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The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont 9781854596246
RRP: €5.94€4.51Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a five-act satire on chivalric romances, generally considered the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play's... -
Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos by Michael Imperioli 9780008513412
RRP: €23.80€14.64THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who made the phone call that got HBO to launch the show? What's the significance of all those eggs? And, what the hell ever happened to the Russian? In Woke Up This Morning,... -
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett 9780571316731
RRP: €11.89€7.97After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body... a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance... -
After Life by Jack Thorne
RRP: €13.08€9.17If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be? A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials,... -
Julius Caesar: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: €10.70€7.68Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: €10.70€7.68The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is... -
Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart
RRP: €14.27€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018381Author Ena Lamont StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Macbeth by Alan Durband
€15.74The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Romeo and Juliet by Annie Fox
RRP: €11.89€11.41Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular GCSE set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characters, themes, language... -
Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans 9781350275317
€14.73"I looked around the room and I thought, I'm the only person in this room that hasn't killed anyone" Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781839042867
RRP: €13.08€9.17'O, full of scorpions is my mind.' The spellbinding story of love and murder, power and paranoia, and the internal struggles of a married couple as they try to control their destiny, and one another... This official tie-in edition to the Donmar... -
National Theatre Connections 2019 by Rob Drummond
RRP: €27.36€24.57National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world... -
Contemporary Scenography: Practices and Aesthetics in German Theatre, Arts and Design by Birgit E. Wiens
RRP: €28.55€24.92Contemporary Scenography investigates scenographic concepts, practices and aesthetics in Germany from 1989 to the present. Facing the end of the political divide, the advent of the digital age and the challenges of globalization, German-based designers... -
Nine Night by Natasha Gordon
RRP: €13.08€9.17Family, food, music and mourning. Gloria is gravely sick. When her time comes, the celebration begins; the traditional Jamaican Nine Night Wake. But for Gloria's children and grandchildren, marking her death with a party that lasts over a week is a... -
The Witch of Edmonton by Lucy Munro
RRP: €19.03€17.89On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and,... -
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: €11.89€10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573120633Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Audience by Peter Morgan
RRP: €13.08€8.71For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve prime ministers in a weekly audience at BuckinghamPalace, a meeting like no other in British public life. It is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said.The... -
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch
RRP: €14.27€13.11You are expected to behave... Use the right words Act appropriately Don't break the rules Just behave. This play is not well behaved. Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks... -
Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, by William Shakespeare 9781472584748
RRP: €15.46€14.59A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set... -
Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre by Ryan Donovan 9781350247628
RRP: €13.08€10.64Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity. Queerness in musicals challenges their typical heteronormativity but... -
100 Acting Exercises for 8 - 18 Year Olds by Samantha Marsden
RRP: €20.22€16.91This book offers a comprehensive guide to teaching acting exercises that will unleash the inner creativity of students aged 8-18. Theories and techniques of some of the greatest theatre practitioners including Sanford Meisner, Constantin... -
"The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare
RRP: €14.27€13.11The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This stimulating new edition celebrates the play as a joyous exploration of... -
Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: €10.70€7.68Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original... -
Arden of Faversham by Martin White
RRP: €11.89€10.50This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation... -
Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
€20.75Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains... -
Closer by Patrick Marber 9780413709509
RRP: €13.08€9.70Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right... -
Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh
RRP: €11.89€8.46THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF 40TH MIKE LEIGH'S CLASSIC PLAY - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE PLAYWRITE.Forty years on from its first performance at the Hampstead Theatre and original screening on BBC1 soon after, Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party -... -
"Timon of Athens" by William Shakespeare
RRP: €11.89€10.50Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. Described by Coleridge as 'the stillborn twin of King Lear', the play has... -
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 9781350353497
RRP: €13.08€12.82"Some of [Coward's] most sparkling dialogue ever... This play is about something substantial - the way past relationships come back to haunt us - but it's the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its sheer levity of spirit, that makes it such an enduring... -
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery by Henry Lewis
€14.63I'm really looking forward to robbing this bank! Mischief's smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast, fabulous comedy caper and the funniest show in the West End! Summer 1958. Minneapolis City Bank has been entrusted with a... -
Chekhov: The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €16.65€11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761348Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Nice Fish by Mark Rylance
RRP: €11.89€8.40On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need. Something that might just swallow them... -
King Edward III: Third Series by Richard Proudfoot
RRP: €21.41€19.10King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare. This landmark new edition by textual expert and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, offers a full account of the play's text and ... -
Super Milly and the Super School Day by Gwen Millward 9781788007696
RRP: €9.51€6.22On Superhero Day, Super Milly helps out her school friends with the best superpower of all . . . her super-kindness!It's Superhero Day at school, and Super Milly can't wait to wow everyone with her costume and amazing powers! The only problem is she... -
Mamet Plays: v.3: "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Prairie Du Chien", "The Hawl", "Speed-the-plow" by David Mamet
RRP: €26.17€24.50"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) "his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition" (New Society); in Prairie du... -
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
RRP: €15.46€10.82John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his... -
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
RRP: €15.46€10.73Becca and Howie Corbett are a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son Danny is killed in an accident. Eight months on, they are drifting perilously apart. Becca wants to start afresh in a new home and give away their... -
Othello by Ryuta Osada
RRP: €11.89€8.88Othello is considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. Beginning with an argument in a street in Venice, the grudges and passionate jealousies that fuel Othello's misfortunate plot are quickly revealed in this fantastical manga version of... -
The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver
RRP: €13.08€8.71I'm older now. I'm stronger. How do you know I haven't sorted out some natural equilibrium all on my own? Maybe we should try it, just for a bit.Diagnosed with a severe mental illness as a child, Anna was prescribed a cocktail of pills. Now a young... -
Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110252Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd