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9780413690807 | Heinemann, September 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "British Theatre's antic visionary" (Guardian) "We're doing three David Hare plays all on one day, you see and we're calling that a trilogy - The Hare Trilogy - So if we had yours on, it would seem like trilogies were in the wind.
Product Description: Bard follows Felimid Mac Fal, "Bard of Erin, descendant of Druids and the Tuatha de Danann - ancient faery race of Ireland, armed only with his harp and the fierce magical power of his poetry..." as he gets tangled up in things with vikings, a unicorn, the evil British royalty and simple tribes of Celtic folk...read more
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9780441049134 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, April 1, 1984), cover price $2.95 | also contains Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho | About this edition: Bard follows Felimid Mac Fal, "Bard of Erin, descendant of Druids and the Tuatha de Danann - ancient faery race of Ireland, armed only with his harp and the fierce magical power of his poetry.
Product Description: Arty is the worldâs fattest teenager, a young man literally going nowhere...until a reality TV crew moves in to ruthlessly document Artyâs transformation from bedridden walrus to trousered sophisticate. But with the cameras rolling, something totally unexpected happens  Arty falls in love...read more
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9781848424654 | Nick Hern Books, December 22, 2015, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Arty is the worldâs fattest teenager, a young man literally going nowhere.
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9781783191710 | Oberon Books Ltd, June 14, 2016, cover price $17.95
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9781474261418 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 28, 2016, cover price $46.30
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9780822217176 | Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 1999, cover price $9.00
9780413710307 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, June 1, 1996, cover price $13.95
9780413695901 | Reprint edition (Heinemann, February 1, 1996), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This play is set on the landing walkway in front of three flats in a low-rise block in Thamesmead.
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9781408173831 | Student edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 25, 2013), cover price $17.95
9780822216643 | Dramatist''s Play Service, June 1, 1998, cover price $9.00
9780413707307 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 1996, cover price $14.95
Product Description: These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there.The Beauty Queen of Leenane portrays ancient, manipulative Mag and her virginal daughter, Maureen, whose mutual loathing may be more durable than any love...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780375704871 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there.
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9781783192021 | Oberon Books Ltd, September 8, 2015, cover price $19.95
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9781849432252 | Oberon Books Ltd, February 28, 2012, cover price $20.95
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9780573694769 | Samuel French Inc Plays, September 1, 1993, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: The Best of Friends [Paperback]
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9780413652102 | Methuen, December 1, 1991, cover price $10.00 | also contains Quick-shop-&-prep 5 Ingredient Baking: Cookies, Cakes, Bars and More That Are Easier Than Ever to Make
Product Description: Itâs 4AM and Leah is waiting for her boyfriend to call. Over the course of a single night she tells us what itâs like to be fourteen, fearless and in love.Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain...read more
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9781848424630 | Nick Hern Books, January 5, 2016, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Itâs 4AM and Leah is waiting for her boyfriend to call.
Product Description: A two-play volume comprising works from the controversial playwright, Sarah Kane. "Blasted" is a vision of war in contemporary Europe, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995. "Phaedra's Love" is Kane's reworking of Racine's classical French tragedy of incest and unrequited love...read more
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9780413709400 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A two-play volume comprising works from the controversial playwright, Sarah Kane.
Product Description: Two plays by "one of our sharpest and least predictable writers" (Daily Telegraph)Blinded by the Sun revolves around a scientific fraud in an English University. Through the characters of three scientists, it explores how the pressure to succeed, and the need to create hype, can cause conflict within the modern scientific world...read more
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9780413707000 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, August 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Two plays by "one of our sharpest and least predictable writers" (Daily Telegraph)Blinded by the Sun revolves around a scientific fraud in an English University.
Product Description: A drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, seemingly on a whim, liquidates the entire medical profession, asserting that consolation â in the form of song â is a better way with sickness than drugs or surgery. She deliberately exposes her greatest poet Tot to a life of crime, poverty, and humiliation in order to extract from him his finest work...read more
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9781849431101 | Oberon Books Ltd, February 28, 2012, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A drama about death and its status in the world.
Product Description: The hemodynamic significance of the flow properties of blood was put into perspective only during the past decade. Advances in modern technologies today allow the quantitative analy sis of the fluidity of blood and its components under conditions approximating the flow in vivo, particularly those in the microcirculation...read more
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9780387126203 | Springer Verlag, May 1, 1984, cover price $30.60 | also contains At the Gates of Gaza | About this edition: The hemodynamic significance of the flow properties of blood was put into perspective only during the past decade.
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9780413688200 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Godfrey's The Blue Ball is a large-scale work which presents an imaginative investigation of the experience of space travel.
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9781783192113 | Oberon Books Ltd, December 15, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Boa tells the story of a relationship inconvenienced by death.
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9781849431293 | Oberon Books Ltd, February 28, 2012, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This play investigates the moment when you decide to stop doing what you know, and step out of your comfort zone.
Product Description: Debbie Tucker Green is an urgent and distinctive new Black British writing talent."The overall effect is of having swallowed a scalding cup of triple espresso coffee in one gulp. The burn stays with you after you have left the theatre...read more
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9780822225478 | Dramatist''s Play Service, July 1, 2013, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Debbie Tucker Green is an urgent and distinctive new Black British writing talent.
9781854597403 | Nick Hern Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $18.95
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9780571176793 | Faber & Faber, December 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A play by the author of "The Love of the Nightingale", "The Grace of Mary Traverse" and "Three Birds Alighting on a Field".
Product Description: In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy’s funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to but each other
Robert Holman's new play is premiered by Print Room at the Coronet, London, from March 2015...read more
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9781848424777 | Nick Hern Books, December 22, 2015, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground.
Product Description: I am flying. I swoop over the rooftops of Liverpool, over the waterfront and out to sea, following a trawler as it drags its nets through the wild sea. I am a sixteen-year-old bird boy, addicted to seagull blood, flying through sea-storms, up to the moon ...read more
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9781474228800 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, October 24, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: I am flying.
Product Description: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, two plays set in the north Dublin suburb of BarrytownWatch for Roddy Doyleâs new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017From novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle come these two colorful plays...read more
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9780140231151 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1994, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, two plays set in the north Dublin suburb of BarrytownWatch for Roddy Doyleâs new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017From novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle come these two colorful plays.
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9780413704306 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, May 1, 1996, cover price $14.95
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