A screenplay set in Paris in the late 1800s and featuring two celebrated poets. Paul Verlaine is a volatile alcoholic torn between his lovely yet conventional wife and the seductive and brilliant Arthur Rimbaud, whose life and poetry is fuelled by an insatiable hunger for intense experience.

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen Translated by Christopher HamptonFull Length, DramaCharacters: 3 male, 2 femaleInterior Set This riveting family drama is a classic of the modern theatre. Oswald Alving returns for the dedication of the orphanage to his father's memory and has a flirtation with the family maid who, it turns out, is his father's illegitimate daughter...read more

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Product Description: The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the ancien regime. Christopher Hampton has made a masterful adaptation for the stage of the conspiracy to corrupt a young girl barely out of her convent...read more

Product Description: Christopher Hampton's wry, poignant drama depicts the consequences of old literary Europe's attempt to integrate into fast-paced commercial Hollywood in the early years of World War II. With Austro-Hungarian playwright Odon Von Horvath resurrected as our guide, Tales from Hollywood leads us through a bizarre landscape where Schoenberg and the Marx Brothers play tennis, Brecht tries to write film treatments the studios will clamor over, and Heinrich Mann endeavors to maintain a dignified despair, overshadowed by his younger brother Thomas, who thrives on his celebrity status...read more

The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont conspire to debauch a young girl, in the decadent world of the nobility of pre-revolutionary France

Product Description: This book is a polemical response to "the mystifying dislocations of theory and practice embodied in the forms of literary discource produced out of the culture of industrial capitalism - from Arnold to Leavis and Eliot, and from the structuralism of Levi-Strauss and Althusser to the proto-idealist theories of the post-structuralists"...read more

An autobiographical play reflects the author's experiences during his youth in Egypt in the period between the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and the Suez crisis

Product Description: Joe Gillis is a young, out of work Hollywood screenwriter who becomes fatally enmeshed in the life of Norma Desmond, an aging star of the silent screen. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical, Christopher Hampton and Don Black have worked together to produce a masterly book and lyrics for this stunning adaptation of Billy Wilder's film classic...read more

Product Description: (Vocal Selections). Prepare for your closeup by practicing with this folio of 12 vocal selections from the Broadway musical. Includes: As If We Never Said Goodbye * Girl Meets Boy * The Greatest Star of All * The Perfect Year * Sunset Boulevard * This Time Next Year * With One Look * and more...read more

Product Description: A "triangular trinity of happiness" was how Dora Carrington described her early life with her husband Ralph Partridge and the writer Lytton Strachey. But, as Virginia Woolf foretold, Carrington's marriage was riskier than most: the boundaries of the menage shifted, like ice flows, to accommodate lovers who came and went, but the pivotal focus of Carrington's life remained her all-abiding passion for Strachey...read more

Product Description: Drama / Characters: 3 males, 4 females, 2 childrenThis epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized homelife collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self...read more

Product Description: The Secret Agent: It is 1886, and Verloc, an agent provocateur who is secretly working for the police and the Russian Embassy while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho, is required by his masters to betray the anarchists in some spectacular way...read more

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The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painting) as well as the meaning of friendship, to both the man who bought the painting and the two friends who come to see it."

Product Description: These two plays are set in the period of roaring inflation that caused so much suffering to the German people after the First World War. In Sladek, we see how social conditions can lead people to desperate action and violence, opening the road for dictators and fascists...read more

Product Description: From the celebrated writer of Art, a scathingly hilarious commentary on vanity, professional insecurity, and the vicissitudes of marriage.Life X 3 presents three versions of two couples (and an offstage six-year-old) trying to make a success of one evening despite the fact that they neither like nor respect one another...read more

Product Description: Overshadowed by portents of the coming wars, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for this tale of emotional vicissitude and intellectual debate. The Talking Cure is an intimate picture of the birth of psychoanalysis and of two intense and inextricably interwoven relationships...read more

Product Description: A remote 18th-century Hungarian castle is the setting for a dramatic meeting. Forty-one years after a tragic event two former friends must confront each other in a devastating bid to lay the past to rest. Betrayal, love, truth and friendship all come to the fore in this unforgettable play based on Sandor Marai's bestselling novel...read more