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After the Dance by Terence Rattigan
RRP: £13.99£9.67Terence Rattigan's After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the 'bright young things' of the 1920s and 30s. David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer involved with two women: his wife Joan and an... -
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016998Author Dennis PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis by Glenn D'Cruz
RRP: £9.99£8.95"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" - 4.48 PsychosisHow on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis' inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her... -
The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone by Sophocles 9780486450490
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486450490Author H. J. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)... -
The Big Life: The Ska Musical by Paul Sirett 9781350497108
RRP: £12.99£12.55EROS!! Do your thing! It's 1950s London, and Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie arrive from the West Indies full of expectations and aspirations. Eager to make successes of themselves, they are optimistic about what the future holds. Building this... -
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping and F***ing; The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £19.99£18.80With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria... -
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh 9780413715906
RRP: £11.99£11.02"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic) In 1934, the people of Inishman learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 1: East; West; Greek; Sink the Belgrano!; Massage Lunch; The Bow of Ulysses; Sturm und Drang by Steven Berkoff
RRP: £18.99£12.83Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful. This first collection of his plays includes East,... -
A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: £10.99£7.71'It's a bit weird to be sitting at the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your dad's ashes in your backpack.' Rory's dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally, he was a geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls. And... -
Bull by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.71A razor-sharp, acid-tongued play by Mike Bartlett, one of the UK's most exciting and inventive young writers. Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt...Bull opened at Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield,... -
Titus Andronicus by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £10.99£9.66Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with... -
Cymbeline by John Pitcher
RRP: £8.99£6.45One of Shakespeare's late, fantastical plays, Cymbeline considers human love and art through the thrilling wonder of the Renaissance theatre. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by John Pitcher.'Fear no more the heat o' the... -
When This Is Over: A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production, and the Original Playscript by Ned Glasier 9781839042577
RRP: £10.99£7.71A group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, come together onstage to share stories about their past, their present, and what might lie ahead. When This Is Over is a uniquely... -
[BLANK] by Alice Birch
RRP: £17.99£16.05She can't stay awake. She sold drugs. She's good at interrogations. She drinks in the mornings. She ate a rabbit. She smashed up a shop. She stabbed a man. She used a hammer. She had a baby. She can't find her mother. She's covered in blood and... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
£10.471988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Hamlet by John Seely
£12.79The Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare series specifically focuses on preparing students for their exams. Teachers find that the accessible notes and end-of-act activities really help students understand the text and encourage them to develop their own... -
Dr Faustus: A Text by Christopher Marlowe
£16.00Weary of academic study, an eminent scholar turns to magic and makes a deal with the Devil. Mephistopheles will serve him and give him whatever he wants, but after twenty-four years Faustus must keep his side of the bargain. This edition contains a... -
Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly... -
Electric Rosary by Tim Foley 9781848429376
RRP: £12.99£9.02'We're children of God, sister. No hunk of metal could replace any one of us.' Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing. Behold... -
Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: 'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance by Ella Hawkins
£27.46The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why, then, have doublets, hose, ruffs and farthingales featured in many Shakespeare productions staged since the turn of the 21st century? This... -
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter by Harold Pinter
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night Out, Night School, The Collection, The Dwarfs, The Lover, Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence, Monologue, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, One for the Road, Mountain Language,... -
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers 9780856763106
RRP: £10.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763106Author Carson McCullersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Bront by Polly Teale
RRP: £10.99£7.71In 1845, Branwell Bronte returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write - Polly Teale's extraordinary play evokes the real and imagined worlds of the... -
Posh by Laura Wade
RRP: £11.99£11.02"I've got a new law for you mate, it's called survival of the fittest, it's called fuck you we're the Riot Club." In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: £12.99£10.79Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and... -
Ross & Rachel by James Fritz
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Look at all those couples. Which one will leave. Which one will run. Which one is cheating on the other. Which one will die first. Him. Him. Her. Him.' What happens when two friends who were always meant to be together, get together - and stay... -
Cymbeline In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version by Bookcaps 9781478298298
RRP: £9.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478298298Author BookcapsFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Coram Boy (stage version) by Jamila Gavin
RRP: £10.99£7.71A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their... -
National Theatre Connections 2023: 10 Plays for Young Performers by Simon Longman 9781350382695
RRP: £19.99£17.73National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £10.99£7.71The story of a young boy's fantastic adventure after being washed up on a Pacific island - adapted for the stage by acclaimed dramatist Stuart Paterson from the best-selling novel by Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Michael embarks on a... -
The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts: Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona V; Redemption by David Watson
RRP: £24.99£21.93The Big House Anthology is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature. As a... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9780143130222
RRP: £10.00£6.74The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book... -
THE SH*T by Kenny Emson
RRP: £11.99£8.00A play about youth work. In one of the thousands of forgotten youth centres across our country, Eric works for a single hour each week to break Daniel out of his spiral towards jail or the grave. But what happens when the work itself becomes a matter... -
4 Play: Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
RRP: £15.99£11.61From Irvine Welsh's bestselling books come four brilliant plays: Trainspotting, Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares (all adapted by Harry Gibson) and Ecstasy (adapted by Keith Wyatt). Gathered together for the first time in one volume these adaptations of... -
Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre: Basin; Boy with Beer; Sin Dykes; Bashment; Burgerz; Nine Lives; The High Table; Stars by Mojisola Adebayo
RRP: £25.99£21.22A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from Black British perspectives, this anthology contains seven radical plays by Black writers that change the face of theatre in Britain. ... -
The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without... -
Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers by Evan Placey
RRP: £16.99£12.18This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today. They provide ideal material for teenagers to read, study and perform. Girls Like That explores the... -
Be My Baby by Amanda Whittington
RRP: £10.99£7.71A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain. Mary Adams, aged 19, is unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to a Mother-and-Baby Home in the north of England by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary -... -
Henry IV Part Two by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45'This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy ... the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote' Simon SchamaThe old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that threatens to bring the... -
Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre: A Practical Guide by Chris Palmer
RRP: £23.99£21.08Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre is the first book to combine traditional actor vocal training with musical theatre training, offering support and guidance for performers seeking to train their spoken voice specifically for singing and performing in...