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Blood Brothers by Willy Russell
RRP: £10.99£8.24A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable... -
The Play That Goes Wrong: 3rd Edition by Henry Lewis
RRP: £11.99£10.87Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama... -
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J. B. Priestley
RRP: £9.99£7.11'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other'A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An... -
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £9.99£7.11Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition... -
Prima Facie (NHB Modern Plays) by Suzie Miller 9781839040641
RRP: £10.99£7.71Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to confront the patriarchal power of the law, where the... -
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
RRP: £8.99£6.39Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens
RRP: £11.99£11.67My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it... -
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £10.99£7.71Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land. On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, local waster and Lord of Misrule, is... -
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
RRP: £8.99£6.45Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. 'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman... -
2:22 - A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays) by Danny Robins
RRP: £10.99£8.29'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, ready to grab your feet.' Jenny and Sam - and their baby Phoebe - have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9780486264783
RRP: £3.49£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264783Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)... -
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller 9780141189963
RRP: £8.99£6.45Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense... -
Blood Brothers by Willy Russell 9780413695109
RRP: £10.99£9.66A Liverpudlian West Side Story, Blood Brothers is the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their... -
"Enron" by Lucy Prebble
RRP: £11.99£11.02'The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.' One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the... -
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff
RRP: £8.99£6.45Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics.Set in the... -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling
RRP: £8.99£6.81J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World . . .When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic... -
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
RRP: £10.99£9.66"Come to A Raisin in the Sun as you would to any classic. It speaks to us today as it did almost half a century ago." Bonnie Greer In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a Black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life... -
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £8.99£6.45Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Robert Bray.Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield... -
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99£6.45Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected... -
Sive School Edition by John B. Keane
£12.37Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Sean Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Sean Dota. Thomasheen convinces Mike and Mena to organise the marriage... -
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
RRP: £10.99£7.32'The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.' Or was it 'The only duty of a storyteller is to tell a story'?A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of... -
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys
RRP: £16.99£12.18For two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can... -
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production by J. K. Rowling
RRP: £22.00£15.44Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage... -
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £9.99£7.32Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time,... -
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
RRP: £8.99£6.45In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's... -
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £9.99£7.11A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics.'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to... -
Starting Drama Teaching by Mike Fleming
RRP: £31.99£29.64Why teach drama? How can a newcomer teach drama successfully? How do we recognize quality in drama? Starting Drama Teaching is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of drama in schools. Exploring the aims and purposes of drama, it provides an insight... -
The Empress by Tanika Gupta
RRP: £10.99£9.66Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim, step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen; the other forges an astonishing... -
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley 9783125752139
RRP: £14.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783125752139Author J B PriestleyFormat PaperbackImprint Klett (Ernst) Verlag,StuttgartPublisher Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart -
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition by Willy Russell
RRP: £10.99£9.66Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or... -
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
RRP: £9.99£7.67Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you... -
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney
RRP: £10.99£9.66'Miss Delaney brings real people on to her stage...she is busy recording the wonder of life as she lives it' Kenneth Tynan, Observer A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre... -
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £20.00£13.86Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from... -
Blasted by Sarah Kane
RRP: £11.99£11.02In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted opened. It became the cause celebre of the theatrical year, making front-page headlines and outraging critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence in civil war. "sheer unadulterated... -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling 9781408708989
RRP: £16.99£11.80J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World . . .When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic... -
Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9781840221152
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest... -
Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock
RRP: £10.99£7.71'What doctor know about our illness? Just give you pills to sick you stomach and a doctor certificate. What they know about a black woman soul?' In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late - 3 p.m... -
Aeschylus: Persians by Edith Hall 9780856685972
RRP: £25.29£23.74A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - these are some of the features of Aeschylus'... -
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
RRP: £10.99£8.15I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect. The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love,... -
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
RRP: £9.99£7.06A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, Long Day's Journey into Night is an intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of the author's own family - a play so acutely personal that he insisted it...