Drama
Discover the best drama books and captivating romance drama novels at our online bookstore, featuring top picks for adults and drama enthusiasts. Find good drama books and best-selling titles that showcase the finest drama in literature, perfect for your next read.
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FRAGMENTE and 3.31.93.Lars Nor n, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written over 75 plays. While they are regularly performed in Nordic and European countries and have been translated into several languages, English-language readers were deprived of his major works until 2013, when...
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HonourGus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist--on assignment to profile Gus--quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding....
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Misery Guts and TartuffeOne of Scotland's most popular writers, the multi-award-winning Liz Lochhead, takes on Moli re's most famous play. Le Misanthrope is a bitter comedy about a sophisticated Parisian who cannot help telling uncomfortable truths about his fellow men. Lochhead transposes the setting to present-day Scotland,...
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OedipusThe great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus...
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The Girlfriend ExperienceA true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise... in a seaside brothel.Tessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the 'Girlfriend Experience', a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.As the women stoically strive to make a living in...
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MachinalA major rediscovery of a forgotten woman playwright of the twenties, Machinal is a powerful expressionist play about the status of women in an increasingly mechanized society, and the torture of a loveless marriage.Author: Sophie TreadwellPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublished: 04/01/1995Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize:...
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MacbethEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife,...
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When Then Is Now: Three Greek TragediesWhen Then is Now brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient times. All focus on women...
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The McGowan Trilogy: Three Inter-Related One Act PlaysGalway author Seamus Scanlon presents 3 new inter-related plays, based around the central character of Victor, and a new short story.Author: Seamus ScanlonPublisher: Arlen HousePublished: 03/15/2016Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.48w x 0.34dISBN: 9781851321117
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And No More Shall We PartDon and Pam have lived together most of their lives, the kids have grown up and moved on, but now, suddenly, she wants to leave him. At least that's how he sees it. Winner of the 2010 Louis Esson Prize for Drama, And No...
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The Captain of KöpenickReleased after fifteen years in prison, trapped in a bureaucratic maze, petty criminal Wilhelm Voight wanders 1910 Berlin in desperate, hazardous pursuit of identity papers. Luck changes when he picks up an abandoned military uniform in a fancy-dress shop and finds the city ready...
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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays: 'This Is Just This. This Is Not Real. It's Just Money'HEROIN by Grace Dyas, Trade by Mark O'Halloran, The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley, Pineapple by Phillip McMahon, I ? Alice ? I by Amy Conroy, The Big Deal edited by Una McKevitt, Oedipus Loves You by Simon Doyle & Gavin Quinn, The...
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SabbatGood Friday 1612. High on a hill in the wild and lawless area of Pendle, a secret meeting is held at Malkin Tower. By the end of the year, most of those present have been sentenced to death at Lancaster Castle - hanged for...
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Siamese Twins'I would like to, I would like to...cut the cord.' First performed in 1967, this is an early, yet startling, brilliant work by the internationally acclaimed Argentine playwright Griselda Gambaro. In this absurd and forceful play, two brothers carry out a primal scene of...
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Ella Hickson, Plays: OneEight (Edinburgh Fringe, 2008), that astonishing first success, is included here: a state-of-the-nation group portrait in monologues, "an interactive Talking Heads for 21st-century teens and twentysomethings" (Independent). Also included is Hot Mess (Edinburgh Fringe, 2010), a dark and lyrical tale about twins born with...
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The WriterA young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost. Ella Hickson's play The Writer premiered in April 2018 at the Almeida Theatre, London, in a production directed by Blanche McIntyre.Author: Ella HicksonPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublished: 04/09/2019Pages:...
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Image of an Unknown Young WomanA woman in a yellow dress has been shot by the police. As a video goes viral, a revolution begins to stir. Ali and Leyla are panicking - they uploaded the footage; the authorities are after them. Yasmin is desperate to know if her...
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Truth and ReconciliationA hard-hitting, provocative new play from one of the United Kingdom's leading writers. From Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia, answers are demanded, reconciliation is hard to hear, and truth is rarely told. This bold drama sets out to inspire serious reflection by...
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An InterventionA touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about...
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GhostsAcclaimed director Richard Eyre's version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void...
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