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Frank McGuinness Plays 1: Factory Girls; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Innocence; Carthiginians; Baglady: Volume 1: by Frank McGuinness 9780571177400
RRP: £19.99£13.45This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly moving study of a group of Ulster Protestant volunteers in... -
God's Dice by David Baddiel
RRP: £12.99£9.26Science and religion go head to head in David Baddiel's debut play: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers. When physics student Edie seems to prove, scientifically, the existence of God, it has far-reaching effects. Not least for... -
Fair Play by Ella Road
£11.05The clocks are set. The line is drawn. They've got a chance to be champions. But at what cost? When Ann joins Sophie's running club she's thrown into a world of regimented training and pure focus. The two girls couldn't be more different, but soon... -
Romeo and Julie by Gary Owen 9781350408944
£11.05A modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is a single dad hanging on tight. Julie is fighting to follow her dream of studying at Cambridge. Two Welsh teens raised a few streets apart - but from entirely different worlds... -
Frisch Three Plays: "Fire Raisers", "Andorra", "Triptych" by Max Frisch 9780413665607
£23.60Three contentious and enduring plays about the clash of the individual and society Fire Raisers (1958) tells the tale of a respectable bourgeois whose house is one day visited by three strangers. It "is successful on every level; the story is as gripping... -
Ibsen Plays: v. 3: "Rosmersholm", "Little Eyolf" and "Lady from the Sea" by Henrik Ibsen 9780413463500
£16.18"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) Includes three of... -
A Christmas Carol by Conor McReynolds
£12.73An engaging classroom playscript. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumbling, cold-hearted, shrivelled old miser who deplores the warmth and merriment of Christmas. One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the chain-bound ghost of his old... -
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works by Gary Taylor 9780199580538
RRP: £41.99£38.79Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A... -
Celebration & The Room by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99£7.32A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make... -
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett 9780571204717
RRP: £10.99£7.32Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his... -
House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571205936
RRP: £18.00£11.47Two plays about love and marriage take place in different auditoria simultaneously with the same large cast appearing in both of them. As always in Ayckbourn, hilarity is combined with hurt.About the AuthorAlan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a... -
Overflow by Travis Alabanza
RRP: £11.99£11.02"Club toilets have taught me more about sisterhood than any book." Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories of bathroom encounters. Drunken heart-to-hearts by dirty sinks,... -
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £9.99£9.35Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at... -
Market Boy by David Eldridge 9780413776068
RRP: £11.99£11.42Gloriously raucous rites-of-passage drama set in Romford Market 'You've got to talk to them son. Listen to them. Look for a way in. You're a handsome bloke - they'll love you. Give me a year and I'll teach you everything I know.' There's an art to... -
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 9781473697195
RRP: £9.99£6.80Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure during the French Revolution. Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine... -
Breath of Spring: Play by Peter Coke 9780573010538
£11.42When Dame Beatrice is given a mink stole by her maid, she is reminded of the maid's shady past and immediately suspects that it was stolen from the the next flat. A former army officer and other lodgers endeavour to return the stole. The plan is devised... -
Elegy by Nick Payne
RRP: £10.99£7.32What 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... -
A Month of Sundays by Bob Larbey 9780573019562
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019562Author Bob LarbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
A Tomb with a View by Norman Robbins 9780573114519
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114519Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Provoked Wife: A Comedy by John Vanbrugh 9781985297388
RRP: £6.24£5.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985297388Author John VanbrughFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Motortown by Simon Stephens 9780413776075
RRP: £11.99£11.42Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front. 'I don't blame the war. The war was alright. I miss it. It's just you come... -
British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference by Bridget Orr
RRP: £30.99£22.85In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politics. Using the theatre as a means of circulating and publicizing radical Enlightenment ideas, many plays made... -
Orca by Matt Grinter
RRP: £11.99£8.60An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. 'One girl, against the happiness of the whole village. Can you not see it has to be done?' Midsummer. The village must choose a new Daughter to sail with the... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9780571191291
RRP: £10.99£10.77Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the live of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the... -
Unicorns, Almost by Owen Sheers
RRP: £9.99£6.70Unicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D-Day... -
Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery
RRP: £10.99£7.32He 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 ... -
Here by Clive Judd
RRP: £10.99£7.93'There's somethin' about this house. Somethin' here. Somethin' in the walls. Its bones. Like DNA.' A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to reach someone he's lost. His cousin Jess is here, too; she just wants... -
Little Revolution by Alecky Blythe
RRP: £10.99£7.93An explosive verbatim play about the 2011 London Riots, by the author of the award-winning London Road. In the summer of 2011, London was burning. Alecky Blythe took her Dictaphone to the streets... From the helicopters circling overhead to the... -
nut by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: £12.99£7.11'Bein you means not bein me, see, a deficit already - before you even started we running at a loss.' Elayne doesn't want company but company won't leave her alone. Everyone's got an opinion but no one's listening and things are starting to slip. ... -
Contemporary Welsh Plays: Tonypandemonium, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated, Llwyth (in Welsh), Parallel Lines, Bruised by Tim Price
RRP: £23.99£23.80Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Wales... -
Page Plays: v. 1: "Tissue", "Salonika", "Real Estate", "Golden Girls" by Louise Page 9780413645005
RRP: £21.99£19.04"Louise Page's intimate, emotional dramas open up vast areas of feeling beneath the surface of ordinary lives" (Independent) Tissue: "The tissue of the title is a left breast and lymph node removed during Sally Bacon's mastectomy...Louise... -
The Height of the Storm by Christopher Hampton
RRP: £10.99£7.32Andre and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual. A bunch of flowers arrive, but who sent them? A woman from the past turns up, but who is she? And why does Andre feel like he... -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Study Guide Edition: Complete text & integrated study guide by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 9781518789540
RRP: £10.00£8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781518789540Author Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
Wife by Samuel Adamson
RRP: £10.99£7.32- And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing.- Into everything, I think.It's 1959. Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on... -
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £10.99£7.32Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science.Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre by Kerry Powell
RRP: £26.99£22.80This 2004 Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, both in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with a brief overview and introduction... -
York Realist, The by Peter Gill
RRP: £10.99£6.75Early 1960s, Yorkshire. Farm labourer George is cast in an amateur staging of the York Mystery Plays. His world is shaken when he falls for metropolitan assistant director John and the two men embark on a clandestine affair.Peter Gill's influential play... -
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone ( noun) by Debbie Tucker Green 9781848426375
RRP: £9.99£7.27'It's not always all about you.' Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been. debbie tucker green's play premiered in February 2017 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in a production... -
Relative Values: Play by Noel Coward 9780573013751
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573013751Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama by Jason Jacobs 9780198742340
£41.25This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and the impact this had upon the subsequent 'golden age'. In particular, it...