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CLASS by Iseult Golden
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Brian and Donna's son is nine years old and he's struggling. That's what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. But Brian and Donna - recently separated - never liked school, never... -
Cougar by Rose Lewenstein
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85'We're in a hotel. We're always in a hotel. And each room is exactly the same as the last room, and the one before that, and the one before that...' Leila wants to inspire global change. John... -
Passing Places by Stephen Greenhorn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63A road movie for the stage, following two young lads from Motherwell on their trip from dislocation to location. Alex and Brian are a pair of Scottish smalltown boys going nowhere, who get out the... -
Women, Power and Politics: Then by Rebecca Lenkewiecz
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.29A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom. The four plays published here look back to the moments in... -
soft animals by Holly Robinson
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.63Sarah gets spat at in the street. Frankie doesn't go to her lectures. In the aftermath of the accident that brought them together, neither expects to find solace in the other's company. Between... -
Luise Miller by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal. Born into ancient nobility and son of the most powerful statesman in the... -
So You Want to Act on Screen? by Michael Bray
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63An essential handbook for anyone who wants to act on television and film - by a leading teacher of screen acting. For any aspiring screen actor, the challenge is to combine all the components of... -
Epic Love and Pop Songs by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.70A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up, from the author of WINK and Fury. Remember your best friend? No, the other one. The one that liked to lie. Maybe it's time they 'fessed... -
Mighty Atoms by Amanda Whittington
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85Ex-boxer Taylor Flint wants to put the past behind her. Yet back on the Hull estate where she grew up, she is drawn into running a boxercise class. For Lauren, Jazz, Aneta and Grace, boxercise soon... -
Education, Education, Education by The Wardrobe Ensemble
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78It's May 1997. Tony Blair has won the election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. Channel 5 is a month old. No one knows who Harry Potter is. Britain is the coolest place in the world. ... -
The Gift by Janice Okoh
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19An outrageous play about imperialism, cross racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and... -
Kes (stage version) by Barry Hines
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school... -
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Fin Kennedy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century. When a young executive reaches breaking point and... -
What We Know by Pamela Carter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking. Lucy has lost something very important. One minute Jo's there, the next he isn't, leaving Lucy with a pile of half-cooked food and... -
A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays) by Mark Gatiss
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19It's Christmas Eve. As the cold, bleak night draws in, the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirit of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment... -
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family. When the large Weston family is reunited in Oklahoma after the disappearance of their father, they let... -
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed for a knock-down price, enabling the first black... -
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. and Imp. by Cary Churchill
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.28'I can see her just. Most people can't see her at all.' A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killer's friends. And a secret in a bottle. Four stories by Caryl Churchill. Glass,... -
good dog by Arinze Kene
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85'Everyone gets what they deserve, they have to...' It's in the window of Sam's, behind the rusty display. Two wheels, shiny body, handlebars ready to be gripped. Mum's promised him that bike, so... -
The Treatment by Martin Crimp
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell. But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to... -
The Unmanageable Sisters by Deirdre Kinahan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85Green Shield Stamps, a million of them, and Ger Lawless has won them all. It's Ballymun, it's 1974, and she has fifteen friends round for a stamp-sticking party. Over one fateful night, fifteen... -
Abandonment by Kate Atkinson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist. Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved... -
Cockroach by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence. A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology... -
Once: The Musical by Enda Walsh
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11When an Irish busker and a young Czech mother meet through a shared love of music, their songwriting sparks a deep connection and a tender, longing romance that neither of them could have expected. ... -
Ballyturk by Enda Walsh
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy. The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What... -
Beached by Melissa Bubnic
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85Melissa Bubnic's Beached is a darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns. Arty is the world's fattest teenager. At sixty-seven stone, he is a young man... -
Doctor Foster: The Scripts by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.50Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South... -
ear for eye by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02'Marchin' days is over man.' Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough. Black British. African American. Here. There. Now. Snapshots of lives,... -
First Time by Nathaniel Hall
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54Can you remember your first time? In this hilarious and heartbreaking true story, theatre-maker and activist Nathaniel Hall can't seem to forget his. To be fair, he's had it playing on repeat for... -
Treasure Island (NHB Modern Plays) by Le Navet Bete
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.65Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins is serving ale in The Admiral Benbow Inn - when suddenly the door slams open and in strides Billy Bones, the infamous pirate, to change Jim's life forever... Soon,... -
The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors by Karen Kohlhaas
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Written by an experienced teacher, and illustrated by line drawings and photographs, this book takes the actor step by step through the crucial process of choosing and performing an audition piece... -
Through a Cloud by Jack Shepherd
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85A 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... -
Ibsen's A Doll's House: A Study Guide by Stephen Unwin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85The Nick Hern Books Page to Stage series - highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage. ... -
Samskara (NHB Modern Plays) by Lanre Malaolu
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85'When I look at you - when you look at me - when our eyes connect? I have to protect. To hold on to something, 'cause there's too much to feel!' Four generations of black men are trying to... -
Paul by Howard Brenton
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.94An 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... -
Dorian (NHB Modern Plays) by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85Dorian Gray - handsome, hedonistic, narcissistic - sells his soul for eternal beauty. Basil and Henry join him for the ride until it all goes too far, and the hangovers become murderous... Oscar... -
A Christmas Carol (Old Vic new edition) (NHB Modern plays) by Jack Thorne
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28One bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led... -
Shangri La by Amy Ng
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85'I refuse to be a panda. I refuse to go extinct. I want to live, to live well, to live like them.' Bunny, a young woman from the officially designated 'Shangri-La' in the Himalayan foothills of... -
Shorts by David Edgar
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63A collection of shorter plays from stage and television by one of the UK's foremost political playwrights. Included are: Blood Sports, five hilarious sketches on sporting subjects Ball Boys,... -
Great Expectations (Royal Shakespeare Company version) by Charles Dickens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters. Whilst at his parents' graveside, Pip is accosted by Magwitch, a convict...