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The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 9780141396422
RRP: $10.31$7.47An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one of Shakespeare's most memorable clowns. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by... -
Ghost Stories by Jeremy Dyson
RRP: $14.18$9.95Professor of Parapsychology, Philip Goodman, is an arch-sceptic with a mission to debunk the paranormal, wherever it occurs. But when he embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings - as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a... -
Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca
RRP: $16.76$11.73Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals... -
Aeschylus: v. II: Oresteia: Agamemmon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides by Aeschylus
RRP: $32.19$29.57The tragic cycle of justice.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also at Salamis,... -
The Dry House by Eugene O'Hare 9781350406520
RRP: $14.18$13.89"I don't know what's beyond this minute. But whatever it is it can't be worse than all the minutes that brought us here". Two sisters, one last drink. In the Irish border town of Newry, Chrissy promises her sister Claire that after four cans of lager... -
Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.31$7.47Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically... -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $14.18$12.46Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded... -
The Routledge Pantomime Reader: 1800-1900 by Jennifer Schacker 9781032021218
RRP: $55.46$48.49The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre-one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Britain. Across ten different shows, readers witness pantomime's development from a highly... -
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $14.18$10.51The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and... -
Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo by Marina Carr
RRP: $25.79$17.35This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting... -
100 by Christopher Heimann
RRP: $14.18$9.95A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life. Imagine that choosing this memory is your only way of passing through... -
The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form by Cormac McCarthy
RRP: $12.89$9.11Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' - Financial TimesA... -
Tomcat by James Rushbrooke
RRP: $14.18$9.95In the not-too-distant future, the world is better than ever. Diseases and disorders have been wiped out. But Jess doesn't belong. She slipped through the net and there's something dangerous in her DNA, something that must be 'cured'. Charlie is watching... -
Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre version) by Ibsen
RRP: $14.18$9.95Richard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her. Arriving home after an extended honeymoon, Hedda struggles with an existence that is, for her, devoid of... -
Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
RRP: $16.76$11.73NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey's Black... -
Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays by Marie Jones
RRP: $14.18$11.24Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, which ran for four years in London's West End; and an earlier monologue, A Night in November, exploring the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994... -
A Dream Play by August Strindberg
RRP: $15.47$10.80Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream: A young woman... -
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
$16.87An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? Frank McGuinness explores the daily crisis... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $12.89$9.17SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre... -
Alice in Wonderland: (Lighthouse Plays) by Andrew Biliter 9780997408409
RRP: $11.60$9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997408409Author Andrew BiliterFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Lighthouse Plays, LLCPublisher Lighthouse Plays, LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)... -
all of it by Alistair McDowall 9781350168169
$16.82Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta BBBBBBBBBB Face Faces Smile Smiling Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Bbbbbbbbb A short play for one performer about all of it. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court in February 2020, performed... -
Good by C. P. Taylor
RRP: $14.18$12.46Professor John Halder is a 'good' man. But 'good' men must adapt to survive. As the world faces its Second World War, Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Good is a story about a liberal-minded university... -
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: $12.89$9.57Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid... -
The Shakespeare Sessions with John Barton and Peter Hall by John Barton 9781557835369
RRP: $174.15$139.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557835369Author John BartonImprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 77g -
Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Antonio's Revenge, The Tragedy of Hoffman, The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
RRP: $16.76$11.73As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of dark wit and violent spectacle, exploring the nature of... -
The Blue Room by David Hare
RRP: $14.18$9.44Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became... -
Nightfall by Joanna Murray-Smith 9780868199191
RRP: $19.34$12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868199191Author Joanna Murray-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Bacon (NHB Modern Plays) by Sophie Swithinbank 9781839040757
RRP: $15.47$10.80'I seen you looking at me. Like that. You gonna deny it? Go on. I swear down, Mark - deny it.' It's Year 10's first day back at school. Mark is new and too scared to make friends. Darren is out of control and too scary to make friends. The two of them... -
Three Kings by Stephen Beresford
RRP: $12.89$9.11When Patrick is eight years old, his absent father returns unexpectedly for a brief but memorable encounter. Years later - recalling that meeting, and the revelations that followed - Patrick traces the events of his father's life, laying bare a... -
Noises Off by Michael Frayn 9780573113123
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113123Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Bright. Young. Things. by Georgia Christou
RRP: $12.89$9.11On a reality television show, six remarkable - and remarkably young - geniuses are competing for the coveted Golden Brain trophy and the title 'Britain's Brainiest Child'. As the contestants battle it out round after round, the pressure mounts, the... -
William Shakespeare: Romeo y Julieta/Macbeth/Hamlet/Otelo/La Fierecilla Domada/El Sueno de una Noche de Verano/El Mercader de Venecia by William Shakespeare
$14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497941426Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 620Imprint Edimat LibrosPublisher Edimat LibrosWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann 9781839042218
RRP: $14.18$9.95'I am strength I am power I am courage I am revolution I am Amber Rai' Amber is trapped - by her family's rules and expectations, and by her own fears. But on the running track she feels free. As her body speeds up, the world slows down. And... -
Richard II by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$8.32'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin Bolingbroke, previously banished, returns to seize the crown, Richard discovers that the... -
Love's Labour's Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780199536818
RRP: $10.31$7.47Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s, after three hundred years of neglect by the theatre... -
Inside/Outside: six Short Plays by Joe White
RRP: $14.18$9.95Six short plays in two complementary programmes, exploring estrangement and loneliness, moving towards redemption and hope. Inside looks at the lives of three women forgotten by the world, but not by themselves. Guidesky and I by Deborah BruceWhen... -
Rapture by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: $19.34$12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868196794Author Joanna Murray-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 9781408114216
RRP: $12.89$11.38The 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,... -
Polly Stenham: Plays 1: That Face; Tusk Tusk; No Quarter; Hotel by Polly Stenham
RRP: $24.50$16.55Polly Stenham's explosive That Face, written at the age of nineteen, was staged at the Royal Court before transferring to London's West End. Tusk Tusk and No Quarter followed, also for the Royal Court. Her fourth play, Hotel, opened at the National... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.31$6.75Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Antony and Cleopatra is a...