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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)... -
Boltik: Vladislav Krapivin Boltik by Vladislav Krapivin 9781517598464
RRP: £9.00£7.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517598464Author Alexander KoryaginFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
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. ... -
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,... -
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... -
The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708862Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
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... -
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
RRP: £10.99£7.32One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music... -
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £9.99£8.11In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through... -
Stella by Neil Bartlett 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: £11.99£8.60Three 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... -
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... -
Witness for the Prosecution: Play by Agatha Christie
£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015007Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud 9780872860001
RRP: £12.99£8.63"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a... -
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 Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
RRP: £12.99£9.09Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic... -
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version by William Butler Yeats
RRP: £26.99£17.25Apologies 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... -
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore
RRP: £10.99£8.38"It connects emotionally with the audience, and is wittily written ... Bullmore makes you like, and believe in, her three characters ... The play also has a careering energy ... impossible not to like." The Guardian Aged 18, three women join forces... -
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... -
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
RRP: £10.99£9.66"Albee's perversely funny sendup of a standard mid-life crisis drama ... dares to suggest that even the most flawed and confused human beings deserve compassionate understanding, and the failure to proffer it is a species of bestiality far more abhorrent... -
Inspirational Leadership: Timeless Lessons for Leaders from Shakespeare's Henry V by Richard Olivier
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... -
Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham
RRP: £10.99£7.32Come on troops. Let's take check: Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full night's sleep but otherwise all in order... Stay here. Don't answer the door. I'll go out and get some proper food.In a new flat, three... -
Shakers (Re-stirred) by John Godber 9780856761669
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761669Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
The Comedy of Errors: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the... -
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... -
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... -
Cartwright Plays: v.1: "Road", "Bed", "Two", "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright
RRP: £21.99£19.41Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know,... -
Amorous Hope, a Pastoral Play, Volume 83: A Bilingual Edition by Valeria Miani
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... -
The Ghost Train (Revised) by Arnold Ridley 9780573000041
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000041Author Arnold RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Still Life: Play by Noel Coward
£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573022555Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Uncle Vanya by Conor McPherson
RRP: £10.99£7.93In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov. However, when Sonya's father, Professor Serebryakov, suddenly returns with his... -
The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus
RRP: £22.50£22.08Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time "[A] superb translation."-Bill Marx, Arts Fuse One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic... -
Ravenhill Plays: v. 1: Shopping and F***ing, Faust is Dead, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill
RRP: £21.99£20.59"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ...He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing,... -
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett 9781846072598
RRP: £10.99£8.43Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded... -
Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn
£11.42Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in...