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The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett 9780571167494
RRP: $14.18$9.44George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power... -
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
$16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508609Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue by Rona Munro
RRP: $18.05$12.81Two plays, from the award-winning author of Iron. Your Turn to Clean the Stair is a comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement. Old Mrs Mackie has always been in charge of her stair, the communal stairwell she shares with... -
Putting the Kettle on by Simon Brett 9780573033919
$13.51Miggy, a 'Sloane Ranger', has just been dumped by her boyfriend Roddy because she is 'shallow' and does not care for the environment in the way his new love, Harmony, does. Miggy tells us her sorry story as she wrestles with the environmental issues... -
Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama: Vol 1: New Directions in Drama and Performance by Peter Billingham 9781841500683
RRP: $37.35$36.29This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community.The list of contributors is... -
Nigel Slater's Toast by Henry Filloux-Bennett 9780573115592
$14.73Based on the British Book Awards Biography of the Year, Toast is the story of Nigel Slater's childhood, told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle to waging a war over cakes and from the pressured playground... -
True West by Sam Shepard 9780573617287
$15.26Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of... -
100 Paintings by Jack Michael Stacey 9781804470121
RRP: $10.31$8.63Revolution has torn through the land, leaving society teetering on a knife edge. A young artist finds himself holed up at the City Hotel with his mother, where he must sing for his supper. In the face of ruin, with a pile of unpaid hotel bills growing... -
Natural Causes by Eric Chappell 9780573018411
$14.73Vincent is a professional suicide merchant. He has been summoned by Walter Bryce and mistakenly assumes that his potion is for Walter's consumption. Eventually it becomes clear that Walter's wife Celia is the client or is she? Why are her suicide letters... -
Georg Buchner's Woyzeck Karoline Gritzner 9781138962965
RRP: $10.31$9.44'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- WoyzeckGeorg Buchner's Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author's death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first 'modern' drama in the history of European theatre... -
Marina Carr: Plays 2: On Raftery's Hill; Ariel; Woman and Scarecrow; The Cordelia Dream; Marble by Marina Carr
RRP: $25.79$17.35On Raftery's Hill'This is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power.' Sunday IndependentAriel'An astonishing piece of theatre. Interweaving themes drawn from Irish, Greek and biblical myth, she spins a tale of power... -
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1: Realism and Naturalism by J. L. Styan 9780521296281
RRP: $45.14$36.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
It Runs in the Family by Ray Cooney 9780573017995
$15.96Britain's master farceur ( Two Into One, Run For Your Wife, et al. ) is at it again. Set in a hospital, It Runs in the Family contains the usual assortment of farcical nuts running in and out of doors mistaking everybody for someone else, as Dr... -
Making Noise Quietly: three short plays by Robert Holman
RRP: $18.05$12.81An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives. In Being Friends, two young men meet in a Kentish field in 1944 as doodlebugs whizz overhead. One is a conscientious objector, the other an artist, but an intense bond forms... -
Gasping by Ben Elton 9780573017735
$14.73The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way... -
Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers (NHB Modern Plays) by Natalie Ibu 9781848429840
RRP: $24.50$17.81'Welcome. Welcome to Bristol in 1963. Welcome to Waterloo Bridge in 2016. Welcome to a house in May 2017. Welcome to three couples and what might be, what once was and what could have been in 2017. Welcome to a West Indian household in 2018. Welcome to... -
Rock/Paper/Scissors (NHB Modern Plays) by Chris Bush
RRP: $24.50$17.81'Three options, as I see it - they'll kill it off entirely, you'll let it die of natural causes, I'm going to make it live again.' When the owner of a Sheffield scissor manufacturer dies, the future of the factory site falls into uncertainty. Can it... -
The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre by Sarah Stanton 9780521446549
RRP: $55.46$48.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Us/Them by Carly Wijs
RRP: $14.18$10.23In September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children, their parents and teachers hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and left many dead. Us/Them is not a straightforward account of... -
Bash by Neil LaBute
RRP: $14.18$9.44Neil LaBute's Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays.In 'Medea Redux', a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher.In 'Iphigenia in Orem', a Utah businessman confides... -
"Sleeping Around" by Abi Morgan 9780413732705
RRP: $15.47$14.73Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan Sleeping Around is about love and sex in Britain as we approach the millennium. In a dozen... -
Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: A New Mermaids Anthology: "Everyman", "Mankind" and "Mundus Et Infans" by G.A. Lester 9780713666618
$17.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: $70.95$55.87Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio... -
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society's Production of "The Mikado" by David McGillivray 9780573080975
$14.73The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society's Production of The Mikado - and the ladies outdo even themselves in this hilarious staging of the classic operetta.-Large flexible castBook InformationISBN 9780573080975Author David... -
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students by David Raeburn 9780199595617
RRP: $30.95$28.86This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling... -
Aeschylus: v. III: Fragments by Aeschylus
RRP: $32.19$30.17Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably... -
The Duchess of Malfi John Webster 9780486406602
RRP: $5.15$3.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406602Author John WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm)... -
A World Elsewhere by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $28.37$24.95A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.Berkoff outlines the methods that he uses, first of all as an actor, secondly as a playwright and thirdly as theatre director, as well as those subtle... -
They Came from Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall in Time for the Townswomen's Guild's Coffee Morning by David McGillivray 9780573016653
$14.73The Farndale Avenue ladies attempt lift off with their Dramatic Society's unique production of a sci-fi thriller. Needless to say, high-tech effects going awry and the limited talents of some group members ensure that the cast remains firmly on the... -
After Mrs Rochester by Polly Teale
RRP: $16.76$11.95The hit show from Shared Experience Theatre Company based on the tortured and passionate life of Jean Rhys and her most famous book, Wide Sargasso Sea, the prequel to Jane Eyre. In Wide Sargasso Sea - 'one of the works of genius of the 20th century'... -
Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me by Amy Trigg 9780573132605
$14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132605Author Amy TriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
1984 by George Orwell
RRP: $15.47$14.98April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be... -
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: $29.01$20.56The 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... -
Hopelessly Devoted by Kate Tempest
RRP: $15.47$15.42Freedom has only ever meant Love. And life lived without love Is not life enough. Chess is in prison. Facing a lengthy sentence, her cell mate, Serena, becomes her soul mate. But when Serena is given parole, Chess faces total isolation. Hope... -
Yellow Face (TCG Edition) by David Henry Hwang
RRP: $23.21$14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363402Author David Henry HwangFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U... -
Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies by Kate Hext 9780198875376
RRP: $32.25$27.34Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the... -
Public Property by Sam Peter Jackson
RRP: $11.60$11.25A dark comedy commenting on the state of television and news reporting in a celebrity-obsessed age.A dark comedy commenting on the state of television and news reporting in a celebrity-obsessed age.About the AuthorSam Peter Jackson's plays include Minor... -
Deathwatch by Jean Genet
RRP: $14.18$9.44Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genet's first play,... -
Clickbait by Milly Thomas 9781783197224
$15.96Nicola Barker is in trouble. A video has been made, and she is the unwitting star. In a bid to stop the footage being used against her, Nicola makes a snap decision: to post it online herself. What started as a drunken night in a dirty club ends with... -
You'll Have Had Your Hole by Irvine Welsh 9780413728609
RRP: $15.47$14.73A play from the author of Trainspotting Within the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of...