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Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carre:... -
Smalltown by Russell Barr
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.18Something has been put in the water. Things are about to get a whole lot crazy. And you decide how it ends... Smalltown is the new dynamic comedy written by leading Scots writers Douglas Maxwell,... -
The Price by Arthur Miller 9780141189987
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a... -
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett 9781846072598
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.62Alan 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... -
Translations by Brian Friel 9780571117420
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of... -
The Wizard of Oz (RSC) by L Frank Baum
Booksplease Price: $19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708770Author L Frank BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint < -
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $6.27Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age. When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally... -
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays by Thomas Heywood
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.45Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary... -
The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition Francesca Coppa (University of Muhlenberg, USA) 9781472585202
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal... -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the... -
Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Antonio's Revenge, The Tragedy of Hoffman, The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of... -
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family. When the large Weston family is reunited in Oklahoma after the disappearance of their father, they let... -
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard 9780571169344
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.35In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of... -
The 47th (NHB Modern Plays) by Mike Bartlett 9781839040740
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19'It's not a game for gentlemen we're playing, Political and civilized. This is Historic' 2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House - and at... -
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan 9781854594679
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.72Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since. ... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays... -
Apologia by Alexi Kaye Campbell
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $10.36A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children. Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As... -
Five Plays by Ben Jonson 9780199555772
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a... -
Little Light by Alice Birch 9781783192090
Booksplease Price: $19.08A dark, volatile new play that asks if we can ever let go. Reminiscing. Once a year to tell stories. To share little bits of our little lives. A house by the sea. Teddy wants more light. He's... -
Of Mice and Men: Playscript by John Steinbeck 9780856761539
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780856761539Author John SteinbeckForm -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.55'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... -
Enron Lucy Prebble 9781408124673
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48'The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.' One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a... -
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 9781839042300
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'I promise you more patience, more gratitude. I promise you less vanity, less selfishness, less complaining, less fear. I promise you. You just have to survive.' A Little Life follows the complex... -
Angels in America (new edition) by Tony Kushner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Originally premiered in... -
Wasted Kae Tempest 9781408185766
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it. Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference... -
Wyrd Sisters - Playtext by Stephen Briggs
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare's Macbeth and then turns it up 'till the knob comes off. It's all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players,... -
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay 9780140432206
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century.In THE... -
Rules for Living by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules,... -
Keeping Tom Nice by Lucy Gannon 9780856761461
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761461Author Lucy GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint -
Collins National Theatre Plays - The Exam by Andy Hamilton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10The Exam is a funny but serious look at the pressures faced by pupils today, both at school and at home. The play is accompanied by teaching materials containing fantastic ideas for drama work, as... -
Gut by Frances Poet
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to 3-year-old Joshua, committed to keeping him happy and safe. But when an everyday visit to a supermarket cafe turns into a far more troubling incident, their... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Marrying 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... -
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.25This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.73This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The... -
The True Performing Of It by Andrew Muir
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.79The True Performing Of It places the two writers side by side and examines the resultant analogies in their work that spring from this positioning. After a teasing prologue, the book begins by... -
Yen by Anna Jordan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen... -
The Witch of Edmonton by Lucy Munro
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil... -
Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy by Alan Bennett
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.Alan Bennett Plays 1 includes Forty Years On, Getting On,... -
Mr Burns by Anne Washburn
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.26"Anne Washburn's downright brilliant play has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas." - The New York Times It's the end of everything in contemporary America. A future...