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The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett 9780571255610
RRP: $21.43$14.27Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new... -
Home, I'm Darling Laura Wade (Author) 9781350275492
RRP: $23.38$21.49How happily married are the happily married? Home, I'm Darling is a dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife. Judy has Johnny's slippers waiting for him when he arrives home from work, the kitchen's clean, the... -
Our Country's Good: Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally Timberlake Wertenbaker 9781350097889
RRP: $21.43$18.84Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal.... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $25.33$17.73Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward... -
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $21.43$14.27At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable... -
New Labour by Marcelo Dos Santos
RRP: $23.38$16.77Getting pissed, getting laid, getting by. The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre: Alice wants to be a singer, Liam wants to travel, Rob wants to make a killing and Sally's been there too long but... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel 9780571385379
RRP: $21.43$13.16A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights.This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre' revival. It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a... -
Brainstorm: The Original Playscript: And a Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production by Ned Glasier
RRP: $21.43$15.46Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic, and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us. The play is designed to be created and performed by a company of teenagers, drawing... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
RRP: $17.53$15.58This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic... -
Murder on the Orient Express: B1 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers) by Agatha Christie
RRP: $15.58$10.55Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. NowCollins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language... -
The Box of Delights by Piers Torday 9780571390151
RRP: $21.43$14.27Piers Torday's magical stage adaptation of the classic children's Christmas tale by John Masefield. There are tricks, and then there's magic!After a seemingly chance encounter on a train, orphaned schoolboy Kay Harker finds himself the guardian of a... -
Stuff Happens by David Hare
RRP: $21.43$14.27Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.'The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in... -
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
RRP: $19.48$13.86Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears... -
Bums on Seats: a Comedy by Michael Snelgrove 9780573017568
$22.27In a tatty provincial theatre, a new play called 'Fecund' is being staged. This uproarious adult comedy introduces everyone involved in a series of hilarious scenes linked by a chorus of usherettes. The stage manager has a blinding hangover, the leading... -
Whale Music by Anthony Minghella 9780573130151
$22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130151Author Anthony MinghellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $19.48$13.86Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of,... -
Chatroom by Enda Walsh
RRP: $19.48$17.08The six teenagers in Chatroom never meet each other, they just communicate via the internet; conversations range in subject from Britney Spears to Willy Wonka to suicide. Jim is depressed and talks of ending his life and Eva and William do their utmost... -
Chris Bush Plays: One by Chris Bush 9781839042973
RRP: $38.98$28.24Since her play Steel opened in her native Sheffield in 2018, Chris Bush has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful and widely staged playwrights, with her plays on stage at the National Theatre, in the West End, and across Europe. Celebrated for... -
Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century by Christopher Innes 9780521016759
RRP: $101.38$84.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Huis Clos and Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $21.43$15.15These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre's favourite among his plays,... -
The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $21.43$15.46One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide... -
Oxford Playscripts: Oliver Twist by Guy Williams 9781408521311
$24.82Dickens' irresistible portrayal of poverty, cruelty and crime in Victorian Britain tells of Oliver's arrival in London, where he falls under the influence of Fagin, a gang of young thieves and the irrepressible Artful Dodger.Book InformationISBN... -
The Bald Prima Donna: Play by Eugene Ionesco 9780573020131
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573020131Author Eugene IonescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
RRP: $25.33$16.69Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.POET... -
Soldier, Rebel, Traitor: John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses by Brondarbit, Alexander R 9781399003476
RRP: $38.98$27.85John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history. And yet he has... -
Life of Pi by Lolita Chakrabarti
$22.29Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "Life of Pi will make you believe in the power of theatre" (Times). After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a... -
House Guest by Francis Durbridge 9780573111785
$22.27Robert and Stella learn that their son has been kidnapped - not for ransom, but to force them to allow one of the kidnappers to remain in their house. Two other men, supposedly police officers, arrive and reveal that one of the kidnappers has been... -
Yasmina Reza Plays 1 by Yasmina Reza 9780571221912
RRP: $37.03$22.74Yasmina Reza's award-winning comedy Art is collected here with three more of her sharp witty and sexy plays, all translated with elegance and elan by Christopher Hampton. Art Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Mark hates it and... -
Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale
RRP: $21.43$15.46London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from... -
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $25.33$16.69Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original... -
Two Sisters by David Greig 9780571388981
RRP: $21.43$14.27- Is this Paradise?- Holiday Heaven.- I remember it all being brighter, somehowEmma and Amy return to the seaside caravan park where they spent their teenage summers. Yet the park has changed, and their childhood now seems a distant memory.Two Sisters is... -
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Workbook: New GCSE Grade 9-1 English Literature AQA: GCSE Grade 9-1 (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: $11.68$9.95Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Targeted practice questions covering your... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
$21.55Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness... -
Allelujah! by Alan Bennett
RRP: $19.48$13.07- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine... -
Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade
RRP: $25.33$17.73Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood.About the AuthorDonatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814), was a French aristocrat and writer of... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780140449686
RRP: $19.48$13.86Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size and believes she will never see past it to return his... -
By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
RRP: $21.43$14.27Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her,... -
Wesker Plays: The Wesker Trilogy: v. 1: "Chicken Soup with Barley"; "Roots"; "I'm Talking About Jerusalem" by Arnold Wesker 9780413758309
RRP: $42.88$38.98This first volume of Wesker's Collected Plays contains the Wesker Trilogy - 'A trilogy which will act as a monument to its era' Daily Mail This trilogy of plays was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in the 60s and concern Wesker's own background,... -
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
RRP: $33.13$22.58Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights... -
100 Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners Learn Portuguese with Stories Including Audiobook: Portuguese Edition Foreign Language Book 1 by World Language Institute Spain 9781732438149
RRP: $29.23$24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438149Author World Language Institute SpainFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams)...