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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... -
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: £7.99£5.93Oscar 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... -
Teechers Leavers 22 by John Godber 9780573000072
£11.42It's the end of year 2022, and Salty, Gail and Hobby are about to present a play which they have been working on for their B.Tech performance exam. It's the first time they have performed live; their other exams were held on Zoom. What follows is a... -
hang by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: £10.99£7.93His life. In her hands. A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision. debbie tucker green's play hang premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2015, in a production directed by the author, and featuring Marianne... -
Road by Jim Cartwright 9780573016646
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016646Author Jim CartwrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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... -
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£17.82Revels 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... -
Loot by Joe Orton
RRP: £10.99£8.38A 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... -
The Girl on the Train by Rachel Wagstaff
£11.05Adapted 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... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £10.99£9.26Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £9.99£9.61A 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... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413773425
RRP: £11.99£11.42Dario Fo's classic farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist was a sensation when it premiered in Italy in 1970. Based on the story of a political activist who "fell" to his death from the window of a police station, the original production was... -
Sewing Church Linens (Revised): Convent Hemming and Simple Embroidery by Elizabeth Morgan 9780819218414
RRP: £14.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819218414Author Elizabeth MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. -
Jeeves & Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense' by The Goodale Brothers
RRP: £11.99£8.60An 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 -... -
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... -
Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan 9780955260445
RRP: £10.00£7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955260445Author Patricia Burke BroganFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint WordsonthestreetPublisher WordsonthestreetWeight(grams) 108g -
The Weir by Conor McPherson 9781854596437
RRP: £10.99£7.93The 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... -
Out of Order by Ray Cooney
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018589Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp
RRP: £9.99£6.70A 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 Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call by Friedrich Du rrenmatt
RRP: £10.99£7.93In 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... -
Bully Boy by Sandi Toksvig
RRP: £11.99£8.60A 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... -
Shed: Exploded View by Phoebe Eclair-Powell 9781839042744
RRP: £11.99£8.60'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)... -
The Glove Thief by Beth Flintoff
RRP: £12.99£9.26'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... -
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... -
Plays from VAULT 2: Five new plays from VAULT Festival by Tristan Bernays
RRP: £12.99£9.26This 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£9.93In 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: £10.99£9.66Two 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... -
The Good Companions by Edward Koblock 9780573111976
£11.42The Good Companions focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party between the World Wars. It was arguably Priestley's most famous novel, written in 1929, and the work which established him as a national figure. This 1931 stage adaptation was... -
Macbeth the Graphic Novel: Plain Text by William Shakespeare 9781906332044
RRP: £11.99£8.96The complete play translated into plain English. It's 11th century Scotland. Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, is one of King Duncan's greatest war captains. Upon returning from a battle with the rebellious Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth and Banquo encounter three... -
Rules for Living by Sam Holcroft
RRP: £10.99£7.93Everyone 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: £8.99£7.99This 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... -
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
RRP: £11.99£8.60Part 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... -
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£7.27Shakespeare'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... -
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: £14.99£10.95Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate... -
55 Days by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99£9.26A 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£7.27An 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...