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The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: €13.08€9.17One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: €13.08€11.50'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful ...[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play ...suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing,... -
An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €11.89€8.68Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of,... -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €10.70€7.72This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the... -
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9780224610735
RRP: €13.08€9.92Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt... -
Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale
RRP: €13.08€9.17London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from... -
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
RRP: €14.27€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708855Author Ana s MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Woyzeck (Drama Classics) by Georg Buchner
RRP: €5.94€4.51Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier... -
The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley by N. W. Bawcutt
RRP: €17.84€13.23Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.About the AuthorN.W. Bawcutt, formerly Reader in English... -
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 9780393934007
€15.86The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements-a play-within-a-play and a ghost... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9781904271208
RRP: €15.46€14.11In All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an endangering plan to win the King of France's favour and induce... -
Art by Yasmina Reza
RRP: €13.08€8.71Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides with hilarious consequences. The... -
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter 9780571160808
RRP: €13.08€8.71Teddy, a philosophy professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his father, uncle and two brothers at his old London home, after years of estrangement. In the intense conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of their... -
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne 9780571038480
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle... -
Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris
RRP: €14.28€9.46On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9781350249844
RRP: €14.27€13.11"Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a children's bedroom. Room for two." London, the present day. A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Written and directed by Simon Stone, this... -
Ella Hickson Plays: One by Ella Hickson
RRP: €22.60€16.07When her first play, Eight, transferred from student theatre in Edinburgh to the West End and then New York, Ella Hickson was still in her early twenties. She has since built on that promise with a series of engaged and engaging dramas that pit... -
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
RRP: €13.08€9.25Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other Plays is translated by David Raeburn with an introduction and notes by Pat Easterling.The plays collected... -
'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays by John Ford
RRP: €11.89€8.46Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. His... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140449297
RRP: €11.89€8.46Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings... -
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
RRP: €13.08€11.50A 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 Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring... -
Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency by Nathan Bryon
RRP: €14.27€9.96When Dexter's mum is sent to jail for getting mixed up in a jewellery robbery, it's up to Dexter and his best friend Winter to get her out. On their journey to uncover the truth and free Mum, their detective work leads them to some surprising... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: €13.08€12.83Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: €13.08€9.25Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This Penguin Classics edition is... -
Race in American Musical Theater by Josephine Lee 9781350248212
RRP: €13.08€11.41While most discussions of race in American theater emphasize the representation of race mainly in terms of character, plot, and action, Race in American Musical Theater highlights elements of theatrical production and reception that are particular to... -
Monologues and Duologues For Young Performers by Emma-Louise McCauley-Tinniswood
RRP: €17.84€16.11Shortlisted for the "Outstanding Drama Education Resource" with Music & Drama Education Awards (2023) Do you struggle to find appropriate scenes and monologues for young performers? Whilst there are so many plays to choose from, the selection of... -
Move Over Mrs.Markham by Ray Cooney 9780856761881
RRP: €13.08€10.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761881Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
RRP: €13.08€9.39Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying practitioner? Martin Crimps 17 scenarios for the... -
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€9.39Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom... -
The Servant of Two Masters by Stephen Mulrine
RRP: €7.13€5.28Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. Disguising herself as her dead brother, Beatrice... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9781848420632
RRP: €14.27€9.96Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her... -
Zoo (and Twelve Comic Monologues for Women) by Lily Bevan
RRP: €14.27€10.03At Miami's Cherokee Valley Zoo & Conservation Centre, the most dangerous thing that ever happened was the tapir's caesarian section. That is until Hurricane Jonas sets itself on a crash course straight towards it. Now zookeeper Bonnie must rush to batten... -
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
RRP: €13.08€9.17A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder. Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her... -
Mr Thomas by Kathy Burke
RRP: €11.89€8.40'You see, Brenda, I'm not like other men...' In a dingy London bedsit in the late 1950s, George is planning a night on the town with his friend Gordon. Weaver wants to come too, and soon Mrs Tebbit, the landlady, has been invited. But when Mr Thomas... -
Death and the King's Horseman: A Play by Wole Soyinka
€14.82Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon... -
STARS by Mojisola Adebayo 9781350411005
RRP: €13.08€12.82Winner of Best New Play at the Offies Awards 2024 My husband died and it's taken my whole life but Dr, I've never had one and I want one, before I die... My orgasm has got to be out there - somewhere! I know you all think I'm losing it, that I'm some... -
Play Directing: The Basics by Damon Kiely
RRP: €22.60€20.08Play Directing: The Basics introduces theatre students to a step-by-step process for directing plays, including advice on devising.Beginning with a historical overview of directing, this book covers every aspect of the director's job from first read to... -
New Monologues for Women by Geoffrey Colman
RRP: €20.22€18.11New Monologues for Women features forty monologues from plays published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama recently. The monologues are selected by the editor, Geoffrey Colman, on account of their relevance to drama school students and recent graduates entering... -
You Stupid Darkness! by Sam Steiner
RRP: €15.46€10.73'I just think it's, you know, important to look at the good things that are happening as well.' In a cramped, crumbling office, four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone telling strangers that everything is going to be okay. ... -
Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck by Georg Buchner
RRP: €10.70€7.68George Duchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution are performed regularly. ...