Plays & playscripts
Pocket Playhouse
Michael Frayn
Format: Hard Cover
Thirty-six comic sketches from the cherished playwright Michael Frayn, author of Noises Off and Skios.
The History Boys
Alan Bennett, introduced by Andrew Bruff
Format: Paperback
Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible and stimulating new educational edition: - includes detailed analyses of character, theme and structure; - looks at the context of the play and its author; - offers key quotations and activities both for the student working alone and in the classroom.
Ghosts
David Watson
Format: Paperback
David Watson's adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts opened at the Home Theatre, Manchester, in November 2016.
Hamlet, Globe to Globe
Dominic Dromgoole
Format: Hard Cover
From Mexico to Geelong, from Sudan to Auckland, the Globe's artistic director took Hamlet to the world - across all seven continents on a fascinating journey into the world of Shakespeare and the stage.
Travesties
Tom Stoppard
Format: Paperback
‘Tom Stoppard’s Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.’ - Sunday Times
The Cure at Troy
Seamus Heaney
Format: Paperback
The Cure at Troy, by Seamus Heaney, is a verse adaptation of Sophocles' play Philoctetes.
The Red Barn
David Hare and Georges Simenon
Format: Paperback
A psychological thriller set in a New England farmhouse, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in October 2016.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Tom Stoppard
Format: Paperback
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, the seminal Tom Stoppard play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.
Mametz
Owen Sheers
Format: Paperback
Mametz by Owen Sheers is one of a choice of six set plays on WJEC's A level Drama specification.
