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The Master Builder and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $25.33$17.73Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken - Ibsen's last four plays, written in his old age in Oslo... -
Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men, Volume Two by Catherine Weate 9781849434362
$23.56Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the... -
This Restless House: an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia by Zinnie Harris
RRP: $25.33$16.69'Electrifying . . . This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax.' GUARDIAN *****Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in... -
The Performance by Claire Thomas
RRP: $29.23$16.65'Quietly transformational'The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780719041310
RRP: $21.43$15.41The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's... -
Taking Care of Baby by Dennis Kelly 9781840027785
$20.42'None of this is the truth. It's just people saying things. It's all subjective. There's the truth, and there's what people think is the truth, and it all depends on how you slant it...' "Taking Care of Baby" tackles the complex case of Donna McAuliffe,... -
The Flea by James Fritz 9781839042768
$15.46'We'll start with the flea, because that's as good a place as any...' July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy and his mother find themselves swept up in a national... -
Ballyturk by Enda Walsh
$16.77A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy. The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What room is this, and what might be beyond the walls? Enda... -
X by Alistair McDowall
$16.34"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The Stage ... -
The Coast of Utopia Trilogy by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $33.13$22.58The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays, Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, span the lives and loves of a group of Russian friends at home and... -
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry 9780486426877
RRP: $7.78$5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486426877Author Alfred JarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm)... -
Scandaltown (NHB Modern Plays) by Mike Bartlett 9781839040559
$15.46'Dear Miss Tweetwell, the ladder is where I live. For at the top lies reputation and wealth and at the bottom: ignominy and squalor.' When noble heroine Miss Phoebe Virtue receives worrisome news on Instagram that her twin brother Jack may be... -
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays by Thomas Heywood
RRP: $25.33$17.73Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of... -
When You Are Old: Early Poems And Fairy Tales by Jessica Hische
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126386Author Jessica HischeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391g -
A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble
$23.30A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering... -
Restoration Literature: An Anthology by Paul Hammond 9780199555192
RRP: $23.38$16.85When our great monarch into exile went, Wit and religion suffered banishment... At length the Muses stand restored again To that great charge which Nature did ordain. In these lines Dryden represents the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 as the... -
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (NHB Modern Plays) by Iman Qureshi 9781839040788
$16.77When banks and sandwich shops have more pride than we do, where can we go to be with our tribe? It's 2022. There's a rainbow flag in every high-street window, and no lesbian bar. Enter The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs: a lesbian choir on a mission to... -
The Last of the Haussmans by Stephen Beresford
$16.77A funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family full of longing that's losing its grip - The Last of the Haussmans examines the fate of the revolutionary generation. Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high-society drop-out Judy Haussman... -
One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean 9781350265998
RRP: $23.38$21.49Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect GBP6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been... -
Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour by Noma Dumezweni
RRP: $31.18$29.70A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty... -
Pains of Youth by Martin Crimp
RRP: $21.43$14.27You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential.Promiscuous, pitiless and bored,... -
Chekhov: Shorts by Anton Chekhov
$18.06This collection features Chekhov's best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as 'vaudevilles' and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great... -
Life after life by Tony Parker 9781840023015
RRP: $29.15$25.60Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon - Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives. Life After... -
Jekyll and Hyde by Gary McNair 9781350475243
RRP: $21.43$18.84Are those little voices in our heads our friends, or our enemies? What if they're neither, what if they're both? In this captivating and comic one-person play written by Gary McNair, the classic story of Jekyll and Hyde is turned on its head to reveal... -
Epic Love and Pop Songs by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
$15.46A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up, from the author of WINK and Fury. Remember your best friend? No, the other one. The one that liked to lie. Maybe it's time they 'fessed up. Maybe Doll and Ted should start telling the truth. ... -
What If If Only (NHB Modern Plays) by Caryl Churchill 9781839040269
$12.87'Make me happen' Your partner's died, could things have been different? Caryl Churchill's short play What If If Only premiered in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2021, directed by James Macdonald. ... -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 1: The Enemy Within; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Loves of Cass McGuire; Lovers (Winners and Losers); Crystal and Fox; The Gentle Island by Brian Friel
RRP: $38.98$26.23This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964)The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle... -
Jack Thorne Plays: Two by Jack Thorne 9781839041525
$26.93After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family for a series of plays about hope, idealism and domestic politics. The work in this collection - five full-length plays and two shorts... -
London Assurance by Richard Bean
$20.42Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the... -
This Changes Everything (Platform Play) by Joel Horwood
$16.77'We can't change things here, that's the whole point, no one listens to us or cares, the only way we're gonna change things is by going somewhere else, starting afresh.' A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. On a platform out at sea,... -
Tim Crouch: Plays One: The Author; England; An Oak Tree; My Arm by Tim Crouch
$47.79Includes the plays The Author, England, An Oak Tree and My Arm. My Arm '...he is actually exploring on stage the nature of art and performance itself, taking risks in the process... At these moments, Crouch is armed and dangerous.' Guardian An... -
Dreaming and Drowning by Kwame Owusu 9781839043048
$15.46'The supernatural is possible and the impossible is natural and life teeters on the edge of the unreal' Malachi's been looking forward to a fresh start at uni for months. He's settling in, he's got a stack of books to read and he's met someone new -... -
Bryony Lavery Plays 1: A Wedding Story, Frozen, Illyria, More Light by Bryony Lavery
RRP: $37.03$25.02A Wedding Story'A spry if wintry comedy about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, and a mother who contracts Alzheimer's... It dares to find failure and frivolity (a sure sign of dramatic honesty) in the face of domestic hell. Funny, frank and churning by... -
Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation by Owen Sheers
RRP: $21.43$14.27'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who... -
In Lipstick by Annie Jenkins
RRP: $19.48$13.07Things don't change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they're not. It's just the same old shit covered in lipstick.Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past, has sheltered Cynthia from the outside... -
A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn
$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016202Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version by William Butler Yeats
RRP: $52.63$33.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476740881Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Blackout Songs by Joe White
$16.77'You told me you loved me, once. You said you carried me. You remember that? You still carry me? Or did you drop me, somewhere along the line?' A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another. Then later, once they're drinking... -
Aristophanes: Fragments by Jeffrey Henderson
$45.61The master of Old Comedy.The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BC. But the Athenians knew much more of his... -
Darknet by Rose Lewenstein
$15.46'You're not even a fully formed person yet. Your face is still changing and your bones are still growing but already there's a detailed map of your personality out there and companies you've never heard of are getting rich off it.' Welcome to Octopus...