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Directing Beckett by Lois Oppenheim 9780472084364
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £36.39In Directing Beckett, Lois Oppenheim presents interviews and essays with twenty-two prominent international directors of Samuel Beckett's work, many of whom worked closely with Beckett, assisting him... -
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That Face by Polly Stenham 9780571244218 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Written when Polly Stenham was nineteen years old, That Face is a savagely funny dissection of the lives of the rich, reissued in Faber Drama's elegant new series design.You're shaking. It's too... -
Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology by Tison Pugh
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a textual and a... -
The Playwright's Muse by Joan Herrington
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his... -
Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide by Nelson 9780313322327
Booksplease Price: £77.31Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American... -
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521794107
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.30In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the... -
The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater by Studs Terkel 9781595583598
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A collection of the Pulitzer-Prize winning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of theatre and film. Among the many highlights are Buster Keaton explaining... -
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521790895
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £105.09In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the... -
The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams: 2 volume set by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £53.80In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd by Michael Y. Bennett
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted... -
Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four Crucial Texts by M. Bennett 9781137275417
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.97This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre... -
Conversations with August Wilson by Jackson R. Bryer 9781578068319
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African American life in the twentieth century, with each play taking place in a different... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Mike Sell 9781350204546
Booksplease Price: £34.84The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with... -
James Purdy: Selected Plays by James Purdy
Booksplease Price: £16.21Hailed as "a creative genius" (TLS) and "a singular American visionary" (New York Times ), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he was also an astonishing playwright who wrote... -
Fortune in My Eyes: A Memoir of Broadway Glamour Social Justice and Political Passion by David Rothenberg 9781495003158
Booksplease Price: £16.21David Rothenberg's multilayered life thrust him into Broadway's brightest lights prison riots political campaigns civil rights sit-ins and a Central American civil war. In his memoir EFortune in... -
Boston Marriage by David Mamet 9780413766007
Booksplease Price: £14.45One of America's most revered and provocative dramatists, David Mamet conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. Anna and Claire are two bantering,... -
Theater Voices: Conversations on the Stage by Steve Capra 9780810850477
Booksplease Price: £51.20According to Sir Peter Hall, "The theatre's been dying for two thousand years, and I'm sure will continue to." In the meantime, Hall and other leading figures of the stage have continued to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard by Matthew C. Roudane 9780521777667
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are... -
Open Hatch: The Theater Criticism of Robert Hatch, 1950-1970 by James R Russo 9781789762082
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.42Robert Hatch's critical life spanned five decades. Starting in 1947 and continuing until 1984, he wrote about drama (and film) for The New Republic, The Nation, Theatre Arts, The Reporter, and... -
Remembering Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby 9780413775528
Booksplease Price: £47.58Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with 'Arthur Miller Remembers', an interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in February... -
The One-Act Play Companion: A Guide to Plays, Playwrights and Performance by Colin Dolley 9780713674286
Booksplease Price: £25.62The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn,... -
Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by Chicago Tribune Critics by Chris Jones
Booksplease Price: £25.10The first known Chicago Tribune theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements - one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be... -
American Drama in the Age of Film by Zander Brietzke
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.76Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the... -
The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present by J. Clum 9781349341399
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.37In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and... -
The Actors Studio: A History by Shelly Frome 9780786423200
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Over the years there has been much controversy and confusion about the true nature of The Actors Studio, a secluded workshop in New York City that for decades has had a marked influence on the... -
Breathe by Sarah Crossan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83_______________ 'Mad Max for the eco-generation' - Love Reading 4 Kids 'The all-action plot and the hinted-at romantic triangle will keep the reader's interest to the end' - Irish Examiner ... -
Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marianne Novy 9780472030026
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.64Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive... -
Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks Ruby Cohn 9781350425965
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American... -
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Breathe by Sarah Crossan 9781408827192 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.05_______________ 'Mad Max for the eco-generation' - Love Reading 4 Kids 'The all-action plot and the hinted-at romantic triangle will keep the reader's interest to the end' - Irish Examiner ... -
Cherry: Now a Major Film Starring Tom Holland Nico Walker 9781784708832
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING TOM HOLLAND Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and... -
Wit's End: Women's Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy by Sean Zwagerman 9780822960744
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05In Wit's End, Sean Zwagerman offers an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy as seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. He argues that women whose... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal 9781840027686
Booksplease Price: £53.26Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive... -
Lovesong of the Electric Bear by Snoo Wilson 9781474255301
Booksplease Price: £14.24Nothing is stronger than this love, for I am nothing indeed without you, MasterAwoken from his deathbed by his favourite childhood teddy bear, Turing is led by the hand through the journey of his... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds by H. Meyers 9781349279814
Booksplease Price: £48.40This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
What is Visible: A Novel by Kimberly Elkins
Booksplease Price: £14.00Laura Bridgman was the first deaf and blind person to learn language-fifty years before Helen Keller. Laura also couldn't taste or smell; she lost all senses but touch from a bout with scarlet fever... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds H. Meyers 9780230001343
Booksplease Price: £49.43This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
Rare Birds: An American Family by Dan Bessie 9780813153681
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £14.19What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
The Godmothers: A Novel by Camille Aubray 9780062983701
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"A group of deeply complex and beautifully written women . . . Aubray marries history, suspense and womanhood in a story perfect for devouring."-NewsweekFor readers of Naomi Krupitsky's The Family!... -
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter by M. Bennett 9780230113381
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £35.21Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major...