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Jez Butterworth Plays:Two: Jerusalem, The Clear Road Ahead, The River, The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
Booksplease Price: $30.64'Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!' When Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2009, it served notice of an astonishing... -
Once in a Lifetime by Moss Hart 9780573613388
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613388Author Moss HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Philadelphia, Here I Come by Brian Friel
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.83Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by... -
It's True, It's True, It's True Breach Theatre (Author) 9781350321984
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.23Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this... -
Coward Plays: v. 6: "Semi-Monde"; "Point Valaine"; "South Sea Bubble","Nude with Violin" by Noel Coward 9780413734105
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $52.10Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is... -
Breathing Corpses Laura Wade (Author) 9781350256699
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.16Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first... -
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.18The 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 believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on... -
The Dumb Waiter: Play by Harold Pinter
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.30Apologies 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 -
A Doll's House Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350261075
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.23Niru 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 just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it... -
The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.35'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 torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the... -
Chicago by John Kander 9780573700521
Booksplease Price: $26.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573700521Author John KanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Linda by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.86I'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 Wilde has dedicated her life to changing the world. She's... -
The Approach by Mark O'Rowe 9781848427433
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $22.34Listen 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 puzzle and quietly devastating tragedy, The Approach... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Menander 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 him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy,... -
Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore 9780573113437
Booksplease Price: $27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113437Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.00A 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 bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is... -
Arden of Faversham by Martin White
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.30This '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 the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation... -
Saved by Edward Bond
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.54Described 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 dole and living on council estates. The play was first... -
Teechers by John Godber
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016783Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Heathers: The Musical by Kevin Murphy
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.23Apologies 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 -
How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.47A 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 fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve... ... -
All the Little Lights by Jane Upton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.90'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 one last birthday party by the railway tracks. But can... -
Aeschylus: v. III: Fragments by Aeschylus
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably... -
My Name is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.00The 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 Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza... -
Our Teacher's a Troll by Dennis Kelly 9781783191277
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.40Once there were two terrible twins called Holly and Sean, who gave their Head Teacher a nervous breakdown. The twins were extremely pleased with themselves. That is, until the new Head Teacher arrived. For you see, the new Head Teacher was - a Troll... -
buckets by Adam Barnard
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.47How 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 unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you... -
Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70people herehave becomethe peoplethey're pretending to be.'Sam Shepard's language is sparse and crystal clear. His words appear modest, but they have huge scope.'Wim WendersThis volume is the first collection of Sam Shepard's autobiographical fiction and... -
Under Milk Wood: Including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas 9781840228410
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Under 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 short stories, published in 1940. These two works show... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.35This 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... -
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 9780486282084
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486282084Author Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Daniels Plays: v.2: "Gut Girls", "Beside Herself", "Head-rot Holiday", "Madness of Esme and Shaz" by Sarah Daniels 9780413690401
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $41.98Sarah Daniels is "a writer with a natural talent for disturbance" (Observer) Set in the gutting sheds of the slaughterhouse at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, The Gut Girls shows how the lives of the girls are changed when their work is... -
Bums on Seats: a Comedy by Michael Snelgrove 9780573017568
Booksplease Price: $25.77In a tatty provincial theatre "Fecund" is being staged. This comedy introduces us to those involved: from the stage manager (with a blinding hangover); to the leading actors (from the bitter to the plain incompetent) and others. The second act focuses on... -
Kafka's Monkey by Colin Teevan 9781840029215
Booksplease Price: $26.42Imprisoned in a cage and desperate to escape, Kafka's monkey reveals his journey to become a walking, talking, spitting, smoking, hard-drinking man of the stage. Based on the short story A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka, this new adaptation is by... -
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz 9780802145659
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145659Author Jon Robin BaitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Whale Music by Anthony Minghella 9780573130151
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130151Author Anthony MinghellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Five Plays by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.47Thomas 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 comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies... -
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet 9780413774187
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.23A 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... -
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.90'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 to change when, one afternoon at the zoo with his friend... -
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and...