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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
RRP: $12.89$9.16'A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.' IndependentIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever... -
30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors: Celebrating 30 Years of Kali Theatre's South Asian Women Playwrights by Kali Theatre
RRP: $20.63$19.66Published to celebrate the 30th anniversary year of Kali Theatre this is a brand new book of 30 monologues and duologues spoken by South Asian characters to be performed by actors from a South Asian/dual heritage background in auditions, workshops and... -
The Free9 by In-Sook Chappell
RRP: $14.18$12.46Nine teenagers flee North Korea, dreaming of a new life in the South. But the danger is far from over. With threats around every corner, perhaps the mysterious figure of Big Brother can help them? Or is he the very person they're running from? As... -
The Father and the Assassin (NHB Modern Plays) by Anupama Chandrasekhar 9781839040719
RRP: $14.18$9.95'Our wars may come in many forms. On the battlefields. Within ourselves.' Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist - and the man who murdered him. Anupama Chandrasekhar's play The... -
Under the Tamarind Tree: The beautiful 2023 debut of friendship, hidden secrets, and loss, during the partition of India by Nigar Alam 9781915798664
RRP: $21.92$14.94A story of love tested to its limits by moral dilemmas, and the beauty and fragility of childhood friendships.1964 - Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena will lose her home, her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition, if her medical... -
Five Plays: Kamala, Silence! The Court is in Session, Sakharam Binder, The Vultures, Encounter in Umbugland by Vijay Tendulkar 9780195637366
RRP: $7.73$5.90This is the first Oxford India Paperback printing of this collection. Vijay Tendulka has been in the vanguard of the Indian theatre for almost forty years. These five plays, translated from the original Marathi, are some of his best known, most socially... -
Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi
RRP: $19.34$12.75A brand new edition of the smash-hit play, now a wildly popular CBC TV series. Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim's Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood... -
Brothers in Blood: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger by Amer Anwar
RRP: $10.31$7.22THE 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... -
The Dutiful Daughter by Charles Way 9780954691264
RRP: $10.31$9.09Bi-lingual English and Mandarin Edition Mandarin translation by Yang Lijun A group of troublesome actors arrive in a modern city. They tell the story of Ke Xin, princess of the Isle of Joy, who is always obedient until the day the sea brings to her... -
Islam in Performance: Contemporary Plays from South Asia by Ashis SenGupta
RRP: $36.11$34.43Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. The plays invite comparison... -
Dara by Shahid Nadeem
RRP: $12.89$9.11An intense domestic drama of global consequence - for India then and for our world now. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess; music, drugs, eunuchs and harems. Two brothers, whose mother's death inspired the Taj... -
M. Butterfly by David, Henry Hwang 9780452272590
RRP: $23.22$13.56Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the... -
The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play In Seven Acts by Kalidasa
RRP: $11.60$8.67KING Yes. I shall release you - SAKUNTALA When? KING When? When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar. Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their... -
The Peach Blossom Fan by K'ung Shang-jen
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178768Author K'ung Shang-jenFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Small Well Lane: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History by Li Longyun 9780472067954
RRP: $28.32$23.14Li Longyun's five-act play, Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of... -
Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka by M. Poulton 9780939512010
$77.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512010Author M. PoultonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)... -
Tolstoy v. 1; 1856-86: Plays by Tanya Tulchinsky
RRP: $96.75$90.27Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist. Because his plays are satirical, didactic, and coloured by complex peasant dialect, earlier translations have been seriously flawed. This text provides one of the first... -
Mistress and Maid (Jiohong ji) by Meng Chengshun by Cyril Birch
$49.77Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young... -
Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater by Stanleigh Jones 9780231080538
RRP: $36.12$27.55A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji-Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune,... -
CLASSIC NOH THEATRE JAPAN PA by Ezra Pound 9780811201520
$14.45"First published in the United States in 1917 by Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., as Noh or Accomplishment, a study of the classical stage of Japan"--T.p. verso.Book InformationISBN 9780811201520Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint New Directions... -
When the Crows Visit by Anupama Chandrasekhar
RRP: $12.89$9.11'...and all the sins of his father and his forefathers came out of his body, through the pores of his skin, in the form of crows.' When a son returns home after being accused of a violent crime, a mother is forced to confront the ghosts of her past... -
New Iranian Plays by Torange Yeghiazarian
RRP: $21.92$18.19Introduced by Farindokht Zahedi, Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts / Theater / Faculty of Performing Arts and Music, University of Tehran. Editors Aubrey Mellor and Cheryl Robson. A wide-ranging collection of plays from new and established voices... -
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk Denton 9780231170093
RRP: $54.18$42.35The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing... -
Masterpieces of Kabuki eighteen plays on stage: Eighteen Plays on Stage by James R. Brandon 9780824827885
RRP: $34.77$28.65Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki's dramaturgy... -
Southeast Asian Plays by Jean Tay 9781906582869
RRP: $21.92$18.19Eight Plays from Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia Selected and Edited by Cheryl Robson and Aubrey Mellor Playwrights: Jean Tay, Floy Quintos, Tew Bunnag, Ann Lee, Nguyen Dang Chuong, Joned Suryatmoko,... -
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions by Stephen West 9780231168540
RRP: $79.98$61.61This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju... -
How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese: A Language Companion by Patricia Sieber 9780231209571
RRP: $38.70$29.44This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners.How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to... -
Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre by Jerri Daboo
RRP: $47.72$41.96Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage.From Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams to the... -
P'Yongyang: In-Sook Chappell by In-Sook Chappell 9781783193332
$16.36"We have to be careful, we can't trust anyone. But, in the dark, your thoughts are your own." Crossing military borders and class divides, P'yongyang tells the epic love story of two North Korean childhood sweethearts spanning three decades. Chi-Soo... -
Four Contemporary Korean Plays by Lee Yun-Taek 9780761837039
RRP: $45.15$43.23South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea's leading theatre artists. These works... -
Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India by Sanjoy Ganguly
RRP: $47.72$41.96Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its... -
Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee 9780573707247
RRP: $19.34$17.04In 1978 Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter Neary. Jumping back and forth in time thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter... -
We the Same by Sangeeta Wylie 9781772016161
$25.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Empress Wu Zetian, a Play in Three Acts by Laurel A Rockefeller 9781545004920
RRP: $11.92$10.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545004920Author Laurel A RockefellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Crash in Love by M V Kasi 9798579919236
RRP: $12.89$10.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798579919236Author M V KasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g -
Sapana Na Vavetar: Gujarati Ekanki Natya Sanagrah by Ramesh Shah 9781532928628
RRP: $12.90$11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532928628Author Ramesh ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
When the Jasmine Returns by Nabeel Kallas 9781977932174
RRP: $19.34$16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977932174Author Nabeel KallasFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Wild in Love by M V Kasi 9798711170075
RRP: $12.89$10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798711170075Author M V KasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g -
Asami O Anyanya Nataka (ଆସାମୀ ଓ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ନାଟକ) by Gourahari Das 9781645604020
$15.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dr. Church Returns by Beaumont DuBois 9781977505194
RRP: $19.29$17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977505194Author Beaumont DuBoisFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...