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The Cane by Mark Ravenhill
RRP: $31.10$26.09It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration to mark his retirement. But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students... -
"The Cheviot": WITH "The Stag AND "The Black, Black Oil" by John McGrath 9780413488800
$23.30Strathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The... -
Oxford Student Texts: Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 9780198325994
$26.11One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions... -
Burgerz by Travis Alabanza
RRP: $23.38$21.49Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the 'burger': the texture, and taste of being... -
The Light Burns Blue (Platform Play by Silva Semerciyan
$15.46'Do you love what you do? Because I loved making the photographs. I loved the feeling of taking charge. Putting things in the frame, taking them out again. Writing with my eyes.' During the First World War, seventeen-year-old Elsie Wright fools the... -
Cuckoo by Michael Wynne 9780571386109
RRP: $21.43$14.27We've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, 'Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their... -
Alligators by Andrew Keatley
$14.18A searing thriller that asks how well we actually know those closest to us. Daniel Turner has it all. A devoted wife, two beautiful children and a teaching job he loves. But when allegations are made about his past, his world begins to crumble around... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: $43.86$31.08The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
Who Cares by Ruth Cochrane
$23.30In Salford alone, 34,000 children are caring for someone. Adapted from real-life testimonies, this bold and pertinent piece of documentary theatre examines our failing care system, the impact of austerity and what happens when a child becomes the... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix
RRP: $23.38$16.44Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in... -
Harold Pinter: Faber Critical Guide by Bill Naismith
RRP: $25.33$16.69Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Or do you teach Pinter and need a reliable guide to the plays? The Faber Critical... -
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by James Goss
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111228Author James GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama by John P. Harrington
$39.76This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina... -
WINK by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
$15.46An electrifying drama about what happens to personal identity in an age of ubiquitous technology and social media. John is a twenty-seven-year-old teacher 'who probably wasn't allowed to teach at an all-girls' school' and Mark is his sixteen-year-old... -
Not Now by David Ireland
RRP: $21.43$18.84Matthew, I don't give a f*** who's Irish and who's not. I'm just thinking about what's best for your career. And that's how themmuns in London'll see you. Calling yourself British just embarrasses them. The morning after his father's funeral, an... -
Phedre by Ted Hughes
RRP: $21.43$14.27An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son,... -
Tales From the Vienna Woods & Other Plays by Odon von Horvath 9781572411081
$42.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411081Author Odon von HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 368g -
Cuttin' It by Charlene James
RRP: $19.48$13.07We're opposites, even though we came from the same, she's nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret... -
How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn
$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111662Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Death of England: Closing Time by Roy Williams 9781350448827
RRP: $21.43$18.84Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives'... -
Blackout by Davey Anderson
RRP: $19.48$17.08This play can be performed with any number of characters, and with simple settings. Inspired by the true stories of a young offender from Glasgow, a 15 year old who had committed a violent crime, this short play was part of the National Theatre's "New... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: $17.53$15.58Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Rainer by Max Wilkinson
$21.55Some guys listen to music, some guys like to sing. I like to work people out. Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across London, delivering food to whoever will summon her. From luxury flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $21.43$14.27Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham... -
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 9781408110201
RRP: $21.43$18.84The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely... -
A Murder is Announced: Play by Leslie Darbon
$22.27Mystery / Casting: 5m, 7f / Scenery: InteriorThe announcement in the local paper states time and place of a murder to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of several occupants, temporary and permanent, but an unexpected and... -
Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon 9780856761058
$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761058Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Home by Nadia Fall
$15.46A powerful, inventive play that mixes real testimonials alongside existing and original music to explore one of the most important social concerns of today: homelessness amongst young people. Bullet doesn't want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl... -
On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry
RRP: $21.43$14.27Now we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that.PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men... -
Pressure by David Haig
$18.06An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare. June 1944. One man's decision is about to change the course of history. Everything is in place for the biggest invasion ever known in Europe... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764
RRP: $19.48$17.20The Tragedy 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... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 1: The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $37.03$25.02The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief... -
Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr 9780571389179
RRP: $21.43$14.27Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on SundayThere's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and... -
Best of Enemies by James Graham
RRP: $21.43$18.84Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." 1968 - a year of protest that divided America. As two... -
Amy's View by David Hare
RRP: $31.20$18.45It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find... -
The Prince by Abigail Thorn
RRP: $21.43$18.84All the world's a stage. Have you ever been trapped in a bad relationship, playing a role that doesn't suit you? Jen and Sam are also trapped ... in a multiverse of Shakepeare's complete works. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality... -
David Hare Plays 3: Skylight; Amy's View; The Judas Kiss; My Zinc Bed by David Hare
RRP: $37.03$25.02This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.David Hare Plays 3, containing Skylight, Amy's View, The Judas... -
HighTide Plays: 1: Ditch; peddling; The Big Meal; Lampedusa by Beth Steel
$41.03HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by the Daily Mail as "famous for... -
Peggy for You by Alan Plater 9780413748102
$22.27A new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British drama Alan Plater's play for the Hampstead Theatre in London is a witty and poignant portrait of Margaret 'Peggy'... -
Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery
RRP: $21.43$14.27He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible.Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. It's about the second when the guard ...