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Immaculate by Oliver Lansley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant, and here is the Angel Gabriel on your doorstep claiming parentage. In... -
Medicine & The Same: Two Plays (NHB Modern Plays) by Enda Walsh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42John Kane sits on a hospital trolley. Very shortly, a giant lobster, two women called Mary, a very old man and a jazz percussionist arrive. Then everything starts. Enda Walsh's Medicine is a dark... -
Enda Walsh Plays: One by Enda Walsh
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh, 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre' (Guardian). Bursting onto the theatre scene in 1996 with Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh has... -
Then What Happens: Storytelling and Adapting for the Theatre by Mike Alfreds
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.99A practical investigation into story-theatre and the art of telling stories through theatre, by the renowned director who founded Shared Experience Theatre Company. In Then What Happens?, Mike... -
Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams by Joyce McMillan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never having failed to spot a great new play...' Philip Howard, from his Foreword Joyce McMillan has been writing about theatre in... -
Surviving Actors Manual by Felicity Jackson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42The essential, one-stop handbook for actors, with everything you need to survive and thrive, from the team behind the internationally successful Surviving Actors conventions. Being an actor is a... -
Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre version) by Mark O'Rowe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the... -
Queers: Eight Monologues by Mark Gatiss
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dare not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding. ... -
The Unreturning by Anna Jordan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'I want to return to my home.' A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war. Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven... -
Ah! Wilderness by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Eugene O'Neill's only well-known comedy, Ah! Wilderness is a family-based saga set in... -
Ladies Down Under by Amanda Whittington
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48The funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies' Day, following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under. After hitting the jackpot at Ladies' Day in York, the... -
Mojo by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners... -
Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights. Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series... -
How to Spot an Alien by Georgia Christou
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17Contains: one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship. What do you do if you think your aunt is an alien? Twelve-year-old Jelly and her brother, Jonjo, have their suspicions. She... -
You Stupid Darkness! by Sam Steiner
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.99'I just think it's, you know, important to look at the good things that are happening as well.' In a cramped, crumbling office, four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone... -
The Three Musketeers: A Comedy Adventure by John Nicholson
Booksplease Price: £24.21'My name is D'Artagnan, musketeer to King Louis the Thirteenth, defender of the Queen's diamonds, and the man you tried to poison in that bar.' When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his... -
How Musicals Work: And How to Write Your Own by Julian Woolford
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens... -
The Price of Everything by Fiona Evans
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42A tense and gripping drama, loaded with dark humour, about the price we pay for material possessions and the effect it has on those we love. Eddie Carver is a self-made businessman. In stark... -
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version by Robert Tressell
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by... -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Acting (But Were Afraid to Ask, Dear) by West End Producer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42West End Producer is the anonymous Twitter sensation whose hilarious and unfailingly accurate barbs satirising and celebrating the theatre industry have won him a devoted following. His identity... -
Boys Will Be Boys by Melissa Bubnic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17'I'm no friend to the sisterhood. I'm basically a man who sits to pee.' Astrid Wentworth is a City trader, a ruthless player in a man's world. If there is a special hell for women who don't help... -
Plastic by Kenneth Emson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Remember the moment you became an adult? Or did you miss it? Kev used to have a girlfriend called Lisa, she wore a fitted blazer and Reebok classics, lit up the school yard. Kev used to be the... -
One For Sorrow by Cordelia Lynn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17"You've endangered us. You've endangered your family." During an attack on London, 20 year old Imogen joins a campaign offering refuge to victims. Before her family have even had a chance to have... -
The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male. From the author of the West End-hit, Honour. Thirty years ago Margot Mason,... -
Miss Julie (Drama Classics) by August Strindberg
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for... August... -
East is East by Ayub Khan-Din
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to... -
BU21 by Stuart Slade
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'So you know how on the news these days there's just this endless stream of horrendous shit going down, like every single night? Suicide bombs, mass shootings, genocides, drone strikes, school... -
Dracula (stage version) by Bram Stoker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the... -
When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A heartrending drama about family, betrayal and forgiveness, spanning four generations and two hemispheres. From the writer of the award-winning film Lantana. When the Rain Stops Falling moves... -
Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers by Evan Placey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today. They provide ideal material for teenagers to read,... -
Alligators by Andrew Keatley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.48A searing thriller that asks how well we actually know those closest to us. Daniel Turner has it all. A devoted wife, two beautiful children and a teaching job he loves. But when allegations are... -
Mr Incredible by Camilla Whitehill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Adam is single. He doesn't like it. He misses Holly. He deserves Holly. Doesn't he? A brutal one-man play about modern love and old-fashioned entitlement, Camilla Whitehill's Mr Incredible was... -
Secret Life of Humans by David Byrne
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10In 1949, scientist and mathematician Dr Jacob Bronowski installs a hidden, locked room in his house. Fifty years later, his grandson discovers the secrets contained in the room, unearthing echoes... -
The Beacon by Nancy Harris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A mysterious accident. A dead husband. People are talking. Secrets are resurfacing from the depths. Is the past ever truly dead? Beiv, a celebrated artist, has moved from suburban Dublin to her... -
An Attitude for Acting: How to Survive (and Thrive) as an Actor by Andrew Tidmarsh
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A 'how to' book for actors who want to develop a 'can do' attitude to their profession in the face of rejection and intense competition. Feeling despondent about the acting profession? Been out... -
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,... -
Growth by Luke Norris
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85A painful comedy about growing up and manning up. Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way - cramping his... -
The Here and This and Now by Glenn Waldron
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'I just don't know if I'm ever happy. Like, really truly happy. Even if you sent me up to space, by day four I'd be worrying if I had enough stuff on my Kindle...' What makes us truly happy?... -
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...