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Dramatherapy: The Nature of Interruption by Richard Hougham
RRP: $46.43$40.88This 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... -
Me, As A Penguin by Tom Wells
RRP: $16.76$11.95A 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... -
The Cripple Of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh (Playwright, UK) 9780413715906
RRP: $15.47$14.22"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... -
Six Tragedies by Seneca
RRP: $14.18$10.28Phaedra * 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... -
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by David Grene
$15.66Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: $14.18$10.23'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... -
Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199537815
RRP: $10.31$7.47Agamemnon *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 genre, as well as giving its three plays their lasting... -
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708855Author Ana s MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Dr Faustus: A Text Christopher Marlowe 9780582817807
$20.64Weary 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... -
Sophocles II: Ajax, the Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, the Trackers by David Grene
$15.66Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Stags and Hens by Willy Russell 9780573016097
$14.73This cynical play by the author of Educating Rita is a comedy of wedding eve nerves set in the loos of a tacky Liverpool club where Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, are having parties.Book InformationISBN 9780573016097Author Willy RussellFormat... -
Bouncers (1990's Remix) by John Godber
RRP: $14.18$11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761720Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
The Methuen Drama Book of Royal Court Plays: "Under the Blue Sky", "Fallout", "Motortown", "My Child", "Enron" by David Eldridge 9781408123935
$38.38Five of the best plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London. Royal Court Plays 2000-2010 is an essential anthology for anyone interested in the best work from the most important new writing theatre... -
The Lehman Trilogy by Ben Power 9780573709951
RRP: $14.18$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709951Author Ben PowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
RRP: $14.18$9.44It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The obsessive caretaker, Davies, whose papers are in... -
National Theatre Connections 2023: 10 Plays for Young Performers Simon Longman 9781350382695
RRP: $25.79$22.87National 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... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $14.18$10.02Pirandello (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.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts: Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona V; Redemption David Watson 9781350359741
RRP: $32.24$28.29The 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... -
Electric Rosary by Tim Foley 9781848429376
RRP: $16.76$11.95'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... -
"Good": A Tragedy by Cecil P. Taylor 9780413521309
RRP: $15.47$14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413521309Author Cecil P. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 130g -
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by David Grene
RRP: $15.48$13.11Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Sophocles: Electra by Sophocles 9780521097963
RRP: $37.40$33.31In this edition of Sophocles' Electra, one of the greatest tragedies in Greek or any literature, Mr Kells presents the play as a study in revenge, but in a subtle way whose meaning depends upon the continuous use of dramatic irony. He relates the... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.18$10.02Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... -
Blackbird by David Harrower
RRP: $14.18$9.44Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.They haven't set eyes on each other since.Now, years later, she's found him again.Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to... -
Bront by Polly Teale
RRP: $14.18$10.23In 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... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: $14.18$10.81In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she... -
Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
RRP: $21.92$21.27This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three... -
Not Quite Jerusalem by Paul Kember 9780573113116
$14.73This traces the effect of kibbutz life on four disillusioned volunteers who arrive for a working holiday and find the work more like hard labour. Two of the English, Pete and Dave, soon alienate themselves by their foul-mouthed, high-spirited behaviour... -
Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy) by Katharine Eisaman Maus
RRP: $12.89$9.17The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger's Tragedy, published anonymously and... -
Ross & Rachel by James Fritz
RRP: $14.18$10.23'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: $14.18$10.23A 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... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: $16.76$14.27Diane 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... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: $14.18$10.23The 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... -
Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones 9780571212873
RRP: $12.89$12.11Humble Boy is a comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of bee-keeping. All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory. Following the sudden death... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9781854592200
RRP: $6.44$4.90Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Oscar Wilde's undying comedy - in an edition to fit any handbag. Jack Worthing pretends to be Earnest to avoid certain social obligations. But Gwendolen has fallen in love with him as... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $12.89$12.40A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth... -
Memory of Water/Five Kinds of Silence Shelagh Stephenson 9780413714701
RRP: $15.47$15.42In 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 Rover and Other Plays by Aphra Behn 9780199540204
RRP: $11.60$8.32Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her... -
Disgraced by Mr Ayad Akhtar
RRP: $14.18$10.81"A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse." The... -
buckets by Adam Barnard
RRP: $15.47$11.09How 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...