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Classical Comedy by Aristophanes
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The... -
The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr
RRP: £12.99£9.02'The end-of-the-world quiz waits for no man, literally. Onwards, ever onwards, to our fiery decline. Round three...' It's the end of the world. The last night on Earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us and there's nothing we can do about it. ... -
The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida 9781350148260
RRP: £17.99£15.94The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the... -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£7.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451669411Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Downstate by Bruce Norris
RRP: £10.99£7.71In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where they live out their lives in the shadow of the offences they committed. A man shows up to confront his childhood abuser - but does he want closure or... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: £10.99£7.71'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets,... -
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.77These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. 'Suddenly Last Summer' is the starkly told story of Catherine, who seemingly goes insane after her cousin... -
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane 9780413748300
RRP: £11.99£11.024.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed suicide. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters... -
The Watsons by Laura Wade
RRP: £11.99£11.02What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an... -
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
RRP: £10.99£7.71A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know - ... -
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
RRP: £10.99£7.71A hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family. When the large Weston family is reunited in Oklahoma after the disappearance of their father, they let loose a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling... -
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573619410Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Sheila's Island by Tim Firth 9780573132964
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132964Author Tim FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
What We Know by Pamela Carter
RRP: £12.99£9.02A 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 a collection of invited (and uninvited) guests. As... -
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar
RRP: £11.99£11.67Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre You see we are prisoners of a corrupt country that is our own making. But don't pretend you don't participate. You do. Of course you do. American banker Nick... -
The Grapes of Wrath: Playscript by John Steinbeck 9780856761522
RRP: £10.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761522Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
The Rover and Other Plays by Aphra Behn 9780199540204
RRP: £8.99£6.61Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her... -
Scuttlers by Rona Munro
RRP: £11.99£8.37A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1882 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and... -
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
RRP: £9.99£8.82Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht 9780413308504
£11.72Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: £10.99£8.15In 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... -
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 9780573132797
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132797Author Neil GaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
RRP: £10.99£9.98Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his... -
100 Great Plays for Women by Lucy Kerbel
RRP: £10.99£7.71Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'There just aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse. Women buy the majority of... -
Punch and Judy: A Short History with the Original Dialogue by John Payne Collier 9780486449036
RRP: £8.99£5.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486449036Author John Payne CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: £9.99£7.29Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy,... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £18.99£12.83This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.The collection includes The Real Thing, Night & Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, about which... -
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99£7.82A 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... -
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.77Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia... -
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
RRP: £10.99£7.71Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel is a multi-award-winning play about the empowerment of a black seamstress in New York City in 1905. Esther sews exquisite lingerie for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. She has saved enough to... -
Behan Complete Plays by Brendan Behan
RRP: £22.99£22.85This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless... -
Ladies' Day by Amanda Whittington
RRP: £10.99£7.71An exuberant comedy about four likely lasses from the Hull fish docks on a day trip to the races, from the author of Be My Baby. Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their... -
Wolfie by Ross Willis
RRP: £11.99£8.37'If the sky dropped the stars or the river drained the water there would be outrage, but we treat children like this and there is silence.' Something's not right. Children are being raised by animals. A mother is slowly sinking in the bath. The... -
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £7.99£5.79Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance... -
The Girl on the Train by Rachel Wagstaff
RRP: £10.99£10.78Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel - an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide - this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the... -
Loot by Joe Orton
RRP: £10.99£8.15A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot... -
Stephens Plays: 2: "One Minute"; "Country Music"; "Motortown"; "Pornography", "Sea Wall by Simon Stephens
RRP: £21.99£20.59This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £10.99£9.66The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition for students with on-page notes to help... -
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130106Author Robert HarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £9.99£9.36A 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...