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The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, On the Rocks, and Millionairess by George Bernard Shaw 9780198809944
RRP: £10.99£7.77The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide with the Great Depression, the intensification of the crisis of democracy that began after the war, and the rise of... -
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring 9780856761225
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761225Author Joseph KesselringFormat PaperbackImprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99£11.86The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire, to bloody revenge tragedy, to melodramatic intrigue, to dark farce and... -
Valhalla by Paul Murphy
RRP: £9.99£7.27As violence sweeps the city, a couple escape to an isolated Nordic research facility. On the brink of discovering a cure for the devastating disease, cracks in their marriage start to appear. The outside world grows increasingly hostile and the couple... -
La Bete and Wrong Mountain: Two Plays by David Hirson 9780802138217
RRP: £12.99£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138217Author David HirsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Country Wife and Other Plays by William Wycherley
RRP: £10.99£7.77Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in... -
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486268675Author Oliver GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Three Restoration Comedies by Sir George Etherege
RRP: £12.99£9.09After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and... -
The Rover by Aphra Behn 9781408152119
RRP: £9.99£8.82Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group... -
Tribes by Nina Raine
RRP: £10.99£7.93Nina Raine's clever and subtle new play. Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love,... -
The Life in My Years by Virginia McKenna
£33.79At the heart of this book is a cry for change in attitude - to respect nature and all that it provides. Virginia McKenna has pushed aside the glamour of movie stardom, the West End and Broadway where she starred in major shows like The King and I and A... -
Thrown by Nat McCleary 9781839042584
RRP: £10.99£7.93'We can be strong. We can be loud. We can be brutal. And if it makes people uncomfortable? Good.' Five wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit to compete in the obscure art of Backhold Wrestling. Can bold... -
The Gathered Leaves by Andrew Keatley
RRP: £9.99£7.27A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997. For more than seventeen years, the Pennington family has never been together in... -
National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young People by National Theatre
RRP: £12.99£11.86It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant... -
"Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "the Duck Variations": Two Plays by David Mamet 9780802150110
RRP: £10.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150110Author David MametFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
One for the Road by Willy Russell 9780573113208
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113208Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
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 ... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781854591173 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.99The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess. This translation of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac was first performed by... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781854591173
RRP: £12.99£9.26The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess. This translation of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac was first performed by... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140440447
RRP: £12.99£9.09The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.About the AuthorEuripides,... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd by David Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: £10.99£7.90The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically... -
Cleansed by Sarah Kane 9780413733306
£12.53This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with... -
A Table Tennis Play by Sam Steiner
RRP: £9.99£7.06'When does it happen?' A long summer weekend, two strangers, and a full-size table tennis table. Sam Steiner's A Table Tennis Play is a play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball. It premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival... -
Bent by Martin Sherman 9780906399095
£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906399095Author Martin ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Freak by Anna Jordan
RRP: £10.99£7.93A 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 dreams. She practices her cum face and Veets. A lot... -
Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann
RRP: £51.99£45.19Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions... -
15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid: The War / The Desert / The Labyrinth by Ovid
RRP: £13.99£9.93Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women - queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians - in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines. They were the women left in the wake of those swaggering... -
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett 9780571329656
RRP: £12.99£9.24Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first... -
Study Guide to Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw by Intelligent Education 9781645421580
RRP: £8.99£7.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645421580Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Conor McPherson Plays: One by Conor McPherson
RRP: £18.99£13.81Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author. The plays in this volume - three monologues and a three-hander - were all written while Conor McPherson was in his twenties. In This Lime Tree Bower (Crypt Arts Centre,... -
Foxfinder by Dawn King
RRP: £11.99£8.60England is in crisis. Fields are flooded, food is scarce and fear grips the land. William Bloor, a foxfinder, arrives at Judith and Samuel Covey's farm to investigate a suspected fox infestation. The Coveys' harvest has failed to meet their target and... -
Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £9.99£7.41Iphigenia 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... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: £16.99£16.26Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently never... -
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
RRP: £13.99£9.93An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Harry Hope's Saloon is a waterfront bar full of life's failures. They exist barely, living on the knowledge... -
Antigone by Roy Williams
RRP: £10.99£9.66When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive. Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it... -
Jack Thorne Plays: One by Jack Thorne
RRP: £20.99£15.14Acclaimed for his screenplays for TV dramas including Skins, Shameless, The Fades, This is England '86/'88/'90 and Glue, Jack Thorne first emerged as a writer of unflinching, compassionate and often challenging plays for the stage. Described as a... -
Almost Adult by Charlotte Anne-Tilley 9781804470855
RRP: £7.99£6.69Hope's leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London. It's going to be mind-blowing. Attractive Hinge dates, mature new friends... A job at a dinosaur-themed bar? Hell. Yes. Several months in things are looking slightly less rosy. Her... -
Dance Nation by Clare Barron 9781350200739
RRP: £10.99£8.38"Barron paints a wholly plausible picture of teenage insecurity and ambition ... a play that wittily shows how dance can be a source of liberation without ever quelling the tremulous terrors of adolescence." - The Guardian Somewhere in America, a... -
Audition Speeches for Young Actors 16+ by Jean Marlow 9780713678895 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£1.97Finding good, interesting audition pieces is a demanding and difficult process. This revised edition contains over 40 speeches and includes a wide selection of pieces taken from plays written or produced recently, such as Nathan the Wise, All the... -
Audition Speeches for Young Actors 16+ by Jean Marlow
RRP: £18.99£16.78Finding good, interesting audition pieces is a demanding and difficult process. This revised edition contains over 40 speeches and includes a wide selection of pieces taken from plays written or produced recently, such as Nathan the Wise, All the...