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Word-Play by Rabiah Hussain
RRP: £10.99£7.93'History always ripples on. Even if we don't realise it.' In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live TV (again) and his words are going viral. There is a flurry of... -
Schmitt Plays: v. 1: "Don Juan on Triail"; " The Visitor"; "Enigma Variations"; "Between Worlds" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 9780413760203
RRP: £21.99£19.99First publication in English of France's most successful contemporary playwright Don Juan on Trial: 'Brilliant dialogue' (Le Figaro); The Visitor: 'An overwhelming triumph ...a masterpiece' (Paris Match); 'Sharp, biting, unexpected and cunning' Le... -
Julius Caesar: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a... -
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 9781408114216
RRP: £9.99£8.82The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo,... -
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
RRP: £12.99£8.56"The most important American play of the century." Daily TelegraphInspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today,... -
Gladiator Games by Tanika Gupta 9781840026245
£12.37On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man, was attacked by his cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries. Was he sharing a cell with a known racist? This new play traces his... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Hamlet by Alan Durband
£13.23Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of... -
Hay Fever by Noël Coward 9781350354111
RRP: £10.99£8.38"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard When... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781909621923
RRP: £9.99£6.87In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of... -
The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
RRP: £12.99£8.56Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair.John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780486266862
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486266862Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Hamlet (Collector's Editions) by William Shakespeare 9781840228458
RRP: £8.99£5.82Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence... -
Tarantula by Philip Ridley
RRP: £11.99£11.95Of course - as you've no doubt guessed - there's a big 'But Then' moment heading this way... It's a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss. It makes her very happy. ... -
Trusting the Actor by Brian Astbury 9781466374966
RRP: £10.99£9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466374966Author Brian AstburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm -
Cornermen by Oli Forsyth
RRP: £9.99£7.27Mickey and his team of cornermen never seem to have much luck in the boxing world. The fighters they manage always end up losing and, after a disastrous last outing, no one wants to work with them. All that changes when they sign Sid, a young boxer... -
King John by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45King John - today remembered as the villainous opponent of Robin Hood and the Magna Carta - was for Shakespeare and his audience a heroic figure who stood up to England's enemies. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by R. L. Smallwood with an... -
Strawberries in January by Rona Munro
RRP: £11.99£8.60A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montreal, in a version by Rona Munro. Strawberries in January is a version by Rona Munro of Evelyne de la Cheneliere's 1999 play Des Fraises en Janvier, Winner of the Quebec Academy of... -
Stella Neil Bartlett (Author) 9781783198368
£10.47"What's the odds so long as you're happy?" - Ernest Boulton, 1869 Alone on the darkened stage of an old music hall, a man reflects on an extraordinary life as he awaits a very ordinary death. Inspired by the scandalous true story of Ernest Boulton... -
Bird and other monologues for young women by Laura Lomas
RRP: £12.99£9.26Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights. Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain. It's four in... -
Focus by Arthur Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.09A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are... -
Plays from VAULT 5 by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: £16.99£12.47This anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprises five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. Something Awful by Tatty Hennessy is a thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the... -
The Cagebirds by David Campton
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033667Author David CamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint 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 Seagull: by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Martin Crimp by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Young girl lives on shore of lake since childhood - like you. Loves the lake - like the seagull. Is happy and free - like the seagull. Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys her.' Martin Crimp's pared down version of Chekhov's... -
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version by William Butler Yeats
RRP: £26.99£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476740881Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Arabian Nights (RSC version) by Dominic Cooke
RRP: £11.99£8.60A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning, the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death like all the young brides before her. But she has one... -
The Incident Room by Olivia Hirst
RRP: £12.99£9.26It's 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper. With public and political pressure mounting, hundreds of officers must work... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: £8.99£5.82The 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,... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 9780413159502
RRP: £11.99£11.42Along 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 century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the... -
Company (TCG Edition) by Stephen Sondheim 9781559361088
RRP: £19.99£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Book of a Musical, Tony Awards 1971 and Best Musical, Tony Awards 1971.Book InformationISBN 9781559361088Author Stephen SondheimFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Inspirational Leadership: Timeless Lessons for Leaders from Shakespeare's Henry V Richard Olivier 9781857886030
RRP: £12.99£8.60Henry V is Shakespeare's greatest leader inspired and inspiring, visionary yet pragmatic, powerful yet responsible. As a study of an inspirational leader he remains unparalleled. As a new king, Henry unites a group of disparate people around a common... -
Another Country by Julian Mitchell 9780906399316
£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Society of West End Theatre Awards - Play of the Year 1982.Book InformationISBN 9780906399316Author Julian MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Amber... -
All's Well that Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45Usually classifed as a 'problem comedy', All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery won it little favour in earlier... -
Media Literacy: A Reader by Donaldo Macedo 9780820486680
RRP: £39.00£35.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820486680Author Donaldo MacedoFormat PaperbackPage Count 710Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 1270g -
Bad Roads by Natalia Vorozhbit
RRP: £11.99£8.60'I spend the night in an officer's barracks, where no woman has ever set foot.' In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging. A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns... -
Victoria's Knickers by Josh Azouz
RRP: £9.99£7.27On the eve of her coronation, Victoria is having a bath. Out of her chimney falls Edward 'The Boy' Jones. Again. Adored by the tabloids and hated by the establishment, his repeated break-ins to the palace remain a mystery to all. Except Victoria. An... -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 9780573613432
RRP: £10.99£9.59Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce... -
Osama the Hero by Dennis Kelly 9781840025743
£12.37Gary's not stupid. He just dares to see the world differently. In the class room and on the estate, he provokes without intent. When another act of violence unsettles those around him, Gary must shoulder the blame. A visceral rollercoaster of a play by... -
Amorous Hope, A Pastoral Play - A Bilingual Edition Valeria Miani 9781649590268
RRP: £48.00£46.39A seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Miani's Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of society's double-standards and it champions women's dramatic agency... -
Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £12.99£7.11Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights. Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it...