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The Railway Children (stage version by E. Nesbit
$43.85Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic. Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the... -
Arden of Faversham by Martin White
RRP: $20.98$18.52This '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... -
Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
$36.62Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains... -
Closer by Patrick Marber 9780413709509
RRP: $23.08$17.12Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right... -
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 9781350353497
RRP: $23.08$22.62"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 sheer levity of spirit, that makes it such an enduring... -
Chekhov: The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $29.38$20.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761348Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Nice Fish by Mark Rylance
RRP: $20.98$14.83On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need. Something that might just swallow them... -
Mamet Plays: v.3: "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Prairie Du Chien", "The Hawl", "Speed-the-plow" by David Mamet
RRP: $46.18$43.24"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) "his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition" (New Society); in Prairie du... -
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
RRP: $27.28$18.94Becca 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 wants to start afresh in a new home and give away their... -
Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110252Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Faust: Part Two by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: $23.08$16.74Loosely 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 and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and... -
The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780393330694
RRP: $58.78$50.95This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their... -
Me, As A Penguin by Tom Wells
RRP: $27.28$18.94A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg. Stitch is hitting the gay scene of Hull. Or at least dipping his toe in the water, while staying with his heavily pregnant sister Liz and her shabby sofa-loving partner Mark... -
After the Dance by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $29.38$20.31Terence Rattigan's After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the 'bright young things' of the 1920s and 30s. David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer involved with two women: his wife Joan and an... -
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016998Author Dennis PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone by Sophocles 9780486450490
RRP: $8.38$6.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486450490Author H. J. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)... -
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping and F***ing; The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $41.98$39.48With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria... -
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh 9780413715906
RRP: $25.18$23.14"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic) In 1934, the people of Inishman learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 1: East; West; Greek; Sink the Belgrano!; Massage Lunch; The Bow of Ulysses; Sturm und Drang by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $39.88$26.94Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful. This first collection of his plays includes East,... -
A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: $23.08$16.19'It's a bit weird to be sitting at the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your dad's ashes in your backpack.' Rory's dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally, he was a geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls. And... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
$21.991988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
Mother Courage and Her Children: Mutter Courage Und Ihre Kinder by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: $23.08$17.12Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation... -
Dr Faustus: A Text by Christopher Marlowe
$33.60Weary of academic study, an eminent scholar turns to magic and makes a deal with the Devil. Mephistopheles will serve him and give him whatever he wants, but after twenty-four years Faustus must keep his side of the bargain. This edition contains a... -
Electric Rosary by Tim Foley 9781848429376
RRP: $27.28$18.94'We're children of God, sister. No hunk of metal could replace any one of us.' Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing. Behold... -
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers 9780856763106
RRP: $23.08$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763106Author Carson McCullersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Bront by Polly Teale
RRP: $23.08$16.19In 1845, Branwell Bronte returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write - Polly Teale's extraordinary play evokes the real and imagined worlds of the... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: $27.28$22.66Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and... -
Ross & Rachel by James Fritz
RRP: $23.08$16.19'Look at all those couples. Which one will leave. Which one will run. Which one is cheating on the other. Which one will die first. Him. Him. Her. Him.' What happens when two friends who were always meant to be together, get together - and stay... -
Coram Boy (stage version) by Jamila Gavin
RRP: $23.08$16.19A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their... -
National Theatre Connections 2023: 10 Plays for Young Performers by Simon Longman 9781350382695
RRP: $41.98$37.23National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: $23.08$16.19The story of a young boy's fantastic adventure after being washed up on a Pacific island - adapted for the stage by acclaimed dramatist Stuart Paterson from the best-selling novel by Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Michael embarks on a... -
The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts: Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona V; Redemption by David Watson
RRP: $52.48$46.05The Big House Anthology is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature. As a... -
Six Tragedies by Seneca
RRP: $23.08$16.74Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his... -
4 Play: Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
RRP: $33.58$24.38From Irvine Welsh's bestselling books come four brilliant plays: Trainspotting, Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares (all adapted by Harry Gibson) and Ecstasy (adapted by Keith Wyatt). Gathered together for the first time in one volume these adaptations of... -
Focus by Arthur Miller
RRP: $27.28$19.09A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are... -
Be My Baby by Amanda Whittington
RRP: $23.08$16.19A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain. Mary Adams, aged 19, is unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to a Mother-and-Baby Home in the north of England by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary -... -
Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre: A Practical Guide by Chris Palmer
RRP: $50.38$44.27Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre is the first book to combine traditional actor vocal training with musical theatre training, offering support and guidance for performers seeking to train their spoken voice specifically for singing and performing in... -
Picnic at Hanging Rock (stage version) by Joan Lindsay
RRP: $25.18$17.58'I know you're there... Miranda? Miranda!' On a summer's day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock... In Tom Wright's... -
The Memory of Water/ Five Kinds of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson
RRP: $25.18$23.14In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of... -
The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: $18.88$13.55Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a...