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The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26The 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... -
A Doll's House Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350261075
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and... -
The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive ...will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is... -
Linda by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65I'm an award-winning business woman. I'm happily married with two beautiful daughters and I still fit in the same size-ten dress suit I did fifteen years ago. What could possibly threaten me?Linda... -
The Approach by Mark O'Rowe 9781848427433
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54Listen carefully ... Three women. Three conversations. As the details of what they share begin to diverge, we realise that a subtle game of survival is being played. Both psychological... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to... -
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron... -
Arden of Faversham by Martin White
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although... -
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering... -
Saved by Edward Bond 9780413313607 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.50Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the... -
Saved by Edward Bond
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the... -
Heathers: The Musical by Kevin Murphy
Booksplease Price: $22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573703829Author Kevin MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint < -
How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.70A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a... -
All the Little Lights by Jane Upton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'I know you want what everyone else wants. A family. A home. But you'll never have it. Cos of what's inside you.' Joanne and Lisa were like sisters. Then Lisa left. Now they're back together for... -
My Name is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The 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... -
buckets by Adam Barnard
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19How to fill what's left of your day. How to fill the rest of your days. Sick buckets, bucket rattling, bucket lists, buckets of love. Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a... -
Under Milk Wood: Including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas 9781840228410
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his first collection solely of... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31This 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... -
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz 9780802145659
Booksplease Price: $17.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145659Author Jon Robin BaitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Five Plays by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.61Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection... -
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet 9780413774187
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.55A student edition of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the... -
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63'I'm not angry with you, Zack, I'm angry in general. I'm an artist, that's my job.' Ivan is a struggling actor who hasn't yet achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about... -
Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2 by Trilby James
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Whether 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... -
Desolate Heaven by Ailis Ni Riain
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07"She's goin' back there. I can tell. She's breakin' her promise. She's breakin' my heart. She said she never would." Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are... -
Blasted by Sarah Kane
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted opened. It became the cause celebre of the theatrical year, making front-page headlines and outraging critics with its depiction of rape, torture... -
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed... -
Three Revenge Tragedies by Cyril Tourneur 9780141441245
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile... -
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney 9780413316806
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40A 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... -
Small Island by Andrea Levy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28This edition is the prescribed text for the English Mastery Secondary programme. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to... -
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56The 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... -
Entertaining Angels by Richard Everett 9781840029673
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.40"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry. And for what?'" As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on best... -
The Lady in the Van Alan Bennett 9781781255407
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42In 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... -
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 9781408114216
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the... -
Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'My name is Phyllis Princess James. I will wear this crown every day. I will never take it off even when I am asleep.' Meet Princess. A cheeky ten-year-old, with a plan to win the... -
Pornography by Simon Stephens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73Pornography is Simon Stephens' stark and shattering new play that powerfully captures a portrait of a fractured, insecure Britain. Written in reaction to London crashing from the euphoria and promise... -
The Unreturning by Anna Jordan 9781848427877 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.05'I want to return to my home.' A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war. Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven... -
The Unreturning by Anna Jordan
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19'I want to return to my home.' A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war. Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven... -
Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.46Taken 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... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.51'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles ... -
Faust: Part Two by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture...