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Under Milk Wood: Including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas 9781840228410
RRP: £3.99£2.87Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show... -
The Empress Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350190573
RRP: £10.99£9.66Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim, step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen; the other forges an astonishing... -
Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £9.99£6.47Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of... -
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition by Willy Russell
RRP: £10.99£9.66Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or... -
Translations by Brian Friel 9780571117420
RRP: £10.99£7.97The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey... -
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys
RRP: £16.99£12.47For two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can... -
A Taste Of Honey Elaine Aston (Professor of Contemporary Performance, Lancaster University) 9781408106013
RRP: £10.99£9.66'Miss Delaney brings real people on to her stage...she is busy recording the wonder of life as she lives it' Kenneth Tynan, Observer A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.62Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more nature.HAMM: No more nature!... -
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley 9783125752139
RRP: £14.95£14.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783125752139Author J B PriestleyFormat PaperbackImprint Klett (Ernst) Verlag,StuttgartPublisher Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart -
Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard
RRP: £10.99£7.32people herehave becomethe peoplethey're pretending to be.'Sam Shepard's language is sparse and crystal clear. His words appear modest, but they have huge scope.'Wim WendersThis volume is the first collection of Sam Shepard's autobiographical fiction and... -
Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9781840221152
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780199537969
RRP: £9.99£7.11`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood... -
Dunsinane by David Greig
RRP: £10.99£7.32Late 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, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken... -
Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock
RRP: £10.99£7.93'What doctor know about our illness? Just give you pills to sick you stomach and a doctor certificate. What they know about a black woman soul?' In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late - 3 p.m... -
The House Of Bernarda Alba: La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713686777
RRP: £10.99£9.66Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war... -
"Europe": AND "The Architect" by David Greig 9780413708809
RRP: £11.99£11.42"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman) Europe is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce,... -
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
RRP: £10.99£8.38I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect. The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love,... -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling 9780751574951
RRP: £8.99£6.55J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World . . .When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic... -
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
RRP: £9.99£7.27A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, Long Day's Journey into Night is an intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of the author's own family - a play so acutely personal that he insisted it... -
Ulster American Mr David Ireland 9781350463738
RRP: £10.99£9.66Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play - one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies by Christopher B. Balme
RRP: £22.99£19.56Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this Introduction examines the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline. Following a cross-cultural perspective, the book... -
The Play That Goes Wrong: 3rd Edition by Henry Lewis
RRP: £11.99£11.05Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama... -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £8.99£6.28This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the... -
Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: £10.99£7.90Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak... -
The Duchess of Malfi by John Fletcher
£13.41The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled... -
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99£7.32An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool... -
The Duchess of Malfi by Revd Prof. John Webster 9780393923254
£14.28This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Duchess of Malfi's themes of love, loyalty and betrayal... -
Noughts & Crosses by Sabrina Mahfouz
RRP: £10.99£7.93Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. It is forbidden. Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and Crosses there are racial and social divides. A segregated society teeters on a volatile knife-edge. As violence... -
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 9780573132797
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132797Author Neil GaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Immaculate by Oliver Lansley
RRP: £10.99£7.93You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant, and here is the Angel Gabriel on your doorstep claiming parentage. In Oliver Lansley's "Immaculate", things quickly spiral... -
Stephens Plays: 3: Harper Regan, Punk Rock, Marine Parade and On the Shore of the Wide World by Simon Stephens
RRP: £21.99£21.04Harper Regan follows a woman's road trip through the heart of England in a violent and comic exploration of the moralities of sex and death. Quietly harrowing, this play is a barometer for our times exploring dark secrets and familial estrangement. ... -
Breathing Corpses Laura Wade (Author) 9781350256699
RRP: £11.99£11.02Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first... -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 3: Three Sisters (after Chekhov); The Communication Cord; Fathers and Sons (after Turgenev); Making History; Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
RRP: £19.99£13.45This third collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Three Sisters (Chekhov) (1981)The Communication Cord (1982) Fathers and Sons (Turgenev) (1987) Making History (1988) Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)About the AuthorBrian Friel (9 January 1929 - 2 October... -
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573031021Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 9781840224184
RRP: £3.99£2.87With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme... -
I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die by Mark Wheeller
RRP: £11.99£11.95I'd had a conversation specifically with Dan about ecstasy. It's one of the things you do as a parent, isn't it? Wear your helmet when you're out on your bike, you know, don't take drugs. To be honest, I was more worried about him being safe on his... -
A Game Called Malice: A Rebus Play by Ian Rankin 9781398721135
RRP: £18.99£12.75A delicious, and somewhat drunken, dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess. However, the parlour game may hold clues about the dark truths hiding just under the surface of this genteel gathering...As suspects, clues and red... -
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 9780435233105
£17.00Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama and a wide range of established classics, in value-for-money hardback versions. The series has been specially developed to support classroom teaching and performance... -
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £19.99£13.45The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on... -
Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris
RRP: £12.00£7.95On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond...