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The Tragedie of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781557832948
RRP: £12.99£10.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557832948Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)... -
The P Word by Waleed Akhtar
£7.93'I'm not in your Britain. I'm in another Britain.' Zafar flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK. Londoner Bilal (or Billy as he prefers to be known) is ground down by years of Grindr and the complexity of being a brown gay... -
The Death of a Black Man by Alfred Fagon
£11.95At least I am my own boss. No regrets. I choose what I do. I am lucky It's 1973 and the West Indies have spectacularly beaten England at their own game, in their own backyard. Shakie, an 18-year-old super-savvy wheeler-dealer, is in his element -... -
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes 9780571202256
RRP: £10.99£7.32Ted Hughes's remarkable sequence of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 and was celebrated in The Times by Michael Hofmann as 'one of the great works of the century'. Tim Supple and Simon Reade have... -
William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting by Joelle Herr
RRP: £5.99£4.40Oversized mini book packed with witty summaries of the plays of William Shakespeare, a man widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and all of the Shakespearan classics... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
RRP: £16.95£13.78"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Bartlett Plays: 1: Not Talking, My Child, Artefacts, Contractions, Cock by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £21.99£20.59This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters. My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a... -
Shakespeare's Songbook by Ross W. Duffin 9780393058895
RRP: £39.99£34.58Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society Shakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Abridged for Schools by Simon Stephens
RRP: £12.99£11.86This abridged edition is designed for schools and has been adapted for 10 actors playing all of the roles. With a running time of just 90 minutes it is suitable for performance in non-theatre spaces, with minimal technical requirements. The Curious... -
Bella Heesom: Two Plays by Bella Heesom
£9.61Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A Little Bit and Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself - grapple with feminism, grief and female desire.Presenting Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A... -
Hamlet and Oedipus by Ernest Jones 9780393007992
RRP: £18.95£13.85A classic study in the psychoanalysis of literature, Hamlet and Oedipus investigates Hamlet's mind as it relates to the general psychological conditions foreshadowed in the Oedipus legend. Dr. Jones gives a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature and... -
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour by Lee Hall
RRP: £9.99£6.70Listen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round... Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex,... -
Bunny by Jack Thorne
£7.93An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer. Scorching heat. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When her boyfriend is attacked on the street, feisty eighteen-year-old Katie is thrust on a white-knuckle ride through one extraordinary evening... -
Precious Little Talent & Hot Mess by Ella Hickson
£9.93Two plays by award-winning playwright Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent is about a father desperate not to forget his daughter and two young people determined not to be forgotten by the world. It was first performed at the Bedlam Theatre,... -
Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-First Century: New Pathways by M Cass Fleming
£27.99The culmination of an innovative practice research project, Michael Chekhov in the Twenty-First Century: New Pathways draws on historical writings and archival materials to investigate how Chekhov's technique can be used across the disciplines of... -
Bond Plays: v.1: "Saved", "Early Morning", "The Pope's Wedding" by Edward Bond 9780413454102
£19.04"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ...the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ...Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent) Saved - "The most uncompromising, original and un-English English play of the... -
Nelson Rodrigues: Selected Plays by Nelson Rodrigues 9781786827159
RRP: £29.95£23.43Nelson Falcao Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the... -
Teaching and Learning Shakespeare through Theatre-based Practice by Tracy Irish 9781350292048
RRP: £21.99£18.10How can the study of Shakespeare contribute to equipping young people for the challenges of an uncertain future? This book argues for the necessity of a Shakespeare education that: finds meaning in the texts through inviting in the prior knowledge,... -
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca 9781350461796
RRP: £12.99£11.86You bring such scandal to my house. In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother's tight grip as they mourn their father's death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for... -
No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99£7.32'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The TimesDo Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate... -
Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire 9781636701783
RRP: £17.95£13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636701783Author David Lindsay-AbaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group... -
Timebends by Arthur Miller
£8.92'A beautifully structured narrative: tough, very moving, a political testimony of considerable force' - Harold Pinter 'As wise and witty and funny and brave as any of his plays' - Louis Auchincloss 'Wholly admirable' - Anthony Burgess ... -
King Lear: A-level set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
£3.17Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, Eduqas, Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: AS and A level English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015; September 2019Next exams: 2024 This edition of King Lear is perfect for A-level... -
Celebrated Virgins: The Story of the Ladies of Llangollen by Katie Elin-Salt
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133565Author Katie Elin-SaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
About Kane by Graham Saunders
RRP: £10.99£7.32In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey includes a concise biography, in-depth analysis of Sarah Kane's work, and interviews with Kane and those who... -
Britannia Waves the Rules by Gareth Farr
£8.60An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home - to a world they no longer know how to cope with, and a society that doesn't know how to cope with them. Carl doesn't fit in at home. He doesn't fit in anywhere. When... -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781585100354
£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100354Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 341g -
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind 9781408140895
RRP: £10.99£9.66A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant to today's society, exploring the oppression and... -
You Can See the Hills by Matthew Dunster 9781840028850
RRP: £14.95£12.70Matthew Dunster's fifth play is also his first published work. Growing up's hard to do, and in a Pennine town it isn't any easier, as adolescent Adam tries desperately to navigate his way through secondary school, first love, plenty of lust, and swimming... -
Best Contemporary Monologues for Men 18-35 by Lawrence Harbison 9781480369610
RRP: £16.99£12.68Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men a from contemporary plays all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 a perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have... -
Jack Absolute Flies Again by Richard Bean
RRP: £10.99£9.66What will happen in England after we have won this war? Bunting! Bunting everywhere! After the bunting has been taken down. They will never take down our bunting! July 1940. After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9781408125755
RRP: £11.99£11.66Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot... -
"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
£9.61'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's' Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her... -
Death of England by Roy Williams
£11.95He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of... -
The Oresteia by Ted Hughes 9780571179961
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Our Day Out by Willy Russell 9780435233013
£17.00Our Day Out is both funny and poignant, asking what a group of back-street kids from Liverpool can expect beyond a rare 'day out'? 24 parts: 10 adult males, 4 adult females, 10+ children. Age 13+Book InformationISBN 9780435233013Author Willy... -
The Escape Room: 'One of my favourite books of the year' LEE CHILD by Megan Goldin
RRP: £9.99£6.80Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of... -
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular... -
Violence and Son by Gary Owen
£11.05'People know, you're my boy. And they know better than to lay a fucking finger on you. See? You are safer here with me, than you have ever been.' Liam's 17 years old, loves Dr Who and has lost his mum. He has had to move from London to Wales, to the... -
A Christmas Carol (Old Vic new edition) (NHB Modern plays) by Jack Thorne
£7.93One bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to, and sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built...