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Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill 9781350471603
RRP: $21.43$21.00The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I. Into the world of the disheartened composer enters the exuberant and... -
Blood Harmony by Matthew Bulgo
RRP: $21.43$21.02She used to be everywhere, all at the same time, do you know what I mean? And now she's nowhere. She was always there, that's what I'm trying to say. A fractured trio of sisters are pulled back together with news that turns their worlds upside... -
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: $23.38$22.74This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close... -
Everyman by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $21.43$14.27Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the life he has built, he embarks on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running... -
Oxford Literature Companions: An Inspector Calls by Su Fielder
RRP: $19.48$18.70Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, the Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characters, themes, language... -
McDonagh Plays: v. 1: "The Beauty Queen of Leenane"; "A Skull of Connemara"; "The Lonesome West" by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $42.88$40.19Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane... -
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $19.48$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573023231Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Standing at the Sky's Edge by Chris Bush
$40.46Poppy wants to escape her old life in London. Joy and Jimmy want to spend the rest of their lives together. Rose and Harry want the new life they've been promised. A history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate,... -
The Green Hollow by Owen Sheers 9780571339082
RRP: $17.53$12.93In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to... -
Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer
RRP: $19.48$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573023033Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard 9780571390700
RRP: $21.43$14.27The new and updated edition of 'Tom Stoppard's extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest in twentieth-century Czechoslovakia' (Evening Standard).Rock 'n' Roll spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague,... -
Girl from the North Country by Conor McPherson
RRP: $21.43$15.03Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is... -
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon 9781350496576
RRP: $21.43$21.00London will do for you for now... And I will do for London. London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloetta's door only... -
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 9781839041143
RRP: $21.43$15.03'I have to write. That's what I am. My sister Meg is beautiful, my sister Beth is good, my sister Amy is, well, she is what she is, but I'm the writer of the family. What shall I do?' Christmas Eve, 1862. With their father away on the frontline of the... -
Shakespeare in Love: Adapted for the Stage by Lee Hall
RRP: $21.43$14.27I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer's block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty by David Calcutt
$24.82Victimised by the cruel, cunning Stubbs, Terry Dumpton, nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, resorts to truancy to avoid his bullies. Following pressure from his tormentors to prove he isn't a coward, Terry takes part in a dangerous activity resulting in a fatal... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Hound of the Baskervilles by John O'Connor
$24.82After the mysterious and violent death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson embark upon their most famous case. What is the spectral hound that howls by night in the mists of Dartmoor? Is there really a curse on the Baskerville... -
The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholemew Fair by Ben Jonson
RRP: $19.48$13.86This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the... -
Quartet & Equally Divided by Ronald Harwood 9780571200924
RRP: $25.33$16.69This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights. In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married... -
Old Times by Harold Pinter
RRP: $21.43$14.27Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we... -
Crave by Sarah Kane
RRP: $23.38$21.49Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a... -
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie 9780573015229
$23.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015229Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Love and Money by Dennis Kelly
RRP: $23.38$21.49David conducts an office romance by e-mail. He has love at his fingertips. But a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece. Jess loves David. She believes happiness can be bought - but it doesn't come cheap in a world of easy... -
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood 9780906399217
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906399217Author Ronald HarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow by Alan Plater
RRP: $19.40$13.22Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this gritty musical is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre... -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: $19.48$13.63Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2018 Pigott... -
Once Upon a Bridge by Sonya Kelly
RRP: $23.38$22.76He was like a rugby man, He hit her like a rugby man, Straight into her shoulder, The momentum of the crash, Dragging her beyond the kerb, Towards the front tyre of my bus. Early one morning on Putney Bridge, three strangers' lives collided for... -
Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays: Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays by Various
RRP: $19.48$13.26God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the InnocentsMiracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard
RRP: $53.61$48.13Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts'... -
Age is a Feeling by Haley McGee
RRP: $21.43$15.03Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to change course and all the things you leave unsaid. Inspired by interviews with hospice workers, conversations with mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a... -
Three Dublin Plays by Sean O'Casey
RRP: $25.33$16.69Three early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... -
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: $23.38$16.32An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter. George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist... -
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $21.43$15.03Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne... -
Blue Beard by Emma Rice 9781350476486
RRP: $21.43$18.84When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR! Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick - things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves... and women. Puff! Gone. Without a... -
Chaos by Laura Lomas
RRP: $21.43$15.03A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy's heart falls out his chest. A... -
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett 9780571329656
RRP: $25.33$18.06Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first... -
The Time Machine by Steven Canny 9781839042966
RRP: $21.43$15.03When the worlds of science-fiction and science-fact collide... extraordinary things can happen. Dave is the great-great grandson of H.G. Wells, author of the 1895 novella The Time Machine, a book that foretold (with suspicious accuracy) the future of... -
People by Alan Bennett
RRP: $21.43$14.27A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a... -
Celebration & The Room by Harold Pinter
RRP: $21.43$14.27A 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... -
Laura Wade: Plays One by Laura Wade
RRP: $42.88$37.85'If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade...proved that you could radically change both form and content... Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this...