Results for: books tagged ‘Playscripts’
Right Prospectus: John Osborne
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ... More
The Entertainer: John Osborne
This play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the ... More
Travesties: Tom Stoppard
‘Travesties is a superb comedy, a work of thought and imagination.’ Stage and Television‘It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design ... More
Murder in the Cathedral: T. S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival on 1935, was the first high point on T. S. Eliot's dramatic achievement. It remains one of the great plays of ... More
Look Back in Anger: John Osborne
In 1956 John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.‘Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all ... More
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul: Tom Stoppard
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour:A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing ... More
Comedians: Trevor Griffiths
‘The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent’s man from London. Telling ... More
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Christopher Hampton
‘Christopher Hampton’s brilliant adaptation ... gives a pitiless and searching portrait of the erotic diversions of aristocrats in putrescent pre-revolutionary France.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Hampton’s achievement is to have preserved the ... More
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme: Frank McGuinness
'This powerful and subtle play . . . follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World ... More
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