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Frozen by Bryony Lavery
RRP: £10.99£7.32Four days ago phone call from the policeThey think they have some news for usCan they come over?A psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing; a play about retribution, remorse and redemption and the interwoven lives of three strangers... -
Plays from VAULT 5 by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: £16.99£12.18This 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 thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the... -
Strawberries in January by Rona Munro
RRP: £10.99£7.71A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montreal, in a version by Rona Munro. Strawberries in January is a version by Rona Munro of Evelyne de la Cheneliere's 1999 play Des Fraises en Janvier, Winner of the Quebec Academy of... -
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £8.99£7.45In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through... -
No Quarter by Polly Stenham
RRP: £10.99£7.32You were brought up on mythology. Hollow mythology. That's why you're all stuck, all angry, a prince in the wrong story. A prince with a black eye.Fleeing a world he has rejected, Robin finds solace in his music and the sanctuary of his remote family... -
Bird and other monologues for young women by Laura Lomas
RRP: £11.99£8.37Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights. Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain. It's four in... -
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
RRP: £12.99£9.09Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic... -
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of... -
The Incident Room by Olivia Hirst
RRP: £12.99£9.02It's 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper. With public and political pressure mounting, hundreds of officers must work... -
Cornermen by Oli Forsyth
RRP: £9.99£7.06Mickey and his team of cornermen never seem to have much luck in the boxing world. The fighters they manage always end up losing and, after a disastrous last outing, no one wants to work with them. All that changes when they sign Sid, a young boxer... -
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
RRP: £10.99£7.32One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music... -
Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham
RRP: £9.99£7.11Come 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... -
Stella by Neil Bartlett 9781783198368
£10.47"What's the odds so long as you're happy?" - Ernest Boulton, 1869 Alone on the darkened stage of an old music hall, a man reflects on an extraordinary life as he awaits a very ordinary death. Inspired by the scandalous true story of Ernest Boulton... -
Bad Roads by Natalia Vorozhbit
RRP: £11.99£8.37'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. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns... -
Victoria's Knickers by Josh Azouz
RRP: £9.99£7.06On the eve of her coronation, Victoria is having a bath. Out of her chimney falls Edward 'The Boy' Jones. Again. Adored by the tabloids and hated by the establishment, his repeated break-ins to the palace remain a mystery to all. Except Victoria. An... -
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/s by T. J. Bacon 9781789389593
RRP: £29.95£26.65This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of... -
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore
RRP: £10.99£8.15"It connects emotionally with the audience, and is wittily written ... Bullmore makes you like, and believe in, her three characters ... The play also has a careering energy ... impossible not to like." The Guardian Aged 18, three women join forces... -
Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £9.99£7.06Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights. Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it... -
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
RRP: £10.99£8.15"Albee's perversely funny sendup of a standard mid-life crisis drama ... dares to suggest that even the most flawed and confused human beings deserve compassionate understanding, and the failure to proffer it is a species of bestiality far more abhorrent... -
Uncle Vanya by Conor McPherson
RRP: £10.99£7.71In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov. However, when Sonya's father, Professor Serebryakov, suddenly returns with his... -
Ravenhill Plays: v. 1: Shopping and F***ing, Faust is Dead, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill
RRP: £21.99£20.59"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ...He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing,... -
Another Country by Julian Mitchell 9780906399316
£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Society of West End Theatre Awards - Play of the Year 1982.Book InformationISBN 9780906399316Author Julian MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Amber... -
Plays Three: Mother and Child; Sleep My Baby Sleep; Afternoon; Beautiful; Death Variations by Jon Fosse
£20.47"Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared... -
Cartwright Plays: v.1: "Road", "Bed", "Two", "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright
RRP: £21.99£19.41Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know,... -
Amorous Hope, a Pastoral Play, Volume 83: A Bilingual Edition by Valeria Miani
RRP: £48.00£46.39A seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Miani's Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of society's double-standards and it champions women's dramatic agency... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140449297
RRP: £9.99£7.11Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings... -
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
£13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508609Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781839042461
RRP: £10.99£7.71When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. Left to make her own entertainment, Mary stumbles upon a garden, overgrown and locked for years. A forbidden garden. Finding her... -
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: £10.99£7.71A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780140449686
RRP: £9.99£7.11Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size and believes she will never see past it to return his... -
Jekyll & Hyde by Evan Placey
RRP: £10.99£7.71Everyone has another face they hide behind... A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, where civilised society meets seedy Soho in a thrilling collision of Victorian England with the here and now. ... -
Treasure Island (NHB Modern Plays) by Le Navet Bete
RRP: £12.99£9.62Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins is serving ale in The Admiral Benbow Inn - when suddenly the door slams open and in strides Billy Bones, the infamous pirate, to change Jim's life forever... Soon, Jim finds himself on board The Jolly Todger and setting... -
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £16.99£12.18In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction by the author, this volume... -
Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573015762
£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015762Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £16.99£12.28Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains: Icecream - an unsettling look at British attitudes to America, and vice versa... -
Nora: A Doll's House by Stef Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.71'You've lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done...?' Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life... -
Eight by Ella Hickson
RRP: £11.99£8.37Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage. From Millie, the jolly-hockey-sticks prostitute who mourns the loss of the good old British class system, to Miles, a 7/7 survivor, and Danny, an ex-squaddie who... -
Is God Is by Aleshea Harris 9781848428874
RRP: £9.99£7.06'We ain't killers' 'How you figure that?... Iss in the blood.' When a letter arrives from the mother they thought was dead, twenty-one-year-old twins Racine and Anaia travel from the Dirty South to the California desert, to a yellow house with teal... -
Remote by Stef Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.77Antler 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 of one autumnal evening, seven teenagers' lives... -
Wit by Margaret Edson
RRP: £10.99£7.71A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy...