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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9781420966572
$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420966572Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
Holes by Tom Basden
RRP: $27.28$18.94An absurd, hilarious and fast-paced comedy by the writer of some of Britain's most acclaimed TV comedies. Flight BA043 has crashed on an island. Stranded, four survivors wait. Surely somebody will find them. Planes don't just disappear, do they? And,... -
Out of Sorts by Danusia Samal
RRP: $20.98$14.83Zara has spent her adult life being two different people. The good Muslim daughter, all set to marry the man her family approves of - and a free-spirited British millennial, who parties as hard as she works. Over one dramatic weekend, the lies she's... -
East is East by Ayub Khan-Din
RRP: $23.08$16.19The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are... -
Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2 by Trilby James
RRP: $23.08$16.19Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh... -
Starting Drama Teaching by Mike Fleming
RRP: $67.18$59.49Why teach drama? How can a newcomer teach drama successfully? How do we recognize quality in drama? Starting Drama Teaching is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of drama in schools. Exploring the aims and purposes of drama, it provides an insight... -
Swallow by Stef Smith
RRP: $25.18$17.58'Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?' Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another - if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct. ... -
"Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
$25.39New York, summer 1954 Criminal Courts Building A man is dead The life of another is at stake A "guilty" verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the... -
The Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize by Celia R. Daileader 9780719053672
RRP: $23.08$19.93This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century.Co-edited by a feminist critic... -
Educating Rita by Willy Russell
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111150Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $20.98$14.83Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the... -
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
RRP: $27.28$18.94A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir. It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house... -
Caroline or Change by Tony Kushner
RRP: $23.08$16.191963. In quiet Lake Charles, Louisiana, the destruction of a Confederate statue might just signal that change is in the air... But, whatever the progress of the civil rights movement, in the Gellman household things seem just the same - for now at least... -
Effie's Burning by Valerie Windsor
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132360Author Valerie WindsorFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
3 Winters by Tena Tivicic
RRP: $23.08$16.19A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them. From the remnants... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 9780571362790
RRP: $23.08$15.37Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of... -
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles
RRP: $52.40$48.13Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology... -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $23.08$15.37Eigengrau / [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... -
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780199537839
RRP: $16.78$12.16For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being... -
Daughterhood by Charley Miles
RRP: $27.28$18.94A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them. One sister stayed at home to care for Dad. The other set out to 'make a difference'. Reunited under their childhood roof, Pauline and Rachel unearth more... -
The Three Musketeers: A Comedy Adventure by John Nicholson
RRP: $27.28$18.94'My name is D'Artagnan, musketeer to King Louis the Thirteenth, defender of the Queen's diamonds, and the man you tried to poison in that bar.' When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his quest to become a King's musketeer, he immediately... -
Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin by Enda Walsh
RRP: $25.18$17.58Disco Pigs is the award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists and was filmed in 2001 with Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy. Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share... -
The Acid Test by Anya Reiss 9781849430456
$23.98This has been the worst day of my life. So can you please get drunk with me? Dana, Ruth and Jess down shots to console the heart-broken, to comfort the anxious and just pass the time. Kicked out from the family home Jess's dad, Jim, invades the party... -
Rose by Martin Sherman 9781350361324
RRP: $23.08$20.29This powerful one-woman play is a moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century and remains sadly relevant today with racial tensions and allegations of antisemitism continuing to dominate the news. Blending the personal with... -
The Last Witch by Rona Munro
RRP: $27.28$18.94A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart. Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer,... -
Five Plays by Ben Jonson 9780199555772
RRP: $20.98$15.31The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 2: Decadence; Kvetch; Acapulco; Harry's Christmas; Brighton Beach Scumbags; Dahling You Were Marvelous; Dog; Actor by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $39.88$26.94Written 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 Guardian as being 'enthused with Berkoff's violent, imagist,... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: $27.28$19.09With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology by David Bevington 9780393976557
$101.39Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here-by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others-reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh... -
Iphigenia in Splott by Gary Owen 9781350372610
RRP: $23.08$22.62What is gonna happen, when we can't take it anymore? Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don't know half of it. Effie's life is a mess of... -
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
RRP: $27.28$19.09Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse... -
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 9780571194292
RRP: $23.08$15.37The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to... -
Churchill Plays: v.1: "Owners"; "Traps"; "Vinegar Tom"; "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"; "Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $46.18$40.76In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Duologues for Young Actors by Anne Harvey
RRP: $37.78$33.47Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these scenes are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary literature, the pieces... -
Great Expectations (Royal Shakespeare Company version) by Charles Dickens
RRP: $27.28$18.94A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters. Whilst at his parents' graveside, Pip is accosted by Magwitch, a convict escaped from one of the prison ships. Terrified, he is... -
Shook by Samuel Bailey
RRP: $23.08$16.19'He'll look different. My little boy. When I get out. Like... to the picture I've got in my head. Be like meeting him all over again. A whole new start.' Instead of GCSEs, Cain, Riyad and Jonjo got sentences. Locked up in a young offender institution,... -
Robert Icke: Works One: Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor by Robert Icke 9781350407299
RRP: $41.98$39.50Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-award-winning work. Includes: ... -
The High Table by Temi Wilkey
RRP: $25.18$24.51Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2020 That's actually what me and Leah came here to talk to you about. Look- there's no easy way of saying this, but... Leah and I are getting married. The dresses are chosen, the venue's been booked... -
The Faber Book of Monologues: Women by M/s Jane Edwardes
RRP: $23.08$15.37Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an impressive array of... -
Iron by Rona Munro
RRP: $27.28$18.94An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. Josie is seeing her mother Fay for the first time in a while - she's never...