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Soyinka Plays: v. 1: "Brother Jero"; "Camwood on the Leaves"; "Death and the King's Horseman"; "Madmen and Specialists"; "Opera Wonyosi" by Wole Soyinda 9780413553508
RRP: €26.17€23.79Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' (Independent); Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies... -
Mappa Mundi by Shelagh Stephenson 9780413773029
RRP: €14.27€13.59A new play by the award-winning author of The Memory of Water London, the 1990s. Jack is afraid of dying, while his 40-something daughter is preparing for her wedding to a black lawyer, Sholto. As the family gathers for the forthcoming festivities, Jack... -
The Libertine (216 edition by Stephen Jeffreys
RRP: €14.27€10.23'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.' John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress... -
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation by Sophocles
RRP: €17.84€13.51Sophocles 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... -
Lights Over Tesco Car Park by Jack Bradfield
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115820Author Jack BradfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Comment is Free by James Fritz
RRP: €15.46€10.82Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in. Ideal for schools, youth theatres and amateur companies to perform, these versatile and incisive plays demonstrate an innovative... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 4: Dalliance; Undiscovered Country; Rough Crossing; On the Razzle; The Seagull by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €22.60€15.27This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (Dalliance and Undiscovered Country), Ferenc Molnar (Rough Crossing), Johann Nestroy (On the... -
The Jungle Book (stage version by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: €13.08€9.44Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales, in an acclaimed stage adaptation by Stuart Paterson, 'a master of children's theatre' (Scotsman). Saved from the jaws of Shere Khan the tiger, Mowgli must learn the Laws of the Jungle from Baloo the bear and... -
The Skriker by Caryl Churchill
RRP: €14.27€8.46An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England. In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie... -
An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 - 1950 by Sean Mayes
RRP: €26.17€21.54A radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 - 1950 uncovers the hidden Black history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost archive material and digitised newspapers from the turn of the... -
The Man in the Glass Booth by Robert Shaw 9780573612176
RRP: €13.08€11.41Goldman, a boastful, self-made real estate mogul who enjoys a fully-staffed garden penthouse overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, is living the American Dream. As a German Jew who flaunts this fact far and wide, his inbred paranoia means a handgun is... -
A Shakespeare Glossary by C. T. Onions 9780198125211
RRP: €57.70€52.86The last edition of this famous glossary was published in 1919. This thorough revision takes account of the considerable advances in Shakespeare scholarship since then.Reviews'If the revision is more streamlined, less amiably idio-syncratic, less... -
Decade by Various 9781848422308 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.86Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre... -
Decade by Various
€34.53Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre... -
After Miss Julie by Patrick Marber 9780413711502
RRP: €14.27€13.59A new version of a world classic by one of Britain's best-known contemporary playwrights After Miss Julie relocates August Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first... -
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton 9781854597380 [USED COPY]
RRP: €5.94€2.65Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. Written in 1623, two years after The Changeling, Women Beware Women is the second of Thomas Middleton's two great... -
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
RRP: €5.94€4.70Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. Written in 1623, two years after The Changeling, Women Beware Women is the second of Thomas Middleton's two great... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780486272818
RRP: €4.75€4.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272818Author August StrindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
RRP: €11.89€8.65An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed for a knock-down price, enabling the first black family to move into the neighbourhood and alarming the... -
We are Three Sisters by Blake Morrison
RRP: €11.89€8.65Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison evokes the lives of the Bronte sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters. Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly. In Haworth in... -
Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells 9781839040184
RRP: €13.08€9.44'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the... -
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
RRP: €29.69€27.83Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from... -
Hall Plays: v. 2: "Mr Puntila"; "Mother Courage"; "A Servant to Two Masters"; "The Good Hope" by Lee Hall 9780413773777
RRP: €26.17€23.79A collection of major play adaptations by the author of Billy Elliott MR PUNTILA: "Brecht's Puntila is the Jekyll and Hyde of the class war. When he's plastered this Finnish landowner drips with sugary human kindness; once sober again, he's a... -
Holding the man by Tommy Murphy
RRP: €16.65€11.82Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures. The course of... -
London Assurance by Richard Bean
€12.46Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the... -
Sophocles: Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: €32.12€27.89Sophocles' Antigone is probably the most widely read and performed of all Greek tragedies, and its themes and conflicts resonate powerfully into the modern era. In this new edition, Mark Griffith combines sophisticated literary and cultural... -
The Events by David Greig
RRP: €13.08€8.71'I have been thinking I might go berserk.'When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult question of all: 'Why?' It's a journey that takes her to the edge of reason, science, politics and faith.David... -
"A Skull in Connemara" by Martin McDonagh
€15.58Winner 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; Winner 1996 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for... -
Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course in Selection, Preparation, and Presentation for the Modern Performer by Stephen Purdy
RRP: €29.74€25.92Musical Theatre Song is a handbook for musical theatre performers, providing them with the wide-ranging skill set they need for success in today's competitive musical theatre environment. Breaking down the process into knowing how to select your song... -
The Playwright's Manifesto: How You Can Be The Future of Playwriting by Paul Sirett
RRP: €23.79€19.68Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 A manifesto for the future of playwriting, this book challenges you to be a part of that future in the belief that it is fundamentally important to write plays. Plays help us understand ourselves, others,... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9781854594112
RRP: €5.94€4.70Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of... -
Absolute Hell by Rodney Ackland
€12.46Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780719041310
RRP: €13.08€9.40The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's... -
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: €13.08€8.71Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes... -
Antonio'S Revenge: By John Marston by John Marston 9780719057038
RRP: €23.79€21.21Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as... -
Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo by Marina Carr
RRP: €23.79€16.01This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting... -
Blackthorn by Charley Miles
RRP: €15.46€11.02The only two children born in a North Yorkshire village for a generation cannot imagine ever being apart, but as their lives shift, so too do the ties that bind them. A contemporary, lyrical love story, Blackthorn explores the changes and choices that... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray
RRP: €22.60€15.27'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's TermsSimon Gray: Plays 1 includes Quartermaine's Terms; Stage... -
Red by John Logan
€13.29"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko... -
The Last of the Pelican Daughters (NHB Modern Plays) by The Wardrobe Ensemble
RRP: €15.46€11.02In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. Today, four sisters are trying to come to terms with their mother's death - and divide their mother's house between them. Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be...