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Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh 9780573110160
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110160Author Mike LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats... by Marina Carr
RRP: £18.99£12.83The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and... -
Road by Jim Cartwright 9780413623904
£11.42Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times).In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192831422
RRP: £7.99£5.79The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley
£8.38The Pitchfork Disney heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. Manifesting Ridley's vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook, the play resonates with his trademark themes: East... -
Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £9.99£8.82One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and... -
Sunrise by Jessie Cave
£7.27`Okay I'm sorry but I don't want to have a meal. I want to talk and find out a bit more about you and ideally have sex. Or maybe not full sex but - I need to be home by 11 p.m.' Dating again after a complex break-up, Jessie is trying to get her... -
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
£7.93'Retired people are like nuclear power stations. They like to live by the sea.' Two ageing nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request. Lucy... -
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
£9.93Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra is a trilogy of full-length plays, reworking themes from Greek tragedy, particularly The Oresteia of Aeschylus, relocated to New England in 1865, just after the end of the American Civil War. Lavinia Mannon... -
These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich 9780822224488
£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822224488Author Melanie MarnichFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Dramatists Play Services Inc,USPublisher Dramatists Play Services Inc,USWeight(grams)... -
Heather Raffo's Iraq Plays: The Things That Can't Be Said: 9 Parts of Desire; Fallujah; Noura by Heather Raffo
£23.77The Things That Can't Be Said: Three Plays About Iraq is a trilogy of plays by renowned Iraqi American playwright/performer Heather Raffo including 9 Parts of Desire, Fallujah: The First Opera about the Iraq War, and Noura. In these three works Raffo... -
The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 by Andrew Gurr
RRP: £39.99£24.43For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the... -
Simon Stephens Plays 5: Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg by Simon Stephens
RRP: £19.99£17.73"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal... -
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) by Sparknotes 9781411479890
RRP: £10.99£7.78NOW IN COLOR! Read Romeo and Juliet in graphic-novel form-with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel-now with fully-colored illustrations-brings the tragic star-crossed lovers to life. The... -
The Importance of Being Earnest the Graphic Novel: Original Text by Oscar Wilde 9781906332921
RRP: £9.99£7.56Two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use imaginary friends to inject some excitement into their seemingly dull lives. Jack Worthing invents a brother, "Ernest," whom he pretends to be in order to visit his beloved Gwendolen in the city... -
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge
RRP: £7.99£5.79J M Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers all of Synge's plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The... -
Three Birds by Janice Okoh
£9.93A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2011. Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework... -
Martin Crimp Plays 1 by Martin Crimp 9780571203451
RRP: £18.99£12.83This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. It includes the plays Dealing with Clair, Play with Repeats, Getting Attention and The Treatment, and is... -
Babyteeth by Rita Kalnejais
RRP: £14.99£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868199269Author Rita KalnejaisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 130mm *... -
A Christmas Carol (Derby Playhouse version) by Charles Dickens
£9.26An acclaimed dramatisation of Dickens' well-loved Christmas story - more faithful to the original than any other published version, and making skilful use of traditional carols to underscore the action. Karen Louise Hebden's stage adaptation of A... -
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 9780955285653
RRP: £9.99£6.79This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of... -
Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale by Piers Torday
RRP: £9.99£7.11Things are going to be different. Very different... 1838, London. Jacob Marley is dead. And so is Ebenezer Scrooge... In this reinvention of the timeless classic, Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has inherited his money-lending business. She... -
Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson 9780865479166
RRP: £18.00£11.45In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's... -
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99£9.09Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between freedom and responsibility, and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre by Michael Walton
£27.47This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching... -
Ladies Down Under by Amanda Whittington
£7.93The funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies' Day, following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under. After hitting the jackpot at Ladies' Day in York, the fishfilleting foursome - Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda - are... -
La Ba te by David Hirson
£6.60Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bete is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe,... -
Spider's Web by Agatha Christie 9780573702334
RRP: £18.95£14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702334Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Changing Room by Chris Bush
£7.93'We stand on the edge On the threshold of On the entrance to Stepping out from On the cusp...' Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of teenagers full of excitement, impatience and uncertainty. They... -
Globe Education Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet for AQA GCSE English Literature by Globe Education
£12.69Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Direct your students to achieve stand-out success in their Shakespeare question with the only AQA-specific GCSE play texts; produced in partnership with Globe... -
Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer
RRP: £10.99£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018237Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Bond Plays: 10: Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Hungry Bowl by Edward Bond
£21.04Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction... -
Sap by Rafaella Marcus
RRP: £10.99£7.32A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wonder what will happen when it reaches my heart.When a woman tells a lie to her... -
NKJV, End-of-Verse Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £29.99£20.04An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even... -
The Taming of the Shrew: A Norton Critical Edition by William Shakespeare 9780393927078
£13.33It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A... -
Mudlarks by Vickie Donoghue 9781408173039
£11.42Mudlarks is a tragic, beautifully realised play about three young men trapped at the wrong end of the river. On the muddy banks of the Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of recklessness... -
Amsterdam by Maya Arad Yasur
£7.93'Everyone knows, all of them... that when all's said and done, she is no more than a fig leaf hiding the thing everyone else would be much happier never having to look at.' An Israeli violinist. Living in her trendy canal-side Amsterdam apartment... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780141396262
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time' Ben Jonson A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young count she chooses refuses to consummate the marriage and... -
Death of England: Delroy by Roy Williams
£11.95Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut. 2020. Delroy is arrested on his way to the hospital. Filled with anger...