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'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.

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An incomparable gift for secret dragonologists everywhere! For true believers only, a lavishly illustrated volume by the world's most distinguished dragonologist. Don't let it fall into the wrong hands!

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Written in exile immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and banned in his home country, Gorky's extraordinary play presents a panoramic view of a restless, volatile society

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'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy .

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A collection of plays from the Nobel Laureate for Literature, 2005.

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I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.

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Politics and tragedy in Ancient Rome.

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One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. In this play, Stoppard parodies the philosophy lecturer, the detective thriller, the comedy of manners and the Whitehall farce.

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Shakespeare's drama of the rise and reign of Richard III.

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Moira Buffini romps through the centuries from the Romans to the present day, charting the changing fortunes of place, time and people at 29 Trick Street. Buffini brings her usual lightness of touch to this incisive, funny and sharply observed play about changing social, economic and sexual mores.

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Friel has written an historical play about Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an alliance of Irish and Spanish soldiers against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsdale, at which the alliance was defeated.

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Matchbox Theatre is the perfect gift for fans of Michael Frayn or the theatre - thirty comic masterpieces from the author of Noises Off and Skios.

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William Shakespeare's dramatic and tragic play about love and jealousy.

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An exuberant new version of Maxim Gorky's play Philistines.

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An award-winning play from Neil LaBute that first staged on Broadway in 2009

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A bilingual edition of the text of Moliere's classic comedy.

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Bernadette is 16. She is pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't know.

Much more importantly than all that, however, she will soon be auditioning for her high school's production of Genet's The Maids. As she stands on the cusp of adulthood, she must learn to untangle the real world outside from the thorns of her imagination.

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The Family Reunion is a T. S. Eliot play in verse, here with an introduction and notes by Nevill Coghill. 'There are passages of great poetic beauty, and statements which are the fruits of a lifetime devoted to poetry.' The Listener

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The Hard Problem is Tom Stoppard's first play for the stage since Rock 'n' Roll in 2006, and his first for the National since his trilogy The Coast of Utopia, 2002.

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Sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet and tracing its origins to the 4th century BC, The Orphan of Zhao was the first Chinese play to be translated in the West, now adapted by James Fenton.

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He . . . And I'm wondering if . . . To be absolutely honest with you . . . I'm even wondering if . . . Florian Zeller's The Son forms the final part in a trilogy with The Mother and The Father, all of which are translated by Christopher Hampton.

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Shakespeare's delightful comedy of misunderstanding and misidentification.