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The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
£9.47This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the... -
The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 9780199540099
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which... -
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
RRP: £9.99£7.11King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's... -
"Educating Rita" by Willy Russell 9780413767905
RRP: £10.99£8.15Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday Times ... -
Kes (stage version) by Barry Hines
RRP: £10.99£7.71A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school and at home: he's neglected by his mother, beaten by his... -
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... -
Godber Plays: v. 1: "Bouncers"; "Happy Families"; "Shakes" by John Godber
RRP: £21.99£20.61"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Bouncers, a play about nightlife: "A show... -
The Duchess of Malfi A Level Edition by John Webster
£16.00Ferdinand forbids his widowed sister to marry again. When he discovers that she is not only married but had a child he is driven mad with fury. The Duchess of Malfi is a study in strong characters, dark deeds and dreadful revenge. This edition includes... -
DNA by Dennis Kelly 9781350188044
RRP: £10.99£9.66This new Student Edition of Dennis Kelly's popular play DNA contains introductory commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which gives an in-depth analysis of the play's context and themes. As well as the complete text of the play, this new... -
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to Thirties by Dee Cannon
RRP: £13.99£12.70Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99£9.09Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward... -
Antigone: A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy by Hollie McNish
RRP: £9.99£7.16A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishAs the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt a cruel hand at birth - even within the bounds of Grecian tragedy. When her brothers are slain fighting... -
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights: Satellites and Comets; Summer Lightning; A Little Hero; A Child for Olya; The Pillow's Soul; Every Shade of Blue; A City Flower by Tatiana Klepikova
RRP: £24.99£21.69Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian... -
Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear
RRP: £10.99£7.77Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.Childlike in his innocence but... -
National Theatre Connections 2018 by Mr Brad Birch
RRP: £22.99£16.95Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and - particularly in the case of Connections - who we are going to be. Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of... -
Enough of Him by May Sumbwanyambe
RRP: £10.99£9.66Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 UK Theatre Awards Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland To keep that part of me silent. That is what is unbearable. That is why I must be free. Based on a true story,... -
Lear by Edward Bond
RRP: £10.99£9.66Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the... -
By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
RRP: £9.99£6.70Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her,... -
Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: £12.99£9.02Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art. In the first half of the musical, set in 1884,... -
My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley 9780413684707
RRP: £11.99£11.02'In its revelation of mother-daughter emotions over the years, the play is without rivals. It is a classic' The Times 'This is a landmark play. The theatrical equivalent of breaking the four-minute mile; like Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, pointing the way... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: £9.99£7.11Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of... -
The Wipers Times by Ian Hislop
£12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113512Author Ian HislopFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Dangerous Obession by N.J. Crisp
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016820Author N.J. CrispFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Bold Girls by Rona Munro
RRP: £10.50£9.62Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2014First Exam: June 2015This play, a set text for National 5 English, is the story of three women in war-torn Belfast. Although their men have been killed or imprisoned for their... -
My Name is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
RRP: £10.99£7.71The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings. Why did a 23-year old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between an Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza... -
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... -
Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy) by Katharine Eisaman Maus
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger's Tragedy, published anonymously and... -
War Horse by Nick Stafford
RRP: £10.99£7.32I want you to do yourself proud, Joey. You go and drive those Germans back where they've come from, and then come home to me. At the outbreak of World War one, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Caught up in... -
Fleabag: The Special Edition (The Original Play) by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
RRP: £12.99£9.02Celebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition - featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen... -
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
RRP: £10.99£7.71A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life... Between 1939 until the outbreak of World... -
Small Island (NHB Modern Plays) 2022 edition by Helen Edmundson 9781839040764
£20.63Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic... -
Impro by Keith Johnstone
RRP: £19.99£16.54In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors... -
Plays from the Arab World by Elyse Dodgson
RRP: £18.99£13.50A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. In Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), Ahmad and Nour rent a flat so that they can spend time together away from their... -
Mullarkey Plays: 1 by Rory Mullarkey
RRP: £21.99£20.61A remarkable writer - an original fresh voice, with a sharp political edge (Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director the Royal Court Theatre). British writer Rory Mullarkey is the winner of the Harold Pinter Commission, the James Tait Black Prize for... -
Grief Lessons: Four Plays By Euripi by Euripides
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172537Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm)... -
Paradise Now! by Margaret Perry
RRP: £10.99£7.71'It doesn't happen all the time. That you really connect with someone. It's rare to meet someone like you.' Gabriel Dolan's never been up to much. That's what everyone says. Until she meets Alex, a young, ambitious woman who sells essential oils for a... -
Under Milk Wood: The Definitive Edition by Dylan Thomas
RRP: £8.99£6.20Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and... -
Chatroom by Enda Walsh
RRP: £9.99£8.76The six teenagers in Chatroom never meet each other, they just communicate via the internet; conversations range in subject from Britney Spears to Willy Wonka to suicide. Jim is depressed and talks of ending his life and Eva and William do their utmost... -
Radiant Vermin by Philip Ridley
RRP: £10.99£8.15"The hallmarks of a Ridley classic; a fast-paced modern fairy-tale that burrows into the dark wormholes of the imagination ... reveals how below all that glitters, there's rarely gold." Exeunt Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home... -
Our Town and Other Plays by Thornton Wilder
RRP: £9.99£7.11Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is...