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I Think We Are Alone (NHB Modern Plays) by Sally Abbott
RRP: $23.08$16.19From those electric moments of discovery and connection to the dark hours of isolation, we all seek community and resolution. But sometimes the things that connect us are the very things we need to escape. Sally Abbott's I Think We Are Alone is a... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson 9781350370012
RRP: $23.08$22.64Life's full of clatter, but none of it matters, only who'll hold your paw when you die. What would you do if you lost an hour from your day? How far would you go to rescue what you've lost? In search of a lost hour that has tipped the balance of... -
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson 9781839042201
RRP: $23.08$16.19'So, if you Americans already have cornflakes and Woolworths, what brings you to England?' It's 1973, and a young man from Des Moines, Iowa, has arrived on the ferry at Dover. He intends to conquer the whole of the island, like Caesar attempted before... -
Murder on the Orient Express: B1 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers) by Agatha Christie
RRP: $16.78$11.36Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. NowCollins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language... -
Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
RRP: $27.28$20.03"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner... -
Wish List by Katherine Soper
RRP: $27.28$18.94A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you. 'I dreamt about this last night. I dreamt that I was packing boxes in boxes in boxes.' Tamsin packs boxes... -
Penelope by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $18.88$12.77Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love.With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War 'took away my... -
When We are Married by J. B. Priestley 9780573014765
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014765Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Poems and Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: $27.28$19.09It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal... -
Moorcroft by Eilidh Loan 9781350441637
RRP: $23.08$20.29A team. A team of wit? A team of players. A bunch of mates coming the gither to huv a kick aboot. Wits new? Garry's turned 50 but doesn't feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive 'the glory days', trying... -
Consensual by Evan Placey
RRP: $25.18$17.58An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you. As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the new 'Healthy Relationships' curriculum. But then... -
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne
RRP: $25.18$17.58A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand... -
Cock by Mike Bartlett 9781474229630
RRP: $23.08$17.12But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . ... -
The Revenger'S Tragedy: Thomas Middleton / Cyril Tourneur by R. A. Foakes
RRP: $23.08$16.59This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time... -
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $20.98$14.93In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's... -
Racing Demon by David Hare
RRP: $23.08$15.37How do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. Racing... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Twelfth Night by Alan Durband
$27.78Full 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... -
The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay 9780199642229
RRP: $18.88$13.55'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.' With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new... -
The Haunting by Hugh Janes
RRP: $25.18$18.94A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens. In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and... -
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
RRP: $23.08$15.37It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The obsessive caretaker, Davies, whose papers are in... -
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
RRP: $33.60$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679725169Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Ghost Stories by Jeremy Dyson
RRP: $23.08$16.19Professor of Parapsychology, Philip Goodman, is an arch-sceptic with a mission to debunk the paranormal, wherever it occurs. But when he embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings - as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a... -
The Dry House by Eugene O'Hare 9781350406520
RRP: $23.08$22.62"I don't know what's beyond this minute. But whatever it is it can't be worse than all the minutes that brought us here". Two sisters, one last drink. In the Irish border town of Newry, Chrissy promises her sister Claire that after four cans of lager... -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $23.08$20.29Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded... -
The Routledge Pantomime Reader: 1800-1900 by Jennifer Schacker 9781032021218
RRP: $90.28$78.94The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre-one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Britain. Across ten different shows, readers witness pantomime's development from a highly... -
Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo by Marina Carr
RRP: $41.98$28.25This 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... -
Tomcat by James Rushbrooke
RRP: $23.08$16.19In the not-too-distant future, the world is better than ever. Diseases and disorders have been wiped out. But Jess doesn't belong. She slipped through the net and there's something dangerous in her DNA, something that must be 'cured'. Charlie is watching... -
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
$27.47An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? Frank McGuinness explores the daily crisis... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $20.98$14.93SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre... -
Alice in Wonderland: (Lighthouse Plays) by Andrew Biliter 9780997408409
RRP: $18.88$15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997408409Author Andrew BiliterFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Lighthouse Plays, LLCPublisher Lighthouse Plays, LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)... -
all of it by Alistair McDowall 9781350168169
$27.38Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta BBBBBBBBBB Face Faces Smile Smiling Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Bbbbbbbbb A short play for one performer about all of it. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court in February 2020, performed... -
Good by C. P. Taylor
RRP: $23.08$20.29Professor John Halder is a 'good' man. But 'good' men must adapt to survive. As the world faces its Second World War, Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Good is a story about a liberal-minded university... -
The Blue Room by David Hare
RRP: $23.08$15.37Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became... -
Noises Off by Michael Frayn 9780573113123
RRP: $25.18$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113123Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann 9781839042218
RRP: $23.08$16.19'I am strength I am power I am courage I am revolution I am Amber Rai' Amber is trapped - by her family's rules and expectations, and by her own fears. But on the running track she feels free. As her body speeds up, the world slows down. And... -
Polly Stenham: Plays 1: That Face; Tusk Tusk; No Quarter; Hotel by Polly Stenham
RRP: $39.88$26.94Polly Stenham's explosive That Face, written at the age of nineteen, was staged at the Royal Court before transferring to London's West End. Tusk Tusk and No Quarter followed, also for the Royal Court. Her fourth play, Hotel, opened at the National... -
Pronoun by Evan Placey
RRP: $23.08$16.32A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever. But Isabella has now become a boy. Pronoun was... -
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018046Author Keith WaterhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones 9780571212873
$22.74Humble Boy is a comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of bee-keeping. All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory. Following the sudden death... -
Five Plays by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $29.38$20.48Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies...