{"product_id":"9781783192922","title":"Horniman's Choice: Four One-Act Plays from the Manchester School of Playwrights","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eIf Lancashire playwrights will send their plays to me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI shall pledge myself to read them through. Let them\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enot write as one dramatist does, about Countesses and Duchesses and society existing in imaginations, but about their friends and enemies - about real life.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnnie Horniman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1907, Annie Horniman established the first repertory theatre in Britain, the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. As well as staging classic plays, she championed new and local writers, in particular three men who became known as the ‘Manchester School’ of playwrights: Harold Brighouse, Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorniman’s Choice\u003c\/i\u003e brings together four forgotten plays by the ‘Manchester School’ to celebrate Annie Horniman’s influence. Amidst four different early twentieth century Lancashire settings – in the mines, the mills, the home and the front line – these plays explore community, responsibility and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oberon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114690265328,"sku":"9781783192922","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783192922_p0.jpg?v=1763723278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783192922","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}