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Richard IIIAn in palace drama with King Richard the 3rd, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Margret. Onto a haunting reunion, as the state processes royal executions.  61+ Characters*Overall contents was translated from poem form to play form, as basis for...

In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac (also spelled Ponteach) led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power in the Great Lakes region. This event was immortalized in the play Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy,...

This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to an English-language audience for the first time. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce...

A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms, Performing Brazil is the first book to bring together studies of the many and varied manifestations of Brazilian performance in...

The Lovers of a Spy novel is a romantic, intriguing spy and love story rolled into one. It begins in Scotland when a knighted Confederate spy marries a titled Scottish Lady who has inherited a vast estate then tragically dies, leaving it to Sir Percy,...

Tainted Identity II is part two of a series of characters in this amazing story. Marissa's story will unfold and amaze many. The nightmares of her past have started to take a toll on her marriage. And her deepest secret, that she hasn't told anyone...

When a fraternity prank turned terrible, I found myself in a snowstorm on a back road somewhere about four hours from the frat house. Blindfolded, during the entire trip, I was lost and disoriented when we stopped to let me out. I had no idea where they...

Twenty-seven-year old Heidi Mitchell is a bubbly, curious waitress trying to find her place in this world. She was set in a simple routine of work, eat, sleep, and play, but she always knew that deep down she wanted more out of life. Just when she is...

Spicey Robinson, a well known call girl, opens a bar and brothel catering to some of the wealthiest men in the area. Located on the outskirts of town, business is booming until the mayor of a neighboring city is found dead in an unmarked police cruiser...

Based on the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two 19-year-olds who murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, Thrill Me focuses less on the murder itself than on the relationship between Leopold and Loeb. More than 30 years on,...

I am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that you won't be here. That you will have left.Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last. It's 1942 and, in a hotel...

Had an accident at work? Tripped on a paving slab? Cut yourself shaving? You could be entitled to compensation. Andrew and Barry at Scorpion Claims, Luton's finest personal injury lawyers, are the men for you. When Kevin, Andrew's high school nemesis,...

Surviving school as a fat kid is tough enough. When your mum's a teacher, it's hell. What's more, Anna's dad is obsessed with saving the world and her maverick uncle Terry is dossing on the couch. When Anna hits back at the bullies, she suspended from...

It is the eve of Janet Royd's wedding to Dallas Chaynor. The house is in a state of turmoil with the dressmaker hovering, the caterers arrangements to be made, the telephone continually ringing, wedding presents arriving and being listed and acknowledged...

A play for ve women set in Stratford in 1582. Lady Lucy is portrayed as a kneeling child on her parents' tomb at Tenbury, and also in effigy with hermore notorious husband at Charlcote.Sir Thomas Lucy was a time-server and a persecutor of Catholics,...

One of the 2023 winners of the CT-sponsored Untapped Award, we're delighted to be publishing this to coincide with the opening at the Edinburgh Fringe this year! Skewering society's ableism with real wit and humour, this is a scathing satire on the...

"Trans people don't often get a chance to talk about this bit. Where you see yourold self in the person you become."Tatenda Shamiso tells the story of his experience as a Black transgenderimmigrant in the UK. Using the songs he wrote throughout his rst...

THIS IS BOOK 2 OF THE THEY ARE H.E.L.L SERIES. Please read We Are H.E.L.L first, as this book is a continuation.Prom night was meant to be the best night of Elsie and Lu's senior year of high school. Instead, it turned out to be the worst after a series...

Detective Mitchell found the strict regulations imposed on him detrimental to solving some of the cases. To compensate, he would step outside the square. His amicable, intelligent wife, Sara, spurred him on. Situated in Timaru, New Zealand, he found his...

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology...

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational...

Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan cultural commonwealth.

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between 1580s-1630s. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture,...

Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama-one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural...

Shakespeare Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the...

In this bubbling modern extravaganza for the young, the immaculate Miss Nadia Naive and her three pupils are swung into riotous Transylvanian happenings with the irrepressible Count and his gruesome acolytes. On the side of right are noble Nick...

Written for BBC School Radio by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, this telling play visits a local radio station when its late night broadcast is interrupted by a gun toting escapee from police custody. The vandalism for which he was...

Man, bird or angel? Who, or what, is Skellig?Michael was looking forward to moving house. It was all going to be wonderful. But now his baby sister's ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps...

"We come into the world out of the dark. We haven't got a clue where we've come from. We've got no idea where we're going. But while we're here in the world, if we're brave enough, we'll flap our wings and fly." It's easy. Running away from the...

"Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived..." Admired, vilified, de-humanised. Three Catherines, two Annes and a Jane. Six women with one thing in common - marriage to a man called Henry - have passed into historical legend. Of course, it...

"Are me feet off the floor yet? Are me feet off the floor?" In a rainy town in the north of England, there are strange goings-on. Dad is building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Auntie Doreen is getting cross and making dumplings...

The aging bag lady on the streets who opens the play is the eponymous Primrose Way, once a professional actress. As she reminisces and her story unfolds, we see her enthusiastic youthful self retracing her career in the theatre, and reliving the memories...

The attic of the family home in Ireland, once a playroom, is the setting for this sinister play from the author of Bar and Ger. Awaiting the death of their father, sisters talk about their unhappy lives long into the night. The time comes for a ritual re...

Three women in the hospital for cancer treatments must cope with the uncertainties of their health and with the inevitable secrets and half truths from relatives and the nursing staff. Marlene, the strongest and most outspoken of them, keeps the...

A darkly comic play about class, poverty and the struggle to escape by award-winning playwright Kat Woods.Killymuck is a fictitious housing estate built on a paupers' graveyard in 1970s Ireland. Inspired by real events, Kat Woods' play sees Niamh...

"Feelings can't sometimes be helped, but the expression of them can." Inspired by La Dame aux Camelias, and set amidst the glamorous and exotic society of the 1950s French Riviera, Variation on a Theme revolves around the tempestuous love affair between...

The latest in Michael Green's hilarious Coarse Acting series, Umlaut Prince of Dusseldorf imagines a hapless and incompetent theatre company attempting a condensed version of Hamlet. Cue bungled lines, an over-eager smoke machine operator, and a severely...

The "parcel" is old, silent, almost immobile Grandma who is passed from one relative to another. They "care for her" from "pure charity." Her house is gone, her beloved piano destroyed. While being passed along, the old woman asserts her rights as an...

Beryl Tidy, whose life is dominated by her elderly, irascible and demanding father, works at the library and finds that it is her only escape. She has a new boss at the library, Mr Gostilow, who has just moved to the North from London. When Beryl storms...

Arriving at the library to continue work on his dictionary, Johnson is horrified to discover that the place has been ransacked. Originally produced for television, this one act play combines wit, wordplay and a touch of comic absurdity.1 woman, 4 men