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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Play by Michael Fry 9780573019456
€13.59All the tragic majesty of Thomas Hardy's celebrated novel is captured in this arresting and theatrically exciting adaptation, narrated by a masked Chorus in the style of Greek tragedy (Hardy's favoured form of theatre) and using songs to counterpoint and... -
The Light Burns Blue (Platform Play by Silva Semerciyan
RRP: €13.08€9.44'Do you love what you do? Because I loved making the photographs. I loved the feeling of taking charge. Putting things in the frame, taking them out again. Writing with my eyes.' During the First World War, seventeen-year-old Elsie Wright fools the... -
Alligators by Andrew Keatley
RRP: €11.89€8.65A searing thriller that asks how well we actually know those closest to us. Daniel Turner has it all. A devoted wife, two beautiful children and a teaching job he loves. But when allegations are made about his past, his world begins to crumble around... -
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
RRP: €13.08€11.39Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his... -
Women's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny by Alisha Gaddis 9781480360426
RRP: €14.27€11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480360426Author Alisha GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book... -
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
RRP: €11.89€10.42A collection of some of Edward Albee's earliest and most acclaimed works.Book InformationISBN 9780573042225Author Edward AlbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre version) by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: €15.46€11.02Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. 'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: €26.76€18.97The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
Bond Plays: v.3: Bingo; The Fool; The Woman; Stone by Edward Bond 9780413338907
RRP: €26.17€23.79The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: €11.89€8.96Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy,... -
Who Cares by Ruth Cochrane
RRP: €14.27€14.22In Salford alone, 34,000 children are caring for someone. Adapted from real-life testimonies, this bold and pertinent piece of documentary theatre examines our failing care system, the impact of austerity and what happens when a child becomes the... -
Plays: v.2: "Lear"; "The Sea"; "Narrow Road to the Deep North"; "Black Mass"; "Passion" by Edward Bond 9780413392701
RRP: €26.17€23.79The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the... -
Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie 9780573702419
RRP: €18.98€14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702419Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People by Stephen Unwin 9781789146615
RRP: €29.75€17.48Shows how Shakespeare portrayed working people with insight, compassion and purpose.Book InformationISBN 9781789146615Author Stephen UnwinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion Books -
Hedda Gabler (Drama Classics) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €7.13€5.49Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by... -
Not Quite Jerusalem by Paul Kember 9780573113116
€13.59This traces the effect of kibbutz life on four disillusioned volunteers who arrive for a working holiday and find the work more like hard labour. Two of the English, Pete and Dave, soon alienate themselves by their foul-mouthed, high-spirited behaviour... -
Excellence for Actors by Alexa Ispas 9781913926274
€19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913926274Author Alexa IspasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Word BothyPublisher Word BothyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm -
Hamlet (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as... -
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
RRP: €10.70€7.24This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains:- The... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9781839041273
RRP: €13.08€9.44Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century. In a world of broken glass and shattered promises, of poisonous manipulation and explosive violence, Othello's... -
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama by John P. Harrington
€24.26This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina... -
WINK by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
RRP: €13.08€9.44An electrifying drama about what happens to personal identity in an age of ubiquitous technology and social media. John is a twenty-seven-year-old teacher 'who probably wasn't allowed to teach at an all-girls' school' and Mark is his sixteen-year-old... -
Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare: Macbeth by Globe Education
€15.10Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: KS3Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2018Get straight to the heart of Shakespeare's Macbeth; students' confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plot, themes... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix
RRP: €14.27€10.03Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in... -
Not Now by David Ireland
RRP: €13.08€11.50Matthew, I don't give a f*** who's Irish and who's not. I'm just thinking about what's best for your career. And that's how themmuns in London'll see you. Calling yourself British just embarrasses them. The morning after his father's funeral, an... -
All My Sons by Arthur Miller 9781350245822
RRP: €10.70€9.51'His drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMES Three years on from the disappearance of his son,... -
Tales From the Vienna Woods & Other Plays by Odon von Horvath 9781572411081
RRP: €32.12€25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411081Author Odon von HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 368g -
A Gay Century Volume 2: 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life by Peter Scott-Presland
RRP: €14.27€11.54‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay... -
The Father by Christopher Hampton
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115554Author Christopher HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Cuttin' It by Charlene James
RRP: €11.89€7.97We're opposites, even though we came from the same, she's nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret... -
Death of England: Closing Time by Roy Williams 9781350448827
RRP: €13.08€11.50Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives'... -
The Making of a Monster by Connor Allen
RRP: €11.89€9.72A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling... -
Theatre in the Victorian Age by Michael Richard Booth 9780521348379
RRP: €46.40€39.58This book examines all major aspects of theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period. Michael Booth's comprehensive survey explores the social and cultural context of the theatre including theatre management, the audience,... -
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman 9781474251037
RRP: €15.46€2.88There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting . . . You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn't funny anymore. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: €10.70€10.38Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Pramkicker by Sadie Hasler 9781474292535
RRP: €14.27€13.59I am the Edith fucking Piaf of the empty womb. Je ne regrettay fucking rien. Jude has always known she doesn't want kids. Her sister Susie isn't sure if her ovaries are twingeing or if she just needs a wee. One day, in a cafe full of 'yummy... -
Rainer by Max Wilkinson
€13.15Some guys listen to music, some guys like to sing. I like to work people out. Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across London, delivering food to whoever will summon her. From luxury flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her... -
Owen Plays: v. 1: "Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco"; "The Shadow of a Boy"; "The Drowned World"; "Cancer Time"; "Fags" by Gary Owen 9780413774811
RRP: €26.17€23.79First collection of seminal plays by one of Wales' most talented writers Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco: his first work for the stage, published in February 2001 to tie-in with the production by Paines Plough and Sgript Cymru. Saturday night, small town... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: €13.08€8.71Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: The Tempest by Alan Durband
€15.74Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of...