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Returning to Haifa Naomi Wallace 9780571347827
RRP: £10.99£7.32You haven't asked, but yes, you both may stay in our house for the time being. And use our things. I figure it'll take a war to settle it all.A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they... -
Stags and Hens by Willy Russell 9780573016097
£11.42This cynical play by the author of Educating Rita is a comedy of wedding eve nerves set in the loos of a tacky Liverpool club where Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, are having parties.Book InformationISBN 9780573016097Author Willy RussellFormat... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: £9.99£7.07Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by... -
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £9.99£7.11In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's... -
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter Harold Pinter 9780571349913
RRP: £20.00£13.86The 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 Poison Bed: 'Gone Girl meets The Miniaturist' by E C Fremantle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'A gripping psychological thriller. Readers will be awake deep into the night, trying to untangle the truth' The Times 'Books of the Year'A marriage. A murder. One of them will hang for it. **PRE-ORDER DISOBEDIENT, THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM ELIZABETH... -
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy by Ryan Calais Cameron 9781350508576
RRP: £10.99£10.77Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days... -
The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870 by Jacky Bratton
RRP: £30.99£20.94All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Royal Court Plays: "Under the Blue Sky", "Fallout", "Motortown", "My Child", "Enron" by David Eldridge 9781408123935
£29.75Five 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... -
Bull by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.93A 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: £10.99£9.59Apologies 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 Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
£12.99"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99£7.32It 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: £10.99£7.93A 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... -
The Tempest: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden 3 edition right up-to-date. A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare's... -
Electric Rosary by Tim Foley 9781848429376
RRP: £12.99£9.26'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: £24.99£21.88Nelson 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: £11.99£11.42Apologies 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: Electra by Sophocles 9780521097963
RRP: £28.99£25.82In 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 Cheviot": WITH "The Stag AND "The Black, Black Oil" by John McGrath 9780413488800
RRP: £11.99£11.95Strathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The... -
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... -
Protest Hannah Lavery 9781350428140
RRP: £10.99£9.66Hope is a superpower. Running is Alice's happy place - you might even say it's in her DNA. She's the best runner at her school but is struggling to prove her worth. Jade is slowly coming to realise that prejudices can be found everywhere, even in the... -
Bront by Polly Teale
RRP: £10.99£7.93In 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... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty by David Calcutt
£12.73Victimised by the cruel, cunning Stubbs, Terry Dumpton, nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, resorts to truancy to avoid his bullies. Following pressure from his tormentors to prove he isn't a coward, Terry takes part in a dangerous activity resulting in a fatal... -
Not Quite Jerusalem by Paul Kember 9780573113116
£11.42This 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... -
Ross & Rachel by James Fritz
RRP: £10.99£7.93'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... -
After the End by Dennis Kelly 9781350339217
£11.05A city under attack from a nuclear blast. As the dust settles, Louise wakes to find herself in a fallout shelter with Mark, the colleague who has saved her life. They have enough water and food to last two weeks. Now they just need to find a way of... -
Coram Boy (stage version) by Jamila Gavin
RRP: £10.99£7.93A 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... -
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... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: £12.99£11.06Diane 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... -
The Township Plays: No-Good Friday; Nongogo; The Coat; Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island by Athol Fugard
RRP: £12.99£9.09The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression. They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts, drawing on their lives and everyday experiences in the... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £10.99£7.93The 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 Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9781854592200
RRP: £4.99£3.80Drama 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... -
Memory of Water/Five Kinds of Silence Shelagh Stephenson 9780413714701
RRP: £11.99£11.02In 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... -
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
RRP: £10.99£7.77Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other Plays is translated by David Raeburn with an introduction and notes by Pat Easterling.The plays collected... -
Cartwright Plays: v.1: "Road", "Bed", "Two", "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright
RRP: £21.99£19.41Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know,... -
Network: based on the Paddy Chayefsky film by Lee Hall
RRP: £10.99£7.32I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn't pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, the network seize on their newfound populist prophet, and... -
Oxford Playscripts: Treasure Island by David Calcutt
£12.73Why is the old sailor so terrified of the blind man? What is hidden inside his mysterious sea chest? What lies behind his cruel, drunken songs? This imaginative yet faithful adaptation brings out all the most nightmarish qualities of pirates, ships and... -
Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus 9780241657799
RRP: £14.99£10.95In brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate lines of... -
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker 9780199540105
RRP: £10.99£7.77Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early...