hammond moves to a small country town he leaves behind his former occupation. A cross-dresser since childhood, Lewis has come to try out his life as a woman. Louise's Vintage Café is an overnight success. High teas...

'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)'How...

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain,...

New Argentine Film is the most complete text to be published on the new Argentine cinema. While anchored in critical discourse and written by an academic, it also has the virtue of using clear and accessible language. In addition, the book is more than a...

Between 2010 and 2017, Canada experienced an efflorescence of Greek tragedy, led by independent Montreal theatre company Scapegoat Carnivale's energetic performances of Euripides's Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus. The performances...

"I Want to Show You My Name" is a fact-based story with a slight twist of fiction; Names, Places, and Dates have been changed to protect the innocent. It is a story about love and friendship between friends and the depths that they would go to protect...

Herb Gardner ComedyCharacters: 4 male, 1 female, 12 year-old boy 2 Interior scenes This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy...

Karl Hendryk is a brilliant professor who, with his wife and her cousin, has fled persecution in his homeland and finds himself ensconced in London. The play concerns itself with the relationships the professor has with the women in his life. His wife,...

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition. "Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ...a real coup de theatre" Nicholas de Jongh, EVENING...

Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the "Low Life" column for the Spectator magazine chronicling Soho life as well as offering a very personal philosophy on vodka, women and race-courses. From this, Keith...

Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo Theatre production. Bernard is planing a weekend with his...

A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a...

In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare's plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate...

Ostracized is a book covering the abuse sustained in a particular family. Juss Shy, the author, goes in great detail telling how people's lives are impacted based upon certain types of abuse inflicted upon them from family members and other people.

Life in an urban gang infested neighborhood can be challenging for the most stalwart citizen. For a single mother trying to raise two adolescent boys in the midst of the strife and violence, the pressures and vicissitudes of just living can...

Five years after her long-time girlfriend shatters her heart by running away with the school librarian during their graduation ceremony. Finally, ready for a new relationship, Andrea is determined to remain true to herself, even if that meant risking it...

After witnessing her father's abduction 20 years ago, Megan has never been the same. Despite her wealth, talent, success, and lavish lifestyle, Megan is steadily haunted by that tragic day, and more so on its anniversary. However, when she finally agrees...

This text represents the distillation of over 30 years experience as a music hall chairman. It provides both a source book for music hall chairmen and an historical insight into the genre, as well as over 600 song titles of the period given, together...

Safa and Aisha have been best friends for years. They used to bunk off school, revise for exams together and even went to the same university. But now they're forging different paths for the first time: Safa to work in the City, and Aisha to teach in...

Some children decide to put on a play. It must be about football, says one. It must be set in Space, says another. There must be adventure. So begins the production of Indiana Smith and the Cup Final of Doom, or The Return of the Tedi, in which Teddy and...

A strange new act has arrived at Trafalgar Fair's freakshow.Who is Grinpayne and how did he get his hideous smile?With the help of an old puppeteer, his pet wolf and a blind girl, Grinpayne's tale is told. When word spreads across the capital, everything...

Having been accused of rioting, Ali awaits his fate in an Israeli interrogation room. But when an old lover steps in to defend him, the two are forced to confront their past; finding themselves torn between bitter loyalties.A Palestinian-Israeli love...

The original version of The Quaker Girl was first produced at the Adelphi Theatre in 1910 where it ran for 536 performances and was subsequently played all over the world.                     

"Since It Gives Me Great Pleasure first appeared in 1972 I have been heartened to hear from so many producers and performers, both amateur and professional, how useful they have found it as a source of help, information and encouragement and above...

In this adaptation of the famous story the time scale has been altered so that the action is continuous. The story-teller's songs, which are included in the text, can be sung by the doctor or, the author suggests, could be played as Hans Andersen...

When Millie, an elderly helper at Westway Rest Home, dies seemingly impoverished, the authorities refuse to pay funeral expenses. Eddie, Millie's friend, is enraged and alerts a journalist, Lisa. Millie is pushed into the limelight when she's found to...

The comic poet of middle class life, always so very funny, goes deeper and darker in this triumphant play about a housewife named Susan who is married to a boring cleric named George. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tooth end of a garden...

The story of Wilf Cotton, a young writer; he gets a short story broadcast on the radio, and so decides to leave his home in a mining village to work in a city, and to try to write a novel. It is also the story of a young woman who moves back to the city...

Princess Caraboo tells the extraordinary true story of a beautiful young woman who tricked her way from vagrancy to wealth and power in Regency England by pretending to be a shipwrecked Princess. Maintaining the deception becomes imperative as the stakes...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...