Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Knives in Hens

    Series series Modern Plays
    'I have no name for the thing which is in my head. It is not envy. It is more than envy. It does not scare me. I must look close enough to look at what it is.'A ploughman and his wife live a simple existence in a pre-industrial time until they, along with the hated local miller, are drawn into a struggle of knowledge, power and attraction.David Harrower's haunting play established him as one of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Six Characters Looking For An Author

    Series series Modern Plays
    A new version of one of the most influential plays of the 20th centurySix people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Knives in Hens

    Series series Modern Classics
    *The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now.Knives in Hens* is a brutal fable set in a timeless spartan rural community. First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in June 1995, before transferring to the Bush Theatre, London, in November 1995, the play was playwright David ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Kill The Old, Torture Their Young

    Series series Modern Plays
    Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragi-comedy from the acclaimed writer of Knives in Hens, one of Scotland's most talented new playwrightsA documentary maker returns to the city of his birth. His task, to film his impressions. An old man remembers a time when eagles flew over the city. A TV executive reaches breaking point in the city he loves. A struggle actor seeks fame in a city ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

    by 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 ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Comedies

    Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, and The Importance of Being Earnest

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Experience the wit of Wilde in these four delightfully satiric plays—including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.In the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde's plays were the toast of London, celebrated for the Irish playwright's mischievous wit, pointed social satire, and gift for energetic farce.Lady Windermere's Fan: Gossip leads Lady Windermere to believe her husband is having an ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murmuring Judges

    by David Hare ...
    A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Midsummer [a play with songs]

    by David Greig ...
    Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beautiful Burnout

    by Bryony Lavery ...
    Keep your guard up. Protect yourself at all times. Protect your boy. Keep him safe. Keep him close. That is all that matters.Cameron is going places. He's going to see lights. He's going to make the world take notice and kneel at his feet. He's fighting for his club, his mum, his place in the world. And this boy is a natural. He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Angry Brigade

    Series series Modern Plays
    Its government has declared a vicious class war. A one-sided war . . . We have started to fight back . . . with bombs.Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets: MPs, embassies, police, pageant queens. A world of order is shattered by anarchy and the rules have changed. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Miser (Mobi Classics)

    L'Avare is a 1668 five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. Its title is usually translated as The Miser when the play is performed in English. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Real Thing

    by Tom Stoppard ...
    **'Not only Mr. Stoppard's most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years.' ( New York Times)I do envy you being married to a man with a sense of humour. Henry thinks he has a sense of humour, but what he has is a joke reflex.The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD