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Three Dublin Plays by Sean O'Casey
RRP: €15.46€10.19Three early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... -
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: €14.27€9.96An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter. George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: €13.08€9.25These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into... -
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
RRP: €13.08€9.17Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne... -
Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus 9780241657799
RRP: €17.84€13.03In brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate lines of... -
Blue Beard by Emma Rice 9781350476486
RRP: €13.08€11.50When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR! Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick - things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves... and women. Puff! Gone. Without a... -
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sarte
RRP: €18.98€15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613050Author Jean-Paul SarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Chaos by Laura Lomas
RRP: €13.08€9.17A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy's heart falls out his chest. A... -
The Time Machine by Steven Canny 9781839042966
RRP: €13.08€9.17When the worlds of science-fiction and science-fact collide... extraordinary things can happen. Dave is the great-great grandson of H.G. Wells, author of the 1895 novella The Time Machine, a book that foretold (with suspicious accuracy) the future of... -
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by Mary Lefkowitz
RRP: €24.99€17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983098Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm)... -
People by Alan Bennett
RRP: €13.08€8.71A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a... -
Celebration & The Room by Harold Pinter
RRP: €13.08€8.71A 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... -
Laura Wade: Plays One by Laura Wade
RRP: €26.17€23.10'If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade...proved that you could radically change both form and content... Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this... -
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff 9780435232900
€20.23Captain Stanhope and his officers face the full horror and futility of trench warfare. Includes notes and assignments for 14-16 study. 12 parts: all male. Book InformationISBN 9780435232900Author R.C SherriffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint... -
"Antigone" by Jean Anouilh
RRP: €10.70€9.51'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era... -
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp
RRP: €11.89€7.97A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often... -
The Box of Delights by Piers Torday 9780571390151
RRP: €13.08€8.71Piers 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... -
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
RRP: €13.08€8.71'The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment... Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.' ObserverThroughout the remote and forgotten corners of the... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017421Author Brian FrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6: Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero's Welcome; A Brief History of Women by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: €22.60€15.27With an Introduction by the author.'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.' Evening StandardTime of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.' Wall Street JournalNeighbourhood... -
Grenfell: in the words of survivors by Gillian Slovo 9781839042638
RRP: €14.27€9.96'It was a tower block, but it was home.' The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower. The scene of a national tragedy. This powerful... -
The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs
RRP: €15.46€10.19David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... -
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane 9780413748300
RRP: €14.27€13.114.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed suicide. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters... -
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
RRP: €13.08€9.17A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know - ... -
Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 9781857545999
RRP: €23.74€15.77"Death's Jest-Book" is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Conceived as a... -
The Human Body by Lucy Kirkwood 9781839043260
RRP: €13.08€9.17'The window for change - real change I mean - will close. It's already closing. Very soon it will be shut, and we shan't be able to get it open again.' 1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, socialist and... -
The Unfriend by Steven Moffat
RRP: €13.08€9.17'We're dying of manners. We're under siege from personal embarrassment. This is not sane. This is not rational. That woman is a monster!' While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than... -
The Rover and Other Plays by Aphra Behn 9780199540204
RRP: €10.70€7.87Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her... -
Scuttlers by Rona Munro
RRP: €14.27€9.96A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1882 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and... -
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
RRP: €11.89€10.50Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht 9780413308504
€13.20Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: €13.08€9.70In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she... -
Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: €13.08€9.25'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... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €22.60€15.27This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.The collection includes The Real Thing, Night & Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, about which... -
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €15.46€9.31A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading... -
Brecht and the Writer's Workshop: Fatzer and Other Dramatic Projects by Bertolt Brecht
€38.27Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in progress'. Offering an invaluable insight into the... -
Patriots by Peter Morgan
RRP: €11.89€7.97If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes.1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today's... -
Growth by Luke Norris
RRP: €15.46€10.73A painful comedy about growing up and manning up. Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way - cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there... -
The James Plays by Rona Munro
RRP: €23.79€16.85Rona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock explores the complex character of the colourful Stewart King -... -
Behan Complete Plays by Brendan Behan
RRP: €27.36€27.19This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless...