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Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) [Translated by E. H. Plumptre with an Introduction by John Williams White] by Sophocles 9781420953466
RRP: $9.02$8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953466Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2 by Trilby James
RRP: $14.18$10.23Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh... -
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $20.64$20.34The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English... -
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton 9780713650686
$13.51Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to... -
Damned by Despair by Frank McGuinness
RRP: $14.18$9.44Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that he shares the fate of one Enrico, a notorious Neapolitan gangster... -
Folk by Tom Wells
RRP: $16.76$11.95Winnie's no ordinary nun. She swears, she smokes, she drinks Guinness, and she loves a sing-song with Stephen. But soon everything's going to change. Stephen's lost his way. Finding solace in music, he knows he must start again... if only he knew how... -
Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett 9780571316748
RRP: $12.89$8.64'Alan Bennett is a courageous and gifted writer: no one since Shaw has had the guts to include a finale set in Heaven which resembles some awful publishing party-cum-tea-dance at the Savoy, or mix up so many fundamentally serious ideas about the... -
A Lion in Winter by James Goldman 9780573012341
$14.73Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons - Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, is a modern day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action - the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who are locked in a free for all of competing ambitions to... -
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $20.64$20.34The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series offers authoritative, modern English... -
Daniels Plays: v.2: "Gut Girls", "Beside Herself", "Head-rot Holiday", "Madness of Esme and Shaz" by Sarah Daniels 9780413690401
RRP: $28.37$25.79Sarah Daniels is "a writer with a natural talent for disturbance" (Observer) Set in the gutting sheds of the slaughterhouse at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, The Gut Girls shows how the lives of the girls are changed when their... -
Othello (new edition) by John O'Connor
$12.33Fully updated to meet the needs of the GCSE 2010 specifications. Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential. The most accessible texts with supportive notes, activities and advice to engage students. Remains... -
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $12.89$9.38Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the... -
'Trifles' and 'A Jury of her Peers' by Hannah Wilson 9781494892463
RRP: $10.26$8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494892463Author Hannah WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Oxford Playscripts: The White Rose and the Swastika by Adrian Flynn
$16.42An engaging classroom playscript. Based on the true story of a brother and sister and how their initial enthusiasm for Hitler and the Nazi regime turned to brave resistance. In Munich, Hans, Sophie and their friends form "The White Rose", producing... -
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
RRP: $16.76$11.95A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir. It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house... -
Caroline or Change by Tony Kushner
RRP: $14.18$10.231963. In quiet Lake Charles, Louisiana, the destruction of a Confederate statue might just signal that change is in the air... But, whatever the progress of the civil rights movement, in the Gellman household things seem just the same - for now at least... -
William Shakespeare: A Brief Life by Paul Menzer 9781350156753
RRP: $19.34$17.13This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about... -
Blackout by Davey Anderson
RRP: $12.89$11.30This play can be performed with any number of characters, and with simple settings. Inspired by the true stories of a young offender from Glasgow, a 15 year old who had committed a violent crime, this short play was part of the National Theatre's "New... -
3 Winters by Tena Tivicic
RRP: $14.18$10.23A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them. From the remnants... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare 9780241200568
RRP: $11.60$8.32Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble Kinsmen is set in Athens and was co-written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by N. W. Bawcutt with an... -
The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors, Volume One: Women by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway
$14.73Foreword by Naomie Harris How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actresses gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by... -
Rose by Martin Sherman 9781350361324
RRP: $14.18$12.46This powerful one-woman play is a moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century and remains sadly relevant today with racial tensions and allegations of antisemitism continuing to dominate the news. Blending the personal with... -
The Last Witch by Rona Munro
RRP: $16.76$11.95A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart. Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer,... -
William Shakespeare Comedies by William Shakespeare
RRP: $14.18$9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645171546Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
Five Plays by Ben Jonson 9780199555772
RRP: $12.89$9.40The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of... -
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780199537839
RRP: $10.31$7.47For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being... -
Daughterhood by Charley Miles
RRP: $16.76$11.95A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them. One sister stayed at home to care for Dad. The other set out to 'make a difference'. Reunited under their childhood roof, Pauline and Rachel unearth more... -
The Three Musketeers: A Comedy Adventure by John Nicholson
RRP: $16.76$11.95'My name is D'Artagnan, musketeer to King Louis the Thirteenth, defender of the Queen's diamonds, and the man you tried to poison in that bar.' When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his quest to become a King's musketeer, he immediately... -
Sir Thomas More: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.63$18.54This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history. The introduction deals with issues such as the... -
Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin by Enda Walsh
RRP: $15.47$11.09Disco Pigs is the award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists and was filmed in 2001 with Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy. Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share... -
The Twelve Keys: Of Alchemy by Tarl Warwick 9781534783812
RRP: $7.80$6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534783812Author Tarl WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 2: Decadence; Kvetch; Acapulco; Harry's Christmas; Brighton Beach Scumbags; Dahling You Were Marvelous; Dog; Actor by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $24.50$16.55Written with characteristic Berkoff flair and an understanding of the subtle power and violence of the English language, this second collection of his plays includes Decadence, described by the Guardian as being 'enthused with Berkoff's violent, imagist,... -
The Acid Test by Anya Reiss 9781849430456
$14.73This has been the worst day of my life. So can you please get drunk with me? Dana, Ruth and Jess down shots to console the heart-broken, to comfort the anxious and just pass the time. Kicked out from the family home Jess's dad, Jim, invades the party... -
Frank and Percy by Mr Ben Weatherill 9781350438798
RRP: $14.18$12.46People cross our paths for a reason. That, no doubt, reads like a horrible cliche but I never claimed to be a good writer, only an honest one. I believe the reason I met you was to become comfortable in my own skin. Ever seen a couple of old boys on a... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: $16.76$11.73With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
The Truth Will Out by Rosemary Hennigan 9781398704794
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A confident, original new voice in Irish writing' JANE CASEY'Claustrophobic and gripping, this will keep you on tenterhooks!' HEAT'A clever premise, compelling characters and brilliantly plotted' T. ORR MUNRO'Dark and masterly woven thriller...kept me... -
"Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" by Bertolt Brecht 9780713686746
$14.73Brecht's operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was first staged in 1930. The story is that three criminals create the city of Mahagonny. Drinking, gambling, prize-fights and similar activities are the sole occupation of the inhabitants,... -
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
RRP: $16.76$11.73Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse... -
Churchill Plays: v.1: "Owners"; "Traps"; "Vinegar Tom"; "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"; "Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $28.37$25.04In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images... -
Not about Heroes by Stephen MacDonald 9780573640445
RRP: $14.18$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573640445Author Stephen MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc