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Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
RRP: €13.08€9.44A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life... Between 1939 until the outbreak of World... -
Plays from the Arab World by Elyse Dodgson
RRP: €22.60€16.43A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. In Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), Ahmad and Nour rent a flat so that they can spend time together away from their... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Romeo and Juliet by Alan Durband
€15.74The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance... -
The Space to Move: Essentials of Movement Training by Christian Darley
RRP: €15.46€11.02The vital building blocks of movement training - a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers. In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with her own drama-school students. She deals with the vital... -
Sex with a Stranger by Stefan Golaszewski
RRP: €14.27€10.23Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain. Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier that day, his girlfriend watches as he prepares for his... -
My Boy Jack by David Haig
RRP: €11.89€8.65The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War. The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent. Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his severely short-sighted son to war triggers a bitter family... -
Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s by Len Rothe
RRP: €22.60€15.08For the first time, stunning images of the women of the burlesque stage are gathered together in one great volume. In period photographs the timeless beauty of those exotic women who titillated, teased, and sometimes tortured their audiences is captured... -
All Year Round: A Calendar of Celebrations by Ann Druitt 9781869890476
RRP: €20.22€14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869890476Author Ann DruittFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn PressWeight(grams) 825gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm *... -
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating, candid and hilarious new memoir from the legendary actress and bestselling author by Joan Collins 9781399609982
RRP: €13.08€8.81'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady'Unstoppable, a veritable living legend' Daily Mail'All you'd hope for from the stiletto-stamping diva' The i paper*****'Some... -
Death In The Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway 9780099909101
RRP: €11.89€6.51A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and... -
Harry Potter: Slytherin: Tiny Book by Insight Editions
RRP: €10.70€8.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834540Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
How Musicals Work: And How to Write Your Own by Julian Woolford
RRP: €20.22€14.84Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well. In this... -
Star Trek Cats by Jenny Parks 9781452158419
RRP: €13.08€9.08Captain's log: We have entered a galaxy where beloved illustrator Jenny Parks has conjured an astonishingly vivid homage to the original Star Trek series with an unexpected twist: a cast of cats. Featuring a hilarious new take on iconic characters and... -
The Wind in the Willows (stage version by Kenneth Grahame
RRP: €14.27€10.23This delightful stage adaptation combines all the joy and mystery of Kenneth Grahame's much-loved classic with the lightness of touch and playful theatricality that award-winning playwright Mike Kenny is known for. Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole... -
Jez Butterworth Plays: One by Jez Butterworth
RRP: €23.79€17.23Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, 'one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years'... -
Shakespeare Monologues for Men by Luke Dixon
RRP: €15.46€11.02These are the two new volumes in NHB's successful series of "Good Audition Guides".It is full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. It is ideal for actors of all ages and experience. It features uniquely formatted potted intros to each... -
Naturalism in Theatre: Its Development and Legacy by Kenneth Pickering 9780230361089
€39.58An accessible survey of the development of naturalism and its effects on modern-day theatre. Taking into account the philosophical, scientific and aesthetic ideas that constituted the movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Macbeth by Alan Durband
€15.74The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance... -
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood
RRP: €9.51€6.22A snow-dusted love story. In the Autumn of 1931, eighteen-year-old Freya Trevelyan runs away from her home in Cornwall to follow her dream of becoming an actress. When she is invited to join a theatrical... -
The Poisoned Pie Mystery by Nicki Thornton 9781913322717
RRP: €8.32€5.52From the author of The Last Chance Hotel comes a brand new magical mystery ... 'Blending magical adventure with Golden Age crime mystery, this delightfully atmospheric spin-off from the author of The Last Chance... -
Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements by Robin Nelson
€30.29This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. The first (2013) edition was described by one reader (Park Stickney, Associate professor of jazz harp at RCM and doctoral candidate) as a Rosetta Stone "speaking to... -
Help I S*xted My Boss by William Hanson 9781529911411
RRP: €23.80€18.35How do you ask your mate for that GBP50 back?When is OK to trump in front of your partner?And what should you do if you've accidentally sexted your boss?William and Jordan are from very different worlds.William's an etiquette expert, with his tongue... -
1000 Chairs. Updated version by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
RRP: €23.80€21.29More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the... -
The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan 9781854594235
RRP: €13.08€9.44Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it. The play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer (Peggy Ashcroft in the first... -
Laban For All by Jean Newlove 9781854597250
RRP: €17.84€13.24A comprehensive 'how to' book on the Laban system of movement - from the author of Laban for Actors and Dancers. Laban for All offers a simplified version of Rudolf Laban's system for analysing - and annotating - the way the human being moves. It... -
Dracula (stage version) by Bram Stoker
RRP: €15.46€11.02Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the book. 'After a sleepless night,' she writes in the... -
100 All-Time Favorite Movies of the 20th Century by Jurgen Muller
€25.28Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of 20th-century cinema into one indispensable guide to movie gold... -
100 Movies of the 2010s by Jurgen Muller
RRP: €47.60€36.64Cinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed - both in how we watch movies, and in how we see ourselves. Social media and the internet have shaped a new understanding of the self and the... -
Children of Paradise: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 by Camilla Grudova
RRP: €10.70€7.24When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner,... -
A Good Night Out by John McGrath
RRP: €17.84€13.24The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies. John McGrath's manifesto is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1981. Looking at the ways different classes take their entertainment, he puts the... -
Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took over the World by Elizabeth Sharkey 9781680534474
€27.49The story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music in the 1960s like some clever, quick learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain's mid twentieth-century pop music... -
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
RRP: €13.08€9.44A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between... -
The Haunting by Hugh Janes
RRP: €15.46€11.02A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens. In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and... -
Scene and Hird by Thora Hird 9780006279297 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.73Born in Morcambe, Lancs, as the daughter of theatrical parents, Thora Hird first appeared on the stage at the age of eight weeks in the arms of her mother. In 1931 she joined Morcambe Rep. was "discovered" by Ealing Studios and put under contract. Later... -
Anatomy of a Song: The Inside Stories Behind 45 Iconic Hits by Marc Myers
RRP: €13.08€8.71Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits transcend commercial value, touching a generation of listeners and altering the direction of music. In Anatomy of a Song, writer and music historian Marc Myers tells the stories behind... -
Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Official Timeline by Anthony Breznican 9780241543825
RRP: €41.65€28.04Become a master of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is vast, incredibly varied, and richly complex. Different worlds, different timelines, countless characters. This is the guide to that universe. Created in close... -
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:... -
Demarco's Edinburgh Richard Demarco 9781804250952
RRP: €17.84€13.24Gallery Director, artist and teacher Richard Demarco was in at the very start of the Edinburgh Festival in August 1947. Born at the beginning of that same year, Roddy Martine's involvement commenced in 1963 when, at the age of sixteen, he edited an... -
Care Aesthetics: For artful care and careful art James Thompson 9781032196169
RRP: €42.83€37.71What if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop... -
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives by Amy Garnai
RRP: €36.89€32.56A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and...