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International Connections: New Plays for Young People by Cecily Gayford 9780571216475
RRP: $21.92$14.94With 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: $14.18$9.44At 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: $29.66$29.48This 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: $25.80$18.43The 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: $12.89$8.64A 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: $15.47$14.22A 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... -
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $10.31$7.47Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance... -
Monologues for Kids and Tweens: 100 Original Comedy and Drama Monologues for Young Actors by Mike Kimmel 9780998151328
RRP: $15.47$12.33Apologies 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: $14.18$9.95In 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: $14.18$9.44It 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
$15.96Charles 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: $10.31$7.47'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: $25.79$22.50Revels 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: $15.47$10.80'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: $3.86$2.94Apologies 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: $10.31$7.47'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: $14.18$12.37Apologies 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: $15.47$10.80Part 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: $24.50$23.12Includes 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: $15.47$10.80An 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: $16.76$11.64A 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: $12.89$9.11An 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: $12.89$9.11'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: $15.47$15.05Supporters? 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: $21.92$15.84______________ '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: $14.18$10.40The 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: $15.47$10.80A 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: $12.89$9.17Hilarious 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 Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen 9781854596543
RRP: $5.15$4.04Drama 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: $14.18$11.29Apologies 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: $16.76$11.64This 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: $18.05$12.47In 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... -
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $14.18$12.46Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship and what... -
Rules for Living by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $14.18$9.95Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly? As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid... -
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$10.31This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical... -
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.89$8.86Shakespeare's combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world's most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of world literature.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
Stepping Out by Richard Harris
$15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114151Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan
RRP: $14.18$13.91You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. Everything that's worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung... -
Visitors by Barney Norris
$15.96On a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can't afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can't afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger with blue hair moves in to care for Edie as her... -
A Very Very Very Dark Matter by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $14.18$9.44In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children's tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world...