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Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: $16.76$11.95An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter. George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist... -
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
RRP: $15.47$10.87The 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... -
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $14.18$9.44It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early... -
A Doll's House Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350261075
RRP: $14.18$12.46Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $14.18$10.02These 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 brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into... -
The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt 9780573013409
$14.73The scene is a madhouse and the focus is on three inmates who are nuclear physicists. One thinks he is Newton and another, Einstein. The third has visitations from Solomon. They appear to be nice, likeable lunatics, but nothing is as simple as it seems... -
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $14.18$9.44The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage... -
The Witch of Edmonton: By William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford by Peter Corbin
RRP: $14.18$10.19The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother... -
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $12.89$9.17In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's... -
Strictly Murder by Brian Clemens 9780573114298
$14.73It is in April 1939. An English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far, it seems, from the rumblings of the coming war. Their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discovers she has been betrayed: Peter is not the man... -
Scot Free: New Scottish Plays by Alasdair Cameron
RRP: $27.08$19.53A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century. Selected and introduced by Alasdair Cameron, the collection draws on adventurous theatres such as the Edinburgh Traverse... -
The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble 9780413774064
RRP: $15.47$14.73Brilliant new play about dating through the internet I like the internet. I like that way of talking to people. It's honest. It's a place where people are free to say anything they like. And most of what they say is about sex. Dani's on a mission. She's... -
James and the Giant Peach: Play by Roald Dahl 9780573051388
$14.73Orphan James is sent to live with his aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after his parents are killed in a tragic accident involving a rhino, but the aunts treat him horribly. One day he meets an old man who gives him a bag containing the strongest magic in the... -
The Revenger's Tragedy by Gretchen E. Minton
RRP: $20.63$19.83A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated... -
Brian Friel Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa; Fathers and Sons; Making History; Wonderful Tennessee; Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel 9780571197101
$24.25This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney. The collection is introduced by... -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107
RRP: $15.47$14.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.89$9.47Apologies 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... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 9780571362790
RRP: $14.18$9.44Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: $14.18$10.23'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,... -
Conor McPherson Plays: Two by Conor McPherson
RRP: $24.50$17.81The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky... -
'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays by John Ford
RRP: $12.89$9.17Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. His... -
The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr
RRP: $16.76$11.95'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. ... -
Run for Your Wife by Ray Cooney
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113833Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Watsons Laura Wade (Author) 9781350256620
RRP: $15.47$14.22What 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 Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida 9781350148260
RRP: $23.21$20.56The 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... -
Hughes Plays: v.1: "Digging for Fire"; "New Morning"; "Halloween Night"; "Love and a Bottle" by Declan Hughes 9780413723802
RRP: $28.37$25.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437881
RRP: $12.89$9.17Shaw 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... -
Downstate by Bruce Norris
RRP: $14.18$10.23In 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... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.18$10.02Agememnon 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' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of... -
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $14.18$9.44Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers, but hers is a diminishing world. Her vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her... -
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $14.18$10.23A 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 - ... -
Faust: Part Two by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: $14.18$10.41Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and... -
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
RRP: $14.18$10.23A 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... -
Beat Generation: The Lost Work by Jack Kerouac 9781560258940
$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560258940Author A. HomesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press -
Collins National Theatre Plays - The Exam by Andy Hamilton
RRP: $14.18$13.89The Exam is a funny but serious look at the pressures faced by pupils today, both at school and at home. The play is accompanied by teaching materials containing fantastic ideas for drama work, as well as other activities designed to answer English... -
Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham
RRP: $14.18$9.44Come on troops. Let's take check: Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full night's sleep but otherwise all in order... Stay here. Don't answer the door. I'll go out and get some proper food.In a new flat, three... -
What We Know by Pamela Carter
RRP: $16.76$11.95A 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: $15.47$15.42Nominated 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... -
Exit the King: The Killer ; and, Macbett : Three Plays by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $14.18$12.51Apologies 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: $16.76$15.42Apologies 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