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Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 9780573150180
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573150180Author Michelle MagorianFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
My Boy Jack by David Haig
RRP: £9.99£7.06The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War. The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent. Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his severely short-sighted son to war triggers a bitter family... -
Huis Clos and Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £10.99£7.77These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre's favourite among his plays,... -
The Cagebirds by David Campton
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033667Author David CamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.' County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting... -
Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly
RRP: £10.99£8.15"A piece that takes us on an extraordinary journey ... The energy and the vividness of the writing never lets up." The Independent An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they... -
Sex with a Stranger by Stefan Golaszewski
RRP: £11.99£8.37Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain. Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier that day, his girlfriend watches as he prepares for his... -
Snowflake by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Because Christmas. Well... That's when they say people come home.' Andy loves nostalgic television, pints down the pub, and listening to the whole album from beginning to end. His daughter, Maya, wears good shoes, likes good arguments, and has a... -
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £11.99£11.66Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the... -
"Two": AND "Bed" by Jim Cartwright
RRP: £10.99£8.15'Jim Cartwright is one of the mavericks of British theatre' Daily Telegraph Two: 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The Guardian Bed: 'It's insights into the twilight world of old... -
Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland
RRP: £11.99£11.67Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home. Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past... -
Find ME by Olwen Wymark
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111365Author Olwen WymarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Contemporary Monologues for Women: Volume 2 by Trilby James
RRP: £12.99£9.02Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.77Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... -
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney 9780413316806
RRP: £10.99£8.15A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961. The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with those... -
Cathy Come Home by Jeremy Sandford 9780714525167
RRP: £9.99£7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714525167Author Jeremy SandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
RRP: £10.99£7.71A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family - and a marriage - through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Bob and Fran have worked hard to give their four children the... -
The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99£7.32Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boys with a comprehensive study guide. Highlights of Andrew Bruff's guide include:- detailed analyses of... -
An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £9.99£8.82One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women... -
The IT (NHB Modern Plays) by Vivienne Franzmann
RRP: £10.99£7.71'It is really small. Whatever it is. But it's here. It's definitely here.' A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety... -
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by David Grene
£12.14Sixty 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... -
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue... -
Refugee Boy by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £11.99£11.67An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle... -
Oxford Playscripts: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
£12.73This edition of Arthur Miller's award-winning masterpiece brings the play alive for students whether in the classroom or drama studio. With activities that target exactly the right level plus in-depth biographical and contextual information to deepen... -
"Top Girls" by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £10.99£8.15Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the... -
Chicken!: New revised 2020 version by Mark Wheeller
RRP: £11.99£8.00New revised 2020 version It's Christmas. Tammy and Chris, cousins and best mates, are both thrilled to get cool new bikes. Give or take the odd unworn cycle helmet everything is great... that is until one morning when Chris has a puncture and Tammy... -
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 9780856763281
RRP: £10.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763281Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Ruckus by Jenna Fincken
RRP: £10.99£10.78I don't think I'll ever meet someone who loves me as much as Ryan loves me and hates me as much as Ryan hates me A loving relationship can be anything but. In this one-woman thriller, Ruckus explores coercive control, an issue not widely... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780199537969
RRP: £9.99£6.92`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood... -
Equus by Peter Shaffer
RRP: £9.99£7.11Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane'... -
The Wind in the Willows (stage version by Kenneth Grahame
RRP: £11.99£8.37This delightful stage adaptation combines all the joy and mystery of Kenneth Grahame's much-loved classic with the lightness of touch and playful theatricality that award-winning playwright Mike Kenny is known for. Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole... -
The Thrill of Love by Amanda Whittington
RRP: £10.99£7.71A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where there's more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a... -
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £10.99£7.32Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers, but hers is a diminishing world. Her vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her... -
Heroes by Gerald Sibleyras 9780571231003
RRP: £10.99£7.32One must strive a little for the epic, old boy.It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the... -
Playwriting: A Backstage Guide by Prof. Dan Rebellato
RRP: £9.99£8.82This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus... -
Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Plays 1: The Night Season; Shoreditch Madonna; Her Naked Skin; The Painter by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: £16.99£11.58The Night Season'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once... -
Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: £10.99£7.90Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781503213807
RRP: £6.99£6.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503213807Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Jez Butterworth Plays: One by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £18.99£13.50Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, 'one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years'... -
Jez Butterworth Plays:Two: Jerusalem, The Clear Road Ahead, The River, The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £18.99£13.50'Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!' When Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2009, it served notice of an astonishing...