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Port by Simon Stephens 9780413773111
RRP: £11.99£11.42"A major new voice in British theatre" (Scotsman) Stockport 1988-2002. Rachel Keats is growing up in town she doesn't like. Abandoned by her mother, her family life is torn to tatters as she is left to bring up her younger brother, who,... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764
RRP: £9.99£8.82The 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... -
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness
RRP: £10.99£7.32On 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,... -
On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry
RRP: £10.99£7.38Now 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... -
Best of Enemies by James Graham
RRP: £10.99£9.66Winner 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... -
No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99£7.32'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The TimesDo Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate... -
Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr 9780571389179
RRP: £10.99£7.32Winner 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... -
Amy's View by David Hare
RRP: £9.99£9.30It 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... -
Hannah and Hanna by John Retallack 9780573030239
£10.47It is 1999. Hannah is sixteen. She loves karaoke and her bloke Bullfrog; she hates her home town of Margate and the Kosovan asylum-seekers who have come to live there. Hanna is also sixteen. She loves karaoke, loves Margate - and is one of the... -
Gorky Plays: v. 1: "Enemies", "The Lower Depths", "Summerfolk", "Children of the Sun" by Maxim Gorky 9780413181107
RRP: £22.99£22.85Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays This volume includes Gorky's major works for the theatre. The Lower Depths, first staged by the Moscow Art theatre in 1902, portrays a cast of down and outs living in the underbelly of... -
Night Out: Play by Harold Pinter 9780573021763
£10.47Albert finds himself dominated by his mother. At an office party he is mercilessly teased by his colleagues and arrives home, his temper rising. When his mother nags he attacks and leaves her, gets picked up by a girl and is able to reduce her to humble... -
The Prince by Abigail Thorn
RRP: £10.99£9.66All 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... -
Don't Hug Your Mother: The Fascinating True Story by Fintan Murphy 9781983774881
RRP: £10.99£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983774881Author Fintan MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 1: The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £18.99£12.83The 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... -
HighTide Plays: 1: Ditch; peddling; The Big Meal; Lampedusa by Beth Steel
RRP: £21.99£21.04HighTide 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... -
The Master Builder and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99£9.09Ibsen'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... -
An Inspector Calls: A Play by J. B. Priestley
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573012051Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
This Restless House: an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia by Zinnie Harris
RRP: £12.99£8.56'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: £14.99£8.54'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... -
Collected Plays: Volume 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £20.99£20.87`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through... -
The Flea by James Fritz 9781839042768
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
Making History by Brian Friel
RRP: £10.99£7.32The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale,... -
The Donahue Sisters by Geraldine Aron
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132346Author Geraldine AronFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men, Volume Two by Catherine Weate 9781849434362
£12.08Monologues 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... -
Plays 2 by Dario Fo 9780413680204
RRP: £21.99£19.99Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar...Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile... -
Ballyturk by Enda Walsh
RRP: £11.99£8.60A 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
RRP: £10.99£8.38"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 ... -
Taking Care of Baby by Dennis Kelly 9781840027785
£10.47'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,... -
Porcelain by Margaret Perry
£11.42Tipperary, 1895. Bridget Cleary's not feeling quite herself. Her husband believes she has been taken by fairies and a changeling left in her place, with devastating consequences. London, 2017. Hat is a new mother. She has a great life. So why does she... -
Scandaltown (NHB Modern Plays) by Mike Bartlett 9781839040559
RRP: £10.99£7.93'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... -
The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
RRP: £10.99£7.97The screenplay of the latest macabre and haunting comedy from the writer of In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.Winner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film... -
A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble
RRP: £11.99£11.95A 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: £11.99£8.64When 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 Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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... -
Maskerade: Playtext by Stephen Briggs 9780573018299
£11.42All is not well in the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the dark corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and ... killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate, and are soon involved in all kinds of... -
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry 9780486426877
RRP: £3.99£3.14Apologies 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)... -
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (NHB Modern Plays) by Iman Qureshi 9781839040788
RRP: £11.99£8.60When 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
RRP: £11.99£8.60A 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... -
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays by Thomas Heywood
RRP: £12.99£9.09Arden 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... -
One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean 9781350265998
RRP: £11.99£11.02Fired 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...