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Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index by Bernard L. Peterson 9780313251900
Booksplease Price: €97.90This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts... -
100 Greatest American Plays by Thomas S. Hischak 9781442256057
Booksplease Price: €68.39Theatre in America has had a rich history-from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant... -
Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts by Bernard L. Peterson 9780313266218
Booksplease Price: €78.86Peterson has done a great service to students of African-American theater. . . . Peterson's scholarship is impressive; the book's format is inviting . . . an indispensable reference book for academic... -
Visiting Edna & Good for Otto: Two Plays by David Rabe 9780802126900
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802126900Author David RabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues Dan O'Brien 9781913630669
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.54A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie... -
Fat Pig: A Play by Neil LaBute 9780571211500
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211500Author Neil LabuteFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber &... -
THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE by Joshua Young 9780991418305
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54It's easy to dismiss the Holy Ghost People. They travel door-to-door in white sheets spouting pseudoscience about time travel, wormholes, and a new galactic gospel. Most of the town has already... -
The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment by Bess Rowen
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €32.89What is the purpose of a stage direction? These italicized lines written in between the lines of spoken dialogue tell us a great deal of information about a play's genre, mood, tone, visual setting,... -
The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment by Bess Rowen 9780472074365
Booksplease Price: €80.03What is the purpose of a stage direction? These italicized lines written in between the lines of spoken dialogue tell us a great deal of information about a play's genre, mood, tone, visual setting,... -
Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition by William W. Demastes 9780817308377
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.62Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term ""realism"". Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently... -
Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard 9780872861503
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.34In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections... -
Stone Cold Dead Serious: And Other Plays by Adam Rapp 9780571211395
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211395Author Adam RappFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber &... -
You Will Get Sick Noah Diaz 9781350618725
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.96A young man with a secret. An older woman who will listen. A predatory flock of birds. An upcoming audition for The Wizard of Oz. You Will Get Sick is a wildly imaginative new play that traces the... -
Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in... -
Lloyd Suh: Collected Plays Lloyd Suh 9781350439207
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.97Discover complex histories and experiences of Asian Americans through the work of 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh.For the past decade, Lloyd Suh has dramatized forgotten moments that have... -
Lloyd Suh: Collected Plays Lloyd Suh 9781350439214
Booksplease Price: €80.59Discover complex histories and experiences of Asian Americans through the work of 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh.For the past decade, Lloyd Suh has dramatized forgotten moments that have... -
The Play about My Dad by Boo Killebrew 9781786825438
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.50Playful, funny, and fiercely emotional, Killebrew's acclaimed play explores what it means to be a father - or a daughter. It's not easy putting on a play. It's even harder when your dad is the... -
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Booksplease Price: €14.02'ZHE' (pronounced zee) is a gender-neutral pronoun - not he or she. Traveling from idyllic Harare, Zimbabwe to London's gritty inner city; from the playfulness of childhood to the pain of... -
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers by John Logan 9781849434140
Booksplease Price: €15.16'You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.' 1981. Hollywood. Sue Mengers, the first female 'superagent' at a time when women talent agents of any kind are almost unheard of, invites you... -
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond by Alvin Eng 9781531504830
Booksplease Price: €16.83With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng's... -
John Logan: Plays One by John Logan 9781783198528
Booksplease Price: €25.80The first collection of plays from the multi-award-winning legendary screenwriter and playwright. Contains the plays RED, PETER AND ALICE and I'LL EAT YOU LAST. Contents: Introduction by Michael... -
August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan 9781501180675
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180675Author Patti HartiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
The Power of Place: August Wilson and Pittsburgh Laurence Glasco 9780822948544
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €26.99Playwright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays-including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson-that chronicle the lives of Black... -
Long Day's Journey into Night: Second Edition by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9780300093056
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €12.53Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since... -
Parents' Evening by Bathsheba Doran 9781786826596
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.96"Would you please remember that it's not us they're assessing."She's been disruptive in class. She's rude to the teachers. And now she wants to learn the trumpet. But whose performance is really... -
The Real Arthur Miller: The Playwright Who Cared by Andrew Norman 9781399040730
Booksplease Price: €28.70During his lifetime, US playwright Arthur Miller was affronted in numerous ways by what he experienced, either personally, or vicariously through the experiences of others. For example: By the way... -
On the Exhale by Martin Zimmerman 9781786826213
Booksplease Price: €16.24'Like a child, a weapon won't be satisfied until it dominates your every thought.'After a devastating school shooting, a woman develops an obsession with assault rifles that begins to take over every... -
Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges: The Power and the Glory, Easy Living, and Remember the Night by Preston Sturges 9780520210042
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €46.56The publication by the University of California Press of Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges and Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges has been applauded by cinephiles and admirers of the... -
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9780300117431
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €13.27Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long... -
Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film by Jeannette Sloniowski
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.46The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail... -
Timebends by Arthur Miller
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €9.97'A beautifully structured narrative: tough, very moving, a political testimony of considerable force' - Harold Pinter 'As wise and witty and funny and brave as any of his plays' - Louis... -
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater Dorinne Kondo 9780415911412
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30From the runways of Paris to the casting controversies over BMiss Saigon, from a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California to the gender-blending of BM. Butterfly, BAbout Face... -
Teaching Critical Performance Theory: In Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities by Jeanmarie Higgins
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €41.16Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book's seventeen... -
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook by Philip C. Kolin 9780415541121
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €64.43'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of... -
Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €58.36This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews by Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824592
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce Tobie S. Stein 9781032086385
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce examines the systemic and institutional barriers and individual biases that continue to perpetuate a predominately White nonprofit... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews by Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824585
Booksplease Price: €125.01A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun by Clifford Mason
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.142020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association 2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing Arts In 1936 Orson Welles directed a celebrated... -
W.T.: a Play by Margaret Edson 9780571198771
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Drama/Theater) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780571198771Author Margaret EdsonFormat...