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An Intervention by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other... -
The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a... -
So You Want To Be A Theatre Producer by James Seabright
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A comprehensive guide to every aspect of producing a show, from raising the money to creating a hit - now revised and updated. This unique guide - the first 'how-to' book of its kind on the... -
Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A play about families and particle physics. Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life,... -
Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own by Gary Mitchell
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland. Tearing the Loom is a searing portrait of a community divided against... -
Making Noise Quietly: three short plays by Robert Holman
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives. In Being Friends, two young men meet in a Kentish field in 1944 as doodlebugs whizz overhead. One is a conscientious... -
Egusi Soup by Janice Okoh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A fast and funny family drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships - containing plenty of spicy bits... It's the anniversary of John Anyia's death, and the Anyias are packing... -
So You Want To Be A Theatre Designer by Michael Pavelka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The definitive guide to designing for theatre - by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name. With a Foreword by Alison Chitty. A theatre designer needs to be able to draw on... -
Shibboleth by Stacey Gregg
Booksplease Price: £10.85An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast. Development. Hotels, spas, Nando's, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers... -
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights. America, 1862, during the Civil War. Hero, a slave, is promised his freedom if he joins his... -
Wild by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level. Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching... -
Shangri La by Amy Ng
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'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... -
How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a... -
Dark Sublime by Michael Dennis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams. When Oli arrives at now-forgotten sci-fi icon Marianne's door, he's looking for an autograph - and maybe a friend. Marianne's hoping... -
The Changing Room by Chris Bush
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'We stand on the edge On the threshold of On the entrance to Stepping out from On the cusp...' Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of... -
The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Two powerful expressionist plays from the early career of one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. The Hairy Ape is a nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of... -
Arabian Nights (Young Vic version) by Dominic Cooke
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to... -
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton 9781854591920
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century. Alsemero has... -
The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9781854591739
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.63Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon,... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge 9781854592101
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy... -
The Country Wife by William Wycherley 9781854592255
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written. The City of... -
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca 9781854594594
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Garcia Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience... -
The Misanthrope by Moliere 9781854597878
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him... -
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen 9781854596543
Booksplease Price: £4.00Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity... -
Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays) by Tom Wells 9781839040184
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48'Bit risky though, isn't it? Just sort of turning up to an isolated peninsula in the North Sea without any sandwiches...' Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the cafe for... -
Glee & Me (NHB Modern Plays) by Stuart Slade 9781848429468
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'A vinaigrette of despair poured over a salad of joy.' Lola is sixteen years old, sharp-witted and has her whole life ahead of her - until she's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Now her... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning... -
Far Gone (NHB Modern Plays) by John Rwothomack 9781839040733
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839040733Author John RwothomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Roaring Trade by Steve Thompson 9781848420403
Booksplease Price: £19.35'This is McSorley's. Second largest bank in the square mile. Half our traders break the million pound barrier. Just how far are you prepared to go?' Pressure is mounting on the bond traders' floor... -
Miseryguts & Tartuffe: Two plays by Moli re by Liz Lochhead 9781854596802
Booksplease Price: £24.92Two plays from Moliere, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday). Miseryguts is a Scots version of Moliere's Le Misanthrope, a bitter comedy about a worldly sophisticate who... -
The Malcontent by John Marston 9781854596963
Booksplease Price: £17.59The Nick Hern Books RSC Classics - a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West End. ... -
The People Next Door by Henry Adam 9781854597670
Booksplease Price: £17.45A black comedy about the post-9/11 world and what happens when someone else's global problem becomes your local one. If 9/11 changed everybody's life forever, somebody forgot to tell Nigel. With... -
Testing the Echo David Edgar 9781854595539
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A timely, provocative and witty look at the campaign to redefine Britishness for a multicultural society. Who is head of the Church of England? How many members are there in the Welsh Assembly?... -
The Articulate Body: The Physical Training of the Actor Anne Dennis 9781854596833
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.54The highly regarded actor training manual by top movement teacher Anne Dennis. This inspirational and instructive book shows how actors can use their body to be as expressive and 'articulate' as... -
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Preface to Romeo and Juliet by Harley Granville Barker 9781854591111 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.52The classic - and most practical - guide to Shakespeare's major plays, available in separate, pocket-format volumes for use in study or rehearsal room. With a foreword by Richard Eyre. 'I regard... -
![Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright 9781854596659 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5989468/6066494/9781854596659__00891.1730519739.jpg?c=1 "Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright 9781854596659 [USED COPY]")
Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright 9781854596659 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.44A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in... -
Statues Azan Ahmed 9781839044038
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48'He grew up to be a man whose sighs and slumps replaced sentences. Is that gonna be me?' Days after his father's passing, English teacher Yusuf discovers a dusty mixtape that changes everything he... -
Anna Christie by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9781848421899
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Eugene O'Neill's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman's longing to forget the dark secrets of her past and hope for salvation. Exiled from her home by the... -
Stories by Nina Raine 9781848427952
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10How do you have a baby when you're thirty-nine and single? You decide. But what happens next? The story, like a child, has a life of its own. The story becomes stories... A funny and touching... -
Urinetown: The Musical by Greg Kotis 9781854597175
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05In a Gotham-like city, a depletion of the Earth's water supply has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The privilege to pee is regulated by a single malevolent company that profits...