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Alongside over 800 of the latest modern plays and classics from some of the world's leading dramatists, our list includes a wide range of new titles on theatre, opera, dance, biography, performance studies, monologues, practical guides and fiction. Current and forthcoming highlights include -
The Life in My Years
Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna starred in some of the most popular and enduring movies of our time, among them Carve Her Name With Pride, A Town Like Alice and Born Free, in which she played opposite her husband, Bill Travers. After Born Free both actors were at the peak of their careers but the film and all it still stands for changed their lives. Its powerful message stayed with them and so began a worldwide campaign to save animals from commercial exploitation, "imprisonment" in zoos and loss of their natural habitat.

At the heart of this book is a cry for change in attitude - to respect nature and all that it provides. Virginia McKenna has pushed aside the glamour of movie stardom, the West End and Broadway where she starred in major shows like The King and I and A Little Night Music. Instead she focuses relentlessly on her personal mission with the Born Free Foundation or the plight of orphaned children across the world.

Through the prism of memory a lifetime of experiences, ecstatic, amusing or tragic have flooded back in the form of anecdotes, meditations and poems to form this book.
This book will inspire anyone who cares about the future of the planet and all the creatures dependent on it, including human beings.

Part of the proceeds from each book sold will go to support Born Free Foundation campaigns.

Price (UK): £25.00 | Hardback
ISBN: 9781840028980
Memories
Elaine Paige
Celebrating 40 years on the stage, Elaine Paige, the great star of West End and Broadway Musicals, now tells the remarkable story of her life in words and pictures.

In Memories Elaine takes us through her extraordinary career from her earliest stage appearances with Joan Littlewood’s groundbreaking company in London’s East End to her many starring roles in some of the biggest musicals of modern times, including Cats, Evita, Grease, Piaf, Sunset Boulevard and The Drowsy Chaperone, sharing moments of joy and regret.

Illustrated with an extraordinary collection of images in colour and black and white, both commissioned for this book and drawn from her own archive, Memories depicts Elaine in some of her most iconic roles, but also shows her away from the stage, in childhood, with family and friends, and on her travels.

A revealing and funny insight into the life and career of a true national treasure.

Price (UK): £25 | Hardback
ISBN: 9781840028522
Starf*cker
The Rolling Stones in Concert '76
Nobby Clark

In 1976 The Rolling Stones were the greatest rock band on earth. To prove it, they set off on their now legendary European Tour ‘76, often known as the “Starf*cker” tour, in part due to the extraordinary lotus-shaped stage they played on.

Along the way they invented stadium rock, and, onstage and off, set a standard for decadence, excess, and sheer rock 'n’ roll anarchy that has yet to be surpassed.

Commissioned by the Observer to record the rollercoaster tour at its zenith - the concerts at London’ Earls Court from 21-27 May - was Nobby Clark. The result is a unique visual record, by one of the best photographers in Britain, of the greatest rock n’ roll band on the planet cementing their place in music history.

Featuring over 120 colour and black & white pictures, Starf*cker is a timeless photographic document of the Stones at their inimitable peak.


Price (UK): £20 | Landscape Hardback
ISBN: 9781840028393
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Out on 20th June
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Two Early Plays by John Osborne
Before Anger
edited by Jamie Andrews

Two never-before-published early plays by one of the most influential British playwrights of the last century, offering an insight into how his craft developed The Devil Inside Him - written in 1950 and first produced at Huddersfield is a melodrama with a poetic edge about a Welsh boarding house, lorded over by a self-righteous, religious bigot of a father; the lead character is his son, an imaginative teenager widely regarded as “daft” by the neighbours and as immoral by his father. These perceptions lead inexorably to tragedy.
Personal Enemy - written with Anthony Creighton and performed at Harrogate in 1955 - is set in America at the height of the McCarthy communist witch-hunts: a family whose eldest son was killed in the Korean war finds itself under intense pressure in the light of some devastating political and personal revelations.
This volume is edited with an introduction by Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library.

"They contain the seeds of the future. All the elements are there - a certain passion, a certain realism and a furious wronged hero." John Heilpern, The Times .

Price (UK): £10.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840029031


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New biography by Michael Kustow
In Search of Jerusalem
Michael Kustow

"One of the biographies of our generation - richly layered, funny, argumentative, moving and intellectually admirable. A great achievement"
Melvyn Bragg

Ranging across the years, In Search of Jerusalem conjures up the spirited encounters of Michael Kustow's many-sided life: a tender evocation of his parents; portraits of actors, stage directors, painters, film-makers; vivid descriptions of post-war and modern Paris, Mumbai, Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank; the early days of Channel 4 television; and new insights into a moment of challenge and change. A life shaken up is reassembled in Kustow's cavalcade of survival and renewal. .

Price (UK): £18.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028720


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Running at the West Yorkshire Playhouse from 31 January 2009 for the Eclipse Theatre Initiative
The Hounding of David Oluwale
Oldipo Agbouaje

In May 1969, David Oluwale's body was pulled from the River Aire in Leeds. Eighteen months later, the investigation into his death was to rip apart the Yorkshire police force as two officers were prosecuted for killing the Nigerian immigrant whilst in custody.
Through The Hounding Of David Oluwale, an adaptation of Kester Aspden's critically acclaimed text, Agoluaje uses carefully selected accounts of Oluwale's life to reveal how an optimistic and much loved showman who,loved to dance, became the tragic victim of police persecution and brutality.

Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840029024


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Four new plays from the renowned dramatist
Plays Two
Paul Sirett

"Sharp, plausible and funny... Eminently deserving of the Best Play Award it has just received from the Thames TV Theatre Writers' Scheme". The Guardian on Worlds Apart

From exploring the fates of five detainees held as if captive within an airport immigration office within Worlds Apart, to depicting the surprising and often comic reactions of a group of Western tourists who break down in the West Bank within Crusade, Sirett takes the themes of dislocation, social isolation and the clash of civilisations, and plays them out within familiar and timely scenarios which strike a chord within our contemporary society.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840024821


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A fascinating handbook for theatrical directors from one of the worlds most significant voice teachers
From Word to Play, A Handbook for Directors
Cicely Berry

Cicey Berry, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Voice Director, has been working alongside some of Britain's most distinguished actors and directors for over 50 years, and her expertise and experience has become regarded as second to none within the theatrical world. Within From Word to Play, Berry draws upon this experience to formulate her manifesto for the return of the purity of language upon the stage, calling for a move away from the over-literal view of language and the rediscovery of sound and rhythm.

At the heart of this text resides Berry's concise and practical guide for directors in rehearsal, providing advice for all kinds of texts - whether verse or prose, contemporary or seventeenth-century. Placing From Word to Stage as an invaluable publication for amateur and professional directors alike.

Forward my Micharl Boyd, Artistic Director of the RSC.
Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840026016


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A groundbreaking and informative text-book for actors wishing to explore using accents within drama
How to do Accents
Edda Sharpe and Jan Hadyan Rowles

Sharpe and Hadyan Rowles are two of the of Britain's leading voice coaches, who within How to do Accents have pioneered a groundbreaking and insightful technique for actors wishing to develop the ability to do accents. Using a theory based upon actors specifically listening out for the ways in which accents are put together, then reconstructing them, the pair have created a technique which enables actors to pronounce accents otherwise foriegn to themselves with greater flexibility and ease.
Includes a CD containing detailed exercises and sample sentences, along with eleven extended recordings of voices from the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
'At last! A really practical and fun guide to accent training. I recommend it to all actors and voice teachers.' - Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice, National Theatre
Price (UK): £18.99 | Paperback with CD | ISBN: 9781840026009

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An engrossing exploration of the British theatrical scene from one of Britain's most celebrated directors and playwrights
Apprenticeship
Peter Gill

"Peter Gill has created a characteristically beautiful little book... so faultlessly produced by Oberon Books... as to be a pleasure to hold in your hand... This is a book EP Thompson might have applauded, for it is a defence of fundamental class loyalty, of free thinking, inquiry, research and empiricism".
David Hare, The Guardian

Based on Gill's recently re-discovered diary dating back to his time acting in Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle at the RSC, Apprenticeship is a potent and captivating recollection of Gill's experiences of the changing theatrical landscape of the ‘60s, along with a fascinating depiction of his journey from being a young actor to becoming the renowned director and playwright of today.

Peter Gill is considered to be one of the most important directors of the last thirty years, his career beginning with the ground-breaking productions of plays by D H Lawrence, Heathcote Williams, and Joe Orton at the Royal Court Theatre, where he was Assistant Director and an Associate Director. Gill's own plays include The Sleepers Den (Royal Court, 1965), Over Gardens Out (Royal Court, 1968), Small Change (Royal Court, 1976), The York Realist (English Touring Theatre, 2001) and Original Sin (Sheffield, 2002).
Price (UK): £8.99 | Hardback | ISBN: 9781840028713


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50 speeches from some of the finest plays written over the last fifty years
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women
Edited by Catherine Weate

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women collects over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years from a unique range of dramatists and playwrights. Divided into sections releating to age; teens, twenties, thirties and forties plus, adn containing the context for each speech, this publication is a comprehensive collection for female actors of all ages and abilities.
Containing the work of dramatists such as Pam Gems, Meredith Oakes, Laura Wade and Deborah Gearing, this collection of female centred speeches is the companion to The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men, and whilst it can be used in conjunction with this publication, it stands alone as a strong text for actresses preparing for audictions, castings and lessons.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028263


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50 speeches from some of the finest plays written over the last fifty years
The Oberon Modern Monologues For Men
Edited by Catherine Weate

Bringing together specially selected speeches by modern dramatists including Howard Barker, Chris O’Connell, Richard Bean, Tanika Gupta, Will Eno, Meredith Oakes, Toby Whithouse, and Dennis Kelly to name a few, The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men is a unique resource for amateur, student, and professional actors alike. With the context from which each speech is taken provided within the text, actors can rest assured that they will be well prepared for a number of classes, contests, auditions and rehearsals.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028256


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A new text from the author of Crossing Jerusalem and The Holocaust Trilogy
The Shylock Play
Julia Pascal

Reviving the themes of Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice and placing them within a modern context and setting, Julia Pascal's provocative and controversial drama seeks to question how the antisemitic portrayal of Shakespeare's Shylock has impacted modern-day attitudes towards the Jewish people.
Set in the present day within the locale of the Venice Ghetto, The Shylock Play follows the emotional experiences of Warsaw Ghetto-escapee Sarah, who when visiting the Venice Ghetto happens to witness a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice, and is confronted by the terrible story of 'The Jew' which touches her own life.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028126


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Running at Southwark Playhouse from 10 December 2008 to 10 January 2009
The Scarecrow and His Servant
Adapted by Simon Reade from the novel by Philip Pullman

Outrageously zany and filed with non-stop surprises, Simon Reade’s theatrical adaptation of Philip Pullman's children's book The Scarecrow and His Servant, is an enchanting play for young readers and performers alike.

This seasonal action packed adaptation presents a never ending flood of adventure, magic and fun. But danger is never far away, and as the river-polluting Buffaloni tyrants catch up with Scarecrow and his Servant, there beings a treacherous battle to save the day from the clutches of the evil beasts.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028997



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Running at The Soho Theatre until 20th December 2008
On Emotion
Mick Gordon and Paul Broks

Maverick Theatre-maker Mick Gordon and neuropsychologist Paul Broks join forces with acclaimed puppeteers, Blind Summit, to use and abuse the tools of the theatre, an art form which creates and manipulates the feelings, to explore the complicated arena of human emotion.

This captivating production provocatively delves into the human psyche to probe the question, "Are we just puppets of our emotions?"
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028836



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recently shown at the Southwark Playhouse
Theatre Cafe Plays One
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Joel Pommerat and Lutz Hubner

Three exciting, provocative and thoughtful plays from Theatre Cafe, the European theatre project curated by Company of Angels.
Invasion!by Khemiri's a stark yet comic examination of the lives of young immigrants in Stockholm. The deelpy moving text using humour to successfully tear down the fear driven social constructs of 'them' and 'us'.

Pommerat's This Child probes the delicate relationships binding children and parents, and through encompassing both the noblest and the most shameful ties, has created a fascinating and thought inducing drama.

Hard hitting play Respect unmasks the sexual attitudes, provocation and intercultural confusion within our present society. Tragically, the play is based upon the true story of an honour killing.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028935



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Transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre, starring Elena Rogers
Piaf
Pam Gems

From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame, Edith Gassion (known to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow) continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and extraordinary, troubled life.

In this new version of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her classic 1978 play, vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028751



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On a UK tour in a production by Absolute Theatre
Zero
Chris O'Connell

Chaotic, fast, and furious, Zero is the new play from multi award-winning Theatre Absolute. Written by Chris O'Connell, the play is an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture, and the curse of censorship.
Twenty years from now, in the face of a feast of unabated nihilism, hundreds of camps have been built to torture and gain information at any cost, from those who aim to blow apart the rich pickings of a world that is wealthy beyond its dreams. Alex, a translator at Camp Zero, seeks to tell the world of the brutal regime within the camps, and finds his life is suddenly on the line. Survival is paramount, death may be inevitable, but the truth has to be told.


Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028812



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Currently playing at the Young Vic Theatre
Amazonia
Colin Teevan

Fantasy and reality combine in this enthralling production, which through exploring the life and popular culture of the unique Amazonian landscape and its people presents a vibrant glimpse into the hidden depths of the Worlds greatest rainforest
Teevan, inspired by the legacy left by the martyred environmental activist and Brazilian people's hero Chico Mendes, entwines activiam with a celebration of Brazilian culture as he explores the themes of climate change and social identity. The result, a stuinning and thought-provoking text.


Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028959



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Recently shown at the Gate Theatre, directed by Maria Aberg
State Of Emergency
Falk Richter

Falk Richter's unsettling new play State Of Emergency provocatively explores the consequences which occur when an initially utopian world evolves into an oppressive prison. Through examining the life of a married couple who live in what appears to be an ideal neighbourhood, protected from the dangers of outside world, Richter scrutinises the concepts of state and self control to reveal how the civic dream can turn into an Orwellian nightmare.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028966



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A new RSC commissioned play currently showing at Wilton's Music Hall
The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes
Adriano Shaplin

Vibrant, stunning and darkly enlightening, Shaplin's play presents a provocative and experimental voyage back in time to an age in which the theatre was the new science and philosophy the new religion.>br> Charles I has just been executed, Cromwell has closed the theatres, and there is revolution in the air. Within this tense and unsettling context Shaplin charts the English civil revolution in philosophical terms, presenting an original and insightful account of the alternative sub-cultures that marked the 17th Century.


Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028881



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Verbatim Verbatim
Contemporary Documentary Theatre

edited by Will Hammond and Dan Steward

Plays which use people's actual words as the basis for their drama are not a new phenomenon. But from the stages of national theatre to fringe venues and universities everywhere, 'verbatim' theatre, as it has come to be known, is currently enjoying unprecedented attention and success. it has also attracted high-profile criticism and impassioned debate.

In these wide-ranging essays and interviews, six leading dramatists describe their varying approaches to verbatim, examine the strengths and weaknesses of its techniques and explore the reasons for it scurrent popularity. They discuss frankly the uniqy opportunities and ethical dilemmas that arise when portraying real people on stage, and consider some of the criticisms levelled at this controversial documentary form.

Contributors: Writer/Director Alecky Blythe; Writer David Hare; Director Nicolas Kent; Writer/Journalist Richard Norton-Taylor; Writer/Actor Robin Soans; Director Max Stafford-Clark

Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840026979



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Wesker's Monologues
Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker's plays, written over a period of more than fifty years, offer actors, male and female, a remarkable source of monologues covering themes such as friendship, death, old age, political disillusion, failed love, and self-discovery fuelled by emotions ranging through anger, joy, hope, fear, outrage, love, bewilderment, guilt, and comic irony. This is Wesker's own selection of them.

Includes definitive versions of famous monlogues such as Paul's speech from The Kitchen and Beatie Bryant's triumphant speech from the end of Roots, with synopses of all the plays from which the monologues come.
Price (UK): £12.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840027921


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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 late-twentieth-century drama.
Each play grapples with the timeless problems accmompanying two people in love. The most intimate and personal of relationships are placed under uncompromising scrutiny. The Four Seasons depicts the ebb and flow of a couple's relationship over the course of its year-long life. In we witness the late-blooming love of a woman for her dying husband. Lady Othellogets right to the heart of an urgent, all-consuming affair.
Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840027914


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Plays One
Dennis Kelly

The four plays in this collection by Dennis Kelly are linked by their characters' desperate need to believe that there is more to life than the often brutal worlds in which they find themselves. Debris finds humour and pathos in a spectactularly dysfunctional family unit. The harrowing Osama the Hero shows a group of neighbours taking ill-defined revenge on an odd-ball teenager in a climate of fear. In After the End a woman discovers she has been rescued from Armageddon by a paranoid ex-colleague, and in a fractured narrative, Love and Money portrays a marriage driven to brutal destruction by financial pressures.
'A dramatist blessed with both rare skill and a profound understanding of the way we live now" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028034


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Three Testimonial Plays from South Africa
Theatre as Witness
Yael Farber
foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu


Yael Farber's trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in south Africa. Woman in Waiting tells of Thembi Mtshali's separation from her mother as a child, only to contune this legacy of waiting when forced to leave her own baby to mind other children in the white suburbs. Amajuba is a moving tapestry of different personal perspectives on growing up under Apartheid. He Left Quietly is the harrowing experience of Duma Kumalo, one of the wrongly accused Sharpeville Six, on South Africa's Death Row; preparations made for his death and ultimate reprieve.
Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028201


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Accompanying the recent smash-hit National Theatre production
The Horse's Mouth
Staging Morpurgo's War Horse

Mervyn Millar

The latest in the series 'The National Theatre at Work' follows the production of War Horse from early concept workshops, through the design and development of the magnificent life-size horse puppets, rehearsals with the ensemble, and onto the Olivier stage. Mervyn Millar's unique perspective as a member of the creative team and a puppeteer gives an extraordinary insight into the way this stage version of Michael Morpurgo's novel takes audiences on a journey through history.
Price (UK): £12.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840027655


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Actors Speaking
edited by Lyn Haill
with an introduction by Peter Gill


In the late 1980s, Peter Gill, first director of the National Theatre Studio, sent a group of young actors and directors to interview some of the most respected actors of the time about speaking on stage. These conversations, with actors such as Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison and Robert Stephens, are collected here for the first time.
Price (UK): £12.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840027761

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, Oberon Books is publishing Christopher Fry's complete works over three volumes. Includes his most famous play The Lady's Not For Burning - recently voted one of the 100 most influential plays of the 20th century - alongside lesser known works and one-act plays. Together they demonstrate Fry's unique blend of humour and humanity, his mastery of verse and prose, and the remarkable contemporary feel that his plays still possess.
Christopher Fry's most famous work, The Lady's Not For Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by the 'Summer' play A Yard of Sun, and a previously unpublished early play, Siege, based on the story of Aucassin and Nicolette.

Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback
ISBN: 9781840027716

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Fry's 'Autumn' and 'Winter' plays - Venus Observed and The Dark is Light Enough - are joined by the historical play Curtmantle, about Henry II. All three focus on a compelling central character who dominates those around them.

Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback
ISBN: 9781840027723

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This third volume brings together Fry's only fully-fledged tragedy - The Firstborn, based on the biblical story of the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays: The Boy With a Cart, A Phoenix Too Frequent, Thor with Angels, A Sleep of Prisoners, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of Bells.
Price (UK): £14.99 | Paperback
ISBN: 9781840027730

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Waves
Devised by Katie Mitchell and company from the text of Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves

In 2006 Katie Mitchell and her collaborators devised an original work for the National Theatre which seamlessly transposed the pointillist vision of Virginia Woolf's experimental novel The Waves into an entirely new form. The intertwining narrative of six friends – from childhood to maturity and beyond – was rendered into a series of beautiful and poignant images onto a screen by live actors and musicians incorporating techniques taken from the theatre, radio and video production.

The book combines the text used from Woolf’s novel with the corresponding images in order to create a record of the production, and a work of art in its own right.

Price (UK): £19.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028805


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Deep Cut
Philip Ralph

18 year old Private Cheryl James from LLangollen was one of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002.

Cheryl's parents wanted answers from the people responsible for their daughter's care. But how do you begin to grieve when no-one seems to have a proper explanation? What would give you the determination to continue asking awkward, demanding questions?

Taken from original source material and powerful first-hand testimonies, Deep Cut is a bold and compelling account of one family's journey through a time they thought they'd never experience, to places they hoped they'd never be.

"Extraordinary, complex and moving... Proving that theatre can sometimes do what journalism has failed to, this remarkable show is essential viewing.' - Lyn Gardner, Guardian
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028744


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The Magic Tree
Ursula Rani Sarma

Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark pace between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home and tentatively discover what it is that they have in common. But just when it seems something beautiful might emerge, the opposite appears.

The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028669


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Lie of the Land
Torben Betts

'We have inherited a house. A house in the country. A house by the sea.'

Inspired by a nightmare Betts had shortly after moving out of London, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a young couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them with the happiness and peace of mind they seek?
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028775


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Happy Savages
Ryan Craig

'Nothing changes. Everything just gets worse. What's the point of that?'

Two couples trample on friends and lovers in their search for happiness. The dialogue crackles with desperation and raw humour as the foursome see their tangled webs unravel.

'Craig knows all about pain, and he knows how to articulate the inarticulate sense of loss and emptiness people can feel at that age: he can portray youthful anguish without sliding into melodrama.' - John Peter, Sunday Times, on the original production of Happy Savages (1998)
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028782


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Lies Have Been Told
An Evening With Robert Maxwell
Rod Beacham

On 5 November 1991, Robert Maxwell's bloated corpse was found floating in the South Atlantic. the official verdict was accidental drowning, but the sudden and mysterious death of this infamous newspaper tycoon provoked no less rumour, speculation, anger and outrage than his headline-grabbing life.

But was Maxwell simply a monster, or was he the victom of racism and snobbery? What drove a penniless Czechoslovakian Jew, who lost almost his entire family in the Holocaust, to such heights and such depths? In this punchily written, confrontational monologue, Maxwell gets his own say, providing a fascinating case study in power and charm, insecurity and greed.
Price (UK): £7.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840026580


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On The Rocks
Amy Rosenthal

Spring 1916. DH Lawrence and his wife Frieda have found a new life for themselves in the remote Cornish village of Zennor. Rejuvenated by the wild beauty around them, they persuade close friends Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry to join the m in their idyll. But no soober have Katherine and Jack arrived than the long-simmering tensions bubble to the surface, and Lawrence's dream of communcal living starts unravelling before his eyes...
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028591


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The Diver
Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan

A woman is found wandering the streets of Fuchu City, Japan, her hands burnt and raw, her identity a mystery. Following the success of their 2006 hit The Bee, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan’s new play, The Diver, ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a contemporary murder.
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028683


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Moonlight and Magnolias
Ron Hutchinson

Hollywood, 1939: semi-indpendent mogul David O. Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - his megabudget version of Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel Gone With the Wind - scrapping the original script and sacking the director in the process. Determined to produce a rewrite in five days. With his reputation on the line, he locks himself in his office with two reluctant collaborators and a stockpile of peanuts and bananas, and a marathon creative session begins...
Price (UK): £8.99 | Paperback | ISBN: 9781840028102


Christopher Fry Centenary Year Editions

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