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3 Winters by Tena Tivicic
RRP: $21.43$15.03A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them. From the remnants... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 9780571362790
RRP: $21.43$14.27Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of... -
The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors, Volume One: Women by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway
$22.27Foreword by Naomie Harris How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actresses gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by... -
Oxford Playscripts: The White Rose and the Swastika by Adrian Flynn
$24.82An engaging classroom playscript. Based on the true story of a brother and sister and how their initial enthusiasm for Hitler and the Nazi regime turned to brave resistance. In Munich, Hans, Sophie and their friends form "The White Rose", producing... -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $21.43$14.27Eigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] - noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. Across London, Mark... -
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780199537839
RRP: $15.58$11.29For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being... -
Daughterhood by Charley Miles
RRP: $25.33$17.59A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them. One sister stayed at home to care for Dad. The other set out to 'make a difference'. Reunited under their childhood roof, Pauline and Rachel unearth more... -
The Hogarth Plays: The Art of Success & The Taste of the Town by Nick Dear
RRP: $25.33$16.83The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.In The Art of Success the events of ten tumultuous years are compressed into a single night, as newlywed... -
The Acid Test by Anya Reiss 9781849430456
$22.27This has been the worst day of my life. So can you please get drunk with me? Dana, Ruth and Jess down shots to console the heart-broken, to comfort the anxious and just pass the time. Kicked out from the family home Jess's dad, Jim, invades the party... -
William Shakespeare Comedies by William Shakespeare
RRP: $21.43$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645171546Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
Five Plays by Ben Jonson 9780199555772
RRP: $19.48$14.22The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 2: Decadence; Kvetch; Acapulco; Harry's Christmas; Brighton Beach Scumbags; Dahling You Were Marvelous; Dog; Actor by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $37.03$25.02Written with characteristic Berkoff flair and an understanding of the subtle power and violence of the English language, this second collection of his plays includes Decadence, described by the Guardian as being 'enthused with Berkoff's violent, imagist,... -
Frank and Percy by Mr Ben Weatherill 9781350438798
RRP: $21.43$18.84People cross our paths for a reason. That, no doubt, reads like a horrible cliche but I never claimed to be a good writer, only an honest one. I believe the reason I met you was to become comfortable in my own skin. Ever seen a couple of old boys on a... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: $25.33$17.73With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
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... -
Iphigenia in Splott by Gary Owen 9781350372610
RRP: $21.43$21.00What is gonna happen, when we can't take it anymore? Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don't know half of it. Effie's life is a mess of... -
Churchill Plays: v.1: "Owners"; "Traps"; "Vinegar Tom"; "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"; "Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $42.88$37.85In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images... -
Robert Icke: Works One: Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor by Robert Icke 9781350407299
RRP: $38.98$36.68Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-award-winning work. Includes: ... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf 9781839041341
RRP: $23.38$16.32'Nothing is any longer one thing.' From a teenage encounter with Elizabeth I, through infatuations, voyages and even a change of gender, Orlando lives out five centuries of life and love before they finally find the courage to truly be themselves. ... -
Tuesday: With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth by Alison Carr
RRP: $23.38$16.44'I've been waiting for something like this to happen. I'm surprised it's taken so long. The signs have been building up for a while.' An ordinary Tuesday turns really, really weird when the sky over the school playground suddenly rips open. Pupils and... -
The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
RRP: $23.38$16.32The powerful debut play from Alexi Kaye Campbell, winner of an Olivier Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the John Whiting Award for Best New Play. Alternating between 1958 and 2008, The Pride examines changing... -
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48$13.40The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
A Number by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $21.43$15.03A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture. Bernard thought he was an only child. One day he learns the shocking truth: he is just one of a number of clones. Together, he and his... -
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 9781350455498
RRP: $21.43$18.84'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.' Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together... -
Games For Lovers by Ryan Craig
$19.64Four millennials looking for sex, love and a well-located flat find themselves caught in a complex game of rivalry, desire and seduction. As the cost of happiness soars, how can they negotiate the new rules of modern relationships and win the game of... -
The Doctor by Robert Icke
RRP: $21.43$18.84First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical... -
Lyonesse by Penelope Skinner 9780571389124
RRP: $21.43$14.27What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her... -
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker 9780199540105
RRP: $21.43$15.15Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Play by Simon Corble 9781780922768
RRP: $15.58$14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780922768Author Simon CorbleFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 6mm -
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $21.43$14.39'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches... -
Sucker Punch by Roy Williams
RRP: $21.43$15.89Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go. In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or... -
Steaming by Nell Dunn 9780906399309
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 1982 and Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780906399309Author Nell DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (stage version by Joan Aitken
RRP: $21.43$15.03A thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aiken's classic children's novel, perfectly suited to performance by theatre companies and drama groups of any size. A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of... -
Smalltown by Russell Barr
$24.12Something has been put in the water. Things are about to get a whole lot crazy. And you decide how it ends... Smalltown is the new dynamic comedy written by leading Scots writers Douglas Maxwell, D.C. Jackson and Johnny McKnight. It tells the... -
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $21.43$14.27The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard... -
Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre
RRP: $23.38$16.32'When am I going to wake up and be different?' Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a whole world of men. In this funny, unapologetic play, three twenty-something women figure out how they really feel about sex, their bodies and each other. With... -
Woyzeck by Georg Buchner 9781848426368
RRP: $25.33$17.59'People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next: if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.' The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne, the playwright behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, breathes new life into Georg... -
Plays One: Someone is Going to Come Home, the Name, the Guitar Man, the Child by Jon Fosse 9781840022704
$38.98"Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to... -
Churchill Plays: v.2: "Softcops"; "Top Girls"; "Fen"; "Serious Money" by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $42.88$40.15Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $37.03$25.02The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 includes A Chorus of...