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Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes 9780571202256
RRP: $23.08$15.37Ted Hughes's remarkable sequence of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 and was celebrated in The Times by Michael Hofmann as 'one of the great works of the century'. Tim Supple and Simon Reade have... -
Bunny by Jack Thorne
RRP: $23.08$16.19An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer. Scorching heat. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When her boyfriend is attacked on the street, feisty eighteen-year-old Katie is thrust on a white-knuckle ride through one extraordinary evening... -
Precious Little Talent & Hot Mess by Ella Hickson
RRP: $27.28$18.94Two plays by award-winning playwright Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent is about a father desperate not to forget his daughter and two young people determined not to be forgotten by the world. It was first performed at the Bedlam Theatre,... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
$28.43"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Bartlett Plays: 1: Not Talking, My Child, Artefacts, Contractions, Cock by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $46.18$43.24This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters. My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Abridged for Schools by Simon Stephens
RRP: $27.28$24.91This abridged edition is designed for schools and has been adapted for 10 actors playing all of the roles. With a running time of just 90 minutes it is suitable for performance in non-theatre spaces, with minimal technical requirements. The Curious... -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781585100354
RRP: $41.98$33.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100354Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 341g -
Britannia Waves the Rules by Gareth Farr
RRP: $25.18$17.58An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home - to a world they no longer know how to cope with, and a society that doesn't know how to cope with them. Carl doesn't fit in at home. He doesn't fit in anywhere. When... -
Best Contemporary Monologues for Men 18-35 by Lawrence Harbison 9781480369610
RRP: $27.28$19.66Lawrence 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 (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have... -
Violence and Son by Gary Owen
RRP: $23.08$22.64'People know, you're my boy. And they know better than to lay a fucking finger on you. See? You are safer here with me, than you have ever been.' Liam's 17 years old, loves Dr Who and has lost his mum. He has had to move from London to Wales, to the... -
No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
RRP: $23.08$15.37'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The TimesDo Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate... -
Celebrated Virgins: The Story of the Ladies of Llangollen by Katie Elin-Salt
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133565Author Katie Elin-SaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
A Christmas Carol (Old Vic new edition) (NHB Modern plays) by Jack Thorne
RRP: $23.08$16.19One bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to, and sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built... -
An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
RRP: $23.08$16.19'What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?"' Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent,... -
"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton
RRP: $23.08$17.12Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a... -
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind 9781408140895
RRP: $23.08$20.29A 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 to today's society, exploring the oppression and... -
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Play by Glyn Robbins
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573050817Author Glyn RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9781408125755
RRP: $25.18$24.49Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot... -
"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $20.98$18.52'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's' Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her... -
The Oresteia by Ted Hughes
RRP: $23.08$15.37The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal house of Atreus, it follows a singularly harrowing... -
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
RRP: $25.18$17.70The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular... -
Yen by Anna Jordan
RRP: $27.28$18.94Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban;... -
946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo 9781783197392
$26.71Imagine being told to leave your home... Imagine American soldiers occupying your house and land... Imagine being 12 and angry, with only a cat to tell your secrets to... Well it all happened (most of it anyway) in Slapton Sands, Devon, in 1944... -
The Alchemist by Tanya Pollard 9781472532596
RRP: $33.58$30.18A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's... -
My Family and Other Animals (NHB Modern Plays) by Janys Chambers 9781839040399
RRP: $20.98$14.83'The sky turns the colour of a jay's eye. The sea turns a deep royal purple. The mist lifts in quick, lithe ribbons, like a conjuring trick. Before us lies the island...' It's 1935, and an eccentric English family - four children, their widowed... -
Mary Shelley by Helen Edmundson
RRP: $29.38$20.48Mary Shelley: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft; lover of Shelley; author of Frankenstein... Helen Edmundson's compelling play explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley - her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with Percy... -
The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708862Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker
RRP: $20.98$14.07When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that she, like her sisters, can go. With her mother dead and her father away, she must learn to fight the monsters that have slithered... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781492334620
RRP: $18.90$16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492334620Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Township Plays: No-Good Friday; Nongogo; The Coat; Sizwe Bansi is Dead; The Island by Athol Fugard
RRP: $25.18$17.70The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression. They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts, drawing on their lives and everyday experiences in the... -
Longman School Drama: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde playscript by David Edgar
$33.66Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror story, this dramatic adaptation shows the transformation of the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into the fiendish Mr Hyde. When Jekyll discovers a drug that can transform him, he becomes able to unleash the dark... -
There Are No Beginnings by Charley Miles
RRP: $27.28$18.94This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper. It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room. ... -
The Berenger Plays: The Killer, Rhinoceros, Exit the King, A Stroll in the Air by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $20.98$14.93"This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is being terrorized by a killer, whom he tries to help apprehend. In... -
I'm a Phoenix, Bitch by Bryony Kimmings
RRP: $25.18$24.51Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change. Through script and photographs this book documents the show I'm a Phoenix, Bitch, Kimmings' personal response to the trauma of having post-natal breakdown. In 2016, Bryony... -
"Dealer's Choice" by Patrick Marber 9780413714909
$23.98Dealer's Choice premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play. 'An exceptionally accomplished... -
Mojo by Jez Butterworth
RRP: $25.18$17.58A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners fight for control of Johnny Silver, the latest young... -
A Servant to Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
RRP: $23.08$20.29This 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... -
Cinderella: Pantomime by Chris Harris 9780856762512
RRP: $23.08$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762512Author Chris HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Brecht Plays: 5: v. 5: "Life of Galileo", "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: $52.48$48.91Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together... -
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde 9780486414232
RRP: $7.33$5.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414232Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 75gDimensions(mm)...