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Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats... by Marina Carr
RRP: £18.99£12.83The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and... -
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 -
Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus by Erich Segal 9780195041668
RRP: £35.99£26.91'We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) includes a new preface and additional... -
Nora: A Doll's House by Stef Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.93'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... -
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £16.99£12.47In 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... -
Eight by Ella Hickson
RRP: £11.99£8.60Eight 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£7.27'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... -
"Oleanna" by David Mamet
RRP: £10.99£9.66Mamet's ground-breaking and controversial play on the male-female power struggle, annotated with an introduction, notes and commentary. "An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer... -
Fanny & Alexander by Stephen Beresford
RRP: £10.99£7.93'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... -
Calendar Girls by Tim Firth
RRP: £11.99£10.95When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an 'alternative'... -
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind 9781848420564
£9.65Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play written in 1891 focuses on a group of classmates and explores adolescent sexuality and the emotional consequences if suppressed. This... -
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind 9781848420564 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£2.11Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play written in 1891 focuses on a group of classmates and explores adolescent sexuality and the emotional consequences if suppressed. This... -
Let the Right One In (stage version) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
RRP: £10.99£7.93A 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... -
Musset: Five Plays: "Moods of Marianne", "Fantasio", "Lorenzaccio", "Don't Play with Love", "Caprice" by Alfred de Musset 9780413692405
RRP: £22.99£22.85A collection of this major 19th century French playwright The Moods of Marianne dramatises Coelio's courtship of Marianne through his go-between friend Octave; Fantasio is set in a fictional Munich and concerns the marriage of a young princess to Leopold... -
Girls and Dolls by Lisa McGee
RRP: £11.99£8.60A 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... -
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £8.99£6.45One 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... -
Decade by Various
RRP: £15.99£14.48Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre... -
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'... -
Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh 9780573110160
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110160Author Mike LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437881
RRP: £9.99£7.11Shaw 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... -
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Fin Kennedy
RRP: £11.99£8.60The 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... -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 1: The Enemy Within; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Loves of Cass McGuire; Lovers (Winners and Losers); Crystal and Fox; The Gentle Island by Brian Friel
RRP: £19.99£13.45This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964)The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle... -
Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £9.99£7.29Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian... -
Aeschylus: v. I: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens' first great tragedian.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought ... -
She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies by Oliver Goldsmith 9780199553884
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the... -
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9780413724908
RRP: £10.99£8.38In 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... -
A Servant to Two Masters Joseph Farrell 9781408131053
RRP: £10.99£9.66This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a... -
Tylwyth by Daf James 9781784618797 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£1.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784618797Author Daf JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: £10.99£7.32Eigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] - noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. Across London, Mark... -
A Tender Thing by Ben Power
RRP: £12.99£9.26Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Ben Power weaves the text of Romeo and Juliet into a provocative new tale of love and sacrifice. Re-imagining Shakespeare's story, A Tender Thing is an elegiac yet ultimately... -
Closer Patrick Marber 9780713683295
RRP: £10.99£9.66'Love 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 plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right... -
Mammals by Amelia Bullmore 9780413775221
RRP: £11.99£11.42A darkly humorous look at the flip side of home-sweet-home Jane and Kev Hammersby don't have secrets. When Kev comes home from a business trip with something on his mind, the truth will out, despite a house full of over-excited children, dirty laundry... -
The Satires by Juvenal 9780199540662 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.88Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson,... -
The Satires by Juvenal
RRP: £9.99£7.11Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson,... -
Collins National Theatre Plays - The Exam by Andy Hamilton
RRP: £10.99£10.77The 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... -
Stephens Plays: 2: "One Minute"; "Country Music"; "Motortown"; "Pornography", "Sea Wall by Simon Stephens
£23.20This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The... -
Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, the Cyclops, Rhesus by David Grene
£12.14Sixty 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... -
Cuckoo by Michael Wynne 9780571386109
RRP: £10.99£7.32We've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, 'Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their... -
Daisy Pulls it Off by Denise Deegan
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111174Author Denise DeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Bussy D'Ambois: By George Chapman by N. S. Brooke 9780719056963
RRP: £19.99£17.82Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more...