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Plays from the United Kingdom
T to Z by playwright
TheatreBooks stocks plays in English from around the world and, of course, all
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
as opera and dance.
If you don't find the title or playwright you are looking for, please stop by the
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 One Million Tiny Plays About Britain
Craig Taylor
In these short evocative works based on overheard conversations in cities and towns across the country, Craig Taylor captures the state we're in with humour and pathos and perfect timing. Hardcover, 213 pp. $22.00.
 A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
In A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas captures a child's-eye
view of Christmas, and wraps it in the fondness of an adult's rememberance.
This gem of lyric prose has enchanted young and old for over half a century,
and is now a modern Christmas classic. Softcover, 32 pp. $12.00.
 Stone City Blue
Ed Thomas
Winter in a city. Berlin, Paris, Cardiff, Antwerp: it could be anywhere.
A stranger; a poet; a drunk; a whore; four voices; one city; together
until dawn. The end of the story, or just the beginning? M-2, F-2.
Softcover, 102 pp. $20.95.
 Roaring Trade
Steve Thompson
Fast-paced and astute, Roaring Trade exposes just how far people go for the highest-risk jobs in the City. Softcover, $22.95.
 When You Cure Me
Jack Thorne
Rachel and Peter are seventeen. They have been dating for six months and they
are falling in love. She doesn't want her mom to fuss; she doesn't want Alice
to pretend she's her best friend; and she certainly Alice's boyfriend telling
bad jokes at her bedside. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn't
know what he wants. M-2, F-3. Softcover, 82 pp. $22.95.
 Safety
Chris Thorpe
Softcover 78 pp. $19.95.
 Blowing Whistles
Matthew Todd
Nigel loves his hedonistic lifestyle - he has a long-term boyfriend, goes clubbing and has lots of sex in their open relationship. Jamie, his partner of ten years, isn't sure things are so great... The night before Gay Pride Day, the couple make contact with a stranger on the Internet, a mysterious young man who seems too good to be true. They make plans for a night of casual sex, but their young guest has a very different agenda... Softcover, 63 pp. $10.99.
 The Relapse and Other Plays
John Vanbrugh
This collection contains The Relapse, The Provoked
Wife, The Confederacy, A Journey to London and The
Country House. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Brean Hammond.
Softcover, 380 pp. $25.95.
 Breathing Corpses
Laura Wade
Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. 4M, 3W. Softcover, 47 pp. $10.99.
 Colder Than Here
Laura Wade
Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying, but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and biodegradable coffins, her family is forced to communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future. 1M, 3W. Softcover, 53 pp. $10.99.
 Delirium
Edna Walsh
A radical interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries, Delirium is the hilarious, brutal and tragic story of the fight between good and evil where the battlefield is the human heart. Softcover, $22.95.
 The Walworth Farce
Edna Walsh
It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours' time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours' time, as is normal, five people will have been killed. Enda Walsh's tender and visceral play was commissioned and first performed by Druid in 2006. 3m, 1w. Softcover, 85 pp. $22.95.
 World Music
Steve Waters
The troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into
the personal lives and loves of two generations. In his new play, World
Mussic, Steve Walters draws from the tragic history of Central Africa
to show how the deeds of the past contaminate our hopes for the future. M-4,
F-3. Softcover, 79 pp. $19.95.
 Flight Path & Undercarriage
David Watson
Jonathan's eighteen. Bright boy. Great future. People expect things...especially now that his dad's walked out, his mom's got her career and Danny needs looking after. Danny - his brother with Down's syndrome and a love of creative swearing. But Jonathan's best friend needs him too. It's hard work burgling houses all on your own... Softcover, 117 pp. $19.00.
 Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays Two
Timberlake Werenbaker
This second collection of Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays contains her work from 1995
to 2001. The plays included are: The Break Of Day, After Darwin, Credible Witness,
The Ash Girl, and Dianeira. Softcover, $25.99.
 Wesker's Love Plays
Arnold Wesker
Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of the late-twentieth-century drama. Softcover, 186 pp. $37.50.
 The Earthly Paradise
Peter Whelan
une 1871, William Morris spends summer in Kelmscott, Oxfordshire in
the company of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and their beloved Janey --
the wife of one, and muse of the other. M-3, F-1. Softcover, 85 pp.
$20.95.
 Peter Whelan: Plays 1
Peter Whelan
This collection contains: The Accrington Pals (M-5, F-5), The School
of Night (M-7, F-3), and The Herbal Bed (M-6, F-2). Softcover, 308
pp. $37.95.
 Darwin in Malibu
Crispin Whittell
Malibu, California. The present. One hundred and twenty years after his death, Charles Darwin is hanging out in a beach house overlooking the Pacific with a girl young enough to be his daughter. His peace is rudely disturbed when his old friend Thomas Huxley washes up on the beach closely followed by the Bishop of Oxford. And Darwin suddenly finds himself entangled in an enthralling and thought-provoking comedy about God, science, and plastic surgery. Softcover, 52 pp. $10.99.
 Ladies Down Under
Amanda Whittingdon
The four adventuresome women of Amanda Whittington's smash hit, Ladies Day, are back in Ladies Down Under. After winning a fortune at the races Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda are celebrating with the trip of a lifetime to the land of Oz. Softcover, 89 pp. $22.95.
 Lady Windermere's Fan
New Mermaids - 2nd Edition
Oscar Wilde, edited by Jan Small
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, 102 pp. $18.00.
 The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing
the hypocrises of fashionable society are on display in this collection
of his finest plays. Included
are: The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman
of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, and a selection
of Wilde's literary criticism. Softcover, 387 pp. $8.99.
 The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
Oscar Wilde
This collection includes Oscar Wilde's most famous comedies, The
Importance
of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance,
and An Ideal Husband, as well as his poetic tragedy Salome, all
of which were written between 1891 and 1895, Wilde's most creative period. Softcover,
384 pp. $10.95.
 The Nest
Alan Wilkins
The Nest is a bothy close to Sgurr Mor in the West Highlands of Scotland, providing
sanctuary for climbers and walkers in its warm, welcoming embrace. But when
the weather turns famously Scottish, the Nest will also trap them, and not
let go. A wry, intriguing look at our obsession with taking to the hills and
conquering mountains, The Nest is the first play by Edinburgh
writer Alan Wilkins. Softcover, 53 pp. $19.95.
 Roy Williams
Plays 3
Roy Williams' plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage, with titles like Fallout, Slow Time, Days of Significance, and Absolute Beginners. Softcover, 358 pp. $27.50.
 Joe Guy
Roy Williams
As a young man, Joseph is taunted by the cooler British-Caribbean kinds for his accent and his humility. Ditching his Ghanaian heritage, Joseph becomes Joe, and icon of urban Black identity. Premier league clubs, venal agents and one-night women all want a piece, but one night in a hotel room with the lovely Lauren and it all gets out of control. As the abyss opens, Joe discovers how much he has lost and how little of him remains. Softcover, 92 pp. $16.50.
 Days of Significance
Roy Williams
Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing, Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. On the eve of their departure for active service, two young soldiers join their friends to binge drink the night away. Their complex love lives and mortal fears directly impact on their tour of duty and reveal how the naive and malformed moral codes of these young men have catastrophic reverberations for the West's moral authority. Softcover, 98 pp. $18.00.
 Visible
Sarah Woods
Visible boldly challenges how we guard our wealth and our 'right' to
happiness. Striving so hard to live a good life and acquire the trappings
of success, do we sometimes lose sight of the world around us? Rob
and Hattie's Sunday lunch is about to take an unexpected turn...
Softcover, 95 pp. $22.99.
 Quills and other plays
Doug Wright
Throughout his work, Doug Wright has often combined the personal, the social,
and the political to get at universal truths while in the process casting an
unblinking eye on the dark -- and darkly funny -- side of human nature. Gathered
here are three of Wright's early plays: Interrogating the Nude,
a tongue-in-cheek reimagining of the uproar surrounding the debut of Marcel
Duchamp's work in America; Watbanaland, a satiric dissection
of yuppie desire and a haunting look at family and faith; and the Obie Award-winning Quills,
which explores the boundaries or artistic expression and the dangers of censorship,
as played out in the Marquis de Sade's final days at Charenton Asylum. Softcover,
258 pp. $22.50.
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