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Ibsen Plays: v.1: "Ghosts", "The Wild Duck", "The Master Builder" by Henrik Ibsen
Booksplease Price: €20.88The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism... -
Arms and the Man Bernard Shaw 9780713679984
Booksplease Price: €14.60"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead." Cheered by some and booed by others on opening night in 1894, Arms and the Man became the first success of Bernard Shaw's... -
Closer Patrick Marber 9780713683295
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.25'Love 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... -
Bones by Tanika Gupta
Booksplease Price: €16.23In 2014 local historian Catherine Corless made a discovery of baby bones and skeletons in the grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. Built on the grounds of an old... -
Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance by Jaye T. Darby
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.39This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey... -
Sparks by Jessica Butcher
Booksplease Price: €17.58Fifteen years of disconnected sparks to do the damage. To stop her beautiful fantastical brain from working. 'Fall in love in my early 20s, get married in my late 20s, have at least one child... -
Armadillo by Sarah Kosar
Booksplease Price: €17.67Bullets are not sexy. They are not sexy. Armadillo - little armoured one. [Spanish] A teenage girl disappears from a small town in America where fifteen years earlier, another teenage girl was... -
All of Me by Caroline Horton
Booksplease Price: €16.95Hello, I thought I'd introduce myself properly. As is polite. An intimate and absurd exploration of wanting to live, wanting to die and what can happen if we sit together with the dark. Caroline... -
Voiceover Narration: Creating Performances from the Inside Out by Dian Perry
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.29What goes on inside a great narrator to make them great? This ground-breaking work answers this question by exploring the psychophysical aspect of voiceover. The reader is given a bird's-eye view of... -
Stanislavski and the Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38 by Jean Benedetti
Booksplease Price: €26.74Stanislavski and the Actor offers a clear, modern presentation of Konstantin Stanislavski's methods of actor training and rehearsal. It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays: Bulrusher; Good Goods; The Shipment; Satellites; And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi; Antebellum; In the Continuum; Black Diamond by Harry J. Elam
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.58'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving... -
The White Whale by James Phillips
Booksplease Price: €17.67You remember when we started to hunt whales again? We fought monsters and we killed them and wrestled the oil from their dead bodies and we sold it. In the future we hunt whales for the oil in... -
The Waste Ground Party by Shaun Dunne
Booksplease Price: €17.67This area is gone to the fucking dogs. Gary returns home from college to confront age-old rivalries, bitter disputes, and bin bags that just won't stop falling from the sky. As Gary and... -
City Stories by James Phillips
Booksplease Price: €17.67What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens... -
Brecht and the Writer's Workshop: Fatzer and Other Dramatic Projects Bertolt Brecht 9781474273282
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.51Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in... -
Brown Boys Swim Karim Khan 9781350347502
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.55"We think we'll be alright - because we wade through air, not water, but that's not enough." Best friends Mohsen and Kash are gearing up for the biggest night of their lives - Jess Denver's pool... -
Morning Sun by Simon Stephens
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a... -
All in a Row by Alex Oates
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86Laurence likes pizza. Laurence is about to go to school. Laurence thinks it's okay to wee on mummy's pillow. Like any couple, Tamora and Martin have big hopes and dreams. But when your child is... -
The Weatherman by Eugene O'Hare
Booksplease Price: €16.95Don't know where I stand with the weatherman these days. One day it's all warm and breezy and the next old Jack Frost comes to take the skin off your back. A twelve year old Romanian girl is... -
The Actor's Business Plan: A Career Guide for the Acting Life by Jane Drake Brody
Booksplease Price: €29.27The Actor's Business Plan is a self-directed practical guide for actors graduating from formal training programs, as well as for those already in the business whose careers need to move ahead more... -
"Two": AND "Bed" by Jim Cartwright
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.90'Jim Cartwright is one of the mavericks of British theatre' Daily Telegraph Two: 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The... -
"The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov
Booksplease Price: €13.80Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation.Michael Frayn's hugely popular translation is an AQA recommended text. For... -
Leopards by Alys Metcalf
Booksplease Price: €16.95You know I'm in pain, you know you can help relieve it, still you actively withhold, you withhold in case it compromises your moral compass? Two strangers meet in a hotel bar for the first time... -
10 Nights by Shahid Iqbal Khan
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre One man's spiritual journey is about to begin... after he's sent this tweet When Yasser decides to take... -
Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour by Noma Dumezweni
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.75A 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. ... -
Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education: Head, Hands and Heart Johanna Smith (California State University, San Bernardino, USA) 9781350012912
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.74Winner of a Nancy Staub Award for Excellence in Publications on the Art of Puppetry Connecting the art of puppetry with deeper learning for children, this workbook offers a comprehensive guide on... -
Theory for Theatre Studies: Movement by Rachel Fensham
Booksplease Price: €25.79How do we define movement in performance? Who or what is being moved and how? And which movements are felt, observed, or studied, in theatre? Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series which... -
Crooked Dances Mr Robin French 9781350136496
Booksplease Price: €16.95You've heard of magic hour right? We're in it. right now. Journalist Katy is desperate for her big break, and an interview in Paris with world famous concert pianist Silvia de Zingaro looks like... -
Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre Since the Second World War by Aleks Sierz
Booksplease Price: €30.83London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz... -
Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall by Brad Birch
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86"I believe in this. I believe in here. Me and you." Everyday life, is it nothing but a series of creeping, soul-destroying disillusionments and compromises? This young couple start to think so,... -
The Boy with Two Hearts Hamed Amiri 9781350361805
Booksplease Price: €15.26You know, I honestly believe he has two hearts? A heart that fails him, of course. But another that keeps him going - a heart that won't be beaten! A story of hope, from Afghanistan to Wales. ... -
Braids and Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Daisy Rees
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's "Best Play for Young Audiences" Award (2022) "Don't you ever get sick of it?" "Being the only one?" "Yeah. Being the Ambassador of... -
Cornelia Street by Simon Stephens
Booksplease Price: €16.23I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I don't know if I should laugh or shit. In a back street in... -
We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915 by Ms Jackie Sibblies Drury
Booksplease Price: €15.34"Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past.." New York Times A group of actors gather to tell the little-known... -
This Land by Sian Owen
Booksplease Price: €16.95And strange smells would arrive on the wind. So it seemed that there was some kind of magic in this field. Some said that there was a dragon underneath that had been woken by the lightning. Some said... -
How to Disappear by Morna Pearson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64When Helen Daniels from Neighbours died, Robert shut his door on the world. And he's not opened it since. Now his only connection to the outside world is through his younger sister Isla, who looks... -
Pageant Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA) 9781350144514
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €13.60Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. ... -
Theatre in Times of Crisis: 20 Scenes for the Stage in Troubled Times by Edward Bond
Booksplease Price: €34.57Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help... -
Once Upon a Bridge by Sonya Kelly
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86He was like a rugby man, He hit her like a rugby man, Straight into her shoulder, The momentum of the crash, Dragging her beyond the kerb, Towards the front tyre of my bus. Early one morning... -
Orpheus in the Record Shop and The Beatboxer by Testament
Booksplease Price: €16.95She cared for him, she understood him... And now she's gone. Two new plays from acclaimed rapper and playwright Testament (Black Men Walking). Orpheus in the Record Shop Orpheus is alone,...