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The Time Machine by Steven Canny 9781839042966
RRP: $14.18$9.95When the worlds of science-fiction and science-fact collide... extraordinary things can happen. Dave is the great-great grandson of H.G. Wells, author of the 1895 novella The Time Machine, a book that foretold (with suspicious accuracy) the future of... -
A Doll's House by Tanika Gupta
RRP: $14.18$12.46Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it... -
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by Mary Lefkowitz
RRP: $27.09$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983098Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm)... -
The Hollow by Agatha Christie 9780573702396
RRP: $24.45$18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702396Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 145g -
People by Alan Bennett
RRP: $14.18$9.44A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a... -
Celebration & The Room by Harold Pinter
RRP: $14.18$9.44A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make... -
Laura Wade: Plays One by Laura Wade
RRP: $28.37$25.04'If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade...proved that you could radically change both form and content... Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this... -
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 9781853260759
RRP: $5.15$3.70Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and... -
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff 9780435232900
$21.93Captain Stanhope and his officers face the full horror and futility of trench warfare. Includes notes and assignments for 14-16 study. 12 parts: all male. Book InformationISBN 9780435232900Author R.C SherriffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint... -
Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.89$8.27An intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction, Othello is arguably Shakespeare's most topical and accessible tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges... -
"Antigone" by Jean Anouilh
RRP: $11.60$10.31'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era... -
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp
RRP: $12.89$8.64A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often... -
The Box of Delights by Piers Torday 9780571390151
RRP: $14.18$9.44Piers Torday's magical stage adaptation of the classic children's Christmas tale by John Masefield. There are tricks, and then there's magic!After a seemingly chance encounter on a train, orphaned schoolboy Kay Harker finds himself the guardian of a... -
Conor McPherson Plays: Two by Conor McPherson
RRP: $24.50$17.42The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky... -
Trojan Women by Seneca 9780801494314
RRP: $15.47$11.51This free and eloquent translation skillfully reproduces the imagery, power, and frequent irony and sarcasm of Seneca's language.Book InformationISBN 9780801494314Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher... -
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
RRP: $14.18$9.44'The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment... Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.' ObserverThroughout the remote and forgotten corners of the... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
RRP: $14.18$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017421Author Brian FrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6: Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero's Welcome; A Brief History of Women by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $24.50$16.55With an Introduction by the author.'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.' Evening StandardTime of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.' Wall Street JournalNeighbourhood... -
Classical Comedy by Aristophanes
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The... -
The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr
RRP: $16.76$11.64'The end-of-the-world quiz waits for no man, literally. Onwards, ever onwards, to our fiery decline. Round three...' It's the end of the world. The last night on Earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us and there's nothing we can do about it. ... -
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare 9781853262357
RRP: $5.15$3.70Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events,... -
Grenfell: in the words of survivors by Gillian Slovo 9781839042638
RRP: $15.47$10.80'It was a tower block, but it was home.' The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower. The scene of a national tragedy. This powerful... -
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
RRP: $11.60$10.94The law is nature. The law is only a word for what has a right to happen. When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now. Let her go. And bless her. Set among... -
The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida 9781350148260
RRP: $23.21$20.56The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the... -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.89$9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451669411Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs
RRP: $16.76$11.04David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... -
Downstate by Bruce Norris
RRP: $14.18$9.95In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where they live out their lives in the shadow of the offences they committed. A man shows up to confront his childhood abuser - but does he want closure or... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: $14.18$9.95'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets,... -
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $14.18$10.02These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. 'Suddenly Last Summer' is the starkly told story of Catherine, who seemingly goes insane after her cousin... -
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane 9780413748300
RRP: $15.47$14.224.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed suicide. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters... -
The Watsons by Laura Wade
RRP: $15.47$14.22What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an... -
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $14.18$9.95A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know - ... -
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
RRP: $14.18$9.95A hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family. When the large Weston family is reunited in Oklahoma after the disappearance of their father, they let loose a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling... -
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573619410Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Sheila's Island by Tim Firth 9780573132964
$15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132964Author Tim FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Speaking Shakespeare by Patsy Rodenburg
$38.18'You can't act Shakespeare until you can speak him.' This book by one of the world's leading voice coaches goes to the heart of acting Shakespeare. From the basics of verse-speaking through to the rehearsal of leading roles from Hamlet, King Lear,... -
What We Know by Pamela Carter
RRP: $16.76$11.64A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking. Lucy has lost something very important. One minute Jo's there, the next he isn't, leaving Lucy with a pile of half-cooked food and a collection of invited (and uninvited) guests. As... -
Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 9781857545999
RRP: $25.74$17.09"Death's Jest-Book" is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Conceived as a... -
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 9780141396583
RRP: $10.31$7.47'I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare' George Bernard ShawThe beautiful and witty Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the wily Petruchio, it seems that she has finally met her match... -
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar
RRP: $15.47$15.05Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre You see we are prisoners of a corrupt country that is our own making. But don't pretend you don't participate. You do. Of course you do. American banker Nick...