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  • Harvest

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    On 14th May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, drunk as a skunk, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year-old Harrison. The prize would be 82 acres of up and down known as Kilham Wold Farm, near Driffiels in East Yorkshire. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • The Hypocrite

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A riotous new comedy from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, author of One Man, Two Guvnors.April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry to King Charles I. If only it were that simple. With a Royalist siege outside the city walls and the rebellion of the mob within, Civil War seems inevitable and losing his head more than ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Pub Quiz is Life

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Lee, a soldier returning to Hull from two tours of Afghanistan, joins a losing pub quiz team. The team is: Lee, specialist subject - "how to kill a man with your bare hands"; Woody, specialist subject - "hallucinogenic drugs"; and Bunny, specialist subject - "the containerisation of Hull docks"! What they need is a bit of class, a bit of history of art, a bit of literature, a bit of posh totty. ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Pitcairn

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In the southern Pacific Ocean on the remote island of Pitcairn, the infamous mutineers of The Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian (or should it be Titreano?) begin to establish a new society alongside their Tahitian followers. Tensions quickly swell as the British settlers refuse to relinquish the vices of their past. Social, racial and sexual schisms render the once paradisiac island into a hotbed ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Young Marx

    by Richard Bean, Clive Coleman ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Young Marx is a comedy set in 1850's London, where Karl Marx, is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke and restless, the play portrays the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary as a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Reykjavik

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    “'For Those in Peril on the Sea' makes dying at sea sound like something noble, patriotic. Whereas their husband, son or father has died for one half of a fish and chip supper…”February 1976. In freezing weather off the coast of Iceland, the sidewinder Graham Greene ices up, heels over, and sinks in seconds, taking fifteen of her crew with her. Such are the realities of the bruta... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Richard Bean Plays 6

    One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Contemporary Dramatists
    The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx's life in London, which launched London's new Bridge Theatre and The Hypocrite, a historical-farcical romp that lit up Hull's year as City of Culture.One Man, Two GuvnorsBased on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Richard Bean: Plays Four

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The new collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain’s leading playwrights and the fastest-selling playwright in the history of the West End.This volume features an introduction by Mark Lawson and includes the plays: The Heretic, The Big Fellah and England People Very Nice. ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Richard Bean: Plays Five

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The new collection from multi-award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Contains the plays, Great Britain, The Nap, Pub Quiz is Life, Pitcairn and Kiss Me.Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner. ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • To Have and To Hold

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    He talks about going to Switzerland, to that place where you pay them to kill you… And I say “go! It'll do you good. Broaden your horizons…you've never been abroad!After sixty years of marriage, happily settled into their retirement village in Yorkshire, Jack and Florence have elevated bickering almost to the status of high art. That said, they're otherwise getting along fine with the support of a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Nap

    (US Edition)

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Dylan isn't your typical snooker player. He's a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him – his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad.The Nap is a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered.It centres around Dylan Spokes, a professional snooker player, born and raised in ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • England People Very Nice

    by Richard Bean ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    ‘Fucking Frogs! My grandfather didn’t die in the English Civil War so’s half the population of France could come over here and live off the soup!’A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD