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The White Devil by Benedict Robinson
RRP: €19.03€17.10Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt political world, the play explores the relations of... -
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by David Grene
RRP: €14.28€12.09Sixty 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... -
That Face by Polly Stenham
RRP: €13.08€8.71I can't take care of you anymore. I can't take it. It's like an endless boxing match.Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their... -
Sophocles II: Ajax, the Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, the Trackers by David Grene
€14.45Sixty 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... -
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
RRP: €8.32€6.10In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord... -
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: €20.22€17.39"Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a... -
Plays from VAULT: Five new plays from VAULT Festival by Florence Keith-Roach
RRP: €22.60€16.07This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2016, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. Eggs is a dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out, by Florence Keith-Roach, 'rising star of the London theatre... -
1984 (NHB Modern Plays) by George Orwell 9781839040481
RRP: €13.08€9.17'O'Brien! They've got you too!' 'They got me a long time ago.' Winston Smith is in prison, found guilty of Thoughtcrimes against Big Brother. As part of his reconstruction, he must re-enact key moments from his past life, with the help of other... -
The Dumb Waiter: Play by Harold Pinter
RRP: €11.89€10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573042102Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: €13.08€9.17It's Bobbie's thirty-fifth birthday party, and all her friends are wondering why she isn't married. Why can't she find the right man, settle down and start a family? A breakthrough on Broadway in 1970, Company is Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's... -
Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
RRP: €13.08€9.17The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by... -
For the Love of The Archers: An Unofficial Companion: Revised and Updated by Beth Miller
RRP: €15.46€10.23A revised and updated edition of the bestselling guide to all things Ambridge, For the Love of the Archers contains extensive all-new content that will keep any fan of the show enlightened and entertained. It's been over 70 years since the familiar... -
Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: €10.70€7.68Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of... -
Duncan Macmillan: Plays One: Monster; Lungs; 2071; Every Brilliant Thing; People, Places And Things by Duncan Macmillan
RRP: €26.17€23.10This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.The first collection from critically-acclaimed UK playwright Duncan... -
Tales of the Tricycle Theatre by Terry Stoller
€31.43Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published with the Society for Theatre Research, the book draws... -
Heathers: The Musical by Kevin Murphy
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573703829Author Kevin MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett 9781846072598
RRP: €13.08€9.92Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded... -
Inside Llewyn Davis by Joel Coen
RRP: €15.46€11.00Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a... -
New Labour by Marcelo Dos Santos
RRP: €14.27€9.96Getting pissed, getting laid, getting by. The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre: Alice wants to be a singer, Liam wants to travel, Rob wants to make a killing and Sally's been there too long but... -
Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
RRP: €20.22€19.19This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three... -
Orton Complete Plays: "Entertaining Mr. Sloane", "Loot", "What the Butler", "Ruffian", "Erpingham Camp", "Funeral Games" "Good and Faithful Servant" by Joe Orton
RRP: €29.74€27.68I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his... -
Edward II Revised by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: €11.89€10.50Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: €13.08€9.25Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett 9781408132821
RRP: €14.27€13.11It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone...You were the glimmer. At the end of the... -
Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €11.89€8.46Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of... -
The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan 9781854594235
RRP: €13.08€9.17Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it. The play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer (Peggy Ashcroft in the first... -
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of... -
And Then There Were None: Play by Agatha Christie
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014413Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €9.51€6.89The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: €11.89€8.70Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human... -
The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the... -
A Servant to Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni 9780413748508
RRP: €14.27€13.11A Christmas pantomime with an Italian accent from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic Company "Two wages. Two men's meals. Am I mad? Not half." Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook... -
The Writer by Ella Hickson
RRP: €13.08€9.17'I want the world to change shape.' 'I'm not sure theatre can do that.' 'Well then where am I meant to take that impulse because I'm very serious about the endeavour?' A young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain... -
Stuff Happens by David Hare
RRP: €13.08€8.71Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.'The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in... -
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 9780571239498
RRP: €13.08€8.71As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
RRP: €10.70€9.51This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic... -
"King Henry VIII" by William Shakespeare
RRP: €14.27€13.59King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered,... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €13.08€8.71Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more nature.HAMM: No more nature!... -
Shadowlands by William Nicholson
€13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018947Author William NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Dracula (stage version) by Bram Stoker
RRP: €15.46€10.73Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the book. 'After a sleepless night,' she writes in the...