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A Tender Thing by Ben Power
RRP: £12.99£9.26Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Ben Power weaves the text of Romeo and Juliet into a provocative new tale of love and sacrifice. Re-imagining Shakespeare's story, A Tender Thing is an elegiac yet ultimately... -
Clyde's by Lynn Nottage 9781839042683
RRP: £10.99£7.93'It's kind of a ritual, we speak the truth. Then, let go and cook.' In the bustling kitchen of a run-down Pennsylvania truck stop, the formerly incarcerated staff have been given a second chance. Under the tyrannical eye of their boss Clyde, this... -
I Think We Are Alone (NHB Modern Plays) by Sally Abbott
RRP: £10.99£7.93From those electric moments of discovery and connection to the dark hours of isolation, we all seek community and resolution. But sometimes the things that connect us are the very things we need to escape. Sally Abbott's I Think We Are Alone is a... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson 9781350370012
RRP: £10.99£9.66Life's full of clatter, but none of it matters, only who'll hold your paw when you die. What would you do if you lost an hour from your day? How far would you go to rescue what you've lost? In search of a lost hour that has tipped the balance of... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.23Oxford 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. The Taming of the Shrew is a... -
Mammals by Amelia Bullmore 9780413775221
RRP: £11.99£11.42A darkly humorous look at the flip side of home-sweet-home Jane and Kev Hammersby don't have secrets. When Kev comes home from a business trip with something on his mind, the truth will out, despite a house full of over-excited children, dirty laundry... -
Moorcroft by Eilidh Loan 9781350441637
RRP: £10.99£9.66A team. A team of wit? A team of players. A bunch of mates coming the gither to huv a kick aboot. Wits new? Garry's turned 50 but doesn't feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive 'the glory days', trying... -
Rattigan Plays: v. 2: "The Deep Blue Sea"; "Separate Tables"; "In Praise of Love"; "Before Dawn" by Terence Rattigan 9780413546203
RRP: £23.99£23.80"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian) This selection from the best of Rattigan's work from the '50s onwards includes two of his most popular plays, The Deep... -
The Last Days of Troy by Simon Armitage
RRP: £10.99£7.32Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer's... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780393264227
£13.33Giraldi Cinthio's story-which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello-is included here, as is a generous selection of interpretative responses to Othello, new to this edition are those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward... -
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan 9781854594679
RRP: £9.99£7.27Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since. Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college, having been... -
The Prisoner's Dilemma by David Edgar
RRP: £10.99£7.93The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy, which also includes Pentecost and The Shape of the Table. An urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders. Beginning in early 1989 and spanning some twelve years, the... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Twelfth Night 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... -
Wish List by Katherine Soper
RRP: £12.99£9.26A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you. 'I dreamt about this last night. I dreamt that I was packing boxes in boxes in boxes.' Tamsin packs boxes... -
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 9781848424951
RRP: £9.99£7.27Bruno has a friend called Shmuel. Like Bruno, Shmuel is nine years old. Their birthdays are on the same day. But Shmuel lives on the other side of a fence, and he's always wearing striped pyjamas... Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The... -
When We are Married by J. B. Priestley 9780573014765
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014765Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Poems and Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal... -
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 -
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... -
Consensual by Evan Placey
RRP: £11.99£8.60An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you. As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the new 'Healthy Relationships' curriculum. But then... -
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne
RRP: £11.99£8.60A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand... -
Cock by Mike Bartlett 9781474229630
RRP: £10.99£8.38But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . ... -
The Revenger'S Tragedy: Thomas Middleton / Cyril Tourneur by R. A. Foakes
RRP: £10.99£9.74This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780486411194
£4.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411194Author Edmond RostandFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9780486270623
RRP: £3.49£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270623Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm)... -
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 -
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £9.99£7.11In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's... -
Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Measure for Measure by John Seely
£13.20The Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare series specifically focuses on preparing students for their exams. Teachers find that the accessible notes and end-of-act activities really help students understand the text and encourage them to develop their own... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9781108969192
RRP: £9.99£8.17Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, including sections on... -
I'm Sorry Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember by Jonathan Lynn
RRP: £10.99£7.32I have a voice in the University, I'm in the House of Lords, I have this lovely permanent home. Everything's hunky-dory. I just need a bit of help.'I wanted to write the final chapter about Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, now in their eighties,... -
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £9.99£9.35Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop... -
Black Watch by Gregory Burke
RRP: £10.99£7.32Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror, and what it means to make the journey home.This book contains Gregory Burke's... -
Lava (NHB Modern Plays) by Benedict Lombe 9781839040092
RRP: £12.99£9.09'This is nice, innit? Yeah. Good little set-up to tell you the story of my name. The story of my true name.' When a woman receives an unexpected letter from the British Passport Office, she is forced to confront an old mystery: why does her South... -
Hungry (NHB Modern Plays) by Chris Bush 9781839040115
RRP: £11.99£8.60'I'd watch you eat. I'd eat you up. Look at you. You get it, don't you? You're real.' Lori is a professional chef. Bex waits on tables to make ends meet. One night together in a walk-in fridge and it's the beginning of something beautiful. Lori has... -
The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay 9780199642229
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.' With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new... -
Peep by Jodi Gray
£21.50A darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics. In an apartment somewhere, May and Caitlin are on a mission to take back the looking. Up here, away from the prying, away from the eyes, they watch over the girls. They could take... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 9780141396422
RRP: £7.99£5.79An 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... -
Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of... -
The Unreturning by Anna Jordan
RRP: £11.99£8.60'I want to return to my home.' A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war. Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven in Anna Jordan's The Unreturning, a play that explores... -
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? by William Shakespeare
RRP: £3.00£2.49'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.'This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black...