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The Short Plays of Harold Pinter Harold Pinter 9780571349913
RRP: €23.80€16.49The 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,... -
Bouncers (1990's Remix) by John Godber
RRP: €13.08€10.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761720Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
The Methuen Drama Book of Royal Court Plays: "Under the Blue Sky", "Fallout", "Motortown", "My Child", "Enron" by David Eldridge 9781408123935
€35.40Five of the best plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London. Royal Court Plays 2000-2010 is an essential anthology for anyone interested in the best work from the most important new writing theatre... -
Posh by Laura Wade
RRP: €14.27€13.11"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... -
Bull by Mike Bartlett
RRP: €13.08€9.44A 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,... -
The Lehman Trilogy by Ben Power 9780573709951
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709951Author Ben PowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
RRP: €13.08€8.71It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The obsessive caretaker, Davies, whose papers are in... -
When This Is Over: A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production, and the Original Playscript by Ned Glasier 9781839042577
RRP: €13.08€9.44A 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... -
Cymbeline by John Pitcher
RRP: €10.70€7.68One 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... -
National Theatre Connections 2023: 10 Plays for Young Performers Simon Longman 9781350382695
RRP: €23.79€21.10National 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... -
Romeo and Juliet (new edition) by John Seely
€17.12Thoroughly updated editions to meet the needs of the Key Stage 3 and GCSE classrooms. Enhanced accessibility for all students with clear navigation through the texts, spacious page design and new activities. Brand-new support and activities to match... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: €13.08€9.25Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts: Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona V; Redemption David Watson 9781350359741
RRP: €29.74€26.10The 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... -
Electric Rosary by Tim Foley 9781848429376
RRP: €15.46€11.02'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... -
Nelson Rodrigues: Selected Plays by Nelson Rodrigues 9781786827159
RRP: €29.74€26.04Nelson Falcao Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the... -
"Good": A Tragedy by Cecil P. Taylor 9780413521309
RRP: €14.27€13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413521309Author Cecil P. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 130g -
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by David Grene
RRP: €14.28€12.09Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Sophocles: Electra by Sophocles 9780521097963
RRP: €34.50€30.73In this edition of Sophocles' Electra, one of the greatest tragedies in Greek or any literature, Mr Kells presents the play as a study in revenge, but in a subtle way whose meaning depends upon the continuous use of dramatic irony. He relates the... -
THE SH*T by Kenny Emson
RRP: €14.27€9.52A 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... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: €13.08€9.25Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... -
Blackbird by David Harrower
RRP: €13.08€8.71Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.They haven't set eyes on each other since.Now, years later, she's found him again.Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to... -
Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: 'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance by Ella Hawkins
€33.31The 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... -
Bront by Polly Teale
RRP: €13.08€9.44In 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... -
Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre: Basin; Boy with Beer; Sin Dykes; Bashment; Nine Lives; Burgerz; The High Table; Stars Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9781350234550
RRP: €30.93€25.25A 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. ... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: €13.08€9.97In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she... -
Not Quite Jerusalem by Paul Kember 9780573113116
€13.59This traces the effect of kibbutz life on four disillusioned volunteers who arrive for a working holiday and find the work more like hard labour. Two of the English, Pete and Dave, soon alienate themselves by their foul-mouthed, high-spirited behaviour... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780141396514
RRP: €9.51€6.89'If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare' William HazlittA soldier of great standing and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his... -
Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy) by Katharine Eisaman Maus
RRP: €11.89€8.46The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger's Tragedy, published anonymously and... -
Ross & Rachel by James Fritz
RRP: €13.08€9.44'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... -
Coram Boy (stage version) by Jamila Gavin
RRP: €13.08€9.44A 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... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: €15.46€13.16Diane 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... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: €13.08€9.44The 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... -
Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones 9780571212873
RRP: €11.89€11.17Humble Boy is a comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of bee-keeping. All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory. Following the sudden death... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9781854592200
RRP: €5.94€4.52Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Oscar Wilde's undying comedy - in an edition to fit any handbag. Jack Worthing pretends to be Earnest to avoid certain social obligations. But Gwendolen has fallen in love with him as... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €11.89€11.44A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth... -
Memory of Water/Five Kinds of Silence Shelagh Stephenson 9780413714701
RRP: €14.27€14.22In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of... -
Zinnie Harris: Plays 1: Further than the Furthest Thing; Midwinter; How to Hold Your Breath; Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris
RRP: €23.80€16.02In this first collection by Zinnie Harris, Further than the Furthest Thing evokes the fragility of an island community as their way of life is threatened and they must determine their future, while Midwinter opens as a woman steals a dead horse to feed... -
The Rover and Other Plays by Aphra Behn 9780199540204
RRP: €10.70€7.68Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her... -
The Glow by Alistair McDowall
€15.28People find me. When it's dark. 1863. An asylum. A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect... -
Disgraced by Mr Ayad Akhtar
RRP: €13.08€9.97"A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse." The...