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Kaspar by Peter Handke 9780413289100
Booksplease Price: $28.18'Kaspar is based on the historical case of a 16-year-old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch . . . Handke's play is a downright attack on... -
Frontline Drama: Bush Theatre Book: v. 5 by Michael Boyd 9780413713209
Booksplease Price: $63.34A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Bush Theatre Two new plays, Mackerel Sky by Hilary Fannin and Caravan by Helen Blakeman, are accompanied by highlights and reminiscences from Bush... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875806853
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9780141396316
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01'A supreme theatrical poem that has a language that eats into the soul' Michael Billington, GuardianShakeapeare's blood-soaked drama of murder, madness and the uncanny begins as Macbeth is promised a... -
The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan 9781854594235
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Written 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... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875804675
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.89The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics by Mireia Aragay 9780230005099
Booksplease Price: $91.14This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a... -
My Wonderful Day by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573113048
Booksplease Price: $23.93This title features M2 F3, and 1 girl (aged 9). It's Downstairs areas in a modern town house. Winnie is nearly nine. Her mum, Laverne, is second-generation Afro-Caribbean and heavily pregnant but... -
In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan 9781854594648
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.83An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love is based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death... -
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Bond Plays: v. 4: "Worlds with Activists", "Restoration and Summer" by Edward Bond 9780413648303
Booksplease Price: $49.57One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. "Restoration towers like a... -
Colour of Justice by Richard Norton-Taylor
Booksplease Price: $27.77In 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict. Based on the... -
Peter Brook: Threads of Time by Peter Brook 9780413733009
Booksplease Price: $53.78The theatre's greatest contemporary director tells the story of his life Peter Brook is the modern stage's greatest inventor. For over fifty years he has held audiences spellbound with his critically... -
Speed The Plow by David Mamet 9780413192806
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.50"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her... -
The Cryptogram by David Mamet 9780413693709
Booksplease Price: $28.18"I suspect that in time, The Cryptogram will take its place among Mamet's major works" John Lahr "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the... -
Acting in Documentary Theatre by Tom Cantrell 9781137019714
Booksplease Price: $67.94Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of high profile case studies, Cantrell uses... -
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"Mother Clap's Molly House": A Play with Songs by Mark Ravenhill 9780413769305
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99'Like bawdy Shakespeare meets wild Wycherley filtered through the formalised camp of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me...how wonderful to see the rabid raw talent of Ravenhhill given the full works'... -
Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.83Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. In the play, Terence Rattigan pits Alma against a formidable... -
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by John Lahr 9780747558415 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $5.66A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created "Oh Calcutta". He was a notorious... -
In the Time of Foxes by Jo Lennan 9781471195365
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.99'Brilliant. Each story takes us into a new world but the collection is bound together by a unified sensibility and a belief in the power of adaptability.' Michael Billington 'A fox could be a... -
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter 9780571160808
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.07Teddy, a philosophy professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his father, uncle and two brothers at his old London home, after years of estrangement. In the intense conflict... -
Heldenplatz by Thomas Bernhard 9781840029956
Booksplease Price: $30.89Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as... -
In the Time of Foxes by Jo Lennan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'Brilliant. Each story takes us into a new world but the collection is bound together by a unified sensibility and a belief in the power of adaptability.' Michael Billington 'A fox could be a... -
Stirring Up Sheffield: An Insider's Account of the Battle to Build the Crucible Theatre by Colin George 9781838403621
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $45.53WINNER: 2022 THEATRE BOOK PRIZE Written by the Crucible Theatre's first Artistic Director, Colin George, and his son, Tedd, 'Stirring Up Sheffield' is the extraordinary story of a group of... -
A Flea in Her Ear by John Mortimer 9781849430869
Booksplease Price: $27.77Eccentric and hillarious, Georges Feydeau's much loved comedy mixes madness, mayhem, fun and frivolity. When the beautiful wife of Victor Chandebise suspects of having an affair, she enlists the help... -
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The "Arsonists" by Alistair Beaton 9781408103937
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.38Fires are becoming something of a problem. But Biedermann has it all under control. He's a respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, so surely nothing can get... -
Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg 9781783191369
Booksplease Price: $24.96Anton's got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there's a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what's... -
Hay Fever by Noël Coward 9781350354111
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.50"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being... -
Hidden in the Sand by James Phillips 9781472566829
Booksplease Price: $28.84Sometimes we don't live, we cope. I have coped, not lived, for a long time. So have you I think.A passionate love story set between London and Cyprus. Alexandra, a refugee from the Turkish invasion... -
Operation Crucible by Kieran Knowles 9781783190805
Booksplease Price: $27.77"Sheffield's on fire, it glows orange, like hell, like a furnace, like steel. The streets which were familiar are now just bricks, mortar and flame. My childhood, my home... just a pile of stone."A... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.88In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become... -
Theatre in Crisis?: Performance Manifestoes for a New Century by Maria M. Delgado 9780719062919
Booksplease Price: $45.90A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it... -
Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss 9781840029857
Booksplease Price: $27.77Winner of 2010 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award For Most Promising Playwright, of the 2010 TMA Award for Best New Play and Winner of 2011 Critics Circle award for Most Promising Playwright... -
The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert... -
Secret Thoughts by David Lodge 9781787300163
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing at a university where Ralph Messenger, a... -
Butler Plays: Made of Stone, Redundant, Lucky Dog, The Early Bird by Leo Butler 9781408101476
Booksplease Price: $49.47Butler Plays: 1 brings together into one volume four of the major plays by this award-winning author. Praised for the gritty detail and realism of his work, Leo Butler has quietly established a... -
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten 9781472513571
Booksplease Price: $28.94"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote... -
Contact.com by Michael Kingsbury
Booksplease Price: $27.77To be like this. All the swagger and front, deals and deadlines, and keep you head down and your mouth shut might just one day bring him nearer to this. Different worlds. Matthew and Naomi await... -
Ryan Craig: Plays Against the Tide: The Holy Rosenbergs; Filthy Business; What We Did to Weinstein; Charlotte and Theodore by Ryan Craig 9781350431348
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $141.22'A scared playwright won’t write a good play. We’re going to have to try to find a bit more steel.' – Telegraph Ryan Craig is not afraid of controversial topics. Described as a 'playwright with the... -
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If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten 9781472513571 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.45"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote... -
Holy Rosenburgs by Ryan Craig 9781849430425
Booksplease Price: $23.93As big-hearted patriarch David clings to a deal that could save both his ailing catering firm and his cherished standing in the Edgware Jewish community, his children are at loggerheads. "You must...