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Ugly Lies the Bone by Stephen Laughton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.' After three tours of duty in Afghanistan, wounded veteran Jess finally returns home to Florida,... -
Bird and other monologues for young women by Laura Lomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights. Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience... -
Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48'Do you want to live forever? YES or NO.' Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their careers and wildly in love with each other, they feel ready to take on the world. But when a... -
Hanna by Sam Potter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'The only words are to do with adoption. But that's not what happened to us. What happened to us was something quite different.' Being a young mum is supposed to be hard - but for Hanna, the only... -
Rust by Kenny Emson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85'Rule number eleven: We don't talk about them. Not here. They don't exist here.' Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In fact they have quite a few. They've just signed on the dotted line for a studio... -
Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.17Based 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... -
Mrs Klein by Nicholas Wright
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Nicholas Wright's play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein is a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships. In 1934 the son of Melanie Klein, Britain's most... -
Same by Deborah Bruce
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48When Josie dies in an old people's home, her grandchildren gather to share their memories of her, and her fellow residents feel the effects of her death as her funeral takes place. Is the gulf... -
Shook by Samuel Bailey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'He'll look different. My little boy. When I get out. Like... to the picture I've got in my head. Be like meeting him all over again. A whole new start.' Instead of GCSEs, Cain, Riyad and Jonjo... -
Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine. Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father. The night before he leaves for the war in... -
Pretend You Have Big Buildings by Ben Musgrave
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85A tender and funny play about growing up in Romford in the shadow of Canary Wharf. 1995. Big buildings are rising in London's Docklands. But marooned miles to the east, half-in and half-out of the... -
Contemporary Monologues for Women: Volume 2 by Trilby James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a... -
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron... -
The Mandate by Nikolai Erdman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, banned for decades in the USSR and revived in this uproarious new version by Declan Donnellan. Moscow, 1924. The early... -
Jekyll & Hyde by Evan Placey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Everyone has another face they hide behind... A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, where civilised society meets seedy Soho in a thrilling... -
First Episode by Terrence Rattigan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. Written with his fellow student, Philip Heimann, while they were both at Oxford,... -
Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia. Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate... -
Apologia by Alexi Kaye Campbell
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children. Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As... -
A Breakfast of Eels by Robert Holman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy's funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to... -
German Skerries by Robert Holman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17It's the hot, humid, sticky summer of 1977. At a popular birdwatching spot jutting out into the North Sea at the mouth of the Tees, Martin, Jack, Michael and Carol are staring out into the future,... -
An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?"' Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins... -
Imperium: adapted from the Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris by Mike Poulton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79Cicero, the greatest orator of his age, devotes all his energy and cunning to preserve the rule of law, and defend Rome's Republic against the predatory attacks of political rivals, discontented... -
Albion by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46'It's England really, isn't it? A climate without cloud and rain isn't honest.' In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope... -
Dealing With Claire by Martin Crimp
Booksplease Price: £10.17'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, but That That That is what I enjoy. That is what I'm good at, okay?' Clair works in real estate. Mike and Liz are... -
One Jewish Boy by Stephen Laughton
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Jesse is paranoid and frightened, and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his son and his life. But Jesse has every reason to be frightened; he is increasingly feeling the sting of rising... -
8 Hotels by Nicholas Wright
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'Iago only suspected it. I know.' Celebrated actor, singer and political campaigner Paul Robeson is touring the United States of America as Othello. His Desdemona is the brilliant young actress... -
Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency by Nathan Bryon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48When Dexter's mum is sent to jail for getting mixed up in a jewellery robbery, it's up to Dexter and his best friend Winter to get her out. On their journey to uncover the truth and free Mum,... -
The Tyler Sisters by Alexandra Wood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Three women, forty years, one ever-evolving bond. Fake sick days, Stonehenge, roller skates, champagne and glow-in-the-dark stars. The Tyler Sisters is a funny, heartening exploration of time,... -
Widows by Ariel Dorfman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of... -
Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin by Enda Walsh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Disco Pigs is the award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists and was filmed in 2001 with Cillian Murphy and Elaine... -
Acting and Reacting: Tools for the Modern Actor by Nick Moseley
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.75An inspiring new approach to acting from a respected drama teacher - concise, succinct and full of practical exercises. Nick Moseley's Acting and Reacting: Tools for the Modern Actor establishes a... -
The Railway Children (stage version by E. Nesbit
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic. Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into... -
The Miser by Moliere
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children. ... -
2nd May 1997 by Jack Thorne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A smouldering play about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future. 2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, eighteen years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps... -
So You Want To Be A TV Presenter by Kathryn Wolfe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The opportunities for presenters have never been greater. But, although it's seen as a glamorous job and a step to celebrity, being a TV presenter is also hard work, and demands a varied range of... -
Greek Tragedy: Three Plays by Euripides 9781854598479
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections... -
Laban For All by Jean Newlove 9781854597250
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A comprehensive 'how to' book on the Laban system of movement - from the author of Laban for Actors and Dancers. Laban for All offers a simplified version of Rudolf Laban's system for analysing... -
Liola by Luigi Pirandello 9781848423435
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions. Sicily, summer 1916. The women gather... -
The Shadow Factory by Howard Brenton 9781848427396
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages. Southampton is home to Britain's only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But when the Luftwaffe drops 2,300 bombs in three devastating raids, the city goes... -
Ivanov by Anton Chekhov 9781848420687
RRP: £4.50Booksplease Price: £4.34Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the...