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Antigone: A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy by Hollie McNish
RRP: €11.89€8.71A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishAs the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt a cruel hand at birth - even within the bounds of Grecian tragedy. When her brothers are slain fighting... -
Small Island by Andrea Levy
RRP: €13.08€9.17This edition is the prescribed text for the English Mastery Secondary programme. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three... -
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
RRP: €11.89€8.46King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9781909621879
RRP: €11.89€7.63Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These... -
"Educating Rita" by Willy Russell 9780413767905
RRP: €13.08€9.70Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday Times ... -
Kes (stage version) by Barry Hines
RRP: €13.08€9.17A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school and at home: he's neglected by his mother, beaten by his... -
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €23.79€16.01The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on... -
Godber Plays: v. 1: "Bouncers"; "Happy Families"; "Shakes" by John Godber
RRP: €26.17€24.53"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Bouncers, a play about nightlife: "A show... -
Macbeth (Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare 9781840228403
RRP: €10.70€6.93Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to... -
DNA by Dennis Kelly 9781350188044
RRP: €13.08€11.50This new Student Edition of Dennis Kelly's popular play DNA contains introductory commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which gives an in-depth analysis of the play's context and themes. As well as the complete text of the play, this new... -
The Diagram: Harmonic Geometry by Adam Tetlow 9781907155338
RRP: €7.13€5.95How do you divide a line into three? Or five? Or seven? Is there a simple way to marry harmony and geometry? What is the secret diagram alluded to by writers of antiquity? In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Adam Tetlow reveals the long lost... -
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to Thirties by Dee Cannon
RRP: €16.65€15.11Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book... -
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
RRP: €11.89€8.46A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose... -
A Bunch of Amateurs by Ian Hislop
€15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113734Format PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: €11.89€4.18'A shining delight of a novel'New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars'Financial Times A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: €15.46€10.82Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward... -
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights: Satellites and Comets; Summer Lightning; A Little Hero; A Child for Olya; The Pillow's Soul; Every Shade of Blue; A City Flower by Tatiana Klepikova
RRP: €29.74€25.93Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian... -
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 9780573040191
RRP: €13.08€11.41When a junior solicitor attends the funeral of the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, he catches sight of a wasted woman dressed in black. He feels uneasy, but his unease is deepened when the locals show their reluctance to talk to her. From the... -
Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear
RRP: €13.08€9.25Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.Childlike in his innocence but... -
National Theatre Connections 2018 by Mr Brad Birch
RRP: €27.36€20.17Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and - particularly in the case of Connections - who we are going to be. Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of... -
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 9780435233105
€21.18Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama and a wide range of established classics, in value-for-money hardback versions. The series has been specially developed to support classroom teaching and performance... -
Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (stage version) by Philip Pullman
RRP: €15.46€10.73What is that, trailing your footsteps, breathing softly down your neck? Rediscover the magic and wonder of the original Grimm Tales, retold by master-storyteller Philip Pullman. In this stage version by Philip Wilson, you'll meet the familiar... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Macbeth by Su Fielder
RRP: €11.89€11.41Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular GCSE set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characters, themes, language... -
Oxford Playscripts: Stone Cold by Joe Standerline 9781408520550
€15.15Dave is just another sixteen-year-old who's run away from home. New to London, he falls in with Ginger and, calling himself Link, begins to learn how to survive on the streets. However, a maniac is out there, stalking homeless young people and hell-bent... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9780393926262
€14.72By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day. This edition includes: Introductory materials and... -
Vanya by Anton Chekhov 9781350443419
RRP: €13.08€11.50Winner of Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024 Winner of Best Play Revival at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2024 Can you imagine if it was possible to completely change the way you live your life? To look at your life and ask yourself what you would do... -
Agnes of God by L. Fleischer
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573630224Author L. FleischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Enough of Him by May Sumbwanyambe
RRP: €13.08€11.50Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 UK Theatre Awards Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland To keep that part of me silent. That is what is unbearable. That is why I must be free. Based on a true story,... -
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
RRP: €14.27€13.11'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.' In a time of... -
Lear by Edward Bond
RRP: €13.08€11.50Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the... -
Upstart Crow by Ben Elton
RRP: €21.41€16.20"This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare." The GuardianIt's the 1590s. William Shakespeare - brought to life on screen by the inimitable David... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9781631066450
RRP: €30.94€22.43"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." -William Shakespeare Arm yourself with this volume from the Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12... -
By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
RRP: €11.89€7.97Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her,... -
A Mother's Secret: The Battersea Tavern Series (Book 1) by Kitty Neale 9781409197348
RRP: €9.51€6.37The 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... -
Measure for Measure Ed3 Arden by Shakespeare
RRP: €13.08€12.54Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to... -
Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: €15.46€10.73Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art. In the first half of the musical, set in 1884,... -
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini 9781912408993
RRP: €10.70€7.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408993Author Lisa Allen-AgostiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley 9780413684707
RRP: €14.27€13.11'In its revelation of mother-daughter emotions over the years, the play is without rivals. It is a classic' The Times 'This is a landmark play. The theatrical equivalent of breaking the four-minute mile; like Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, pointing the way... -
Tempest: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition by Sparknotes
RRP: €11.89€7.87Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in new DELUXE editions! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: €11.89€8.46Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of...