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Shadowlands by William Nicholson
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018947Author William NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance by Hero Chalmers 9780719063398
RRP: £19.99£17.61This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern... -
Mnemonic by Theatre de Complicite 9780413747204
RRP: £11.99£11.42A play and production from one of the world's most innovative theatre companies Mnemonic is about memory, people's personal histories, shared memories and discordant recollections - exhuming the past in order to examine it in the present. A variety of... -
Woodhill by Matt Woodhead 9780571388516
RRP: £10.99£7.32I dance in the horror of grief.Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.In their own words, lyrically told, three families investigate what happened to their boys and... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9781350141933
£10.30After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for me and another for women? Wilde's 'trivial play for serious people', a sparkling comedy of manners,... -
Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton 9780573015502
£11.42Rafe Crompton is not a stern man but has such unswerving integrity that his family is forced to hide slight peccadilloes from him. His daughter Hilda particularly resents this and her refusal to eat a herring that is placed before her at dinner makes the... -
New Plays from Spain: Eight Works by Seven Playwrights by Frank Hentschker 9780984616053
£19.71A selection of plays representing the most innovative and respected voices working in contemporary Spanish theater.Book InformationISBN 9780984616053Author Frank HentschkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterPublisher... -
The Theatre of E. E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings 9780871406545
RRP: £21.99£18.55The Theatre of E. E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings's long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930), and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935). In HIM, a creatively blocked artist and his... -
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights by Jacqueline Goldfinger
RRP: £28.99£25.09Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance... -
National Theatre: Lola Saves the Show by Katherine Halligan
RRP: £12.99£8.60Join Lola on her backstage adventure in the first picture book created with the National Theatre.It's showtime! Lola is a little actor with big dreams. But when disaster strikes on opening night and an important prop goes missing backstage, can Lola save... -
Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573013317
£11.42Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fianc e so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and... -
The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas
RRP: £17.99£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362672Author Craig LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Teenage Dick by Mike Lew
RRP: £10.99£7.93A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, Teenage Dick reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his... -
The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 9780573017513
£11.42Pop Larkin, who makes a fortune from scrap-iron deals but has never paid income tax, lives in rural idyllic bliss with generous-hearted Ma and their six children. When a young, earn'st tax official, Mr Charlton, turns up one hot May afternoon in 1957 to... -
Haunted by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£6.70'A beguiling memory play of such subtle and elusive beauty, you feel it might disintegrate if you were to put your finger on it. But the action forms a delicate tissue of loss and regret as the bewitching Hazel causes Mr Berry to reflect on the wife he... -
A Mother's Secret: The Battersea Tavern Series (Book 1) by Kitty Neale
RRP: £20.99£15.34The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past?London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of... -
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman by Gregory Castle 9780813061351
£31.27The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and... -
Elephants by Rose Heiney
RRP: £12.99£9.26Rose Heiney's debut play Elephants is a sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most. 5.53 p.m. Christmas Eve. Richard and Sally are waiting for their friends and... -
All in the Timing by IVES 9780679759287
RRP: £15.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679759287Author David IvesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: £11.99£8.43Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath... -
Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu 9780571361762
RRP: £10.99£6.75A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change.Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young... -
Twelfth Night (Collins Classics) by William Shakespeare
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.' A comedic romance of mistaken... -
Arden Plays: v. 1: "Waters of Babylon", "When is a Door...", "Live Like Pigs","Serjeant Musgrave's Dance", "The Happy Haven" by John Arden 9780413688002
RRP: £22.99£22.85"Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey...the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the social environment and the texture of people's lives." This... -
Wife After Death by Eric Chappell 9780573114755
RRP: £10.99£9.99M2 F4. A living room. Fee code M Comedian and national treasure Dave Thursby has died, and on the day of his funeral, friends and colleagues gather beside his coffin to pay their last respects. There's Harvey, who wrote Dave's material; Vi, Harvey's... -
Jesus Hopped the a Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis 9780413772138
RRP: £11.99£11.42"Its aggressive high-octane style is like a shot of caffeine straight in the veins" - Lyn Gardner, Guardian Angel Cruz, a poor Puerto Rican, isn't sure why he's in jail after shooting Reverend Kim, the born-again Christian who brainwashed his best friend... -
Bloody Elle by Lauryn Redding
RRP: £12.99£9.26'I dunno how it happened, But I like you. I don't know where it came from, But I... Need to stop saying I like you.' Eve's eyes are green like guacamole, she has posh hair, a freckle on her chin (it might be chocolate), and when she puts her hand... -
Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Globe Education
£12.69Exam Board: Non-SpecificLevel: KS3Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2018Get straight to the heart of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; students' confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plot,... -
Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays by Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte
RRP: £23.99£17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361477Author Mimi Gisolfi D'AponteFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group... -
Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner 9781138284562
RRP: £43.99£39.44Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An... -
The Play Of Oliver Twist by Nigel Bryant
£18.12A dramatisation of Dickens's classic novel, requiring a cast of between 11 and 30. The complex story moves forward quickly with the use of open staging. About the series Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama... -
The Storyteller Sequence: Karamazoo; Fairytaleheart; Sparkleshark; Moonfleece; Brokenville by Philip Ridley
RRP: £17.99£16.05This collection brings together Philip Ridley's one-act plays for young people, known as The Storyteller Sequence, ideal for teenagers to either watch or perform. Karamazoo is a fifteen-minute monologue about one of the coolest, most popular kids in... -
A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays by Paul Allen
RRP: £7.99£5.46Do you belong to an amateur theatre group wanting to 'do an Ayckbourn'? Are you the Artistic Director of a professional theatre seeking to slot an Ayckbourn into next season? Are you a fan of Ayckbourn's work and would love a handy reference book? A... -
Lionboy (stage version) by Zizou Corder
RRP: £12.99£9.26Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats. When his parents are kidnapped, he... -
The Laban Workbook for Actors: A Practical Training Guide with Video by Katya Bloom
£26.43The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban. Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored... -
Secondary Cause of Death by Peter Gordon 9780856762437
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762437Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo by Marina Carr
RRP: £19.99£13.45This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting... -
Anorak of Fire by Stephen Dinsdale 9780573142017
£10.47"I was born a spotter." Thus we are introduced to Gus Gascoigne, young, spotty, perpetually cheerful and completely bemused by anything that isn't involved with his sole interest - trainspotting. Touching, ironic and consistently hilarious,... -
Phormio: WITH The Mother-in-law AND The Brothers by Terence
RRP: £24.95£23.39The Roman comic playwright "whose every word delights."Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies-first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BC-imaginatively... -
Slaves of Solitude by Nicholas Wright
RRP: £13.99£7.11'I don't know how I became so filled with hate. I find it shocking that I did. Somebody said to me that war affects us in all kinds of ways, and that drinking is only one of them. Perhaps hating people is another. Perhaps sex is too.' 1943,... -
Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE by Mark Gunton
RRP: £12.99£12.86This revised version of Willy Russell's much loved play won rave reviews when it opened in Liverpool in 2009. Slightly updated and featuring more songs, it retains all the humour and appeal of the original. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's...