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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
in Great Britain. We carry books on all aspects of theatre production, as well
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 Terry Johnson: Plays 3
Terry Johnson
Terry Johnson's work has been performed all over Great Britain,
and in the USA, Europe and Australia. He is the recipient of nine
major British theatre awards and has had nine productions running
in London's West End. This introduction to his frequently funny
and always touching oeuvre contains The London Cuckolds, Cleo,
Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, and The Graduate. Softcover,
325 pp. $37.95.
 The Lightning Play
Charlotte Jones
North London at Halloween. Celebrity ghost-writer Max Villiers and his
wife Harriet, a talented shopper, host a party. As Max connects his
first plasma TV, the evening is hijacked by interference from the
past. There are trick-or-treaters at the door and strangers on the
brand new rug. A shocking and darkly humorous play. M-4, F-4. Softcover,
105 pp. $21.95.
 Stones in His Pockets & A Night In November
Marie Jones
Stones is a small play from the talented Belfast writer that became a huge
success in London's West End. It is an irresistable two man show about the filmimg
of a Hollywood epic in rural Ireland, in which both actors play all eleven characters.
It has just been nominated for numerous Olivier Awards. Night follows an Ulsterman
on the fateful night when the Republic of Ireland qualifies against Northern Ireland
for the World Cup. SC $17.95.
 Sejanus: His Fall
Ben Jonson
The Emperor Tiberius raises a statue to honour Sejanus,
unaware that his right-hand man is ruthlessly working his way to
the top, destroying everyone
in his path. No one can stop him, but his fall is inevitable. Large cast.
Softcover, 97 pp. $22.95.
 Volpone and Other Plays
Ben Jonson
The three plays in this collection -- Volpone, The Alchemist,
and Bartholomew -- depict the faults, errors, and foibles of
ordinary people with exhuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations.
In addition to a detailed introduction, this volume also includes a
bibliography, notes and a preliminary preface to each play. Softcover,
489 pp. $18.00.
 Exiles
James Joyce
In the summer of 1912 in Dublin, after nine years abroad, Berta and her husband, Richard, have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. James Joyce's only play is republished here with his own notes and a new introduction by playwright Conor McPherson. Softcover, 112 pp. $22.95.
 Modern Theatre Guides: Blasted
Helen Hall
Blasted has been labelled as one of the landmark plays of post-war British theatre, acheiving its iconic status and notoriety very quickly. This guide provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, including a brief biography of Sarah Kane, its socio-political background, its structure, style, and characters, its performance history, and key production issues and choices. Softcover, 121 pp. $18.95.
 Sarah Kane: Complete Plays
Sarah Kane
The plays in this volume have been described as" shocking and defining moments
in recent British theatre." Plays include Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48, Psychosis, and Skin. $32.95.
 How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Fin Kennedy
When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in a seafront fortune teller's in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was. Softcover, 108 pp. $22.95.
 Prayer Room
Shan Khan
There was a place where the Christians and the Muslims existed in relative
peace. Everyone was more or less happy, except for the Jews -- who
were few and had to be thankful to their Christian overlords for
the little
space they were accorded. Then one day, more Jews came, and it soon
became apparent to them that they'd need their own space. So they
got their own space -- but at the Muslims' expense. The Muslims of
course are fuming; the Jews feel they're perfectly within their rights;
and
the Christians are trying to take a back seat and let the other two
share the blame. This place is a multi-faith prayer room in a British
college. M-7, F-2. Softcover, 106 pp. $21.00.
 Notes on Falling Leaves
Ayub Khan-Din
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is
empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own
feelings about why they try, but just can't, communicate. M-1, F-1. Softcover,
18 pp. $14.95.
 Henry (After Pirandello)
Thomas Kilroy
Actor Richard McMillan is Henry, a man of enormous wealth and privilege, who believes he is the eleventh-century Holy Roman Emperor and German King Henry IV. A fortress is built and actors are hired to carry out his fantasy. But is he mad or are we? Adapted from Luigi Pirandello's Enrico IV, Kilroy's version transports Pirandello's main character into twenty-first-century Hollywood with sensationally dramatic results. 6M, 3W (flexible casting). Softcover, 43 pp. $10.99.
 The Madame Macadam Travelling Theatre
Thomas Kilroy
Softcover, 79 pp. $17.95.
 The Black Album
Hanif Kureishi
An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it's 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West. Adapted from the playwright's novel of the same name M-7, F-2. Softcover, $24.95.
 The Sugar Wife
Elizabeth Kuti
Hannah Tewkley is torn between her work with the city's poor and her husband
Samuel's prospering business: a string of oriental teahouses. Their new guests,
Alfred, an English philanthropist, and Sarah, a freed slave, are both scarred
by the horrors of America's Deep South. The visit begins with the best of intentions,
but all four characters find it increasingly difficult to maintain their lofty
ideals. M-2, F-3. Softcover, 85 pp. $22.95.
 Statement of Regret
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Taking a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and questions of solidarity with a racial group, Statement of Regret is Kwei-Armah's third play for the National Theatre. In this new play we meet Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a black policy think-tank. We track the relationships with his son and other members of the community when put under the pressures of media interest, disinterest, and family disaster. Softcover, 90 pp. $16.50.
 Fix Up
Kwame Kwei-Armah
It's Black History month but you wouldn't know it in Tottenham where plans
are afoot to turn Kwesi's All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats,
and it
looks like Kiyi's "conscious" bookstore will go the same way. And
then a beautiful visitor shows up in the midst and life goes from bad to worse.
M-3,
F-2. Softcover, 81 pp. $20.95.
 Elmina's Kitchen
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Things aren't looking so great for Deli down in Murder Mile,
Hackney. He's trying to revive the fortune of his mother's restaurant,
but where does his son disappear to on the night of the long-awaited
re-opening? And why is his friend Digger offering him protection? Elmina's
Kitchen is a thrilling portrait of a one-parent familiy struggling
to stay within the law while the neighbourhood gets turned upside-down.
Softcover, 94 pp. $22.95.
 Last Easter
Byrony Lavery
June has a terrible secret. Gash has an outrageous plan. Leah is open to possibilities. And Joy is drinking to forget. When June's best friends unravel her mystery, the whisk her from London to Lourdes where she is thoroughly dunked in the reputedly healing waters. The four friends' lunatic pilgrimage is filled with laughing, singing, a drag act and more than a few bottles of good red wine. Last Easter is a funny, moving and provocative play about the true nature of friendship. Softcover, 126 pp. $19.00.
 The Gist of It
Rodney Lee
Film student Orla, eccentric and upopular, is under pressure to finish shooting her precious masterpiece, featuring a reluctant butterfly. But her lovesick lead and her neurotic father seem determined to sabotage her genius... Well, that's the gist of it. Softcover, 86 pp. $22.95.
 Shoreditch Madonna
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
A derelict space. Three urban cowboys. Two jaded bohemians. One woman, alone
in pain. Their lives collide and, in an attempt to connect with each other, their
conflicts unfold. A modern tale of love and loss set against the underground
art world of London's East End. M-4, F-2. Softcover, 85 pp. $21.00.
 The Night Season
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
A funny, modern, intoxicating tale of love and loss. M-3, F-4.
Softcover, 107 pp. $21.95.
 The Pull of Negative Gravity
Jonathan Lichtenstein
Wounded in the war in Iraq, a farmer's boy turned soldier returns home with injuries that have extraordinary consequences for his fiancee and his family. 2M, 2W. Softcover, 55 pp. $10.99.
 Thebans: Oedipus Jokasta Antigone
Liz Lochhead
In Thebans, Liz Lochhead, working from the great dramas
of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, re-tells in a single play
the ancient stories of the Kingdom of Thebes: of Oedipus the King,
of Jokasta his mother/wife, and of their children, the warring
brothers Polyneikes and Eteokles and the sisters Ismene and Antigone,
who dies rather than obey Oedipus's successor, King Kreon, her
uncle, and leave her brother's corpse unburied. 9M, 3W, Chorus
(flexible casting). Softcover, 88 pp. $19.95.
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