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Life X 3 by Yasmina Reza 9780571207381
RRP: €17.85€10.50Henri and Sonia are thrown into disarray when Hubert and Ines arrive for dinner one day earlier than expected. As the evening degenerates, the couples are given a second and third chance to revisit their differences and end on a different note.About the... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781350116788
RRP: €13.08€11.50This revised Student Edition of Ibsen's popular play contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, which offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider seminal productions and adaptations of the play into the 21st... -
"Antigone" by Jean Anouilh
RRP: €10.70€9.51'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era... -
Stirring Up Sheffield: An Insider's Account of the Battle to Build the Crucible Theatre by Colin George 9781838403621
RRP: €41.65€25.83WINNER: 2022 THEATRE BOOK PRIZE Written by the Crucible Theatre's first Artistic Director, Colin George, and his son, Tedd, 'Stirring Up Sheffield' is the extraordinary story of a group of visionaries who came together to build a revolutionary thrust... -
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 9781839043345
RRP: €13.08€9.44When Dr Stockmann makes a disturbing discovery about the healing waters in his local baths, he holds the future of the whole town in his hands. But doubt spreads faster than disease, and those with everything to lose refuse to accept his word. Soon, a... -
Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €11.89€7.70Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €13.08€9.07Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more nature.HAMM: No more nature!... -
The House Of Bernarda Alba: La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713686777
RRP: €13.08€11.50Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war... -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €10.70€7.47This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: €9.51€7.33Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own... -
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
RRP: €13.08€9.48Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied... -
Many Moons by Alice Birch
€14.46Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling... -
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
RRP: €13.08€8.71'Betrayal is a new departure and a bold one . . . Pinter has found a way of making memory active and dramatic, giving an audience the experience of the mind's accelerating momentum as it pieces together the past with a combination of curiosity and regret... -
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: €10.70€7.68The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact,... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 9780571336753
RRP: €13.08€8.71Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free.This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the Country) opened at the National Theatre, London, in December 2016.'A bold, clear, finally harrowing account of the play.' DAILY... -
Art by Yasmina Reza
RRP: €13.08€8.71Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides with hilarious consequences. The... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: €13.08€11.50'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful ...[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play ...suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing,... -
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: €10.70€7.68Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few... -
An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €11.89€8.46Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of,... -
Yasmina Reza Plays 1 by Yasmina Reza 9780571221912
RRP: €22.60€13.88Yasmina Reza's award-winning comedy Art is collected here with three more of her sharp witty and sexy plays, all translated with elegance and elan by Christopher Hampton. Art Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Mark hates it and... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
€13.15Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9781848420632
RRP: €14.27€10.23Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her... -
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
RRP: €13.08€8.71What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's... -
The Complete Plays Anton Chekhov 9780393330694
RRP: €33.31€28.87This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their... -
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen 9780199555536
RRP: €13.08€9.48Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: €13.08€9.97In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €11.89€11.44A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth... -
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €15.46€10.82A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading... -
Buchner - Complete Plays by Georg Buchner 9780413140906
RRP: €28.55€28.32The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic... -
From Morning to Midnight by Georg Kaiser 9781783190133
€14.27From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle-class daily life is ultimately... -
Marivaux Plays: 1-act Plays: Double Inconstancy; False Servant; Game of Love and Chance; Careless Vows; Feigned Inconstancy by Pierre Carlet De Chamblain De Marivaux 9780413185600
€27.67Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival One of the most original of French eighteenth century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and intrigue. This, the only major single-volume... -
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
RRP: €14.27€10.03The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular... -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107
RRP: €14.27€13.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.53Reissue of this Methuen classic to tie in with a major new production The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster... -
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437881
RRP: €11.89€8.46Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his... -
Exit the King: The Killer ; and, Macbett : Three Plays by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: €13.08€11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151100Author Eugene IonescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Eastern Promise: Seven Plays from Central and Eastern Europe by Sian Evans 9780951587799
RRP: €15.46€14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951587799Author Sian EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: €13.08€11.50Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413773425
RRP: €14.27€13.59Dario Fo's classic farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist was a sensation when it premiered in Italy in 1970. Based on the story of a political activist who "fell" to his death from the window of a police station, the original production was...