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Seneca: Oedipus: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by A. J. Boyle
RRP: $117.60$116.95Seneca's Oedipus is a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental, intellectually... -
Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie 9780573702303
RRP: $39.80$29.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702303Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Starting Drama Teaching Mike Fleming (University of Durham, UK) 9781138207974
RRP: $67.18$59.49Why 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... -
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sarte
RRP: $33.50$24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613050Author Jean-Paul SarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: $27.28$19.45An 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... -
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by David Grene
$25.49Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $23.08$16.32These 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
$23.98The 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... -
Oxford Student Texts: John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi by Jackie Moore 9780198325741
$24.70Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... -
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by David Grene
RRP: $25.20$21.34Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping and F***ing; The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $41.98$39.48With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria... -
Strictly Murder by Brian Clemens 9780573114298
$23.98It 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: $44.08$31.79A 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: $25.18$23.98Brilliant 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
$23.98Orphan 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: $33.58$32.28A 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... -
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573697142Author John BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: $23.08$15.37In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working... -
Brian Friel Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa; Fathers and Sons; Making History; Wonderful Tennessee; Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel 9780571197101
$39.48This 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... -
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: $20.98$14.93Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid... -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107
RRP: $25.18$24.55Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Moment of Speech: Creative Articulation for Actors by Annie Morrison
RRP: $54.58$47.80Annie Morrison, creator of the Morrison Bone Prop, abandons the notion that language and thought are mainly processed in the left cerebral hemisphere, and coaches the actor to speak from the heart. Through this method, words acquire physical properties,... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 9780571362790
RRP: $23.08$15.37Murder 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... -
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573120633Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Downing Street Guide to Party Etiquette: The funniest political satire of the year! by Verity Bigg-Knight 9781035410569 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.90Partygate? More like party GREAT!While the UK locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Boris Johnson's Number Ten played host to a series of boozy shindigs. Now, for the first time, you can learn to get wasted like they do in Whitehall. The Downing... -
The Downing Street Guide to Party Etiquette: The funniest political satire of the year! by Verity Bigg-Knight 9781035410569
RRP: $20.98$14.28Partygate? More like party GREAT!While the UK locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Boris Johnson's Number Ten played host to a series of boozy shindigs. Now, for the first time, you can learn to get wasted like they do in Whitehall. The Downing... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: $23.08$16.65'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: $39.88$29.00The 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... -
The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr
RRP: $27.28$19.45'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: $25.18$23.00Apologies 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 -
Hughes Plays: v.1: "Digging for Fire"; "New Morning"; "Halloween Night"; "Love and a Bottle" by Declan Hughes 9780413723802
RRP: $46.18$41.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Downstate by Bruce Norris
RRP: $23.08$16.65In 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 Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $23.08$16.32Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... -
The Country Wife William Wycherley 9781408179895
RRP: $20.98$18.52'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery,... -
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $23.08$16.65A 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 - ... -
The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida 9781350148260
RRP: $37.78$33.47The 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... -
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
RRP: $23.08$16.65A 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
$28.54Apologies 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 -
What We Know by Pamela Carter
RRP: $27.28$19.45A 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... -
Three Plays by Euripides
RRP: $27.28$19.09One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484-406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods as symbols of human nature. The three plays in this...