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Bent Martin Sherman 9780906399095
$14.28Apologies 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 -
Racing Demon by David Hare 9780571161065
RRP: $14.18$9.44How do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. Racing... -
15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid: The War / The Desert / The Labyrinth by Ovid
RRP: $18.05$12.81Two 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... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd Stephen Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: $14.18$10.19The "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... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $14.18$9.44Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham... -
Study Guide to Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw by Intelligent Education 9781645421580
RRP: $11.60$9.21Apologies 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: $24.50$17.81Four 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: $15.47$11.09England 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... -
Studying Plays by Mick Wallis 9781350007321
RRP: $28.37$28.24Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: $21.92$20.98Tragedy 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: $18.05$12.81An 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... -
Anne of Green Gables: Libretto by Don Harron 9780573080395
$15.96Ageing Matthew Cuthbert suffers a heart attack during harvest, 1903, and his grim-visaged sister determines to adopt an orphanage boy to help with the farm work at Green Gables. By mistake, a girl arrives, red-haired, freckled and over-talkative. Her... -
Phèdre: Édition bilingue by Jean Racine 9780140445916
RRP: $20.64$14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140445916Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
What I Learned from Johnny Bevan by Luke Wright
RRP: $12.89$9.02What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left.At university the mercurial Johnny... -
Antigone by Roy Williams
RRP: $14.18$12.46When 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... -
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
RRP: $16.76$11.73Based 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... -
Jack Thorne Plays: One by Jack Thorne
RRP: $27.08$19.53Acclaimed 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... -
Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson 9780865479166
RRP: $14.18$13.31In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the... -
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation by Sophocles
RRP: $19.34$16.78Sophocles was the dominant Athenian playwright of the fifth century BCE. His best-known work, the three-play "Oedipus cycle" ("Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Kolonos", and "Antigone"), traces three generations of a family ravaged by the inscrutably... -
Almost Adult by Charlotte Anne-Tilley 9781804470855
RRP: $10.31$8.63Hope'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: $14.18$10.81"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... -
Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell
RRP: $16.76$11.95A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana. A woman disappears. Four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive? Nine parallel lives - interlocked by four... -
Once Upon a Bridge by Sonya Kelly
RRP: $15.47$15.42He was like a rugby man, He hit her like a rugby man, Straight into her shoulder, The momentum of the crash, Dragging her beyond the kerb, Towards the front tyre of my bus. Early one morning on Putney Bridge, three strangers' lives collided for... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: $24.50$16.55This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The outside world is described with almost hallucinatory... -
The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $15.47$11.09Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) and frequently revived. Andrew Crocker-Harris'... -
Oil by Ella Hickson
RRP: $14.18$10.23The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones. Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling collision of empire, history and family. Ella Hickson's explosive play drills... -
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 9781420960822
$8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420960822Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
Aeschylus II: The Oresteia by David Grene
RRP: $15.48$11.49Sixty 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... -
Plays: One by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $25.79$18.68Since her debut in 2008, Lucy Kirkwood has firmly established herself as a leading playwright of her generation, the writer of a series of savagely funny, highly intelligent and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times. ... -
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin 9780719019531
RRP: $20.63$18.67For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of... -
Brief Encounter by Noel Coward
RRP: $15.47$14.91Noel Coward's Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic Director of the Company, has adapted Coward's classic 1945... -
Quartet & Equally Divided by Ronald Harwood 9780571200924
RRP: $16.76$11.04This volume contains two plays by one of Britain's finest playwrights. In Quartet Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Each year, on 10 October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married... -
Oxford Student Texts: An Ideal Husband by Jackie Moore 9780198374817
$15.17Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.Book InformationISBN... -
When They Go Low by Natalie Mitchell
RRP: $15.47$11.09'But deep down, we all know the only thing I did wrong was be a girl who spoke up. A girl who refused to stay silent. And... I'm still not gonna stay silent, because this stuff is too important to keep ignoring.' When social media goes into a frenzy... -
Gut Girls by Sarah Daniels
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019654Author Sarah DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price 9781408172872 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47$3.95It's 2011: Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret embassy cables and military logs from the Iraq and Afghan wars. After nearly two years in prison without charge, Manning now faces a court martial, accused of... -
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price
RRP: $15.47$15.42It's 2011: Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret embassy cables and military logs from the Iraq and Afghan wars. After nearly two years in prison without charge, Manning now faces a court martial, accused of... -
Orphans Dennis Kelly (Author) 9781350265929
RRP: $14.18$13.89Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves. But the outside world comes crashing into their lives one day when Helen's brother turns up. Covered in blood. Dennis Kelly's new play is a thrilling contemporary suspense story which takes its audience... -
Bombshells: Six Monologues for Women by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: $15.47$11.09Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life. Meryl Davenport - A mother who tells the story of her non-stop day in a rapid-fire internal monologue. Tiggy Entwhistle - A cactus lover bravely attempting to rise above... -
Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb by Norman Robbins 9780573113598
$15.96"Prepare To Meet Thy Tomb" follows "Tomb With A View" and "Tiptoe Through the Tombstones" to complete the trilogy of plays from Norman Robbins about the family that play together and slay together: the murderous Tombs. As...