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All the Little Lights by Jane Upton
RRP: $27.28$19.45'I know you want what everyone else wants. A family. A home. But you'll never have it. Cos of what's inside you.' Joanne and Lisa were like sisters. Then Lisa left. Now they're back together for one last birthday party by the railway tracks. But can... -
Women Beware Women, and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $25.18$17.70This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are... -
"Fear and Misery in the Third Reich" by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: $23.08$17.60Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was... -
Godber Plays: v. 1: "Bouncers"; "Happy Families"; "Shakes" by John Godber
RRP: $46.18$44.18"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Bouncers, a play about nightlife: "A show... -
BU21 by Stuart Slade
RRP: $23.08$16.65'So you know how on the news these days there's just this endless stream of horrendous shit going down, like every single night? Suicide bombs, mass shootings, genocides, drone strikes, school massacres - it's like the end of the world or something..... -
Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $23.08$16.32'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'Daily TelegraphIn Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia... -
The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall
RRP: $23.08$15.37In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the... -
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Drama And The Kamiriithu Popular Theater Experiment by Niyi Afolabi 9781592213429
RRP: $73.40$47.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213429Author Niyi AfolabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 506g -
Tartuffe by Frank McGuinness 9780571384839
RRP: $20.98$14.07Let's see how crafty a picture you paint. You're making a demon out of a saint.In this spectacular dramatic comedy, the villainous Tartuffe shocks and enthrals with his deceptive powers. Charming to some, a danger to others, one family risks losing... -
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $23.08$15.37It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early... -
And Then Come The Nightjars by Bea Roberts
RRP: $20.98$15.27A tender, frank and funny play about a West Country farm struggling to survive the Foot and Mouth pandemic. South Devon, 2001. Disease ravages the countryside, pyres are lit on the horizon, and dairy herdsman Michael is trapped as his farm becomes a... -
The Merchant of Venice: New Grade 9-1 GCSE English Literature AQA Text Guide (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: $12.58$9.01Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your... -
Rape of the Belt: Play by Benn W. Levy 9780573013713
$23.98For his ninth labor, Heracles is required to wrest from the queen of the Amazons her belt. Zeus and Hera comment wittily on the events. "The characters are witty and ... the story is frothy and politely risque" New York Journal AmericanBook... -
Piano Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024, ABRSM Grade 2, with audio: Selected from the 2023 & 2024 syllabus by ABRSM 9781786014641
RRP: $28.35$23.96This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Piano syllabus for 2023 & 2024, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive... -
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $25.18$23.00Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank... -
Music Theory Practice Papers 2021 Model Answers, ABRSM Grade 6 by ABRSM 9781786014757
RRP: $14.60$12.29Model answers for four practice papers from ABRSM's 2021 Music Theory exams for Grade 6 Key features: - a list of correct answers where appropriate -a selection of likely options where the answer can be expressed in a variety of ways - a single exemplar... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: $18.88$16.78Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Out of Order by Ray Cooney
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018589Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
RRP: $39.88$26.94This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 1: The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $39.88$26.94The 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... -
The Tempest: A Norton Critical Edition by William Shakespeare 9780393265422
$25.98This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors' preface and detailed explanatory annotations. * A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de... -
Buchner - Complete Plays by Georg Buchner 9780413140906
RRP: $50.38$49.98The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic... -
Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor
RRP: $29.38$28.25Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a verbatim reconstruction of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry. Using only the words spoken at the Inquiry, the play deals predominantly with Part 2 which ran between January 2020 - July 2021 in... -
Great Expectations (stage version) by Charles Dickens
RRP: $27.28$19.45A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
$21.991988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
Standing at the Sky's Edge by Chris Bush
$41.43Poppy wants to escape her old life in London. Joy and Jimmy want to spend the rest of their lives together. Rose and Harry want the new life they've been promised. A history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate,... -
From Morning to Midnight by Georg Kaiser 9781783190133
$25.18From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle-class daily life is ultimately... -
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573023231Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Country Wife and Other Plays by William Wycherley
RRP: $23.08$16.32Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in... -
McDonagh Plays: v. 1: "The Beauty Queen of Leenane"; "A Skull of Connemara"; "The Lonesome West" by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $46.18$44.18Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780413771001
RRP: $23.08$20.29A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday Times'The direct simplicity of this new translation ..... -
Girl from the North Country by Conor McPherson
RRP: $23.08$16.65Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is... -
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 9781839041143
RRP: $23.08$16.65'I have to write. That's what I am. My sister Meg is beautiful, my sister Beth is good, my sister Amy is, well, she is what she is, but I'm the writer of the family. What shall I do?' Christmas Eve, 1862. With their father away on the frontline of the... -
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 9780393934007
$27.99The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements-a play-within-a-play and a ghost... -
Elmina's Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah 9780413773630
RRP: $25.18$23.98You can't just walk into dis bad man t'ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death til it mek you dizzy. The Yardies are burning up Hackney and Digger's offer of protection for the... -
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton 9780713650686
$21.99Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $23.08$16.32Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie 9780573015229
$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015229Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Rattigan Plays: v.1: "French without Tears", "The Winslow Boy" "The Browning Version" "Harlequinade" by Terence Rattigan 9780413490704
RRP: $50.38$49.98"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian) Constantly revived on stage, radio and television, Rattigan's plays demonstrate their continuing power to hold and move audiences... -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow Alan Plater 9781852244897
RRP: $20.90$14.24Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this gritty musical is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre...