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August in England by Lenny Henry 9780571386437
RRP: £10.99£7.32Lenny Henry's playwriting debut is a poignant, hilarious portrait of a life affected by the terrible injustice of the Windrush Scandal.Yu see me? I was eight years old when I come to H'Inglan' - I travel on my mother's passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9781848429222
RRP: £9.99£7.06When two souls collide, the impact can resonate for all eternity. So it was - and so it is - with Heathcliff and Cathy. But if they can't be together, the world that struggles to contain them will simply shatter and burn... Andrew Sheridan's gripping... -
A Raisin In The Sun by Deirdre Osborne
RRP: £10.99£9.66A Raisin in the Sun is a classic American play: a groundbreaking 1950s civil rights drama and has a strong claim to be the greatest play of the Black American experience. Deeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine... -
The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez
RRP: £10.99£9.84Drama / Characters: 3 male It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn... -
The Shakespeare Conspiracy by Andrew Shepherd 9780573132858
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132858Author Andrew ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Two Palestinians Go Dogging by Sami Ibrahim 9781848428850
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.' The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The... -
Rotterdam by Jon Brittain 9781350018334
RRP: £11.99£11.67No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman. It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend... -
The Train Driver and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
RRP: £14.99£13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363860Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
ear for eye by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: £13.99£9.67'Marchin' days is over man.' Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough. Black British. African American. Here. There. Now. Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs... -
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £10.99£7.71"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's play Escaped... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353140
RRP: £22.99£18.81In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft... -
The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton
RRP: £10.99£8.15First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781909621893
RRP: £9.99£6.87Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket... -
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Wixson 9780198850090
RRP: £8.99£6.45George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a... -
Northanger Abbey by Zoe Cooper 9781839043130
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of any sort of... disappointed love.' Catherine Morland knows little of the world, but who needs real-life experience when you have novels to guide you? Seizing her chance to escape her... -
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Do you ever wonder what would happen if we could live our lives all over again but be fully conscious of it the second time? I bet we'd try to do everything differently, or at least would know to create a different world for ourselves.' In a room... -
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9781853264160
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive... -
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 -
Lorca: Three Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £12.99£9.02Three of Federico Garcia Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume, translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford. 'There's fire burning in my head. There's an ocean drowning my heart.' Lorca's... -
The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan 9781408137109
RRP: £10.99£8.15The Accrington Pals is a poignant and harrowing play set in the early years of the First World War, as the country's jingoistic optimism starts to wane and the true terror of warfare gradually becomes clear. The play looks at both the terrifying... -
Stories by Nina Raine
RRP: £9.99£7.06How do you have a baby when you're thirty-nine and single? You decide. But what happens next? The story, like a child, has a life of its own. The story becomes stories... A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea, Stories... -
"What the Butler Saw" by Joe Orton
RRP: £10.99£8.15"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst... -
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams 9781350200142
RRP: £12.99£11.78Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always... -
The Tempest: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner 9781839041457
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Let's just talk until it goes.' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a tender and funny rom-com about what... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.77Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 9780571300518
RRP: £10.99£7.89Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the... -
I'm Sorry Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember by Jonathan Lynn
RRP: £10.99£7.97I 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,... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Mary Elliott Nelson 9781839042782
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.' Christmas Eve, 1946, Bedford Falls. Down-on-his-luck banker George Bailey feels life has passed him by, and he's at the end of his rope. But when George's guardian angel pays him a visit, he's... -
London Road by Alecky Blythe
RRP: £10.99£7.71In late 2006 the everyday life of the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with the soliciting and kerb-crawling that they frequently encountered... -
Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary... -
The House of Shades by Beth Steel
RRP: £10.99£7.32Nothing cuts into us like the family knife.The Webster House. 1965. 1979. 1985. 1990. 2016. Death silences no one, least of all the dead. Set against the ever-changing industrial landscape of working-class Britain, Beth Steel's revelatory new play spans... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: £18.99£12.83This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The outside world is described with almost hallucinatory... -
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore 9781472508577
£13.09'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?' Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Crackling with... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays by Kenneth McLeish
RRP: £10.99£7.32Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy guide to all the histories for the students? A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays gives all this and more: an introduction to... -
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.32Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown... -
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 9781350108981
RRP: £8.99£7.99This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer Identity. The introduction includes discussion of very... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781912464159
RRP: £9.99£5.79What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the Scottish crown. How many people will have to die in Macbeth's pursuit of power? With armies, ghosts and magic against him, will Macbeth survive in this... -
King John: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role played in it by women, the family, and the law. There is a...