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Plays from the United Kingdom
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plays published in Canada. We stock and sell plays from Samuel French Ltd., Dramatists Play Service and Dramatic Publishing Co., and the leading play publishers
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 The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar, Edited by John Ross
The New Mermaids collection is a modernized and fully annotated series of classic English plays. Each volume includes the playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibligraphical and textual standards, textual notes recording substantive changes to the copytext and variant readings, glossing notes elucidating obscure words and word-play, critical, contextual and staging notes, photographs of the productions where applicable, a full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discussed authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading. Softcover, 148 pp. $18.00.
 The UN Inspector
David Farr
Spotted at the Marriott by government aides in search of a decent cappuccino,
a British businessman nonentity is mistaken for the dreaded UN inspector.
While he exploits the situation for all it's worth, presidential panic
ensues as ex Soviet Ministers make farcical attempts to cover up the
corruption that lies at the State's core. M-13, F-5. Softcover, 112
pp. $21.00.
 Talk About the Passion and Rattlesnakes
Graham Farrow
In Talk About the Passion, a young child is horrifically murdered and
the autobiography of the serial killer is a hit publication. Jason Carroway
is forced to endure the guilt at failing to protect his son and the
media attention that accompanies the release of the killer's autobiography.
This award-winning play is a moving and powerful exploration of loss,
society's collusion in the glamorisation of evil, and the desire for
justice.
Rattlesnakes examines the seedy world of the gigolo providing sex
to bored and lonely wives. A vigilante group of husbands seeks retribution
in this hard-hitting study of betrayal and personal failure.
Softcover, 74 pp. $20.95.
 Losing My Marbles
Trader Faulkner and John Goodwin
Softcover, 54 pp. $25.95.
 Scots Plays of the Seventies: An Anthology
Bill Findlay
The six plays gathered together in this anthology are seminal works
in the unprecedented flowering of Scottish drama that occured in the
1970s. Included are Willie Rough by Bill Bryden, The Jesuit by
Donald Campbell, The Burning by Stewart Conn, The Hardman by
Tom McGrath, The Rising by Hector MacMillan, and The Bevellers by
Roddy McMillan. Softcover, 372 pp. $26.95.
 Burnt by the Sun
Peter Flannery
General Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule. Softcover, 92 pp. $22.95.
 The Tamer Tamed
John Fletcher
In John Fletcher's "sequel" to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio finds out how it feels to be on the receiving end of a taming campaign by a spurrious lover. The Tamer Tamed is a welcome edition to the New Mermaids Editions, which offers fully annotated texts, a full, exhaustive introduction, and a beautiful edition for any library. Softcover,
187 pp. $18.00.
 The Witch of Edmonton
Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley, edited by Arthur Kinney
The New Mermaids collection is a modernized and fully annotated series of classic English plays. Each volume includes the playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibligraphical and textual standards, textual notes recording substantive changes to the copytext and variant readings, glossing notes elucidating obscure words and word-play, critical, contextual and staging notes, photographs of the productions where applicable, a full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discussed authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading. Softcover, 115 pp. $18.00.
Michael Frayn Plays: 4
Includes Copenhagen, Democracy, and Afterlife. Softcover, 410 pp. $29.00.
 The Crimson Hotel and Audience
Michael Frayn
In The Crimson Hotel, two lovers escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel straight out of Feydeau, but conjured by the playwright from the empty landscape of the desert. Also included is an older one-act play, Audience, which began life as the first act of Look Look. Softcover, 81 pp. $16.50.
 Democracy
Michael Frayn
In Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the
unknown events of twentieth-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency
and sublety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as
he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966. M-10. Softcover, 134 pp. $18.95.
 Copenhagen
Michael Frayn
An elegant, fiercely intelligent drama that reimagines a mysterious 1941 war-time
meeting between two Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist,
and Niels Bohr, his Danish counterpart, were old friends and close colleagues.
However, now on the opposite sides of a world war, the questions they once
asked for the thrill of knowledge are now fraught with danger and danger. $18.00.
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