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The Night Alive and Other Plays by Conor McPherson 9781559364737
RRP: $27.28$25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364737Author Conor McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U... -
A Dead Body in Taos by David Farr
RRP: $19.48$13.07When they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I'd be free.Sam hasn't spoken to her mother Kath for three years when she learns that she's been found dead in the New Mexico desert... -
Two Ladies by Nancy Harris
$36.21Keep your enemies close, and your wives closer. As their husbands clash over an international crisis, the first ladies of France and America find themselves alone together in a side room. Friends, or enemies? When the stakes are so high, can they... -
Lucie Plays: v.1: "Progress", "Fashion", "Grace", "Gaucho" by Doug Lucie 9780413716903
RRP: $42.88$38.98This collection includes four of the best plays from one of the leading playwrights of the 80s Progress: 'A small, anguished, hilarious masterpiece' Evening Standard; Fashion: 'One of the best plays of the 1980s - a rancid, state-of-the-nation account of... -
Berlin/Wall by David Hare
RRP: $9.75$7.06Berlin/WallIn two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is going up.BerlinFor his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiting the city which so many young people... -
Something in the Air by Peter Gill
RRP: $19.48$13.86You took relationships as if they were the next train.Alex and Colin's stories flow like mist down the Thames, roll under Hammersmith Bridge, and slip past the windows of forgotten Soho restaurants. As the old men's youth comes to life, so do the young... -
Bottom's Dream by Alan Poole
RRP: $21.43$18.70Who dreamt the Midsummer Night's Dream? What were the reactions of the artisans' relatives to their play-acting activities? The author considers the play from the point of Bottom - and the women as members of the audience. Bottom and his wife are... -
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide by Nick Groom
RRP: $17.53$13.07Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and... -
Soyinka Plays: v. 2: "A Play of Giants"; "From Zia with Love"; "A Source of Hyacinths"; "The Beatification of Area Boy" by Wole Soyinda 9780413732606
RRP: $42.88$38.98"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of... -
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 9780573112058
$22.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept by Simon Gray
RRP: $33.13$22.58'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic... -
Old Fortunatus: By Thomas Dekker by David McInnis 9781526156051
RRP: $48.75$42.49With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period's most... -
Serving it Up and a Week with Tony by David Eldridge 9780413713407
RRP: $23.38$22.27"Trash for starters, Tories for seconds: David Eldridge is Serving it up again" (Independent) Serving It Up "Combines a promising talent for spark, funny dialgue with a bleak vision of racism and rage in London's East End...What is... -
Happy Birthday Me by Simon Williams 9780573120930
$17.55This play needs M2 and F5, as well as a lounge. "It's my birthday. All I wanted was a bottle of Claret and a couple of winners at Sandown". Instead, retired actress Margot Buchanan receives three separate visitors: her ex-husband Leo, an ageing film star... -
Sadie by David Ireland
RRP: $23.38$23.30Sadie has a one-night stand with the new office temp, Joao, but it develops into something much more serious when Joao reveals he's in love with her. Sadie is flattered but she has a long history of terrible relationships. She wonders if it's even... -
Hope by Jack Thorne
RRP: $19.48$14.18An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government. How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the... -
A Chip in the Sugar by Alan Bennett 9780573042126
$20.42Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally retarded and chronically dependent on his mother, finds life difficult enough at the best of times. When Mother meets an old flame and seems set to marry him, however, Graham's old insecurities rear their ugly... -
Samson Agonistes and Shorter Poems by John Milton 9780882950587
RRP: $21.35$18.99This volume contains the principal English poems of Milton's youth and early manhood, most of the sonnets written during the Puritan Revolution, when he was chiefly engaged in arguing public questions in prose, and Samson Agonistes, published three years... -
Enlightenment by Shelagh Stephenson 9780413775214
RRP: $23.38$22.27At three o'clock in the morning, this is what I think. I think somebody killed him. They killed him, God, I don't know how I'm uttering these words ...they killed him because he's white and Western and they hated him. And it wasn't personal. Which... -
The Snow Queen by Ron Nicol
$22.27Skilfully adapted from the famous original story by Hans Christian Andersen, Th e Snow Queen is the story of Gerda, a little girl who searches for her friend Kai when he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Snow Queen in her ice palace. Gerda's innocence... -
In Need of Care by David E. Rowley 9780573023224
$20.42Shirley and Rita, having run away from school, are hiding. They are surprised by two boys who know who they are from the newspapers. The play follows the developing relations among the four, Jeff and Rita becoming immediately attracted to each other. The... -
good dog by Arinze Kene
RRP: $19.48$14.18'Everyone gets what they deserve, they have to...' It's in the window of Sam's, behind the rusty display. Two wheels, shiny body, handlebars ready to be gripped. Mum's promised him that bike, so even when school or homelife bites, he knows to keep his... -
The Edge of Darkness by Brian Clemens 9780573111181
$22.27After her disappearance several years ago, Emma finds that her memory is damaged; there is much she does not recognize or understand. Why does she appear familiar with certain Russian phrases; why has she such a horror of a harmless silver bell, of a... -
The Watch House by Robert Westall 9781350455405
RRP: $21.43$18.84There's a legend about the Watch House... Scrape beneath the whitewash and you'll find terror. You'll find him. Tynemouth, late 1970s. Christmas is coming and Front Street's swinging. But Anne, dumped here while her parents sort their divorce, isn't in... -
The Roaring Girl: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas Middleton 9780393932775
$35.63This Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl is based on the text from English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. It is accompanied by generous explanatory annotations, five illustrations, and a detailed... -
Plays by Women in Ireland (1926-33): Feminist Theatres of Freedom and Resistance: Distinguished Villa; The Woman; Youth's The Season; Witch's Brew; Bluebeard by Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick
RRP: $48.73$42.76This anthology provides access to neglected theatrical work and broadens our understanding of the history of Irish theatre as well as the vital role of women within it. The introduction places these plays in dialogue with one another as well as within... -
The Boadicea of Britannia Street by Ade Morris 9780573110559
$22.27Widow, poet and cat-lover Fran Lamb, a writer for local newspaper the Winkham Weekly Snooze, decides to start up her own creative writing group. She is joined at the Winkham Memorial Institute by glamorous P.E. teacher Penny, shy librarian Janet and... -
Bluebeard by Paul Reakes 9780573164507
$22.27Paul Reakes' pantomimes include many original twists to the familiar stories, with plenty of audience participation. They can be staged as simply or as elaborately as desired.2 women, 8 menBook InformationISBN 9780573164507Author Paul ReakesFormat... -
Chasing Hares by Sonali Bhattacharyya
RRP: $21.43$15.46'They're always trying to do that. Make us run off in different directions to try to catch a single hare. Because they know. If we work together we might bring down the stag.' By day, machine operator Prab struggles to survive the precarity and... -
Private Lives by Sir Noel Coward 9780573619250
RRP: $31.10$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573619250Author Sir Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 73g -
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie 9780573110191
$22.27An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashire man. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering... -
Ghosts by Joe Hill-Gibbins 9781350457355
RRP: $21.43$18.84There are ghosts everywhere. There are ghosts here right now. Plagued by the ugly truth of her late husband's legacy, Helene vows to erase the past and start again. Ignorant to the reality of his father's character, Osvald, her son, returns home... -
The BFG by Roald Dahl 9780573050947
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050947Author Roald DahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Nova Scotia by John Byrne 9780571242641
RRP: $17.53$11.86Thirty years since we last met him and Lucille in the Garden of Remembrance, Phil McCann faces the New Millennium with fortitude and good humour. The leading arts correspondent of the day is on her way to the far north to record a radio profile, which... -
Holiday Snap by Michael Pertwee 9780573112843
$22.27This comic tale of mistaken identity unfolds with real wit and style. A Portuguese time share villa has been double booked without the company representative, myopic tippler Commander "Chitto" Chittenden, knowing. When Mary and Henry arrive... -
Brief Lives by John Aubrey 9780573040221
$22.27A day in the latter part of pioneering biographer John Aubrey's life. "It is as if one is paying a visit to the house of an old man, who makes up for the absence of friends by bringing to life reminiscences of people, remembering them and telling... -
Curtain Up on Murder by Bettine Manktelow 9780573017698
$22.27An amateur company are rehearsing a play in an end-of-pier theatre when inexplicably they are locked in and one by one begin to die...Book InformationISBN 9780573017698Author Bettine ManktelowFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French... -
Limehouse by Steve Waters
RRP: $19.48$14.18A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour Party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale. This is Britain 1981. One Sunday morning, four prominent Labour politicians - Bill Rodgers,... -
Destiny by David Edgar 9780413775559
$24.77The production of this play established David Edgar as a major playwright, one of the most important of the young generation of dramatists to emerge out of the 'portable' theatre movement of the late sixties.The production of this play established David... -
Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss 9781840029857
$24.12Winner of 2010 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award For Most Promising Playwright, of the 2010 TMA Award for Best New Play and Winner of 2011 Critics Circle award for Most Promising Playwright. This play looks at the distance between close family...