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One Careful Owner by H. Connolly 9780573121609
$21.99Percival arrives in a Rolls Royce at Darren's distinctly working-class house to view a Citroen which Darren is selling. Polite conversation highlights the differences in the two men's lifestyles, but it is not until Darren's wife arrives that the... -
Cameron Plays: v.1: "Can't Stand Up for Falling Down"; "Pond Life"; "The Mortal Ash"; "All of You Mine" by Richard Cameron 9780413716606
RRP: $46.18$41.98Richard Cameron's most popular and acclaimed work together in one volume introduced by the author This volume includes Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Pond Life, Mortal Ash and All of You Mine. Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, written as interweaving... -
Kneehigh Anthology: Volume 1: Tristan & Yseult; The Bacchae; The Wooden Frock; The Red Shoes by Kneehigh Theatre Company
RRP: $46.18$43.24Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies. This collection contains the performance texts of four of their highly acclaimed shows: Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock and The Red Shoes. With... -
The Word and the Bomb by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: $18.88$12.77'Excellent.' New York TimesHanif Kureishi has been writing about the tensions between Islam and the West for over twenty years. In recent times the argument has evolved from one of constructive discussion to one of a refusal to engage - where the bomb... -
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner 9781783190188
$25.60'Password Emil!' If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she'd never have let him go. Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time. He doesn't like the look of his fellow... -
Four Plays for Coarse Actors: Coarse Acting Show by Michael Green
RRP: $23.08$20.14Hilariously, everything which can go wrong in a production does so. II Fornicazione is a "grim" tale of operatic adultery, poison and mayhem. Streuth is the crime story Agatha Christie would never have dared to write. A Collier's Tuesday Tea... -
The Railway Children: Play by D. Simpson 9780573050831
$23.98Set in and around a country railway station at the turn of the twentieth century, the plight of the railway children grappling with their new environment is imaginatively brought to life for a modern audience while losing nothing of the original spirit... -
Samuel Takes a Break: in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours by Rhianna Ilube 9781839043185
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Every one of us will be here for a different particular reason. I am here because I am passionate about history.' It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave... -
Stuff (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells
RRP: $20.98$15.27Vinny's organising a surprise birthday party for his mate, Anita. It's not going well: his choice of venue is a bit misguided, Anita's not keen on leaving the house, and everyone else has their own stuff going on. Maybe a surprise party wasn't the best... -
The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett 9780571167494
RRP: $23.08$15.37George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power... -
Deckchairs II by Jean McConnell 9780573100048
$23.98These four additional seaside plays with surprising twists feature colorful and animated characters and delicate observations on life that are sometimes humorous, sometimes touching and always compassionate.2 womenBook InformationISBN 9780573100048Author... -
Equus by Peter Shaffer 9780582097124
$35.30Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.Book... -
The Family Reunion: With an introduction and notes by Nevill Coghill by T. S. Eliot 9780571054459
RRP: $23.08$15.37Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.'What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the... -
Doctor Faustus by Colin Teevan 9781849434133
RRP: $25.18$25.01Faustus's restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black arts. The life-changing decision propels him into a heady, celebrity-obsessed world, as... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5: Snake in the Grass; If I Were You; Life and Beth; My Wonderful Day; Life of Riley by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $39.88$26.94Snake in the Grass"A terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable... In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class." Yorkshire PostIf I Were You"A blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a... -
The Good Person of Szechwan: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan by Bertolt Brecht 9781408111505
RRP: $23.08$17.60'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Brecht's parable of good and evil was... -
Theatre Plays One by Trevor Griffiths
RRP: $41.98$40.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247205Author Trevor GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
The Third Great Coarse Acting Show by Michael Green 9780573000300
$23.98These plays cover a range of disasters appalling enough to turn any show into a coarse one. A Fish in Her Kettle by David Pearson; Present Slaughter by Jane Dewey and Don Starkey; The Vagabond Prince by Simon Brett with music and lyrics by John Gould;... -
Woodhill by Matt Woodhead 9780571388516
RRP: $23.08$15.37I dance in the horror of grief.Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.In their own words, lyrically told, three families investigate what happened to their boys and... -
What's for Pudding? by David Tristram 9780573123054
$21.99Mary and Jack's dull Saturday evening is interrupted by the arrival of Maureen, Ted and Dennis. The occasion rapidly dissolves into a drunken gathering as Ted's intellect is likened to that of a paper clip, Maureen, his wife, reveals a liking for Jack,... -
Spring Awakening: (adapt) by Frank Wedekind 9781783190980
$25.60Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, Wedekind's definitive play about youth caused riots when it exploded onto the stage in 1906 and has lost none of its provocative power. Brought bang up to date by award-winning playwright Anya Reiss this new... -
The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors: Classical and Contemporary Speeches from Black British Plays, Volume One: Monologues for Men by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway
$23.98Foreword by Kwame Kwei-Armah How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by... -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 4: The London Vertigo (after Macklin); A Month in the Country (after Turgenev); Wonderful Tennessee; Molly Sweeney; Give Me Your Answer, Do! by Brian Friel
RRP: $41.98$28.25This fourth collection of Brian Friel's work contains:The London Vertigo (after Macklin) (1992) (January)A Month in the Country (after Turgenev) (1992) (August) Wonderful Tennessee (1993) Molly Sweeney (1994) Give Me Your Answer, Do! (1997)About the... -
Veronica's Room by Ira Levin 9780573016905
$23.98This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the... -
The Wake by Tom Murphy 9780413714107
RRP: $25.18$23.98"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her... -
James IV: Queen of the Fight by Rona Munro
RRP: $27.28$19.45'You're a wonder. You're a window into a wide world.' Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish women who were expected to take their place at a royal court... but not this one. Both women now have to... -
Moira Buffini Plays 1: Blavatsky's Tower; Gabriel; Silence; Loveplay by Moira Buffini
RRP: $39.88$26.94Gabriel:'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The TimesSilence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award):'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial TimesLoveplay:'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit... -
Good Fun and Talent by Victoria Wood 9780413187406
RRP: $25.18$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413187406Author Victoria WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 170g -
Rockets and Blue Lights: National Theatre edition by Winsome Pinnock 9781839040252
RRP: $25.18$18.06'I am the slave ship. Wrecked. Empty. I am a shark, livid with the desire for blood. I am the sea, boiling with fury.' On the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in... -
Epicoene or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson 9780713666687
RRP: $20.98$19.76'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed... -
Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel by Tim Crouch
$25.37And that's the moment when I leave. The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail. This precise moment here, look, see with your ears. The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the... -
The Moderate Soprano by David Hare
RRP: $23.08$15.37I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos... -
Love from a Stranger by F. Vosper 9780573012488
$23.98Cecily Harrington has led a staid and proper existence. After winning a large amount of money in a sweepstake she desperately yearns for a life of adventure. Enter Bruce Lovell, a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps her off her feet. In a whirlwind... -
The Gift by Janice Okoh
RRP: $25.18$18.06An outrageous play about imperialism, cross racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen's circles. Today is the eve of her... -
Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay 9780889226272
RRP: $27.28$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889226272Author Michel TremblayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 114g -
Rebecca: a Play Adapted from Daphne Du Maurier's Play: Play by Clifford Williams 9780573113659
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113659Author Clifford WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
"Now You Know": Play by Michael Frayn 9780413700100
RRP: $25.18$23.98"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer)Book... -
A "Woman Alone" and Other Plays by Franca Rame 9780413640307
RRP: $25.18$23.98Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have... -
Hela by Mari Izzard
$23.21"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him... -
Oresteia by Aeschylus
RRP: $23.08$22.62Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. ...