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Adams, P.H. and Carter, C

Basic Pantomimes:

• Jack and the Beanstalk* ISBN 978 0 573 06428 9
  

Adamson, Samuel (adaptor)

• Cherry Orchard* ISBN 978 0 573 01999 9
• A Doll's House* ISBN 978 0 573 11039 7
• Pillars of the Community ISBN 9780 573 11336 9
• Three Sisters* ISBN 978 0 573 01949 4

Alcott, Louisa May (adapt. Clapham)

• Little Women ISBN 978 0 573 11232 4
  

Albee, Edward

• American Dream ISBN 978 0 573 02007 0
• Zoo Story ISBN 978 0 573 04222 5
  

Aldrich, Arthur

• Shindig* ISBN 978 0 573 03382 7
  

Allen, Paul

• Brassed Off (adapt. Mark Herman)* ISBN 978 0 573 01996 8
  

Ambient, Mark et al

• Arcadians* ISBN 978 0 573 08002 9
  

Andersen, Hans Christian

• Snow Queen * (adapt. Nicol) 978 0 573 16503 0
• Tales of Hans Andersen* (adapt. Meakin) ISBN 978 0 573 05131 9
• Tinder Box* (adapt. Whelan) ISBN 978 0 573 05108 1
• Ugly Duckling (adapt. Milne)* ISBN 978 0 573 05238 5
  

Anouilh, Jean (in translation)

• Becket ISBN 978 0 573 01034 7
• Lark ISBN 978 0 573 01225 9
• Number One* ISBN 978 0 573 01619 6
• Orchestra* ISBN 978 0 573 02343 9
• Ring Round The Moon* ISBN 978 0 573 11380 2
• Waltz of the Toreadors ISBN 978 0 573 01471 0
  

Arbuzov, Aleksei (trans. Nicolaeff)

• Old-World* ISBN 0 573 01708 7

Archer, Jeffrey

• Beyond Reasonable Doubt* ISBN 978 0 573 01676 9
• The Perfect Murder* (adapt by Hugh Janes) ISBN 978 0 573 01954 8

Armstrong, Ian

• Growing Pains* ISBN 978 0 573 12081 7

Aron, Geraldine

• Bar and Ger* ISBN 978 0 573 02368 2
• Donahue Sisters* ISBN 978 0 573 13234 6
• Joggers* ISBN 978 0 573 12124 1
• My Brilliant Divorce* ISBN 978 0 573 03021 5
• Olive and Hilary* ISBN 978 0 573 12186 9
• Same Old Moon* ISBN 978 0 573 01892 3
• Stanley Parkers* ISBN 978 0 573 04230 0

Asche, Oscar

• Chu Chin Chow* ISBN 978 0 573 08010 4

Atkins, Eileen

• Vita & Virginia ( adapt. from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West)* ISBN 978 0 573 13012 0
  

Aubrey, John

• See Garland, Patrick

Austen, Jane

• Mansfield Park (adapt. Hall, Willis)* ISBN 978 0 573 01839 8
• Northanger Abbey (adapt. Francis, Matthew)* ISBN 978 0 573 01849 7
• Sense and Sensibility (adapt. Parsley, Roger and Graham, Andy)* ISBN 978 0 573 01926 5

Austin, Harry

• Chinese Pendant & other plays* ISBN 978 0 573 00029 4
• Little Lights of Kimberley & other plays* ISBN 978 0 573 10023 9
  

Ayckbourn, Alan

• Absent Friends ISBN 978 0 573 01331 7
• Absurd Person Singular ISBN 978 0 573 01023 4
• Bedroom Farce ISBN 978 0 573 11047 4
• Body Language* ISBN 978 0 573 01957 9
• Callisto 5* ISBN 978 0 573 05107 4
• The Champion of Paribanou ISBN 978 0 573 05123 4
• Chorus of Disapproval ISBN 978 0 573 01620 2
• Comic Potential ISBN 978 0 573 11061 0
• Communicating Doors ISBN 978 0 573 01740 7
• Confusions ISBN 978 0 573 11073 3
• Cut in the Rates* ISBN 978 0 573 12084 8
• Damsels in Distress (trilogy of plays, see under individual titles: FlatSpin, GamePlan, RolePlay)
• Dreams from a Summer House* ISBN 978 0 573 08104 0
• Drowning on Dry Land ISBN 978 0 573 11224 9
• Ernie's Incredible Illucinations ISBN 978 0 573 12063 3
• Family Circles ISBN 978 0 573 01764 3
• FlatSpin (from the trilogy Damsels in Distress) ISBN 978 0 573 11565 3
• GamePlan (from the trilogy Damsels in Distress) ISBN 978 0 573 11567 7
• Gizmo ISBN 978 0 573 15206 1
• Henceforward ISBN 978 0 573 01691 2
• House & Garden ISBN 978 0 573 01978 4
• How the Other Half Loves* ISBN 978 0 573 11166 2
• Improbable Fiction ISBN 978 0 573 11322 2
• Intimate Exchanges Volume 1* ISBN 978 0 573 01612 7
• Intimate Exchanges Volume 2* ISBN 978 0 573 01613 4
• It Could Be Any One of Us* ISBN 978 0 573 01797 1
• Joking Apart ISBN 978 0 573 11204 1
• Just Between Ourselves ISBN 978 0 573 11212 6
• Living Together ISBN 978 0 573 01574 8
• Man of the Moment* ISBN 978 0 573 01833 6
• Mixed Doubles (with other authors) ISBN 978 0 573 01584 7
• Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays* ISBN 978 0 573 05098 5
• Mr Whatnot* ISBN 978 0 573 11287 4
• My Very Own Story* ISBN 978 0 573 05105 0
• Norman Conquests (complete vol.) ISBN 978 0 573 01576 2
• Relatively Speaking* ISBN 978 0 573 11355 0
• Revengers' Comedies ISBN 978 0 573 01881 7
• RolePlay (from the trilogy Damsels in Distress) ISBN 978 0 573 11569 1
• Round & Round The Garden ISBN 978 0 573 01575 3
• Season's Greetings* ISBN 978 0 573 11401 4
• Sisterly Feelings ISBN 978 0 573 11420 5
• Small Family Business ISBN 978 0 573 01669 1
• Snake in the Grass ISBN 978 0 573 03022 2
• Suburban Strains* ISBN 978 0 573 18028 6
• Table Manners ISBN 978 0 573 01573 1
• Taking Steps* ISBN 978 0 573 11425 0
• Ten Times Table ISBN 978 0 573 01531 1
• Things We Do for Love ISBN 978 0 573 01914 2
• This Is Where We Came In* ISBN 978 0 573 05106 7
• Time and Time Again* ISBN 978 0 573 01457 4
• Time of My Life ISBN 978 0 573 01907 1
• Tons of Money* (revised) ISBN 978 0 573 01671 4
• Way Upstream* ISBN 978 0 573 11504 2
• Wildest Dreams ISBN 978 0 573 01932 6
• Wolf at the Door* (adaptor) ISBN 978 0 573 01936 4
• Word From Our Sponsor ISBN 978 0 573 08105 7
• Woman In Mind ISBN 978 0 573 01662 2
  

Aykroyd, J. W.

• Performing Shakespeare* ISBN 978 0 573 19035 3
  
  

TITLE/AUTHOR

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Abelard and Heloise (Ronald Millar)

Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)

Absent Friends (Alan Ayckbourn)

Absurd Person Singular (Alan Ayckbourn)

Accrington Pals (Peter Whelan)

Action Replay (Fay Weldon)

Adam Bede (George Eliot/Geoffrey Beevers)

Admirable Crichton (J. M. Barrie)

Adventures of a Bear Called Paddington (Alfred Bradley/Michael Bond)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Matthew Francis/Mark Twain)

Aesop's Fables (Peter Terson)

After I'm Gone (Frank Vickery)

After Liverpool (James Saunders)

After Midnight, Before Dawn (David Campton)

After Miss Julie (Patrick Marber)

After September (Jimmie Chinn)

Afternoon at the Seaside (Agatha Christie)

Ah Cruel Fate (Richard Tydeman)

Aladdin

(David Cregan/Brian Protheroe)
(John Crocker/Eric Gilder)
(John Morley)
(Norman Robbins)

Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (Alan Brown)

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (K. O. Samuel)

Aladdin: a family musical (David Wood)

Alan and the King's Daughters (Helen Murdoch)

Alarms and Excursions (Michael Frayn)

Alas, Dear Reader (Valerie Maskell)

Albert (Richard Harris)

Albert Laddin (Richard Tydeman)

Albert Make Us Laugh (Jimmie Chinn)

Albert's Bridge (Tom Stoppard)

Albert's Plot (Bob Hartwell)

Alfie (Bill Naughton)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Norman Robbins)

Ali the Barber (C. R. Cook)

Alibaba and the Forty Thieves (K. O. Samuel)

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll/SSB)

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll/Clemence Dane)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll/V. A. Pearn)

Ali's Barbara (Richard Tydeman)

All For Your Delight (Roger Parsley)

All in Good Time (Bill Naughton)

All on Stage - Book 1: group scenes for young players (Mary Greenslade)

All on Stage - Book 2: group scenes for students (Mary Greenslade)

All Things Bright and Beautiful (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

All Things Considered (Ben Brown)

All's Fair (FrankVickery)

'Allo 'Allo (Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft)

The Allotment (Gillian Plowman)

Alone It Stands (John Breen)

Alphabetical Order (Michael Frayn)

Alternative Accommodation (Pam Valentine)

Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)

American Dream (Edward Albee)

Amongst Barbarians (Michael Wall)

Amphibious Spangulatos (Paul Doust)

Anagram of Murder (Seymour Matthews)

Anastasia File (Royce Ryton)

Anastasia: Recognition Scene (Marcelle Maurette/Guy Bolton)

And a Nightingale Sang (C. P. Taylor)

And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)

Andy Capp: The Musical (Trevor Peacock/Alan Price)

Angelica! ... and the Monstrous Monster of the Deep (Belinda Roberts)

Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery/Donald Harron/Norman Campbell)

Anniversary (Bill MacIlwraith)

Anorak of Fire (Stephen Dinsdale)

Anthology of British Tongue Twisters (Ken Parkin)

Anybody for Murder? (Brian Clemens/Dennis Spooner)

Anyone for Breakfast? (Derek Benfield)

April in Paris (John Godber)

Arabian Knights - the Panto! (Richard Lloyd)

Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)

Arcadians (Mark Ambient)

Are You Being Served? (Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft)

Around the World in 80 Days (Phil Willmott)

Art of Coarse Acting (Michael Green)

Around the Pond in 80 Days (Shrubshall and Free)

Around the World in Eighty Days (Book and lyrics by Phil Willmott. Freely adapted from the novel by Jules Verne)

Artist Descending a Staircase (Tom Stoppard)

As You Were (Johann Nestroy. Translated and adapted by Geoffrey Skelton)

Ask a Silly Question (Richard Tydeman)

Aspern Papers (Henry James/Michael Redgrave)

Asylum (Alec Baron)

At Break of Day (Noël Greig)

At the Sign of "The Crippled Harlequin" (Norman Robbins)

Attack and Defence of the Old Elvish Kingdom ... (David Clarke)

Audacity (Simon Mawdsley)

Audience (Václav Havel/Vera Blackwell)

Audience with Murder (Roger Leach/Colin Wakefield)