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The Making of a Monster by Connor Allen
RRP: £9.99£8.17A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling... -
Positive Stories For Negative Times: Five Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely by Sabrina Mahfouz
£22.51Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space. ... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: £8.99£7.99Miss 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... -
Rainer by Max Wilkinson
£11.05Some guys listen to music, some guys like to sing. I like to work people out. Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across London, delivering food to whoever will summon her. From luxury flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham... -
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 9781408110201
RRP: £10.99£9.66The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely... -
Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon 9780856761058
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761058Author Peter GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Home by Nadia Fall
RRP: £10.99£7.93A powerful, inventive play that mixes real testimonials alongside existing and original music to explore one of the most important social concerns of today: homelessness amongst young people. Bullet doesn't want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl... -
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie 9780571196937
RRP: £10.99£7.32Tim Supple's adaptations of Grimm Tales and More Grimm Tales have been universally acclaimed. With the help of David Tushingham, he has adapted Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, for the stage. Set in an exotic... -
Pressure by David Haig
RRP: £12.99£9.26An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare. June 1944. One man's decision is about to change the course of history. Everything is in place for the biggest invasion ever known in Europe... -
Port by Simon Stephens 9780413773111
RRP: £11.99£11.42"A major new voice in British theatre" (Scotsman) Stockport 1988-2002. Rachel Keats is growing up in town she doesn't like. Abandoned by her mother, her family life is torn to tatters as she is left to bring up her younger brother, who,... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£4.32The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764
RRP: £9.99£8.82The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently... -
The Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn't matter. Whether you get away or you don't, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you never... -
On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry
RRP: £10.99£7.32Now we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that.PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men... -
Best of Enemies by James Graham
RRP: £10.99£9.66Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." 1968 - a year of protest that divided America. As two... -
Amy's View by David Hare
RRP: £9.99£9.24It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find... -
Hannah and Hanna by John Retallack 9780573030239
£10.47It is 1999. Hannah is sixteen. She loves karaoke and her bloke Bullfrog; she hates her home town of Margate and the Kosovan asylum-seekers who have come to live there. Hanna is also sixteen. She loves karaoke, loves Margate - and is one of the... -
Night Out: Play by Harold Pinter 9780573021763
£10.47Albert finds himself dominated by his mother. At an office party he is mercilessly teased by his colleagues and arrives home, his temper rising. When his mother nags he attacks and leaves her, gets picked up by a girl and is able to reduce her to humble... -
Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr 9780571389179
RRP: £10.99£7.32Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on SundayThere's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and... -
The Prince by Abigail Thorn 9781350352377 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£9.14All the world's a stage. Have you ever been trapped in a bad relationship, playing a role that doesn't suit you? Jen and Sam are also trapped ... in a multiverse of Shakepeare's complete works. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality... -
The Prince by Abigail Thorn
RRP: £10.99£9.66All the world's a stage. Have you ever been trapped in a bad relationship, playing a role that doesn't suit you? Jen and Sam are also trapped ... in a multiverse of Shakepeare's complete works. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality... -
Don't Hug Your Mother: The Fascinating True Story by Fintan Murphy 9781983774881
RRP: £10.99£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983774881Author Fintan MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 1: The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £18.99£12.83The 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... -
HighTide Plays: 1: Ditch; peddling; The Big Meal; Lampedusa by Beth Steel
RRP: £21.99£21.04HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by the Daily Mail as "famous for... -
Anyhing is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough by Cordelia O'Neill
RRP: £12.99£9.26Alex and Rupert aren't a conventional match, but a caffeinated meeting on the Underground ignites a spark. Skip forward to them fighting over baby names, nursery colours and ways to save money. All the signs of a normal family in waiting. Then Alex... -
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works by Gary Taylor 9780199580538
RRP: £41.99£38.79Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A... -
Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo by Marina Carr
RRP: £19.99£13.45This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting... -
This Restless House: an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia by Zinnie Harris
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Electrifying . . . This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax.' GUARDIAN *****Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in... -
The Performance by Claire Thomas
RRP: £14.99£8.54'Quietly transformational'The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A... -
Collected Plays: Volume 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists by Wole Soyinka 9780192811646 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99£3.39`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through... -
The Flea by James Fritz 9781839042768
RRP: £10.99£7.93'We'll start with the flea, because that's as good a place as any...' July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy and his mother find themselves swept up in a national... -
Contemporary Welsh Plays: Tonypandemonium, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated, Llwyth (in Welsh), Parallel Lines, Bruised by Tim Price
RRP: £23.99£23.80Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Wales... -
Celebration & The Room by Harold Pinter 9780571204977 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£4.66A 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... -
Celebration & The Room by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99£7.32A 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... -
Phedre by Ted Hughes
RRP: £10.99£7.32An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son,... -
Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men, Volume Two by Catherine Weate 9781849434362
£12.08Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the... -
Ballyturk by Enda Walsh
RRP: £11.99£8.60A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy. The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What room is this, and what might be beyond the walls? Enda... -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Rona Munro
RRP: £11.99£8.60An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come. A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world,... -
X by Alistair McDowall
RRP: £10.99£8.38"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The Stage ...