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  • The Playwright's Manifesto

    How You Can Be The Future of Playwriting

    by Paul Sirett ...
    Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023A manifesto for the future of playwriting, this book challenges you to be a part of that future in the belief that it is fundamentally important to write plays. Plays help us understand ourselves, others, and the world around us. Reading this book, you will be challenged to learn your craft, explode what you know, prioritise what is important to you, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Paul Sirett: Plays Two

    by Paul Sirett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays Worlds Apart, This Other Eden and International CaféAll the plays in this second volume of Paul Sirett's collected plays focus on dislocation and the clash of civilisations.Set in an airport immigration office, Worlds Apart interweaves the fates of five detainees and the officers handling them, with the Tibetan folk tale of Sukyi Nyima. In Crusade a group of Western tourists ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Running the Silk Road

    by Paul Sirett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Exhiliarating and refreshing, Running the Silk Road blends East and West, telling a modern story mixed with Chinese myths.In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge - to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an “alternative” Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflict test friendships and soon threaten ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Big Life

    The Ska Musical

    by Paul Sirett, Tameka Empson ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    EROS!! Do your thing!It's 1950s London, and Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie arrive from the West Indies full of expectations and aspirations.Eager to make successes of themselves, they are optimistic about what the future holds. Building this new life will take focus and sacrifice, and the young men make the bold decision to forswear wine and women for three whole years and devote themselves to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Big Life

    The Ska Musical

    by Paul Sirett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Think about it. Think what you could achieve without women in your life. If all the time you spent on them, you spent on yourself. Think how much money you could save. Think how much aggravation you could avoid.Journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Lennie, Dennis and Bernie are all eager to make successes of themselves and take full advantage of what they think The Big Life has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Clear White Light

    by Paul Sirett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70 year old NHS.Alison is heading to her first shift at St Nicholas's Hospital in Gosforth. She's nervous. It's a night shift on an all-male psychiatric unit and she hasn't finished her training yet. But Rod, the senior Staff Nurse, seems to know ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Bad Blood Blues

    by Paul Sirett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Are Africans being exploited as guinea pigs' to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Is it okay to sacrifice lives to protect the integrity of medical studies?Bad Blood Blues is a powerfully intense new play that leads us deep into a personal and sexual moral maze while confronting the ethics ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Reasons to be Graeae

    A work in progress

    by Jenny Sealey, Paul Sirett ...
    Graeae has been a force for change in world-class theatre since it was founded in 1980, placing D/deaf and disabled actors centre stage and challenging preconceptions.A work in progress contains the full script of Reasons to be cheerful, a brief history of the company, analysis and extracts from their previous shows, memories of Graeae from previous collaborators, including Jack Thorne, Jo ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • National Theatre Connections 2025

    10 Plays for Young Performers

    by Alys Metcalf, Paul Sirett, Danusia Samal, Gary McNair, Jane Bodie, May Sumbwanyambe, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Ms Satinder Chohan, Ms Vickie Donoghue, Chloë Lawrence-Taylor, Amanda Verlaque ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Marking its 30th anniversary, National Theatre Connections 2025 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights.These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.The plays offer young ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    by Dennis Kelly ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family.But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn.A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma. ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Nunnery

    by Anne Storms ...
    MURDER IN THE NUNNERY is a compelling, heart-stopping novella of suspense, intrigue and surprise. Murder? In a convent? Mother Ellen, Prioress and Sister Irene, Novice Mistress are drawn into a web of mystery when their gardener, Richard Gibbs, is found stabbed to death in their greenhouse. The pervasive scent of lavender has them believing it could be one of their own! Upon further investigation ... Read more

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  • Trust

    by Falk Richter ...
    Translated by Maja Zade ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A series of monologues critiquing capitalism from renowned German playwright Falk Richter.Relationships build up and break down in ever shorter time-scales; they become a resource in an increasingly intense competition. Binding, separating. Buying, selling. A picture is presented of human beings who, over the years, have radically intensified modern individuality and celebrated independence as an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD