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Woman Killed with Kindness by A. Heywood
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The story of a young boy's fantastic adventure after being washed up on a Pacific island - adapted for the stage by acclaimed dramatist Stuart Paterson from the best-selling novel by Children's... -
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: Plays 1: Belongings; The Wasp; Mum; When the Long Trick's Over; The Passenger by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm 9781350424326
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $25.19In her first collection of plays, Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's talent for writing complex female characters is on dazzling display. Belongings (2011):... -
Closer by Patrick Marber 9780413709509
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.73Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best... -
Andromaque by Jean Racine 9781557830210
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.53Love? What does EloveE mean in this fearsome drama? Not much that is affirmative. Not much to heat the heart of a sentimental spectator. It signifies a passion that amounts to illness an alternately... -
1984 by George Orwell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have... -
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe 9780393643350
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $18.65This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1633 quarto (Q) text-the only authoritative version-with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of... -
Spring Awakening Charlotte Ryland 9781408140895
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant... -
Best Contemporary Monologues for Men 18-35 by Lawrence Harbison 9781480369610
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.80Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men a from contemporary plays all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 a perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues... -
Albion by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02'It's England really, isn't it? A climate without cloud and rain isn't honest.' In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope... -
The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63'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... -
Hand to God: A Play by Robert Askins 9781468313925
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468313925Author Robert AskinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint -
Amy's View by David Hare
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new... -
The Man in the Glass Booth by Robert Shaw 9780573612176
Booksplease Price: $19.75Goldman, a boastful, self-made real estate mogul who enjoys a fully-staffed garden penthouse overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, is living the American Dream. As a German Jew who flaunts this fact... -
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 9780393934007
Booksplease Price: $17.41The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and... -
Freak by Anna Jordan
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.70A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen. Georgie is thirty with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Leah is fifteen with teenage... -
Authentic Movement: Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow by Patrizia Pallaro
RRP: $49.57Booksplease Price: $49.49Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26This 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... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40In 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... -
Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers... -
A Steady Rain by Keith Huff 9780865479364
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479364Author Keith HuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Jumpers for Goalposts by Tom Wells
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19A hilarious and heart-warming comedy about football, friendship and finding your way. Luke wants Danny, but Danny's got a secret. Joe's happy in goal, but Geoff wants a headline gig. Viv just... -
Glass Eels by Nell Leyshon 9781840027532
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07Late August heat, still and heavy, down on the Somerset Levels. A land of water and silt and mud and eels. Something is moving. Unfurling...During a heady hot summer, a young girl's sexual awakening... -
Lovesong by Abi Morgan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.74'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as... -
The Merthyr Stigmatist (NHB Modern Plays) by Lisa Parry 9781839040054
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85'I have caused what might soon be a global situation because you've stopped thinking people like me are worth hearing.' Is something incredible happening in Merthyr? Sixteen-year-old Carys claims... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71In 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... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 2: Decadence; Kvetch; Acapulco; Harry's Christmas; Brighton Beach Scumbags; Dahling You Were Marvelous; Dog; Actor by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.23Written with characteristic Berkoff flair and an understanding of the subtle power and violence of the English language, this second collection of his plays includes Decadence, described by the... -
Marching for Fausa by Biyi Bandele-Thomas 9781872868103
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872868103Author Biyi Bandele-ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Impri -
Woyzeck by Georg Buchner 9781848426368
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54'People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next: if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.' The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne, the playwright behind Harry Potter and... -
stoning mary by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. 'So what happened to the bitches... -
The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63'I just thought it would be a secret I'd have to die with. And now - I think it'll be what kills me.' Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour isn't always easy, but Ayesha has things... -
York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling by Richard Beadle
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78'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... -
David Copperfield (stage version) by Charles Dickens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.97One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording. All Dickens's marvellous creations are here: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.04This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Booksplease Price: $16.07This 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... -
Oh What a Lovely War by Theatre Workshop
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.41Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal,... -
Wolfie by Ross Willis
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19'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... -
Dunsinane by David Greig
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors,... -
Chef by Sabrina Mahfouz
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I'm not safe, I don't know the way. Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a...