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The Play Of Oliver Twist by Nigel Bryant
£18.12A dramatisation of Dickens's classic novel, requiring a cast of between 11 and 30. The complex story moves forward quickly with the use of open staging. About the series Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama... -
The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £12.00£8.00In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the... -
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Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £8.99£8.71One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's... -
The Rince Cycle by Terry Pratchett
£11.07As a punishment, failed wizard Rincewind is given the task of guiding and safeguarding the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower (with his magical luggage on legs). As they travel the city and beyond, they meet the world's oldest hero, Cohen the Barbarian... -
The Wizard of Oz (RSC) by L Frank Baum
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708770Author L Frank BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey 9780573014093
£11.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Elegy by Nick Payne
RRP: £10.99£7.38What if every neuron in the human brain could be mapped and decoded? Every act of human behaviour catalogued and wholly understood? Elegy imagines a very-near future in which radical and unprecedented advances in medical science mean that it's possible... -
Oxford Student Texts: Sheridan: The Rivals by Richard Sheridan 9780199129560 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.26One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.Making A Level texts... -
Joking apart by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573112041
£12.37Another marvelous portrait of middle class, middle aged life by this skillful portrayer of manners and morals. Charming, naturally successful in everything, Anthea and Richard almost unconsciously but ruthlessly dominate the lives of those with whom they... -
The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer
RRP: £9.99£7.11In the rich, humid air of sixteenth-century Peru, Atahuallpa, the Sun-God King, meets Pizarro the Conquistador, representative of the Spanish Empire at its most insatiable. While the Inca King is convinced of his own immortality, the Spaniard is cynical... -
What it Means: Based on On Being Different by Merle Miller by James Corley 9781350425163
£11.05They say they've broken into the offices of Harper's Magazine and are staging a sit-in. September 1970, Harper's Magazine publish the article Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity in which Joseph Epstein states "If I had the power to do so, I... -
Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells 9781839040184
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the... -
Holding the man by Tommy Murphy
RRP: £13.99£9.93Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures. The course of... -
London Assurance by Richard Bean
£10.47Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the... -
Penhall Plays: v.1: "Some Voices"; "Pale Horse"; "Love and Understanding"; "The Bullet" by Joe Penhall 9780413731500
RRP: £21.99£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stockholm by Bryony Lavery
RRP: £10.99£10.77Meet the couple every couple wants to be. Attractive and immaculately turned out, they are the perfect team. Tomorrow they will be in Stockholm, a city where, in summer, the sun shines 24/7 and sometimes it's dark all day long. Today it's his birthday... -
"A Skull in Connemara" by Martin McDonagh
£13.09Winner 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; Winner 1996 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for... -
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008 by Harold Pinter 9780571244805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£5.11Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World War, as... -
Making History by Brian Friel 9780571154777 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.87The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale,... -
Making History by Brian Friel
RRP: £10.99£7.32The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale,... -
Bryony Lavery Plays 1: A Wedding Story, Frozen, Illyria, More Light by Bryony Lavery
RRP: £18.99£12.83A Wedding Story'A spry if wintry comedy about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, and a mother who contracts Alzheimer's... It dares to find failure and frivolity (a sure sign of dramatic honesty) in the face of domestic hell. Funny, frank and churning by... -
Absolute Hell by Rodney Ackland
£10.47Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was... -
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: £10.99£7.32Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes... -
Antonio'S Revenge: By John Marston by John Marston 9780719057038
RRP: £19.99£17.82Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as... -
Idol by Jamal Gerald
RRP: £9.99£9.61A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation. Who would you rather pray to? Beyonce or white Jesus? Jamal grew up Catholic in a Caribbean household, but would rather light a candle and worship celebrities... -
The Sewing Group by E. V. Crowe
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I have spoken very clearly with her and I have told her that she is new here and that she must live how we live.'A woman arrives in a rural village in pre-industrial England. Her desire is to sew and learn from their simple way of life. But the group... -
Blackthorn by Charley Miles
RRP: £12.99£9.26The only two children born in a North Yorkshire village for a generation cannot imagine ever being apart, but as their lives shift, so too do the ties that bind them. A contemporary, lyrical love story, Blackthorn explores the changes and choices that... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray 9780571254880 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£6.08'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's TermsSimon Gray: Plays 1 includes Quartermaine's Terms; Stage... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray
RRP: £18.99£12.83'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's TermsSimon Gray: Plays 1 includes Quartermaine's Terms; Stage... -
The Last of the Pelican Daughters (NHB Modern Plays) by The Wardrobe Ensemble
RRP: £12.99£9.26In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. Today, four sisters are trying to come to terms with their mother's death - and divide their mother's house between them. Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be... -
Red by Somalia Seaton
RRP: £8.99£6.60'Maybe she just doesn't wanna be found, maybe that last day she felt freedom was when she ran, and she just didn't stop, maybe that was it.' When her best friend Jay goes missing, Dee withdraws into a twilight world of fragmented memories and... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9781914602146
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602146Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
Three Sisters by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 9780573019982
£11.42Three Sisters, set in a rural backwater of Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, is a play about dreams, hope, work and love. The sisters of the title dream of returning to Moscow, where their lives, they are certain, will be happier; in the... -
York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling by Richard Beadle
RRP: £8.99£6.45This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of... -
Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £12.99£9.26'If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.' A series of random nocturnal assaults in the back streets and alleyways of Victorian London are spreading fear and panic. Meanwhile, the friends of a highly respected doctor are... -
Little Light by Alice Birch 9781783192090
£12.37A dark, volatile new play that asks if we can ever let go. Reminiscing. Once a year to tell stories. To share little bits of our little lives. A house by the sea. Teddy wants more light. He's knocked that staircase down. Alison is soaked through. She's... -
Little Light by Alice Birch 9781783192090 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£9.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
David Hare Plays 2: Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon; The Bay at Nice; The Secret Rapture by David Hare
RRP: £18.99£12.83This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese... -
Table by Tanya Ronder
RRP: £12.99£9.26Six generations, twenty-three characters one very special piece of furniture. Tanya Ronder's thrilling play is an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on. Table was the first play to be staged in The Shed, a temporary venue at the...