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Straight Line Crazy by David Hare
RRP: $20.98$14.07For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation.Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of... -
National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young People by Mojisola Adebayo
RRP: $46.18$41.60National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world... -
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton 9780713650686
$21.99Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to... -
The Mirror and the Light: RSC Stage Adaptation by Hilary Mantel 9780008519506
RRP: $23.08$16.40Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy. ... -
Private Peaceful by Simon Reade
RRP: $23.08$20.29Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the... -
Harold Pinter Plays 2: The Caretaker; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover by Harold Pinter
RRP: $39.88$26.94The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The Caretaker.The CaretakerIt was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with... -
What I Learned from Johnny Bevan by Luke Wright
RRP: $20.98$14.68What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left.At university the mercurial Johnny... -
Jack Thorne Plays: One by Jack Thorne
RRP: $44.08$31.10Acclaimed for his screenplays for TV dramas including Skins, Shameless, The Fades, This is England '86/'88/'90 and Glue, Jack Thorne first emerged as a writer of unflinching, compassionate and often challenging plays for the stage. Described as a... -
Dance Nation by Clare Barron 9781350200739
RRP: $23.08$17.12"Barron paints a wholly plausible picture of teenage insecurity and ambition ... a play that wittily shows how dance can be a source of liberation without ever quelling the tremulous terrors of adolescence." - The Guardian Somewhere in America, a... -
Anthony Neilson Plays: 3 by Anthony Neilson
RRP: $46.18$43.28Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: $35.68$33.41Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently never... -
Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell
RRP: $27.28$18.94A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana. A woman disappears. Four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive? Nine parallel lives - interlocked by four... -
Plays: One by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $41.98$29.74Since her debut in 2008, Lucy Kirkwood has firmly established herself as a leading playwright of her generation, the writer of a series of savagely funny, highly intelligent and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times. ... -
Oil by Ella Hickson
RRP: $23.08$16.19The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones. Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling collision of empire, history and family. Ella Hickson's explosive play drills... -
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais 9780140441338
RRP: $27.28$19.09A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly... -
Elegy by Nick Payne
RRP: $23.08$15.37What if every neuron in the human brain could be mapped and decoded? Every act of human behaviour catalogued and wholly understood? Elegy imagines a very-near future in which radical and unprecedented advances in medical science mean that it's possible... -
Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays by Noël Coward 9780679781790
RRP: $25.18$23.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781790Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Closer by Patrick Marber
RRP: $23.08$20.29'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right... -
Henna Night by Amy Rosenthal
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033933Author Amy RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 29Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2: The Freedom of the City; Volunteers; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations by Brian Friel
RRP: $41.98$28.25This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains:The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters (1977) Aristocrats (1979) (March) Faith Healer (1979) (April) Translations (1980)About the AuthorBrian Friel (9 January 1929 - 2... -
Orphans by Dennis Kelly
RRP: $23.08$22.62Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves. But the outside world comes crashing into their lives one day when Helen's brother turns up. Covered in blood. Dennis Kelly's new play is a thrilling contemporary suspense story which takes its audience... -
The Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn't matter. Whether you get away or you don't, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you never... -
The Hostage by Brendan Behan 9780413311900
$23.98An essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin... -
The Aliens by Annie Baker
RRP: $23.08$15.37Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside the back of a small coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at the cafe. When he meets the two young men he... -
Dick Whittington: A Pantomime by John Morley 9780573164354
$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573164354Author John MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness
RRP: $23.08$15.37On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war play is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and loss. In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I,... -
Hansard by Simon Woods 9780571355433
RRP: $23.08$15.37Hansard; nounThe official report of all parliamentary debates.It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it... -
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine
RRP: $27.28$19.09Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... -
The Southbury Child (NHB Modern Plays) by Stephen Beresford
RRP: $23.08$16.19Raffish, urbane and frequently drunk, David Highland has kept a grip on his remote coastal parish through a combination of disordered charm and high-handed determination. When his faith impels him to take a hard line with a bereaved parishioner, he finds... -
Shadows: Riders to the sea by John Millington Synge
$19.66A collection of three classic Irish one-act plays, as produced on the RSC's highly successful 1998 tour. Richly passionate, poetic and violent, the plays reveal our fascination with death and transendance. Features the plays Riders to the Sea, The... -
The Girl On The Train by Rachel Wagstaff 9780573132131
$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132131Author Rachel WagstaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Rage by Simon Stephens
RRP: $25.18$24.51Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy scenes, each one is based on a series of photos by Joel Goodman which captured the excitement and the mayhem of New Year's Eve... -
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin 9780719019531
RRP: $33.58$24.78For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of... -
A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond 9781839043246
RRP: $23.08$16.19'I'm the one who's left behind. I'm the one to tell the tale. I knew them both, knew how they lived and how she died.' Ella Grey and her friends are ordinary kids from ordinary families in an ordinary world. They fall in and out of love, play music,... -
Duet for One by Tom Kempinski
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110917Author Tom KempinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 9781904271604
RRP: $27.28$24.91A major new edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy,an outstanding landmark of Elizabethan drama. In its time, it quickly became a box office success and probably inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, as it contains a ghost, murders that demand... -
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx 9781839042485
RRP: $23.08$16.19'I been lookin at people on the street. This happen a other people? What the hell do they do?' Wyoming, 1963. A wild, unforgiving land where people live simple, unforgiving lives. When ranch hands Ennis and Jack take seasonal jobs on the isolated... -
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $27.28$19.09With 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... -
Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780571360147
RRP: $23.08$15.37A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released.I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain. Written in the summer of 1932 with the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic... -
Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $23.08$17.121967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it. Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys...