Samuel French - Böcker

Four mother's lives interweave across continents and time... Kasambayi, recently arrived in the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo, starts her contractions on the number 38 bus at Clapton Pond, and gives the final push at Victoria. She names...

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Sir Geoffrey arrives home from the Orient bringing a pendant on which is inscribed the location of secret treasure. Evil Dr Fu Man Chu attempts to recover it but is thwarted by the British Secret Service. A short play suitable for inclusion in a M...

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These plays cover a range of disasters appalling enough to turn any show into a coarse one. A Fish in Her Kettle by David Pearson; Present Slaughter by Jane Dewey and Don Starkey; The Vagabond Prince by Simon Brett with music and lyrics by John Go...

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Tabitha is - or rather was - a cat, the property of Lavinia, a dear old lady, who lives with two other dear old ladies in an apartment house owned by Mrs Trellington. Now as a landlady Mrs Trellington has some very unattractive and even tactless h...

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Nathaniel is a serious romantic, the human manifestation of "I Will Always Love You" (The Whitney Houston version) and every homemade Slow Jamz cassette from the 90s; he sees love as a fine art. He's looking for the Mona Lisa to his da V...

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One of the 2023 winners of the CT-sponsored Untapped Award, we're delighted to be publishing this to coincide with the opening at the Edinburgh Fringe this year! Skewering society's ableism with real wit and humour, this is a scathing satire on th...

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In a remote renovated farmhouse, Nell prepares to scatter her son's ashes with her grieving daughter-in-law, Orla, while Cheryl-Ann, a visitor from America, settles in for an idyllic break in the wilds of West Clare.However, their weekend plans wi...

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¿A teenage girl steps over a barrier and destroys a painting.Another steals a lipstick. Another has her first kiss in the dark.A fourth walks into a supermarket.And starts a republic.Everyone is feeling everything at all times, even if they don't ...

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"You're telling me you don't know the steps to a sixteenth-century Jewish exorcism?" When an event puts her aunt Mirah in hospital, seventeen-year-old Leah takes it upon herself to find the perpetrator and exact revenge. But as...

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In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is almost cut off from outsiders ...

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Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been a roaring success. Free metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the ones with guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, its okay over here and no, it doesnt s...

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The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. An ordinary, working-class family who lived in a north London council house became the centre of one of the most fa...

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From childhood, acting has defined Phoebe's life and work. "You don't have to do much to be an actor," she says, except "speak and remember lines." In 2018, as a twenty-six-year-old actor working in London, she's putting that t...

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Welcome to the village with views to die for...Caryl and Meirion have lived in their postcard-perfect village for years - raising a family, repeatedly decorating, whilst watching their community slowly disappear. Now Caryl wants to escape, but Mei...

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Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not thatone. The other, other one... Anne.This is not a story about well-behaved women.This is a story abo...

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Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation's greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. A Kerry cock to be precise. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar winner shares his star-studded stor...

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It is the Earl of Loam's whim to invite his servants once a month to the drawing room where they are treated as social equals. His daughter and friends are forced to serve them much to the distaste of Crichton, the butler, who knows his place. He ...

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The Affair is a 1962 play by Ronald Millar based on the novel by C.P. Snow. A group of professors at Cambridge University try to hire an old colleague back even though they all don't like him, they all agree he was dismissed unfairly.

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The ultimate amoral "swinger", Alfie swaggers and philosophizes his way through a parade of 'birds' in 1960's London, allowing the audience to eavesdrop as he goes. When one carefree entanglement proves too close for even Alfie's comfort...

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This domestic comedy explores the drama of a teenage marriage and the effects on a working-class British family. By the author of Alfie, this 1960's Broadway hit was made into the film The Family Way which starred John and Hayley Mills.4 women, 7 men

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At the end of Noël Coward's Design for Living, two men and a woman embark on a menage a trois founded on mutual attraction and a conscious flouting of societal norms. This witty and warm hearted comedy continues their story.|2 women, 4 men

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Lady Fitzadams, the wife of an army general, has hit on hard times needs to raise money, quick. But will her scheme pass her husband's approval? Comedy ensues when Lady Fitzadams's plan to open the general's headquarters to visitors, brings home o...

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