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Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780393924657
Booksplease Price: £20.37This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov's major plays-Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and three early one-act farces that inform his later... -
The Good Soul of Szechuan by Bertolt Brecht 9781408109656
Booksplease Price: £13.64A programme text edition of Brecht's famous parable, this new translation by David Harrower was published to accompany the production at the Young Vic, London, in May 2008 and is based on a... -
Open Space: Theatre as Opportunity for Living by Roger Grainger 9781845196684
Booksplease Price: £28.51This book looks at the way theatre works in order to make 'space for living'. It provides the means to help one feel more deeply, think more clearly, relate more personally, by giving audiences and... -
Just Adrian by Adrian Mitchell 9781849430470
Booksplease Price: £19.72Just Adrian is a patchwork tour of a legendary playwright, poet and activist's life in the theatre. It is a fascinating first-hand account of groundbreaking productions featuring figures like Kenneth... -
Churchill: A Life in Cartoons Tim Benson 9781529153286
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11Following an unrivalled political career that spanned a remarkable sixty years and reached both the heights and the depths of political fortune, Sir Winston Churchill undoubtedly became the world's... -
Dick Barton by Phil Barton 9781840021493
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.73Includes the plays Dick Barton - Special Agent and The Curse of the Pharaoh's Tomb Gaberdine collar up, trilby at rakish angle, intrepid sleuth Dick Barton faces arch enemies Baron Scarheart and... -
The Other Place: after Antigone by Alexander Zeldin 9781350539242
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86No what I think is there are people who are suffering and you can't go through your life as if they aren't there and you don't help them? If everyone did that what kind of world would that be?Two... -
The Mirror For Princes by Sulayman Al-Bassam 9781840026702
Booksplease Price: £12.27"New writing based on the fables Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of Council for Kings, literally, a 'mirror' for princes, these subtle and... -
The Actor Training Reader MARK EVANS (Coventry University, UK) 9780415824026
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The Actor Training Reader is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of acting, offering access to a wide range of key texts that identify, explore, illuminate and interrogate the... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780393928839
Booksplease Price: £16.51An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism by Stanley Wells 9780198711773
Booksplease Price: £96.20Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eye-witness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that... -
Dick Barton, Episode III: The Tango of Terror Dick by Phil Willmott 9781840022650
Booksplease Price: £14.24Dick Barton, hero of the BBC's 1940's radio serial is back in this, the third of Phil Wilmott's critically acclaimed and hugely successful series of musical comedies. This show works independently of... -
Religious and Cultural Difference in Modern British Political Cartoons Tahnia Ahmed 9781350294141
Booksplease Price: £30.54Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through... -
Dedication by Nick Dear 9780571335046
Booksplease Price: £12.48Patron? Collaborator? Employer? Voyeur? Lover?Questioned about the nature of his relationship with the 3rd Earl of Southampton, William Shakespeare is on trial.The evidence: tender poems, financial... -
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Dick Barton, Episode III: The Tango of Terror Dick by Phil Willmott 9781840022650 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.68Dick Barton, hero of the BBC's 1940's radio serial is back in this, the third of Phil Wilmott's critically acclaimed and hugely successful series of musical comedies. This show works independently of... -
La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures: The Dialogue with European Theater in the Years 1961–1975 Monica Cristini 9781032372822
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s.This study investigates the involvement of the Off-Off Broadway circuit in the... -
Actor Training by Alison Hodge
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more... -
The Confessions by Mr Alexander Zeldin 9781350456723
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86An intimate portrait of a life Australia 1943 to London 2021, and everything in between. Alice is learning to be herself against the times. But how do the times shape who we are? Playing out... -
Chora 7: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture: Volume 7 by Alberto Pérez-Gómez 9780773547025
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.95For over twenty years, the Chora series has received international acclaim for its excellence in interdisciplinary research on architecture. The seven volumes of Chora have challenged readers to... -
Jose Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place by Flora Gonzalez Mandri 9780814325261
Booksplease Price: £40.76In this critical volume Flora Gonzalez Mandri provides a comprehensive reading of the narrative works of Jose Donoso, Chile's most prominent novelist. A respected member of the Latin American Boom,... -
The Active Text: Unlocking Plays Through Physical Theatre by Dymphna Callery
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Many theatre practitioners think of physical theatre as one thing and text-based theatre as another. In this book, Dymphna Callery, author of Through the Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre,... -
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War by Christopher Balme 9783319480831
Booksplease Price: £99.99This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a... -
The Weak are a Long Time in Politics: Sketches from the Brexit Neverendum by Patrick Kidd 9781785905339
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Politics looked straightforward when Patrick Kidd took over the reins of the daily political sketch in The Times in 2015. David Cameron had just won a general election and would clearly be Prime... -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of... -
Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel William Golding 9780571374250
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.33'The first book that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat.'STEPHEN KING'One of my favorite books.'SUZANNE COLLINS, author of The Hunger GamesBefore The Stand and The Hunger Games,... -
Free Fall by William Golding
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Marvellous.' A.S. Byatt'Astonishing.' John Gray'Luminous.' Rose TremainI could take whichever I would of these paths.Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung... -
A Story About Mr.Silberstein by Erland Josephson 9780810119109
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.74Erland Josephson is perhaps best known as an actor celebrated for his work in Ingmar Bergman films. But he is also a noted novelist: A Story about Mr. Silberstein is the fourth novel of the eight he... -
On Eloquence by Denis Donoghue 9780300158397
Booksplease Price: £25.26An eloquent reminder of why we should care about-and revel in-eloquence in literature and speechOn Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means... -
Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre by Freddie Rokem 9781587295881
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.14Collective identities grow from a sense of the past, and the theatre very forcefully participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, sometimes by contesting them and... -
Roy Hart by Kevin Crawford
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Roy Hart's revolutionary work on the human voice through extended vocal technique and the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition has influenced several generations of practitioners. Hart's outstanding contribution... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9780521575652
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £20.23This is a detailed account of the theatrical fortunes of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the 1990s. The substantial, illustrated introduction traces the rise of the... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism by Stanley Wells 9780198711766
Booksplease Price: £31.52Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in... -
The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels (introduced by Charlotte Higgins) by William Golding
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Visionary.' Bettany Hughes'Tremendous.' Ben Okri'Luminous.' Rose TremainEven when he leapt from the parapet he talked.Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in 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... -
Quantitative Intelligence Analysis: Applied Analytic Models, Simulations, and Games by Edward Waltz 9780810895461
Booksplease Price: £33.49Quantitative Intelligence Analysis describes the model-based method of intelligence analysis that represents the analyst's mental models of a subject, as well as the analyst's reasoning process... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
The Fate of Carmen by Evlyn Gould
Booksplease Price: £25.92The ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study both the cultural power and renewability of certain literary texts and the relationship between literature... -
The Hogarth Plays: The Art of Success & The Taste of the Town by Nick Dear
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.In The Art of Success the events of ten tumultuous... -
Empathy and the Novel by Suzanne Keen 9780199740499
Booksplease Price: £43.09Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the... -
Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum by Janet Birkett
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.92Within the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's leading museum of art and design, there lies an extraordinary wealth of material relating to a single individual: the...