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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... -
Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency by Nathan Bryon
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.93When 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,... -
The Last of the Pelican Daughters (NHB Modern Plays) by The Wardrobe Ensemble
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. Today, four sisters are trying to come to terms with their mother's death - and divide their mother's house between them. Joy... -
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35Rosencrantz 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 ... -
Monologues and Duologues for Young Performers Emma-Louise Tinniswood 9781350283725
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.56Shortlisted 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... -
Theatre Plays Two by Trevor Griffiths 9780851247212
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247212Author Trevor GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint
Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre version) by Ibsen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Richard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her. Arriving home after an extended honeymoon, Hedda...
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780140449686
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size...
Consensual by Evan Placey
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you. As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the...
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 9781350353497
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40"Some of [Coward's] most sparkling dialogue ever... This play is about something substantial - the way past relationships come back to haunt us - but it's the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its...
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713683264
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Yerma (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...
Gogol's Government Inspector by David Harrower
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at...
The Play That Goes Wrong: 3rd Edition by Henry Lewis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.72Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the...
The Judas Kiss by David Hare 9780571297542
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover...
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in...
Little Baby Jesus & Estate Walls: Two Plays by Arinze Kene
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54Two plays, both set in contemporary inner-city London, showcasing the remarkable poetic and theatrical imagination of writer/performer Arinze Kene. Little Baby Jesus is a lyrical triptych of three...
Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199537815
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.03Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced a great dramatic...
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Pirandello (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...
2:22 - A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays) by Danny Robins
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, ready to grab your feet.' Jenny and Sam - and their baby Phoebe - have recently moved into their...
Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19A play about families and particle physics. Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life,...
The Servant of Two Masters by Stephen Mulrine
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.70Drama 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. ...
The Oresteia by Ted Hughes 9780571179961
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.01The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production by J. K. Rowling 9780751565355
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.18Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first...
Our New Girl by Nancy Harris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63A startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood. Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's immaculate London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic...
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose...
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $21.32Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains: Icecream - an...
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in...
Oppenheimer by Tom Morton-Smith 9781783191987
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.071939: fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission. In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the...
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.12A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's...
Like a Virgin Gordon Steel 9781350256682
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A romp through the bubble-gum years of teenage life. Angela and Mazine, besotted with Madonna, play truant from school, form a band, attempt to write songs and, with hairbrushes in hand, live out...
Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71Alcestis * Heracles * Children of Heracles * Cyclops Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are...
Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00Oedipus 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...
Britannia Waves the Rules by Gareth Farr
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home - to a world they no longer know how to cope with, and a society that doesn't know how to cope with them. Carl...
Life is a Dream by Helen Edmundson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderon's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom. 'If I'm asleep,...
Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I...
The Duchess of Malfi by Revd Prof. John Webster 9780393923254
Booksplease Price: $20.41This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The...
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Becca and Howie Corbett are a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son Danny is killed in an accident. Eight months on, they are drifting perilously apart. Becca...
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and...
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht 9781350178533
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.55This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War,...![The Good Person of Szechwan: v.6 by Bertolt Brecht 9780413582409 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9654888/10671608/9780413582409__20243.1781278138.jpg?c=1 "The Good Person of Szechwan: v.6 by Bertolt Brecht 9780413582409 [USED COPY]")
The Good Person of Szechwan: v.6 by Bertolt Brecht 9780413582409 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $2.51Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify...