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Theatre in the Victorian Age by Michael Richard Booth 9780521348379
RRP: €46.40€39.58This book examines all major aspects of theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period. Michael Booth's comprehensive survey explores the social and cultural context of the theatre including theatre management, the audience,... -
Rainer by Max Wilkinson
€15.36Some guys listen to music, some guys like to sing. I like to work people out. Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across London, delivering food to whoever will summon her. From luxury flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her... -
Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco by Toby Cole 9780815411413
RRP: €17.84€13.72For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years... -
Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion by Elizabeth S. Belfiore 9780691607382
RRP: €71.40€56.05Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological,... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal
RRP: €53.55€53.13Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's... -
Theatre Histories: An Introduction Daphne P. Lei 9781032027906
RRP: €82.10€70.83This updated 4th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often... -
The Drama, Theatre and Performance Companion by Michael Mangan 9780230551657
€35.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Antigone Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) 9781474269377
RRP: €16.65€15.01Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so... -
Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics by Anna Deavere Smith
RRP: €18.79€14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721745Author Anna Deavere SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Mary Said What She Said by Darryl Pinckney 9780571393169
RRP: €11.90€7.98Memory, open my heart. Let the past part my lips. The stars never lie. But how we misread them, bright drop after bright drop in the sea of night.Based on the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Said What She Said is the testimony of Mary Stuart as she... -
Best of Enemies James Graham 9781350381261
RRP: €13.08€11.50Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." 1968 - a year of protest that divided America. As two... -
The Odd Couple (Female Version) by Neil Simon 9780573618284
€14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573618284Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr 9780571389179
RRP: €13.08€8.71Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on SundayThere's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and... -
The Prince by Abigail Thorn
RRP: €13.08€11.50All the world's a stage. Have you ever been trapped in a bad relationship, playing a role that doesn't suit you? Jen and Sam are also trapped ... in a multiverse of Shakepeare's complete works. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality... -
HighTide Plays: 1: Ditch; peddling; The Big Meal; Lampedusa by Beth Steel
RRP: €26.17€25.04HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by the Daily Mail as "famous for... -
Linda by Penelope Skinner
RRP: €13.08€8.78I'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 Man in the Glass Booth by Robert Shaw 9780573612176
RRP: €13.08€11.41Goldman, a boastful, self-made real estate mogul who enjoys a fully-staffed garden penthouse overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, is living the American Dream. As a German Jew who flaunts this fact far and wide, his inbred paranoia means a handgun is... -
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: €13.08€8.71Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes... -
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard 9780571390700
RRP: €13.08€8.71The new and updated edition of 'Tom Stoppard's extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest in twentieth-century Czechoslovakia' (Evening Standard).Rock 'n' Roll spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague,... -
The Performance Claire Thomas 9781474616980
RRP: €17.84€10.16'Quietly transformational'The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A... -
The Stage Manager's Toolkit: Templates and Communication Techniques to Guide Your Theatre Production from First Meeting to Final Performance by Laurie Kincman
RRP: €38.07€33.71The Stage Manager's Toolkit, Third Edition provides a comprehensive account of the role of the stage manager for live theatre with a focus on both written and verbal communication best practices. The book outlines the duties of the stage manager and... -
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour by Lee Hall
RRP: €11.89€7.97Listen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round... Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex,... -
X by Alistair McDowall
RRP: €13.08€9.97"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The Stage ... -
The Family Reunion: With an introduction and notes by Nevill Coghill by T. S. Eliot 9780571054459
RRP: €13.08€8.71Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.'What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the... -
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness
RRP: €13.08€8.71On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war play is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and loss. In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I,... -
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
€14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573614071Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Second Edition: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories by Will Dunne
RRP: €22.61€19.28In just eight years, The Dramatic Writer's Companion has become a classic among playwrights and screenwriters. Thousands have used its self-contained character, scene, and story exercises to spark creativity, hone their writing, and improve their scripts... -
A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble
RRP: €14.27€14.22A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering... -
People by Alan Bennett
RRP: €13.08€8.71A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a... -
One Man, Two Guvnors Richard Bean (Author) 9781350265998
RRP: €14.27€13.11Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect GBP6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been... -
Lyonesse by Penelope Skinner 9780571389124
RRP: €13.08€8.78What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her... -
Waiting for Godot/En Attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett 9780802144638
RRP: €14.27€13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144638Author Samuel BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Notes from the Rehearsal Room: A Director's Process Nancy Meckler 9781350282209
RRP: €22.60€18.77Renowned theatre and film director Nancy Meckler delves into her hugely varied experiences in the rehearsal room and shares examples of tried-and-tested "tools" to bring a play to life. Meckler encourages you to interrogate, play, experiment and to... -
Death Takes a Holiday by Alberto Cassella 9780573607882
€15.21Drama / Casting: 7m, 6f / Scenery: Interior Produced with great success on Broadway, this striking drama has established itself among the important plays of our time. It is based on the poetic conception of death suspending all activities for three days... -
Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour by Noma Dumezweni
RRP: €19.03€18.12A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty... -
Historical Pattern Archive: Women's Clothing 1837-1969 Thomas John Bernard 9781138708518
RRP: €44.02€39.19Historical Pattern Archive: Women's Clothing 1837-1969 is the first book of its kind to capture such a wide range of women's period patterns in one book, featuring 83 patterns spanning over a century of clothing.The book offers an accurate pattern of... -
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
RRP: €10.70€7.24This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains:- The... -
Stage Lighting Handbook by Francis Reid 9780878301478
RRP: €41.64€37.10The Stage Lighting Handbook is well established as the classic practical lighting guide. The book explains the process of designing lighting for all forms of stage production and describes the equipment used. This new edition includes up-to-date... -
Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque from the 40s and 50s by Len Rothe
RRP: €22.60€15.85Following the tremendous success of his first book on the subject, The Queens of Burlesque, Len Rothe has again pulled from his collection of original photographs of entertainers this delightful selection of over 100 images of Burlesque stars. Together... -
Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical by Laurie Winer
RRP: €23.80€20.21A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture "A charming . . . passion animates [Winer's] Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical."-Brad Leithauser, New York...