15,919円 Between the advent of the French Revolution and the short-lived success of the Chartist Movement, overworked and underpaid labourers struggled to achieve solidarity and collective bargaining. That history has been told in numerous accounts of the age, but never before has it been told in terms of...

1,079円  Edith Louisa Cavell was an English nurse serving in Brussels during WWI who assisted many British, French, and Belgian soldiers to cross the border into neutral Holland. Cavell was betrayed by a spy and arrested by German Police.  The outcome of her court martial is well-known and well...

1,079円 A commander of a German U boat UB-116 plans and executes a suicide attack on the British fleet in Scapa Flow in the final days of WW I. Based on real events and well researched, there can be no victory for the crew. The moral dilemma is agonizing, but clear. Honor or dishonor, but at what price? ...

326円 It sounds like her, has her laughter and her pain. But it isn’t her. Or is it? This is a play about Suzy, though…not really. It’s a play about things that may, or may not have happened in her life. It’s her voice alright, the way she normally speaks, perhaps a bit louder. And it’s the way she mov...

4,172円 In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battlesーlove against ha...

2,560円 This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015. Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov's short life and ...

1,360円 I do not accept there is anything wrong with me. Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer's. Years later she's offered a genetic test. But if she's got the gene does she really want to know? Megan, 21. Megan, 47. Megan, 32. Megan, 27. One ...

1,360円 I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news...

1,440円 A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip ends up in a bar-room brawl, he becomes Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by the authorities, damned by religious leaders, pursued by those looking for vengeance and head-h...

322円 The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition. The main theme of Macbethーthe destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraintsーfinds its most powerful expression in the play's two main characters. One of the english languages best loved stories.

1,280円 For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve prime ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life. It is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks th...

1,360円 One of the masterpieces of Ireland's greatest living playwright, Faith Healer weaves together the stories of a travelling healer, his wife and his manager. From their different versions of the healer's performances and a terrible event at the centre of the drama, Friel creates a powerful and haun...