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Consent by Nina Raine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home,... -
Queen Anne by Helen Edmundson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Helen Edmundson's gripping play tells the little-known story of a monarch caught between friendship and duty. 1702. William III is on the throne and England is on the verge of war. Princess... -
Becoming an Actor by Thomasina Unsworth
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79A practical guide to training as an actor, helping you get the most out of drama school - and survive in the world beyond. Are you thinking of applying to drama school? Do you have a place already... -
Decade by Various
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.62Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an... -
Beached by Melissa Bubnic
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Melissa Bubnic's Beached is a darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns. Arty is the world's fattest teenager. At sixty-seven stone, he is a young man... -
Plays from VAULT: Five new plays from VAULT Festival by Florence Keith-Roach
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.92This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2016, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. Eggs is a dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out, by... -
When the Crows Visit by Anupama Chandrasekhar
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85'...and all the sins of his father and his forefathers came out of his body, through the pores of his skin, in the form of crows.' When a son returns home after being accused of a violent crime, a... -
First Time by Nathaniel Hall
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Can you remember your first time? In this hilarious and heartbreaking true story, theatre-maker and activist Nathaniel Hall can't seem to forget his. To be fair, he's had it playing on repeat for... -
The Mill on the Floss (stage version by Helen Edmundson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate. Outgrowing - but still hopelessly devoted to - her family, Maggie befriends the disfigured... -
Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden. A Man and a Woman in purgatory - a soul-less white room. Each... -
Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a... -
An Intervention by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other... -
The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a... -
So You Want To Be A Theatre Producer by James Seabright
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A comprehensive guide to every aspect of producing a show, from raising the money to creating a hit - now revised and updated. This unique guide - the first 'how-to' book of its kind on the... -
Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A play about families and particle physics. Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life,... -
Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own by Gary Mitchell
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland. Tearing the Loom is a searing portrait of a community divided against... -
Making Noise Quietly: three short plays by Robert Holman
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives. In Being Friends, two young men meet in a Kentish field in 1944 as doodlebugs whizz overhead. One is a conscientious... -
Egusi Soup by Janice Okoh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A fast and funny family drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships - containing plenty of spicy bits... It's the anniversary of John Anyia's death, and the Anyias are packing... -
So You Want To Be A Theatre Designer by Michael Pavelka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The definitive guide to designing for theatre - by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name. With a Foreword by Alison Chitty. A theatre designer needs to be able to draw on... -
Shibboleth by Stacey Gregg
Booksplease Price: £10.85An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast. Development. Hotels, spas, Nando's, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers... -
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights. America, 1862, during the Civil War. Hero, a slave, is promised his freedom if he joins his... -
Wild by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level. Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching... -
Shangri La by Amy Ng
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'I refuse to be a panda. I refuse to go extinct. I want to live, to live well, to live like them.' Bunny, a young woman from the officially designated 'Shangri-La' in the Himalayan foothills of... -
How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a... -
Dark Sublime by Michael Dennis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams. When Oli arrives at now-forgotten sci-fi icon Marianne's door, he's looking for an autograph - and maybe a friend. Marianne's hoping... -
The Changing Room by Chris Bush
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'We stand on the edge On the threshold of On the entrance to Stepping out from On the cusp...' Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of... -
The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Two powerful expressionist plays from the early career of one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. The Hairy Ape is a nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of... -
Arabian Nights (Young Vic version) by Dominic Cooke
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to... -
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton 9781854591920
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century. Alsemero has... -
The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9781854591739
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.63Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon,... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge 9781854592101
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy... -
The Country Wife by William Wycherley 9781854592255
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written. The City of... -
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca 9781854594594
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Garcia Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience... -
The Misanthrope by Moliere 9781854597878
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him... -
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen 9781854596543
Booksplease Price: £4.00Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity... -
Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells 9781839040184
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for... -
Glee & Me (NHB Modern Plays) by Stuart Slade 9781848429468
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'A vinaigrette of despair poured over a salad of joy.' Lola is sixteen years old, sharp-witted and has her whole life ahead of her - until she's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Now her... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning... -
Far Gone (NHB Modern Plays) by John Rwothomack 9781839040733
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839040733Author John RwothomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Roaring Trade by Steve Thompson 9781848420403
Booksplease Price: £19.35'This is McSorley's. Second largest bank in the square mile. Half our traders break the million pound barrier. Just how far are you prepared to go?' Pressure is mounting on the bond traders' floor...