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Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage by Sara Soncini 9780859899932
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet... -
La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler 9781854595874
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Arthur Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. La Ronde is a play of ten scenes,... -
Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521106931
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Ruby Cohn assumes realism to be the dominant mode in English theatre since 1956, the year of John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger. She argues, however, that the most provocative plays of the last few... -
Birmingham City: 150 Years of a Remarkable Football Club Keith Dixon 9781836801566
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16Embark on a spellbinding journey through Birmingham City's 150-year history, with unique insights from Blues legends such as Paul Robinson, Gil Merrick and Trevor Francis - plus stunning images that... -
![The Bald Trilogy: "Recollections of a Furtive Nudist", "Pigspurt" - or "Six Pigs from Happiness", "Jamais Vu" by Ken Campbell 9780413690807](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5362610/5439867/9780413690807__60737.1725115728.jpg?c=1 "The Bald Trilogy: "Recollections of a Furtive Nudist", "Pigspurt" - or "Six Pigs from Happiness", "Jamais Vu" by Ken Campbell 9780413690807")
The Bald Trilogy: "Recollections of a Furtive Nudist", "Pigspurt" - or "Six Pigs from Happiness", "Jamais Vu" by Ken Campbell 9780413690807
Booksplease Price: £14.45"British Theatre's antic visionary" (Guardian) "We're doing three David Hare plays all on one day, you see and we're calling that a trilogy - The Hare Trilogy - So if we had yours on, it would seem... -
WILDE NOW: Performance, Celebrity and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde by Pierpaolo Martino 9783031304255
Booksplease Price: £112.12WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full... -
La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler 9780413495303
Booksplease Price: £14.45Schnitzler's masterpiece, La Ronde, shows a spectrum of social class from prostitutes to noblemen in a series of drily observed, loveless sexual encounters. Remembered by many as the basis of a... -
Through a Cloud by Jack Shepherd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A battle of wits between Cromwell and John Milton, by the well-known actor Jack Shepherd. 1656. Two revolutionaries meet in the woods at Hampton Court: the blind poet, John Milton, and his... -
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom Preeti Dhillon 9780349702834
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 **** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2024**The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and the legacies of Empire and... -
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the... -
The Plagiarist in the Kitchen by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.08'I adore Meades's book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen' New York Times'The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us "Don't you bastards know... -
The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'I adore Meades's book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen' New York Times'The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us "Don't you bastards know... -
Radioactive Monologues for Men: For Radio, Stage and Screen by Marilyn Le Conte 9780413775795
Booksplease Price: £20.95Radioactive Monologues for Men draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television,... -
Documentary and Verbatim Theatre: Tracing Methodologies and Practitioners Stuart Young 9781032029511
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Documentary and Verbatim Theatre surveys the emergence and rise of work based on real life in contemporary theatre, exploring the artists, methodologies, plays, and central themes that have... -
Lidless Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig 9780300160307
Booksplease Price: £15.82It's been fifteen years since Guantanamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home... -
Edgar the Playwright by Susan Painter 9780413699602
Booksplease Price: £20.95"The best review I've ever had was when Michael Billington said, 'like Balzac, David Edgar seems to be a secretary for our times'...I'd like to be a secretary for the times through which I'm living."... -
Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale by Jonathan Croall 9781474223867
Booksplease Price: £103.41King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America... -
The Art Of Screen Adaptation by Alistair Owen 9780857302274
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.60'If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, 'How will it work best as a film?' However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then... -
Paul by Howard Brenton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain. The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to... -
The End of the Party by Andrew Rawnsley
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling The End of the Party lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office.Through riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VI Christopher Bigsby 9781911343134
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of... -
Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace by Paloma Fresno-Calleja 9781032204062
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.Combining postcolonial and... -
Never So Good by Howard Brenton 9781854595515
Booksplease Price: £17.54A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez... -
Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance: Make it Real by Daniel J. Schulze 9781350000964
Booksplease Price: £96.35Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very evasive. This study... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War James Shapiro 9780571372775
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Tremendous.' DAVID HARE'An absorbing, necessary book.' AHAD AKHTAR'Fascinating and energising.' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story... -
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... -
Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521472678
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon,... -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters by Salva Rubio 9780984157662
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £18.12In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! (R) Goes to the Movies, Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly studio-made. Now his student, Salva Rubio, applies Blake's principles to 50... -
The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting by Dominic Dromgoole 9780413771346
Booksplease Price: £24.92Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z,... -
The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years by Uwe Boker 9789042014008
Booksplease Price: £79.46The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical... -
An Actor's Life in 12 Productions by Oliver Ford Davies
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize 2023 The director Peter Dews prophesied: "You'll be alright when you're forty, and even better when you're fifty." It turns out that... -
55 Days by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A gripping historical play that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. December 1648. The Army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned king on trial, so the Army... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people... -
Lawrence After Arabia by Howard Brenton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Howard Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia explores the afterlife of a legend, when being a hero has become a burden, and the man once celebrated as Lawrence of Arabia wants only to be normal once more. ... -
Devoured by Anna Mackmin
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.431973. Swallow's Farmhouse in deep, rural Norfolk is home to Your People, a commune of free-thinkers and poets seeking a better way. But beneath the veneer of a nurturing, alternative lifestyle, an... -
![Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780099518785 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701374/10718078/9780099518785__73653.1781356002.jpg?c=1 "Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780099518785 [USED COPY]")
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780099518785 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.53Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life... -
Drawing the Line by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world. London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is... -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.48Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir by Joan Didion 9780007270743
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms...