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  • Playwriting

    Structure, Character, How and What to Write

    For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and ... Read more

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  • Interruptions

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A boldly innovative drama exploring ideas about democracy, politics and leadership.The country is preparing for an election.The country undergoes a military coup.The country must live through the consequences.Stephen Jeffreys' play Interruptions, written while he was resident at the University of California, Davis, was inspired by his interest in the collective aspect of politics and his ... Read more

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  • The Libertine

    2016 edition

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.'John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress at the Playhouse sends him reeling, he is forced to reconsider everything he thinks and feels.With all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration ... Read more

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  • The Clink

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen.The Clink could pass ... Read more

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  • Valued Friends

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A comedy of manners about the property market.Four people live together in a large old house in London. They include Sherry, a wacky girl trying to make it as a comedienne; Paul, a pop music journalist; Paul's girlfriend Marion; and Howard, who is writing a left-wing analysis of the corruption of capitalism under the Thatcher government. They all are perfectly content living where they are; until, ... Read more

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  • Finsbury Park

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016. ... Read more

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  • Stephen Jeffreys: Plays

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in ... Read more

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  • A Going Concern

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables. In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm.Stephen Jeffreys' play A Going Concern is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of ... Read more

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  • The Assault on the State

    How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

    What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for ... Read more

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  • Zero Piranesi

    SAC Journal 5

    Series Book 5 - SAC Journal
    ZERO PIRANESI Giovanni Battista Piranesi's engravings, Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma of 1762, have a peculiar position within the discipline of ar- chitecture. With their dissemination, the folio collection of six etch- ings have till this day nurtured architects' speculations on the city. Since the Enlightenment, they - and in particular the Campo Marzio plan - have fuelled research, discussions ... Read more

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  • Inferno

    Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

    This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of ... Read more

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  • National 4 Chemistry

    Exam Board: SQALevel: National 4Subject: ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2013First Exam: June 2014This book is a comprehensive resource for pupils studying National 4 Chemistry which adheres closely to the SQA syllabus. Each section of the book matches a mandatory unit of the syllabus, and each chapter corresponds to a key area. In addition to the core ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD