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Lucy Prebble Plays 1: The Sugar Syndrome; Enron; The Effect; A Very Expensive Poison by Ms Lucy Prebble
RRP: $38.98$34.57Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together her landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from 2003 to 2019. Beginning with her George Devine... -
Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey 9781350448711
RRP: $21.43$18.84Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours on a South London estate. Jamie is more knowledgeable about The Sound of Music than football, while classmate Ste never misses a sports day. Both are being bullied, Jamie at school and Ste at home by his violent... -
Out of Love by Elinor Cook
RRP: $25.33$17.59A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook. Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever. But when... -
August in England by Lenny Henry 9780571386437
RRP: $21.43$14.27Lenny Henry's playwriting debut is a poignant, hilarious portrait of a life affected by the terrible injustice of the Windrush Scandal.Yu see me? I was eight years old when I come to H'Inglan' - I travel on my mother's passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two... -
Two Palestinians Go Dogging by Sami Ibrahim 9781848428850
RRP: $21.43$15.03'Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.' The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The... -
The Train Driver and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
RRP: $29.23$26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363860Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
ear for eye by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: $27.28$18.86'Marchin' days is over man.' Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough. Black British. African American. Here. There. Now. Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs... -
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $21.43$15.03"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's play Escaped... -
The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton
RRP: $21.43$15.89First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781909621893
RRP: $19.48$13.40Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket... -
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Wixson 9780198850090
RRP: $17.53$12.58George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a... -
Northanger Abbey by Zoe Cooper 9781839043130
RRP: $21.43$15.03'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of any sort of... disappointed love.' Catherine Morland knows little of the world, but who needs real-life experience when you have novels to guide you? Seizing her chance to escape her... -
Out of Order by Ray Cooney
$24.12Apologies 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 -
The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan 9781408137109
RRP: $21.43$15.89The Accrington Pals is a poignant and harrowing play set in the early years of the First World War, as the country's jingoistic optimism starts to wane and the true terror of warfare gradually becomes clear. The play looks at both the terrifying... -
"What the Butler Saw" by Joe Orton
RRP: $21.43$15.89"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner 9781839041457
RRP: $21.43$15.03'Let's just talk until it goes.' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a tender and funny rom-com about what... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: $21.43$15.15In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 9780571300518
RRP: $21.43$15.39Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the... -
I'm Sorry Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember by Jonathan Lynn
RRP: $21.43$16.44I have a voice in the University, I'm in the House of Lords, I have this lovely permanent home. Everything's hunky-dory. I just need a bit of help.'I wanted to write the final chapter about Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, now in their eighties,... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Mary Elliott Nelson 9781839042782
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.' Christmas Eve, 1946, Bedford Falls. Down-on-his-luck banker George Bailey feels life has passed him by, and he's at the end of his rope. But when George's guardian angel pays him a visit, he's... -
The House of Shades by Beth Steel
RRP: $21.43$14.27Nothing cuts into us like the family knife.The Webster House. 1965. 1979. 1985. 1990. 2016. Death silences no one, least of all the dead. Set against the ever-changing industrial landscape of working-class Britain, Beth Steel's revelatory new play spans... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: $37.03$25.02This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The outside world is described with almost hallucinatory... -
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $21.43$14.27Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown... -
Broken Biscuits by Tom Wells
RRP: $23.38$16.32'The point is: we're losers. Nobodies. Carry on like this, we're losers forever. And we don't have to be. Fresh start, two months to completely one hundred per cent reinvent ourselves. And I know exactly how we can do that.' Megan, Holly and Ben are... -
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 9781474295178
RRP: $21.43$18.84This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries. As well as the complete... -
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573040122Author Reginald RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard 9780573640391
$24.14Drama / 3m (1 white, 2 black) / Int.The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story, considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A... -
debbie tucker green plays: one by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: $37.03$26.33Very few playwrights can be identified from a single line of dialogue - debbie tucker green is one of them. This collection of her first six plays, together with a short introduction by the author, shows a dramatic artist in full control of her craft. ... -
Oh What a Lovely War by Theatre Workshop
RRP: $21.43$15.89Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim... -
Show Them a Good Time by Nicole Flattery
RRP: $19.48$13.86A New Statesman, Irish Times and Guardian Book of the Year 'A masterclass . . . Bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny' Sally Rooney A young, broke Irish woman narrates her relationship with a successful comedian in New York; two hapless... -
How to Win Against History: Annotated Script Edition by Seiriol Davies 9781786822406
$26.50Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey (1875 - 1905) was born to inherit the Empire. Instead, he burned brightly, briefly and transvestitely through his family's vast wealth; putting on fabulous plays starring him. When he died, his vengeful heirs... -
The Shakespeare Codex by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $23.38$21.49Based loosely on The Science of Discworld II: the Globe, Lords & Ladies, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Shakespeare Codex is a new Discworld stage adaptation written to commemorate Terry Pratchett's life and works. Discworld's motley band of... -
The Death of a Black Man by Alfred Fagon
RRP: $23.38$22.76At least I am my own boss. No regrets. I choose what I do. I am lucky It's 1973 and the West Indies have spectacularly beaten England at their own game, in their own backyard. Shakie, an 18-year-old super-savvy wheeler-dealer, is in his element -... -
The P Word by Waleed Akhtar
RRP: $21.43$15.03'I'm not in your Britain. I'm in another Britain.' Zafar flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK. Londoner Bilal (or Billy as he prefers to be known) is ground down by years of Grindr and the complexity of being a brown gay... -
Jack and the Beanstalk by Colin Wakefield 9780856762376
RRP: $21.43$17.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762376Author Colin WakefieldFormat PaperbackImprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Bella Heesom: Two Plays by Bella Heesom
RRP: $19.48$18.25Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A Little Bit and Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself - grapple with feminism, grief and female desire.Presenting Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A... -
Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
RRP: $62.40$39.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593158272Author Phoebe Waller-BridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes 9780571202256
RRP: $21.43$14.27Ted Hughes's remarkable sequence of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 and was celebrated in The Times by Michael Hofmann as 'one of the great works of the century'. Tim Supple and Simon Reade have... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
$26.40"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Ramona Tells Jim by Sophie Wu
RRP: $25.33$17.59A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love. Ramona is sixteen, hates bananas, and she's totally cool. Honestly. She's completely cool. It's 1998, and Ramona, of Englandshire, is on a wet, midge-riddled geography field...