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Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (NHB Modern Plays) by Isobel McArthur
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $13.34'Love's irrelevant - we're talking about marriage.' This unique take on Jane Austen's beloved novel is an adaptation like no other, drawing on over two hundred years of romantic pop history, and... -
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter 9780571160808
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $11.76Teddy, a philosophy professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his father, uncle and two brothers at his old London home, after years of estrangement. In the intense conflict... -
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood 9780906399217
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906399217Author Ronald HarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary... -
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00'Retired people are like nuclear power stations. They like to live by the sea.' Two ageing nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old... -
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $16.40Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles'... -
Swallow by Stef Smith
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?' Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another - if... -
NSFW by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $18.01A sharp comedy about power games and privacy in the media and beyond. Carrie's getting them out for the lads, Charlotte's just grateful to have a job, Sam's being asked to sell more than his body,... -
Plays from VAULT 5 by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.35This anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprises five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. Something Awful by Tatty Hennessy is a... -
Bad Roads by Natalia Vorozhbit
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $19.32'I spend the night in an officer's barracks, where no woman has ever set foot.' In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging. A journalist takes a research trip to the front line... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780199537969
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.78`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious... -
After the End Dennis Kelly 9781350256613
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37They were all in the pub when the explosion happened. Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with Mark, who has saved her life. Mark is always prepared for the worst and has everything he thinks... -
Fences by August Wilson 9780452264014
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $18.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Book InformationISBN 9780452264014Author August WilsonFormat -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate... -
Woyzeck (Drama Classics) by Georg Buchner 9781854591838
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $8.21Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.16The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and... -
Asking for It by Louise O'Neil
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.29One night in a small town in County Cork, where everyone knows everyone, things spiral terrifyingly out of control. What will happen now to Emma? To her family? To the others? This stage... -
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters... -
nut by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $20.62'Bein you means not bein me, see, a deficit already - before you even started we running at a loss.' Elayne doesn't want company but company won't leave her alone. Everyone's got an opinion but no... -
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.14Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.Militancy in the Suffragette... -
The Plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 9781840224184
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $8.06With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,... -
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical by Richard Rodgers
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $20.37EThe King and IE opened on Broadway on March 29 1951. The musical is based on a 1944 novel by Margaret Landon EAnna and the King of SiamE which in turn was adapted from the real-life reminiscences... -
A Christmas Carol (Old Vic new edition) (NHB Modern plays) by Jack Thorne
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00One bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led... -
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (stage version by Joan Aitken
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00A thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aiken's classic children's novel, perfectly suited to performance by theatre companies and drama groups of any size. A thrilling adventure set... -
The Faber Book of Monologues: Men by Jane Edwardes 9780571217649
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of... -
Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $19.10Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of... -
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker 9780199540105
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.29Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford... -
Remote by Stef Smith
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone to the ground. She stamps on it. Then she climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not by anyone. Over the course... -
Dying For It by Moira Buffini
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00Hallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. When his last hope at turning his life around disappears he decides to commit suicide, only to find that a number of people would... -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling 9780751574951
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88J.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... -
Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.14Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying... -
Kes (stage version) by Barry Hines
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school... -
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres 9781848428980
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the Axis occupying forces. Shunned by the locals at first, he proves to be... -
Deposit by Matt Hartley
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.39A bittersweet and vital play that throws a spotlight on 'Generation Rent' and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder. Rachel and Ben want to buy a flat... -
Swive [Elizabeth] by Ella Hickson
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.29'My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country.' Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge 9781854592101
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $8.21Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy... -
What We Know by Pamela Carter
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking. Lucy has lost something very important. One minute Jo's there, the next he isn't, leaving Lucy with a pile of half-cooked food and... -
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9780224610735
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.47Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old... -
What If If Only (NHB Modern Plays) by Caryl Churchill 9781839040269
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.40'Make me happen' Your partner's died, could things have been different? Caryl Churchill's short play What If If Only premiered in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre,...