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The One by Vicky Jones
RRP: €11.89€8.65'Surprise me. Wipe the smile off my face.' Harry and Jo are up all night drawing the battle lines of a relationship based on desire, dependency and dirty games. Vicky Jones's viciously funny play The One invites you into the world of a couple... -
Refugee Boy Benjamin Zephaniah 9781350171916
RRP: €13.08€11.50An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle... -
One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111020Author Richard BeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Queers: Eight Monologues by Mark Gatiss
RRP: €13.08€9.44A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dare not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding. Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and... -
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.71The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage... -
Enron by Lucy Prebble
€13.15The 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 case study and an allegory, the play charts the... -
The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €10.70€10.38'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... -
Jumpers for Goalposts by Tom Wells
RRP: €13.08€9.44A hilarious and heart-warming comedy about football, friendship and finding your way. Luke wants Danny, but Danny's got a secret. Joe's happy in goal, but Geoff wants a headline gig. Viv just wants to beat the lesbians to the league title. Game on. ... -
Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale
RRP: €13.08€9.44'Love or knowledge: which would you choose?' A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first... -
100 Acting Exercises for 8 - 18 Year Olds Samantha Marsden 9781350049949
RRP: €20.22€16.91This book offers a comprehensive guide to teaching acting exercises that will unleash the inner creativity of students aged 8-18. Theories and techniques of some of the greatest theatre practitioners including Sanford Meisner, Constantin... -
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 9781350353497
RRP: €13.08€9.97"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... -
Poems and Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: €15.46€10.82It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal... -
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
€15.04An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? Frank McGuinness explores the daily crisis... -
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.71The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard... -
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... -
National Theatre Connections 2019 Rob Drummond 9781350108370
RRP: €27.36€24.57National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world... -
Dramatherapy: The Nature of Interruption by Richard Hougham
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an 'age of interruption' and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and... -
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
RRP: €13.08€9.44Part Two of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Perestroika picks up the stories of Prior and Cohn from Part One:... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont 9781854596246
RRP: €5.94€4.70Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a five-act satire on chivalric romances, generally considered the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play's... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: €15.46€10.82Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward... -
Duncan Macmillan: Plays One: Monster; Lungs; 2071; Every Brilliant Thing; People, Places And Things by Duncan Macmillan
RRP: €26.17€25.04This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.The first collection from critically-acclaimed UK playwright Duncan... -
Huis Clos and Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €13.08€9.25These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre's favourite among his plays,... -
Nine Night by Natasha Gordon
RRP: €13.08€9.44Family, food, music and mourning. Gloria is gravely sick. When her time comes, the celebration begins; the traditional Jamaican Nine Night Wake. But for Gloria's children and grandchildren, marking her death with a party that lasts over a week is a... -
Too Much Punch For Judy: New revised 2020 edition with bonus features by Mark Wheeller 9781913630300
RRP: €13.08€9.87New edition with bonus features This hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle's front seat passenger, Jo. Her sister Judy, driving the car, escapes physically unhurt - but can never... -
Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly
RRP: €13.08€9.97"A piece that takes us on an extraordinary journey ... The energy and the vividness of the writing never lets up." The Independent An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they... -
The Witch of Edmonton by Lucy Munro
RRP: €19.03€18.29On 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 stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and,... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: €13.08€9.25Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of... -
Sheila's Island by Tim Firth 9780573132964
€14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132964Author Tim FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Radiant Vermin by Philip Ridley
RRP: €13.08€9.97"The hallmarks of a Ridley classic; a fast-paced modern fairy-tale that burrows into the dark wormholes of the imagination ... reveals how below all that glitters, there's rarely gold." Exeunt Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home... -
"Punk Rock" by Simon Stephens
RRP: €14.27€13.11'Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't...' Based on his experience as a teacher, Stephens describes his play as 'The History Boys... -
Closer by Patrick Marber 9780413709509
RRP: €13.08€9.97Love 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... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353140
RRP: €24.98€21.86In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft... -
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff 9780435232900
€20.23Captain Stanhope and his officers face the full horror and futility of trench warfare. Includes notes and assignments for 14-16 study. 12 parts: all male. Book InformationISBN 9780435232900Author R.C SherriffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint... -
Six Tragedies by Seneca
RRP: €13.08€9.25Phaedra * 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... -
The Complete Plays Anton Chekhov 9780393330694
RRP: €33.31€28.87This 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... -
Harold Pinter Plays 1: The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination by Harold Pinter
RRP: €22.60€15.27This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a... -
Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays: Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays by Various
RRP: €11.89€8.09God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the InnocentsMiracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part... -
Nice Fish by Mark Rylance
RRP: €11.89€8.65On 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... -
After the Dance by Terence Rattigan
RRP: €16.65€11.82Terence 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... -
Faust: Part Two by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: €13.08€9.60Loosely 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...