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Plays from the United Kingdom
Plays by playwright: E
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plays published in Canada. We stock and sell plays from Samuel French Ltd., Dramatists Play Service and Dramatic Publishing Co., and the leading play publishers
in Great Britain. We carry books on all aspects of theatre production, as well
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 The Prisoner's Dilemma
David Edgar
A large cast play produced by the RSC at The Other Place, the play tells of
the new Europe that emerged in the wake of the Cold War. $17.99.
 Mother Teresa is Dead
Helen Edmundson
Softcover 80 pp. $19.95.
 David Eldridge - Plays: 1
David Eldridge
Includes Serving It Up, Summer Begins, Under
the Blue Sky and M.A.D.
Softcover, 351 pp. $34.95.
 Festen
David Eldridge
Helge is sixty. It is a time of celebration. A time for the family
to gather and smooth over the cracks left by the suicide of Linda, twin
sister to Christian. As Helge's eldest son, Christian will raise the
first toast. Confined within the family house, the guests are rocked
by the revelations that pierce and destroy the veneer of mid.dleclass
respectability. M-9, F-4. Softcover, 64 pp. $22.95.
 The Complete Poems & Plays
T. S. Eliot
Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures
of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays,
published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work
for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations
to Four Quartets, and includes such literary landmarks as The
Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and Murder
in the Cathedral. Softcover, 608 pp. $29.00.
 Forty Winks
Kevin Elyot
From the back row of the local cinema to an anonymous hotel room, one man's
obsession has not let him rest. But, as Don encounters an old flame, is the
past about to catch him out? With Forty Winks, Kevin Elyot
takes us once again into the realm of thwarted desire, while playing on the
painful comedy that can ensue from the gulf between social decorum and the
turbulent emotions that lie just beneath. Softcover, 52 pp. $19.95.
 Four Plays
Kevin Elyot
Coming Clean, My Night with Reg, The
Day I Stood Still, and Mouth to Mouth are featured
in this brilliant collection of Kevin Elyot's plays. Softcover, 305 pp. $27.95.
 The Man of Mode
George Etherege, Edited by John Barnard
The New Mermaids collection is a modernized and fully annotated series of classic English plays. Each volume includes the playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibligraphical and textual standards, textual notes recording substantive changes to the copytext and variant readings, glossing notes elucidating obscure words and word-play, critical, contextual and staging notes, photographs of the productions where applicable, a full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discussed authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading. Softcover, 164 pp. $18.00.
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