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Us/Them by Carly Wijs
RRP: €13.08€9.44In September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children, their parents and teachers hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and left many dead. Us/Them is not a straightforward account of... -
Deathwatch by Jean Genet
RRP: €13.08€8.71Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genet's first play,... -
The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet 9780802150561
RRP: €21.42€13.24The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position,... -
The Spanish Golden Age in English: Perspectives on Performance by Catherine Boyle
€34.59The Spanish Golden Age was a period of flourishing in arts and literature, and in particular of drama, in Spain, coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs. This term does not generally imply any great precision about dates, but it... -
The Lie by Florian Zeller
RRP: €13.08€8.71In Florian Zeller's The Lie, a companion piece to his earlier play The Truth, Michel and Laurence are coming for dinner. But Alice has spotted Michel kissing another woman that very afternoon, leaving her with a dilemma. Her husband Paul believes it is... -
H lderlin: A Play in Two Acts by Peter Weiss
RRP: €14.27€12.08The work of German poet Frederich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: €11.89€8.46Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so... -
Ibsen's Selected Plays by Henrik Ibsen 9780393924046
€20.38The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The... -
Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, according to Plan by John Fuegi 9780521282451
RRP: €51.16€44.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, according to Plan by John Fuegi 9780521282451 [USED COPY]
RRP: €51.16€2.28This is the first full-length study in any language of Bertolt Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director. Professor Fuegi has researched his subject extensively over many years, and this book is the result of interviews with Brecht's closest... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780393338171
RRP: €10.70€9.29Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh... -
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek 9781557422552
RRP: €9.51€7.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557422552Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Sports Play by Elfriede Jelinek 9781849434027
€14.89With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781783190331
€14.72Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur Cyrano de Bergerac is all these things, but none of them makes him happy. What he desires above all is the love of the beautiful Roxane. But his problem is as plain as the nose on his face. Surely he is too ugly... -
Novecento by Alessandro Baricco 9781350414068
RRP: €14.27€13.97At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento - 1900... -
John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €14.27€10.23John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback. Downstairs, his estranged wife plots... -
Feydeau Plays: v.1: "Heart's Desire Hotel"; "Sauce for the Goose"; "The One That Got Away"; "Now You See it"; "Pig in a Poke" by Georges Feydeau 9780413761705
€28.80Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of... -
Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo 9780413183804
RRP: €14.27€13.59A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is based on careful research into the work of the... -
Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays by Neda Nezhdana
RRP: €13.08€9.44Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights. 'They've mobilised all the living now, the fifth call took the last of the living. But... -
"Life of Galileo" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413763808
RRP: €13.08€9.97Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to... -
Ibsen Plays: v.1: "Ghosts", "The Wild Duck", "The Master Builder" by Henrik Ibsen
€19.25The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl... -
The Guid Sisters: A Translation of Les Belles-Soeurs Into Modern Scots (Picas) by Tremblay
RRP: €8.27€5.77This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal to joual. The play, a landmark in Canadian theatre, can... -
Pains of Youth by Martin Crimp
RRP: €13.08€8.71You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential.Promiscuous, pitiless and bored,... -
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht 9780957574762
RRP: €10.65€7.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957574762Author Tom LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 142g -
Kaspar and Other Plays by Peter Handke
RRP: €19.04€11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015467Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Selected Writings of Jean Genet by Jean Genet 9780880014205
RRP: €19.03€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880014205Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press -
Six character in search of an author by Luigi Pirandello 9780413768100
RRP: €14.27€13.59A new version of one of the most influential plays of the 20th century Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a... -
The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg 9780713689440
RRP: €14.27€13.59Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful. 'Owing glancing debts to Mary Shelley and HG... -
Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca 9780811200929
RRP: €15.46€13.64Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of Yerma... -
Conversations after a Burial by Yasmina Reza
RRP: €13.08€8.71Simon Weinberg is dead. And, on a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - brothers and a sister, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows them a special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in another world under a lingering sun, in... -
Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen: Enriched Classic by Henrik Ibsen 9781416500384
€6.53Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416500384Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster -
I am the Wind by Jon Fosse
RRP: €14.27€13.98The wind gathers, rising up suddenly. Two men on a fragile boat, a trip to sea - a few drinks, a bite to eat - when one of them decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are: among the distant islands, the threatening fog and gathering... -
Filumena by Eduardo de Filippo 9780413736208
RRP: €14.27€13.59One of Eduardo de Filippo's finest Neapolitan comedies Filumena Domenico is a former Neopolitan prostitute who has had three sons by three different fathers. As her sons become adults Filumena feels the pressing need to become respectable and so she... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov by James N. Loehlin 9780521706889
RRP: €27.36€21.53Chekhov is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential literary figures of modern times. Russia's preeminent playwright, he played a significant role in revolutionizing the modern theatre. His impact on prose fiction writing is incalculable: he... -
Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht 9780413653307
RRP: €14.27€13.59In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of... -
R.U.R. and The Insect Play by Josef Capek 9780192810106
RRP: €25.57€25.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Questioning Racinian Tragedy by John Campbell 9780807892855
RRP: €35.64€34.57Noting significant differences between the individual tragedies of Racine and the many current notions of what ""Racinian tragedy"" is deemed to imply, John Campbell explores the identity and meaning of the modern ""Racine."" He asks if any one critical... -
A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht by Stephen Unwin 9780413774163
€30.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheim by Heinar Kipphardt 9780809012152
RRP: €19.04€11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809012152Author Heinar KipphardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Mahabharata: A Play Based Upon the Indian Classic Epic by Peter Brook 9780413187307
RRP: €14.27€13.59A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research...