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Women Centre Stage: Eight Short Plays By and About Women by Sue Parrish
$12.81Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage. Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these... -
The Son by Florian Zeller
RRP: $12.89$8.64Nicolas is going through a difficult phase after his parents' divorce. He's listless, skipping classes, lying. He believes moving in with his father and his new family may help. A different school, a fresh start. When he senses he isn't wanted there, he... -
Third Week in August by Peter Gordon 9780856762796
$11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762796Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Oxford School Shakespeare: Henry V 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. Henry V is a popular text... -
Reimagine Key Stage 3 Shakespeare by Jo Heathcote
RRP: $129.00$119.74Help build a challenging and rewarding English curriculum with imaginative ways of studying Shakespeare's drama, stories and language for every year of KS3. Reinvigorate the study of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3 to lay strong... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9781350141933
RRP: $12.89$11.38After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for me and another for women? Wilde's 'trivial play for serious people', a sparkling comedy of manners,... -
Lucy Prebble Plays 1: The Sugar Syndrome; Enron; The Effect; A Very Expensive Poison by Ms Lucy Prebble
RRP: $25.79$22.87Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together her landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from 2003 to 2019. Beginning with her George Devine... -
His Dark Materials (stage version) by Philip Pullman
$11.95A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre. His Dark Materials takes us on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. For Lyra and Will, its two central... -
The Witch of Edmonton: By William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford by Peter Corbin
RRP: $14.18$10.19The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother... -
Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey 9781350448711
RRP: $14.18$12.46Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours on a South London estate. Jamie is more knowledgeable about The Sound of Music than football, while classmate Ste never misses a sports day. Both are being bullied, Jamie at school and Ste at home by his violent... -
Henry IV, Part 2: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.31$7.47Rene Weis reveals Shakepeare's use of multiple sources to be eclectic in the extreme in this radical reconsideration of the play's date and text. He also argues for the first time that Falstaff was called Oldcastle in Part 2 as well as in Part I. The... -
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford) by William Shakespeare 9781420953428
RRP: $10.31$9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953428Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
August in England by Lenny Henry 9780571386437
RRP: $14.18$9.44Lenny 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... -
A Raisin In The Sun by Deirdre Osborne
RRP: $14.18$12.46A 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 Shakespeare Conspiracy by Andrew Shepherd 9780573132858
$15.96Apologies 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 -
Unmasking Our Leaders: Confessions of a Political Documentary-Maker by Michael Cockerell 9781785907661
$7.92A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life stripping off the gloss. Over fifty years, he has gained... -
Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan
$12.81Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other, Table Number... -
Rabbit by Nina Raine
$11.95A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century. It's Bella's 29th birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781909621893
RRP: $12.89$8.86Initially 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... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles (stage version by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$11.09Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside... -
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Wixson 9780198850090
RRP: $11.60$8.32George 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... -
Out of Order by Ray Cooney
$15.96Apologies 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
$11.95Three 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... -
Out of Love by Elinor Cook
$11.95A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook. Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever. But when... -
Heavy Weather by Lizzie Nunnery
$9.38Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet - and the truth... -
Aristophanes' Lysistrata: A Dual Language Edition by Aristophanes 9781940997971
RRP: $12.84$11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997971Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams 9781350200142
RRP: $16.76$15.20Newsroom, 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... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9781848429222
$9.38When 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... -
Two Palestinians Go Dogging by Sami Ibrahim 9781848428850
$10.23'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... -
The Tempest: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$10.31Arden 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... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.18$10.02Agememnon 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... -
Rotterdam by Jon Brittain 9781350018334
$15.42No, 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... -
ear for eye by Debbie Tucker Green
$12.81'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... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 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... -
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
$10.23"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... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 9780571300518
RRP: $14.18$10.18Anton 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... -
The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton
$10.81First 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... -
I'm Sorry Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember by Jonathan Lynn
RRP: $14.18$9.44I 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,... -
Northanger Abbey by Zoe Cooper 9781839043130
$10.23'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
$10.23'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...