{"product_id":"hornimans-choice-harold-brighouse-9781783192915","title":"Horniman's Choice: Four One-Act Plays from the Manchester School of Playwrights","description":"Commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, Horniman's Choice brings together four plays by the leading figures of the 'Manchester School' of playwrights - Harold Brighouse, Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse, all originally championed by Annie Horniman, owner of Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, the first regional repertory theatre in Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first professional UK productions for more than 90 years'If Lancashire playwrights will send their plays to me I shall pledge myself to read them through. Let them not write as one dramatist does, about Countesses and Duchesses and society existing in imaginations, but about their friends and enemies - about real life.' - Annie Horniman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PRICE OF COAL by Harold Brighouse\u003cbr\u003e1909. The mines. Collier Jack Tyldesley heads off at 5.30am for another day's hard graft at the coalface. His lover, Mary Bradshaw, has promised to answer his marriage proposal when he returns home, but Jack's mother is haunted by premonitions of disaster. Risk is part of the job, but too often the cost of fuel outweighs the cost of the lives of men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONESOME LIKE by Harold Brighouse\u003cbr\u003e1911. The mill. Sarah Ormerod has worked in a Lancashire mill for many years, but age and hard work have taken their toll. When she loses the use of her hands, she is condemned to spend the rest of her days in the workhouse, unless someone can help her. Without a welfare state, what happens to the elderly and disabled?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW by Stanley Houghton\u003cbr\u003e1914. The home. Christopher Battersby is a devout Christian, running his household in strict and obsessive accordance with the Old Testament. When his daughter runs off to London with an unsuitable man, he struggles with his faith and the limits of what he can forgive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNIGHT WATCHES by Allan Monkhouse\u003cbr\u003e1916. The trenches. A new orderly begins work on the night shift at a Red Cross hospital, only to find that two of the patients are more comically surprising and disruptive that originally seemed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Brighouse,Stanley Houghton,Allan Monkhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783192917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783192915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oberon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Harold Brighouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965856989439,"sku":"9781783192915","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04e7f2b2-c262-437e-a772-c63ed1fd3871.jpg?v=1767285314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hornimans-choice-harold-brighouse-9781783192915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}