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Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
RRP: £10.99£7.32Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Hound of the Baskervilles by John O'Connor
£12.73After the mysterious and violent death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson embark upon their most famous case. What is the spectral hound that howls by night in the mists of Dartmoor? Is there really a curse on the Baskerville... -
The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholemew Fair by Ben Jonson
RRP: £9.99£7.11This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the... -
Quartet & Equally Divided by Ronald Harwood 9780571200924
RRP: £12.99£8.56This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights. In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married... -
Old Times by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99£7.32Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we... -
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £9.99£7.11Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of Youth', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town... -
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: £8.99£6.87The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact,... -
"A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
RRP: £10.99£8.15A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's... -
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir by Joan Didion
RRP: £12.99£8.48'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her... -
Returning to Haifa by Naomi Wallace
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... -
Crave by Sarah Kane
RRP: £11.99£11.02Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a... -
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie 9780573015229
£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015229Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Love and Money by Dennis Kelly
RRP: £11.99£11.02David conducts an office romance by e-mail. He has love at his fingertips. But a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece. Jess loves David. She believes happiness can be bought - but it doesn't come cheap in a world of easy... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781407193267
RRP: £6.99£4.64This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. When... -
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood 9780906399217
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906399217Author Ronald HarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow by Alan Plater
RRP: £9.95£6.78Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this gritty musical is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre... -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: £9.99£6.99Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2018 Pigott... -
Once Upon a Bridge by Sonya Kelly
RRP: £11.99£11.67He was like a rugby man, He hit her like a rugby man, Straight into her shoulder, The momentum of the crash, Dragging her beyond the kerb, Towards the front tyre of my bus. Early one morning on Putney Bridge, three strangers' lives collided for... -
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £9.99£7.06A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is... -
Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays: Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays by Various
RRP: £9.99£6.80God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the InnocentsMiracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard
RRP: £27.49£24.68Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts'... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780141396514
RRP: £7.99£5.79'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... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: £9.99£7.38Five 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... -
"King Henry V": Pt. 3 by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99Distinguished editor T.W. Craik makes an independent and balanced examination of the many textual problems of Henry V, providing many new emendations. "Craik's commentary is particularly ample and detailed, with careful attention to the play's language,... -
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 9780141396286
RRP: £8.99£6.45'After God, Shakespeare has created most' Alexandre DumasTwo sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment... -
Age is a Feeling by Haley McGee
RRP: £10.99£7.71Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to change course and all the things you leave unsaid. Inspired by interviews with hospice workers, conversations with mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a... -
Three Dublin Plays by Sean O'Casey
RRP: £12.99£8.56Three early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... -
Guards! Guards!: The Play by Terry Pratchett 9780552144315
RRP: £9.99£7.67Terry Pratchett's infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen.Defending Ank-Morpork against this threat is the entire, underpaid, undervalued City Night Watch... -
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: £11.99£8.37An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter. George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: £10.99£7.77These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into... -
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.71Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne... -
Muff, MinusOneSister and SHIT: Three plays by Van Badham
RRP: £21.99£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760620004Author Van BadhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 9mm -
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... -
Blue Beard by Emma Rice 9781350476486
RRP: £10.99£9.66When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR! Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick - things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves... and women. Puff! Gone. Without a... -
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sarte
RRP: £15.95£13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613050Author Jean-Paul SarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Scot Free: New Scottish Plays by Alasdair Cameron
RRP: £18.99£13.50A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century. Selected and introduced by Alasdair Cameron, the collection draws on adventurous theatres such as the Edinburgh Traverse... -
Measure for Measure: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£7.81When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's virtue is held to ransom by the deputy rule of the city until justice is done, mercy... -
Chaos by Laura Lomas
RRP: £10.99£7.71A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy's heart falls out his chest. A... -
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett 9780571329656
RRP: £12.99£9.26Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first... -
The Revenger's Tragedy by Gretchen E. Minton
RRP: £15.99£15.03A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated...