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The Art of the Artistic Director: Conversations with Leading Practitioners by Christopher Haydon 9781350016934
£29.07How do you decide what stories an audience should hear? How do you make your theatre stand out in a crowded and intensely competitive marketplace? How do you make your building a home for artistic risk and innovation, while ensuring the books are... -
A Tempest by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £11.99£9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362108Author Aime CesaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
English Mystery Plays by Peter Happe 9780140430936 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day... -
Alligators by Andrew Keatley
RRP: £9.99£7.27A searing thriller that asks how well we actually know those closest to us. Daniel Turner has it all. A devoted wife, two beautiful children and a teaching job he loves. But when allegations are made about his past, his world begins to crumble around... -
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
RRP: £10.99£9.57Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his... -
Women's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny by Alisha Gaddis 9781480360426
RRP: £11.99£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480360426Author Alisha GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book... -
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
RRP: £9.99£8.76A collection of some of Edward Albee's earliest and most acclaimed works.Book InformationISBN 9780573042225Author Edward AlbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre version) by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: £12.99£9.26Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. 'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £22.49£15.94The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
Bond Plays: v.3: Bingo; The Fool; The Woman; Stone by Edward Bond 9780413338907
RRP: £21.99£19.99The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: £9.99£7.53Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy,... -
Baby Doll and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.80Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva... -
Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie 9780573702419
RRP: £15.95£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702419Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hedda Gabler (Drama Classics) by Henrik Ibsen 9781854591845 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£2.00Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by... -
Hedda Gabler (Drama Classics) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £5.99£4.61Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by... -
Excellence for Actors by Alexa Ispas 9781913926274
£16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913926274Author Alexa IspasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Word BothyPublisher Word BothyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm -
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey 9780571212323 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.26This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains:- The... -
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
RRP: £8.99£6.08This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains:- The... -
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama by John P. Harrington
£20.39This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix
RRP: £11.99£8.43Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in... -
A Gay Century Volume 2: 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life by Peter Scott-Presland
RRP: £11.99£9.70‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay... -
The Father by Christopher Hampton
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115554Author Christopher HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Making of a Monster by Connor Allen 9781912430857 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£7.03A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling... -
The Making of a Monster by Connor Allen
RRP: £9.99£8.17A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling... -
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman 9781474251037
RRP: £12.99£2.42There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting . . . You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn't funny anymore. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: £8.99£8.72Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Pramkicker by Sadie Hasler 9781474292535
RRP: £11.99£11.42I am the Edith fucking Piaf of the empty womb. Je ne regrettay fucking rien. Jude has always known she doesn't want kids. Her sister Susie isn't sure if her ovaries are twingeing or if she just needs a wee. One day, in a cafe full of 'yummy... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sophie 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... -
Frozen by Bryony Lavery
RRP: £10.99£7.32Four days ago phone call from the policeThey think they have some news for usCan they come over?A psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing; a play about retribution, remorse and redemption and the interwoven lives of three strangers... -
Arthur Miller Plays 3: The American Clock; The Archbishop's Ceiling; Two-Way Mirror by Arthur Miller 9781350334267
RRP: £19.99£17.73"The greatest American dramatist of our age" - Evening Standard In this third volume of collected works, three of Arthur Miller's stage plays from the early 1980s are brought together in a new edition. Expanding on the themes and explorations of his... -
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 9781408110201
RRP: £10.99£9.66The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely... -
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qu'ran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 9780413775900
RRP: £11.99£11.42Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely... -
On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education by Colette Conroy
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book explores and interrogates access and diversity in applied theatre and drama education.Access is persistently framed as a strategy to share power and to extend equality, but in the context of current and recent power struggles, it is also seen... -
Home by Nadia Fall
RRP: £10.99£7.93A powerful, inventive play that mixes real testimonials alongside existing and original music to explore one of the most important social concerns of today: homelessness amongst young people. Bullet doesn't want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl... -
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. and Imp. by Cary Churchill
RRP: £9.99£7.27'I can see her just. Most people can't see her at all.' A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killer's friends. And a secret in a bottle. Four stories by Caryl Churchill. Glass, Kill, Bluebeard, and Imp premiered at the Royal Court... -
Pressure by David Haig
RRP: £12.99£9.26An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare. June 1944. One man's decision is about to change the course of history. Everything is in place for the biggest invasion ever known in Europe... -
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks
RRP: £11.99£8.60An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights. America, 1862, during the Civil War. Hero, a slave, is promised his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy against the Union... -
Clouds / Wasps / Peace by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
Antigone by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £13.99£12.61Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so... -
Aeschylus Tragoediae: Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias by Aeschylus 9780198145707
£27.89Contains the Greek texts of the seven extant plays of Aeschylus: "Persae", "Septem contra Thebas", "Supplices", "Agamemnon", "Choephoroe", "Eumenides", and "Prometheus Vinctus".Book InformationISBN 9780198145707Author Denys PageFormat HardbackPage Count...