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Salome by Oscar Wilde 9781554811892
RRP: $41.90$36.94Salome is Oscar Wilde's most experimental-and controversial-play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as "an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive." None, however, could deny the importance of... -
Go Back For Murder by Agatha Christie 9780573111556
$23.98After receiving a letter from beyond the grave, Carla Crale believes her mother, who died in prison, was wrongly convicted of her father's murder. In a passionate attempt to clear her name, she persuades those present on the day of her father's death to... -
Murmuring Judges by David Hare
RRP: $20.98$14.07A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British... -
Oxford Playscripts: Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror by Philip Pullman
$26.73Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Watson receive a visit from a young lady who tells them a curious tale about her uncle, an eminent zoologist. To her evident dismay, he has returned from the Far East with a suspicious stranger and an... -
Mermaid by Polly Teale
RRP: $25.18$18.06A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting. Beneath the ocean's waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above, the modern world is beset with war, poverty and desire. ... -
Human Nurture by Ryan Calais Cameron
$23.21I don't agree with everything they say, but we do have a lot in common nowadays; anyway, I can't be racist, my best friend is Black. Roger and Harry's bond is so strong they could be brothers. They share the same food, music, computer games and even... -
White Poppies Heinemann Plays by Sue Saunders
$38.05When Tom Headley enlists underage in the Great War, he and his childhood friends head straight to the front line as tunnellers. In tragic circumstances, Tom is blamed for the deaths of his comrades. His family and sweetheart back home are shunned by the... -
Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith
RRP: $25.18$18.06'Do you want to live forever? YES or NO.' Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their careers and wildly in love with each other, they feel ready to take on the world. But when a mysterious new technology, promising a break from the daily... -
How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $25.18$23.00Apologies 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 -
Educating Rita by Willy Russell 9781350200937
RRP: $23.08$20.29'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply... -
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht 9781350178533
RRP: $23.08$20.29This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential... -
The Worst Witch by Emma Reeves 9780573116292
RRP: $23.08$20.14Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Novel Theatre and Nica Burns present a Royal & Derngate, Northampton Production. Mildred Hubble is an ordinary girl who found herself in an extraordinary place: a school for witches. Now in her final year at Miss... -
How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
RRP: $25.18$18.06A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve... ... -
New Readings in Theatre History by Jacky Bratton 9780521794633
RRP: $77.68$65.75Over the last two hundred years some important ways of understanding theatre history have been undervalued or ignored by scholars. Leading theatre historian Jacky Bratton employs new approaches to examine and challenge this development and to discover... -
Farm Hall by Katherine Moar 9781839042171
RRP: $23.08$16.65'It was never about the Reich or the war. It was about physics.' Summer 1945. Hitler is dead, but the war in the Pacific rages on. When six of Germany's top nuclear scientists - including three Nobel Prize winners - are detained by Allied forces at a... -
Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573015311
$23.98The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, "The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve". But there's a young left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally... -
Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard 9780571175567
RRP: $20.98$14.07Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flora's sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India.The... -
Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean by Richard W. Schoch 9780521034364
RRP: $65.08$49.98This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare's history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean. Between 1852 and 1859, Kean produced celebrated productions of Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and... -
British Dramatists by Graham Greene 9781853752285
RRP: $14.68$10.50Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s. This work offers Graham Greene's evaluation of British drama, from its roots in the Mystery and Miracle plays of the market carnival through Shakespeare and the Restoration to the 20th... -
I Am Shakespeare by Mark Rylance
RRP: $23.08$16.65A fascinating, witty and characteristically exuberant dramatic exploration of the Shakespeare authorship debate. Is it possible that the son of an illiterate tradesman, from a small market town in Warwickshire, could have written the greatest dramatic... -
Up 'n' Under by John Godber 9780573019159
$23.98Set 'somewhere in the north of England' it centres on the amateur rugby team from the Wheatsheaf Arms who can only muster a side of four whose pride lies in their unbroken record of defeat.-1 woman, 6 menBook InformationISBN 9780573019159Author John... -
Human Animals by Stef Smith
RRP: $27.28$19.45In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. The mice are scratching between walls, the pigeons are diseased and the foxes are beginning to rule the streets. The problem is growing. It's contagious. It has to be stopped, before it's too... -
Free! Heinemann Plays by David Grant
$38.05Year 8 is left without a teacher. To relieve the boredom they launch an expedition - two students who never break the rules are sent to steal something from the headteacher's office. The unlikely criminals return as heroes and set about re-enacting the... -
Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women Volume Two by Catherine Weate 9781849434522
RRP: $27.28$26.86Monologues 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... -
Wind Resistance by Karine Polwart
RRP: $20.98$14.07An immersive musical essay. A meditation on sanctuary. A moor walker's journal. A personal memoir of maternity. An archaeology of flight science and football, medieval medicine and compassion. A wonder tale.Karine Polwart's Wind Resistance is co-produced... -
H lderlin: A Play in Two Acts by Peter Weiss
RRP: $25.18$21.32The work of German poet Frederich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and... -
Peggy for You by Alan Plater 9780413748102
RRP: $25.18$23.98A 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'... -
Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505
$35.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hi-de-Hi! by Paul Carpenter 9780573111686
$23.98In this stage adaptation of the hugely popular TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Paul Carpenter and Ian Gower revisit the 1950s and Maplins Holiday Camp with its host of colourful characters. It's the start of a new season and founder Joe Maplin... -
Three Kingdoms by Simon Stephens
RRP: $25.18$25.10Three Kingdoms is a blackly entertaining and unsettling detective story cum parable about the devil in us all, international human trafficking and the changing state of Europe. As the severed human head of an Estonian woman is found in a river in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov by Vera Gottlieb 9780521589178
RRP: $65.08$53.45This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 3: Separate Peace; Teeth; Another Moon Called Earth; Neutral Ground; Professional Foul; Squaring the Circle. by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $39.88$26.94This third collection of plays by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard's writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly Professional Foul... -
The Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9780300080278
$42.50In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that... -
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437904
RRP: $18.88$13.55Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees... -
Awkward Conversations with Animals I've F*cked by Rob Hayes 9781783191611
$25.98One-night stands are awkward. One-night stands with animals are more awkward. And when you're as desperate to please as Bobby, things get awkward as f*ck. He's just a guy with too much love to give, and a burning desire to give it to consensual adult... -
Angela by Mark Ravenhill
RRP: $25.18$25.10Mark Ravenhill's autobiographical radio play explores the way culture, high and low, impacted both his mother's and his family's lives. Starting an adult ballet class as the only male in the group sparks a memory of life through the eyes of... -
William Congreve - The Mourning Bride: "Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure." by William Congreve 9781785438981
RRP: $21.50$17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785438981Author William CongreveFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
Coward Plays: v.5: "Relative Values", "Look After Lulu", "Waiting in the Wings", "Suite in Three Keys" by Noel Coward 9780413517401
RRP: $50.38$49.98Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura... -
Cold War by Conor McPherson 9781839043093
RRP: $23.08$16.32Poland, 1949. Zula is bold and brilliant, a singer who ignites the stage. Wiktor is withdrawn and damaged, a composer longing to write. Irresistibly drawn to each other, they dream of escape. But in Communist-controlled Poland, the desire for freedom can... -
Love and Other Acts of Violence (NHB Modern Plays) by Cordelia Lynn 9781839040344
RRP: $27.28$19.45'There is a war coming... A war that will last for a hundred years... I think it is already here. I think we've been fighting it a long time.' A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around...