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The Girl on the Train by Rachel Wagstaff
RRP: £10.99£10.78Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel - an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide - this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the... -
Loot by Joe Orton
RRP: £10.99£8.15A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot... -
Stephens Plays: 2: "One Minute"; "Country Music"; "Motortown"; "Pornography", "Sea Wall by Simon Stephens
RRP: £21.99£20.59This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £10.99£10.78The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition for students with on-page notes to help... -
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010446Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackImprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g -
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130106Author Robert HarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £9.99£9.36A 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... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme,... -
International Connections: New Plays for Young People by Cecily Gayford 9780571216475
RRP: £16.99£11.58With contributions by Kay Adshead, Horton Foote, Julian Garner, Andy Hamilton, Jackie Kay, Bryony Lavery, Christian Martin, Timothy Mason, Tamsin Oglesby, Fausto Paravidino, Judy Upton.International Connections features ten new plays and a musical drawn... -
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £10.99£7.32At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable... -
Behan Complete Plays by Brendan Behan
RRP: £22.99£22.30This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £20.00£14.29The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel 9780571385379
RRP: £9.99£6.70A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights.This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre' revival. It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a... -
Like a Virgin by Gordon Steel
RRP: £11.99£11.02A romp through the bubble-gum years of teenage life. Angela and Mazine, besotted with Madonna, play truant from school, form a band, attempt to write songs and, with hairbrushes in hand, live out their adolescent dreams of becoming famous. Meanwhile... -
Monologues for Kids and Tweens: 100 Original Comedy and Drama Monologues for Young Actors by Mike Kimmel 9780998151328
RRP: £11.99£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998151328Author Mike KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Ben Rose Creative ArtsPublisher Ben Rose Creative ArtsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)... -
The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call by Friedrich Du rrenmatt
RRP: £10.99£7.71In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten. Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman. The locals hope her arrival signals a change in their... -
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £10.99£7.32It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early... -
A Christmas Carol: Play by Sir John Mortimer
£12.37Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from embittered skinflint to generous benefactor has been dramatized by Mortimer. It retains Dickens' own ironic point of view through the use of the a chorus to propel the drama.Book... -
The Tempest by William Shakespeare 9780141396309
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The magic in The Tempest is real ... It contains a great many unanswered questions' Margaret AtwoodA storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive... -
Bussy D'Ambois: By George Chapman by N. S. Brooke 9780719056963
RRP: £19.99£17.44Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more... -
Shed: Exploded View by Phoebe Eclair-Powell 9781839042744
RRP: £11.99£8.37'There was a fork in her face. An actual fork. He dug a fork into her face. A fork stood on end in her cheek. A fork.' The smallest tremble. A smashed glass. The ripping apart of space and time. Three couples. Thirty years. Mothers and daughters... -
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 9780486268774
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486268774Author Sir YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm)... -
Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The finest, most representative instance of what Shakespeare can do' Harold BloomPrince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff. But when the kingdom is threatened... -
Everybody's Talking About Jamie: Teen Edition by Tom MacRae 9780573709050
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709050Author Tom MacRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
RRP: £11.99£8.37Part One of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Prior, visited by ghosts of his ancestors and abandoned by his lover... -
Plays by Wolf Mankowitz
RRP: £18.99£17.92Includes the plays The Samson Riddle and Essay; The Bespoke Overcoat; The Hebrew Lesson; It Should Happen to a Dog; and The Mighty Hunter. When The Bespoke Overcoat was first performed in 1953, Wolf Mankowitz was immediately hailed as one of... -
Jeeves & Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense' by The Goodale Brothers
RRP: £11.99£8.37An inventive, fast-paced comedy featuring P.G. Wodehouse's iconic double act. Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker -... -
55 Days by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99£9.02A gripping historical play that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. December 1648. The Army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned king on trial, so the Army moves against Westminster in the first and only military... -
random by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: £9.99£7.06An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting. 'Death never used to be for the young. You get up. You go bout your business. You expect to come back... -
Collapsible by Margaret Perry
RRP: £9.99£7.06'I'll tell you what I really want. I want to jump clean out of my brain.' Essie's lost her job. Her girlfriend's left. But she's alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute. And... -
Scarfed for Life by Martin Travers
RRP: £11.99£11.67Supporters? Sport? It may as well be bare knuckle boxing or dug fighting! A modern parable set against the backdrop of the first Old Firm clash of the season. Funny, tough and thought-provoking, Scarfed for Life tells the story of two teenage friends... -
Shakespeare's Wife by Dr. Germaine Greer 9780747593003
RRP: £16.99£12.28______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph 'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is... -
The Weir by Conor McPherson 9781854596437
RRP: £10.99£8.06The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism. A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman recently moved to the area from Dublin. As the drink flows... -
Bully Boy by Sandi Toksvig
RRP: £11.99£8.37A ferociously gripping play that tackles the challenging moral issues of contemporary military occupation and its effect on the mental health of serving soldiers with startling insight. Falklands War veteran Major Oscar Hadley is sent to a combat... -
Double Booked by Lily Lindon
RRP: £9.99£7.11Hilarious and heartwarming, Double Booked is perfect for fans of Beth O'Leary and Sophie Cousens, or anyone who's wished to try another life. Georgina Green thinks she has it all sorted: steady boyfriend, steady job, steady calendar. Then she meets... -
The Glove Thief by Beth Flintoff
£18.92'They did not understand, you see, that what is stitched with a needle is not always innocent... Needles are dangerous.' The year is 1569, and in a cold, stone room in a Staffordshire castle, a group of women sew elaborate tapestries. Rich or poor, at... -
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen 9781854596543
RRP: £3.99£3.13Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on... -
THE VERDICT by Barry Reed 9780856763731
RRP: £10.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763731Author Barry ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Plays from VAULT 2: Five new plays from VAULT Festival by Tristan Bernays
RRP: £12.99£9.02This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told is exposed in Testament by Tristan Bernays. Four lesser-known biblical characters are... -
Hedda by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £13.99£9.67In Lucy Kirkwood's version of Hedda Gabler, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to London in 2008, to startling effect. Hedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesn't love, to a flat and...