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Enron Lucy Prebble 9781408124673
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30'The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.' One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a... -
Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical Laurie Winer 9780300280166
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture "Smart and insightful. . . . [Winer] has an intuitive grasp of... -
Not Black and White: Category B, Seize the Day, Detaining Justice by Bola Agbaje 9781408127445
Booksplease Price: £26.60Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and... -
Saved: 60 Years of Modern Plays by Edward Bond 9781350134430
Booksplease Price: £21.68It's bad enough bein' stuck with a kid without 'avin' you 'anging round' me neck. The 'ole street's laughin' be'ind yer back. Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved... -
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"Punk Rock" by Simon Stephens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30'Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't...' Based on his experience as a... -
Masterpieces by Elaine Aston 9781474218061
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.76You are not at liberty to avenge the pornography industry in this country. We have the censorship laws for that. Masterpieces opens on three couples having dinner in a restaurant, exchanging... -
This House: 60 Years of Modern Plays by James Graham
Booksplease Price: £21.68This country doesn't need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In tough times, the British do what we have always done. We muddle through. Britain's most prominent... -
Alphabetical Order by Michael Frayn 9781408122600
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where... -
English Journey by J. B. Priestley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it... -
Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place Alycia Smith-Howard 9781138257894
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44An extensive history of The Royal Shakespeare Company's studio theatre, Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place also includes a biography of its founder and first... -
Wild Honey by Anton Chekhov 9781350032293
Booksplease Price: £17.86Oh, Misha, it's terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something ..... -
Covering Shakespeare: An Actor's Saga of Near Misses and Dogged Endurance by David Weston 9781783190645
Booksplease Price: £31.53David Weston has spent a lifetime acting in Shakespeare's plays, and has been directed by Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and Simon Croft. Chosen as Ian McKellen's understudy in the RSC's King Lear, he... -
Posh by Laura Wade 9781350235762
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.50In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally... -
Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a... -
This House by James Graham 9781472507020
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99This country doesn't need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In tough times, the British do what we have always done. We muddle through. This House is a timely... -
Top Girls Caryl Churchill 9781350028579
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become a seminal play of... -
Light Falls by Simon Stephens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE ME. A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts... -
One Night in Miami..... by Kemp Powers 9781786820587
Booksplease Price: £14.24Before they were icons they were friends The world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated his world heavyweight title not by... -
Simon Stephens Plays 5: Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg Simon Stephens (Author) 9781350235670
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.39"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their... -
Top Girls: 60 Years of Modern Plays by Caryl Churchill
Booksplease Price: £21.68I believe in the individual. Look at me. Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British... -
Delight by J. B. Priestley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
The Heretic by Richard Bean 9781849431200
Booksplease Price: £14.24"I'm a scientist. I don't 'believe' in anything." The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the... -
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The Heretic by Richard Bean 9781849431200 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.00"I'm a scientist. I don't 'believe' in anything." The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the... -
Snookered by Ishy Din
Booksplease Price: £14.82Snookered probes into the lives of young Muslim men and their fragile masculinity, burdened by cultural expectations yet charged with personal dreams. In a volatile political climate, Ishy Din opens... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.48My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs... -
The Cripple of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh (Playwright, UK) 9781472530172
Booksplease Price: £14.24In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an... -
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 by Lawrence Goldman
Booksplease Price: £110.81Who made modern Britain? This book, drawn from the award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, tells the story of our recent past through the lives of those who shaped national life... -
DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy by Tom Murphy 9781408173190
Booksplease Price: £17.19This collection brings together three of Tom Murphy's finest plays, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming. Together, they tell the story of Irish emigration - of those who... -
Questors, Jesters and Renegades: The Story of Britain's Amateur Theatre by Michael Coveney
Booksplease Price: £20.60This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael... -
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore 9781472508577
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?' Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is... -
The American Clock: A Vaudeville Arthur Miller 9781350226982
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30'It is Mr. Miller's notion, potentially a great one, that the Baums' story can help tell the story of America itself during that traumatic era.' NEW YORK TIMES When the stock market crashes, the... -
John Logan: Plays One by John Logan 9781783198528
Booksplease Price: £21.68The first collection of plays from the multi-award-winning legendary screenwriter and playwright. Contains the plays RED, PETER AND ALICE and I'LL EAT YOU LAST. Contents: Introduction by Michael... -
Nuclear War & The Songs for Wende by Simon Stephens 9781350050877
Booksplease Price: £12.82I want, one more time, to be absolutely in the moment . . .I am going to try as hard as I can to not be a human being.A series of suggestions on desire, death and time.Nuclear War is the searing... -
Close to Death: How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5) by Anthony Horowitz 9781804942963
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49How do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.'Easily the... -
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Close to Death: How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5) by Anthony Horowitz 9781804942963 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.42How do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.'Easily the... -
Joan's Book by Joan Littlewood 9781474233224
Booksplease Price: £37.72'Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but... -
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World by Dominic Dromgoole 9781788166812
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.84A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' Kathy Burke Astonish Me! is an... -
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage by Eileen Atkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.49'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now' - A. A. GillWill She Do? is the story of... -
The Young Pretender Michael Arditti 9781529422573
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'An engrossing, enthralling and utterly captivating read, The Young Pretender tells a simply remarkable story with bounce, energy, wit, and lively authenticity . . . Michael Arditti's brilliant...