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The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £10.99£8.23The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s... -
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: £9.99£6.70The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Monologues for Young Actors by Anne Harvey
RRP: £16.99£14.21Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these dramatic monologues are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging from early Elizabethan to contemporary... -
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay 9780140432206
RRP: £8.99£6.45The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century.In THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, John Gay turned conventions of Italian... -
Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115790Author Patrick HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
RRP: £10.99£10.62Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.About the AuthorPedro Calderon de la... -
The Country Wife by William Wycherley 9781408179895
RRP: £9.99£8.82'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,... -
Girls and Dolls by Lisa McGee
RRP: £11.99£8.37A striking play from Northern Ireland about two women and the childhood tragedy they'll never be allowed to forget. For Emma and Clare, 1980 was the summer they met at the swings, the summer they built a tree house and stole from Dennis O'Donnell's... -
Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen by Chris Head 9781350155756
RRP: £21.99£18.96This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. ... -
Fanny & Alexander by Stephen Beresford
RRP: £10.99£7.71'There is no shame in deriving pleasure from this little world.' Siblings Fanny and Alexander are growing up amidst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden. But their world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the... -
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Fin Kennedy
RRP: £11.99£8.37The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century. When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of... -
An Experiment with an Air Pump by Shelagh Stephenson
RRP: £11.99£11.67Shelagh Stephenson's daring and thoughtful new play 1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics. 1999 - In a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering,... -
Love from a Stranger by Agatha Christie 9780573702433
RRP: £18.95£14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702433Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Collaborators by John Hodge
RRP: £10.99£7.32Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he's offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin... -
Let the Right One In (stage version) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
RRP: £10.99£7.71A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film. Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the... -
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9780413724908
RRP: £10.99£8.15In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on... -
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £8.99£8.96One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
£12.73This edition of Arthur Miller's classic tragedy brings the play alive for students whether in the classroom or drama studio. With activities that target exactly the right level plus in-depth biographical and contextual information to deepen students'... -
Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780198828853
RRP: £8.99£6.45Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw remains one of the world's most important and popular writers. His plays are regularly performed around the world, from the boards of Broadway and the West End to regional, community, and college stages. The three... -
The Downing Street Guide to Party Etiquette: The funniest political satire of the year! by Verity Bigg-Knight 9781035410569
RRP: £9.99£6.80Partygate? 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... -
Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
RRP: £12.99£9.54"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner... -
Red by John Logan
£11.53"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko... -
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan 9781854594679
RRP: £9.99£7.06Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since. Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college, having been... -
Wish List by Katherine Soper
RRP: £12.99£9.02A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you. 'I dreamt about this last night. I dreamt that I was packing boxes in boxes in boxes.' Tamsin packs boxes... -
Poems and Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal... -
Consensual by Evan Placey
RRP: £11.99£8.37An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you. As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the new 'Healthy Relationships' curriculum. But then... -
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne
RRP: £11.99£8.37A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand... -
Cock by Mike Bartlett 9781474229630
RRP: £10.99£8.15But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . ... -
The Revenger'S Tragedy: Thomas Middleton / Cyril Tourneur by R. A. Foakes
RRP: £10.99£7.90This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9780486270623
RRP: £3.49£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270623Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm)... -
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 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... -
Racing Demon by David Hare
RRP: £10.99£7.32How do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. Racing... -
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £9.99£9.35Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop... -
The Prisoner's Dilemma by David Edgar
RRP: £10.99£7.71The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy, which also includes Pentecost and The Shape of the Table. An urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders. Beginning in early 1989 and spanning some twelve years, the... -
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 9781848424951
RRP: £9.99£7.06Bruno has a friend called Shmuel. Like Bruno, Shmuel is nine years old. Their birthdays are on the same day. But Shmuel lives on the other side of a fence, and he's always wearing striped pyjamas... Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The... -
Lava (NHB Modern Plays) by Benedict Lombe 9781839040092
RRP: £9.99£7.06'This is nice, innit? Yeah. Good little set-up to tell you the story of my name. The story of my true name.' When a woman receives an unexpected letter from the British Passport Office, she is forced to confront an old mystery: why does her South... -
Hungry (NHB Modern Plays) by Chris Bush 9781839040115
RRP: £11.99£8.37'I'd watch you eat. I'd eat you up. Look at you. You get it, don't you? You're real.' Lori is a professional chef. Bex waits on tables to make ends meet. One night together in a walk-in fridge and it's the beginning of something beautiful. Lori has... -
The Beggar's Opera and Polly by John Gay 9780199642229
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.' With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new... -
Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists by Lenora Champagne
RRP: £19.99£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360098Author Lenora ChampagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U... -
A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £11.99£11.02Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar...