Playwriting category: 893 books
Mrs Affleck
from Ibsen's Little Eyolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen.
Not on a Sunday. Not in England.
After six lonely weeks with nobody but her disabled boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go.
In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus...
Bond Plays: 10
Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Hungry Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction by the author.
Dea, a heroine, has committed...
Great Expectations
a Twenty-First-Century Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
I can't forget her...sometimes, thinking about everything I have to live up to, trying to be this new person, its too much. The only way I can make sense of it all is the thought that somewhere down the line, this new life might somehow bring us together.
In this modern day re-imagining of...
Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Plays 1
The Night Season; Shoreditch Madonna; Her Naked Skin; The Painter
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The Night Season
'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times
'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once in a blue moon that a writer gets her...
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.
Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their...
by Angelina Weld Grimké
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Today, we colored men and women, everywhere - are up against it... In the South, they make it as impossible as they can for us to get educated. In the North, they make a pretence of liberality; they give us the ballot and a good education, and then snuff us out. Each year, the problem just to live,...
by Lucy Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
We are where we come from?' That's not true. That's not true because if that's true there's no hope for any of us.
Lori is coming home from her first term at university. It's only been a few weeks and already things have gone badly wrong. But none of the rest of the family knows, or understands,...
Birch Plays: 1
Where the Shot Rabbits Lay; Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall; The Brink; Black Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Birch Plays: 1 celebrates the work of Welsh writer Brad Birch. Winner of the 2016 Harold Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre Birch is the writer in residence at Undeb Theatre and is currently on attachment at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His work has been produced...
by Arnold Wesker
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
It's 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life.
Roots...
by William Shakespeare
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Beaucoup de bruit pour rien (Much Ado About Nothing en version originale anglaise) est une comédie de William Shakespeare publiée en 1600, dont la première a probablement été représentée à l’hiver 1598-15991. Elle reste à ce jour l’une des comédies de Shakespeare les plus populaires....
by Dr. Ken Urban
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The weight of what is to come is unbearable. It is crushing me.
The sound of the crying, it never ceases. I carry this inside and now tell only you.
Charles, a disgraced New York Times journalist, arrives in Rwanda for an exclusive interview with two Hutu nuns. Charged with war crimes, the...
by Еврипид, Иннокентий Анненский
Language: Russian
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: Russian
Release Date: June 29, 2018
"Медея" — трагедия великого древнегреческого драматурга Еврипида (480–406 до н. э.). Царская дочь Медея настолько сильно любит своего мужа Ясона, что ради него идет...
Takeover
Libretto for an Operetta
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This drama is intended primarily as a music drama and, more specifically, as an operetta, as it contains passages of very quick dialogue that are written to be spoken, not sung. I would compose music underscore for these in an operetta version. The dramas could also be staged a “straight” spoken...