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English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology by David Bevington 9780393976557
£48.28Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here-by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others-reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh... -
Do Not Go Gentle... and The Berry Man: Two plays by Patricia Cornelius 9780868199078
RRP: £18.99£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868199078Author Patricia CorneliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Iphigenia in Splott by Gary Owen 9781350372610
RRP: £10.99£10.77What is gonna happen, when we can't take it anymore? Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don't know half of it. Effie's life is a mess of... -
Tales of a City by the Sea by Samah Sabawi
RRP: £14.99£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925005813Author Samah SabawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 4mm -
The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney 9780573115363
£11.42Three men and three women portray a wide, diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play. The action takes place in an upper middle-class American dining-room, the... -
Tuesday: With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth by Alison Carr
RRP: £11.99£8.60'I've been waiting for something like this to happen. I'm surprised it's taken so long. The signs have been building up for a while.' An ordinary Tuesday turns really, really weird when the sky over the school playground suddenly rips open. Pupils and... -
Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
RRP: £10.99£7.32Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Duologues for Young Actors by Anne Harvey
RRP: £17.99£15.94Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these scenes are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary literature, the pieces... -
Wonder Boy by Ross Willis
£18.51'What use is a boy who can't say his own name?' Sonny is twelve. Living with a stammer, he is finding his way in a world ruled by vicious vowels, confusing consonants, and the biggest beast of all - small talk. His only escape is with a comic-book... -
Great Expectations (Royal Shakespeare Company version) by Charles Dickens
RRP: £12.99£9.26A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters. Whilst at his parents' graveside, Pip is accosted by Magwitch, a convict escaped from one of the prison ships. Terrified, he is... -
Shook by Samuel Bailey
RRP: £10.99£7.93'He'll look different. My little boy. When I get out. Like... to the picture I've got in my head. Be like meeting him all over again. A whole new start.' Instead of GCSEs, Cain, Riyad and Jonjo got sentences. Locked up in a young offender institution,... -
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
No Romance by Nancy Harris
£24.99A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, No Romance is a play about our search for connection in a fractured world. It received the Stewart Parker Trust Award in 2012. Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for... -
Robert Icke: Works One: Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor by Robert Icke 9781350407299
RRP: £19.99£19.21Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-award-winning work. Includes: ... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf 9781839041341
RRP: £11.99£8.60'Nothing is any longer one thing.' From a teenage encounter with Elizabeth I, through infatuations, voyages and even a change of gender, Orlando lives out five centuries of life and love before they finally find the courage to truly be themselves. ... -
The High Table by Temi Wilkey
RRP: £11.99£11.95Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2020 That's actually what me and Leah came here to talk to you about. Look- there's no easy way of saying this, but... Leah and I are getting married. The dresses are chosen, the venue's been booked... -
Iron by Rona Munro
RRP: £12.99£9.26An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. Josie is seeing her mother Fay for the first time in a while - she's never... -
Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford by Derek Roper
RRP: £10.99£6.70John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period, and has... -
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 9781350455498
RRP: £10.99£9.66'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.' Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together... -
Passing Places by Stephen Greenhorn
RRP: £11.99£8.60A road movie for the stage, following two young lads from Motherwell on their trip from dislocation to location. Alex and Brian are a pair of Scottish smalltown boys going nowhere, who get out the only way they know how - doing a runner with a prized... -
The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
RRP: £11.99£8.60The powerful debut play from Alexi Kaye Campbell, winner of an Olivier Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the John Whiting Award for Best New Play. Alternating between 1958 and 2008, The Pride examines changing... -
"King Henry VI": Pt. 1 by William Shakespeare
RRP: £11.99£11.79A fresh look at a play usually regarded as the first component of a three-part historical epic, this edition argues that Henry VI Part 1 is a 'prequel', a freestanding piece that returns for ironic and dramatic effect to a story already familiar to its... -
It Could be Any One of Us by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573017971
£12.37> Comedy Alan Ayckbourn Characters: 3 male, 3 female Interior A thunderstorm. In a windswept country house a family of failures wrangles over a will: a detective who has never solved a case; a writer, an artist and a composer whose works have never been... -
Spring Awakening: A Musical (new edition) by Steven Sater 9781839040443
RRP: £10.99£7.93A time to learn. A time to rebel. A time to love. A time to burn. A group of teenagers - silenced and controlled by a censorious society - discovers a new world of feeling and freedom, with beautiful and devastating consequences. Inspired by German... -
Albion by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £13.99£9.93In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion premiered in October 2017 at the Almeida Theatre in London to critical acclaim. The Independent called it "A work of deeply... -
Of Mice and Men: Playscript by John Steinbeck 9780856761539
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780856761539Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef... -
A Number by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £10.99£7.93A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture. Bernard thought he was an only child. One day he learns the shocking truth: he is just one of a number of clones. Together, he and his... -
King Lear: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance... -
The Doctor by Robert Icke
RRP: £10.99£9.66First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical... -
Springboard Shakespeare: King Lear by Ben Crystal
RRP: £11.99£10.95King Lear is a towering drama of personal and national tragedy. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the challenges and the rewards it presents to actors, audiences and... -
Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in... -
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery by Henry Lewis
RRP: £11.99£11.95I'm really looking forward to robbing this bank! Mischief's smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast, fabulous comedy caper and the funniest show in the West End! Summer 1958. Minneapolis City Bank has been entrusted with a... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780393926644
£13.33"Sources" helps readers navigate King Lear's rich history and includes the nine essential primary sources from which Shakespeare borrowed significantly in creating his play, along with two additional likely sources. "Criticism"provides thirteen major... -
The 47th (NHB Modern Plays) by Mike Bartlett 9781839040740
RRP: £11.99£8.60'It's not a game for gentlemen we're playing, Political and civilized. This is Historic' 2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House - and at what cost? Mike Bartlett's viciously funny and... -
Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage
RRP: £10.99£7.93New York City, 1930. Following a decade of explosive creativity, the Harlem Renaissance is starting to feel the bite of the Great Depression. In the face of hardship and dwindling opportunity, Angel and her friends battle to keep their artistic dreams... -
Quartet & Equally Divided by Ronald Harwood 9780571200924
RRP: £12.99£8.56This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights. In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married... -
Performance Lighting Design by Nick Moran
£35.92A practical guide to the art and technique of lighting for the stage, this book explains the complex mixture of craft, collaboration and creativity behind successful lighting design. The designer paints with light - revealing form and composing a living... -
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.79William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.'What fool is not so wiseTo lose an oath to win a paradise?'Ferdinand, King of Navarre and his lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville... -
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff 9781474601573
RRP: £9.99£5.96Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander'An enthralling read' THE TIMES'Heartbreaking and unforgettable, it is a complete triumph' BOSTON GLOBE'Beautifully written. It is absolutely engrossing' SUNDAY... -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: £12.99£9.09Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making...