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David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare
RRP: £18.99£13.61This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the... -
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd 9781909572065
RRP: £14.99£11.95The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy. Praise for the first hardback edition: Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the... -
Decade by Various
£29.02Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre... -
The Rince Cycle by Terry Pratchett
£11.07As a punishment, failed wizard Rincewind is given the task of guiding and safeguarding the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower (with his magical luggage on legs). As they travel the city and beyond, they meet the world's oldest hero, Cohen the Barbarian... -
After Miss Julie by Patrick Marber 9780413711502
RRP: £11.99£11.42A new version of a world classic by one of Britain's best-known contemporary playwrights After Miss Julie relocates August Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first... -
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
RRP: £4.99£3.95Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. Written in 1623, two years after The Changeling, Women Beware Women is the second of Thomas Middleton's two great... -
Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey 9780573014093
£11.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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: £22.49£15.94The 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... -
American Buffalo by David Mamet 9780413574503
RRP: £11.99£11.42"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100
RRP: £27.99£24.95Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
Joking apart by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573112041
£12.37Another marvelous portrait of middle class, middle aged life by this skillful portrayer of manners and morals. Charming, naturally successful in everything, Anthea and Richard almost unconsciously but ruthlessly dominate the lives of those with whom they... -
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
RRP: £9.99£7.27An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed for a knock-down price, enabling the first black family to move into the neighbourhood and alarming the... -
Brothers in Blood: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger by Amer Anwar
RRP: £7.99£5.60THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018 GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018BOOKS IN THE MEDIA BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2018FEATURED ON CRIME TIME BEST OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER'[A] brilliant debut' Sunday Times Crime Club'A fresh and exciting... -
We are Three Sisters by Blake Morrison
RRP: £9.99£7.27Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison evokes the lives of the Bronte sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters. Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly. In Haworth in... -
What it Means: Based on On Being Different by Merle Miller by James Corley 9781350425163
£11.05They say they've broken into the offices of Harper's Magazine and are staging a sit-in. September 1970, Harper's Magazine publish the article Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity in which Joseph Epstein states "If I had the power to do so, I... -
Women, Beware the Devil by Lulu Raczka 9781350414020
RRP: £12.99£12.55This may be the biggest But it is far from the first sacrifice I've made for this house And I'm sure it won't be the last But don't fret. I'm ready. England, 1640. A war is brewing. Rumours are flying. A household is in crisis... and the Devil's... -
Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells 9781839040184
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the... -
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
RRP: £24.95£23.39Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from... -
Hall Plays: v. 2: "Mr Puntila"; "Mother Courage"; "A Servant to Two Masters"; "The Good Hope" by Lee Hall 9780413773777
RRP: £21.99£19.99A collection of major play adaptations by the author of Billy Elliott MR PUNTILA: "Brecht's Puntila is the Jekyll and Hyde of the class war. When he's plastered this Finnish landowner drips with sugary human kindness; once sober again, he's a... -
Holding the man by Tommy Murphy
RRP: £13.99£9.93Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures. The course of... -
London Assurance by Richard Bean
£10.47Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the... -
The Events by David Greig
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I have been thinking I might go berserk.'When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult question of all: 'Why?' It's a journey that takes her to the edge of reason, science, politics and faith.David... -
Penhall Plays: v.1: "Some Voices"; "Pale Horse"; "Love and Understanding"; "The Bullet" by Joe Penhall 9780413731500
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Stockholm by Bryony Lavery
RRP: £10.99£10.77Meet the couple every couple wants to be. Attractive and immaculately turned out, they are the perfect team. Tomorrow they will be in Stockholm, a city where, in summer, the sun shines 24/7 and sometimes it's dark all day long. Today it's his birthday... -
"A Skull in Connemara" by Martin McDonagh
£13.09Winner 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; Winner 1996 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for... -
Tea At Five by Matthew Lombardo 9780881458725
RRP: £12.95£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458725Author Matthew LombardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 64g -
Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course in Selection, Preparation, and Presentation for the Modern Performer by Stephen Purdy
RRP: £24.99£21.78Musical Theatre Song is a handbook for musical theatre performers, providing them with the wide-ranging skill set they need for success in today's competitive musical theatre environment. Breaking down the process into knowing how to select your song... -
Faust, Part II by Goethe
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe... -
The Playwright's Manifesto: How You Can Be The Future of Playwriting by Paul Sirett
RRP: £19.99£16.54Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 A manifesto for the future of playwriting, this book challenges you to be a part of that future in the belief that it is fundamentally important to write plays. Plays help us understand ourselves, others,... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9781854594112
RRP: £4.99£3.95Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of... -
Burning Bird by John Donnelly 9780573150036
RRP: £10.99£9.59It's the height of the summer, and Daisy's fifteenth birthday. Trouble is brewing - in North London, someone's been shot. There's a curfew in place, school is suspended and the city is changing, but Daisy has an important delivery to make across town... -
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen 9780140441352
RRP: £12.99£9.09With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics.In Ghosts, Osvald Alving... -
Absolute Hell by Rodney Ackland
£10.47Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was... -
Antonio'S Revenge: By John Marston by John Marston 9780719057038
RRP: £19.99£17.82Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as... -
Idol by Jamal Gerald
RRP: £9.99£9.61A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation. Who would you rather pray to? Beyonce or white Jesus? Jamal grew up Catholic in a Caribbean household, but would rather light a candle and worship celebrities... -
York Realist, The by Peter Gill
RRP: £10.99£6.75Early 1960s, Yorkshire. Farm labourer George is cast in an amateur staging of the York Mystery Plays. His world is shaken when he falls for metropolitan assistant director John and the two men embark on a clandestine affair.Peter Gill's influential play... -
Blackthorn by Charley Miles
RRP: £12.99£9.26The only two children born in a North Yorkshire village for a generation cannot imagine ever being apart, but as their lives shift, so too do the ties that bind them. A contemporary, lyrical love story, Blackthorn explores the changes and choices that... -
Red by John Logan
£11.17"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko... -
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £9.99£7.11Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade. Featuring the author's only... -
The Last of the Pelican Daughters (NHB Modern Plays) by The Wardrobe Ensemble
RRP: £12.99£9.26In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. Today, four sisters are trying to come to terms with their mother's death - and divide their mother's house between them. Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be...