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Anthony Neilson Plays: 3 by Anthony Neilson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and... -
Realism by Anthony Neilson 9781408157183
Booksplease Price: £14.79A lazy Saturday for Stuart? With interruptions from a radio panel show, a threesome, the Black and White Minstrels, a nagging mother and a mouthy cat - no chance. Luckily, none of them know what he's... -
Stitching by Anthony Neilson 9780413772930
Booksplease Price: £14.82We will fix it. We will mend it...In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new... -
The Lying Kind by Anthony Neilson 9780413773142
Booksplease Price: £14.45A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002 Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.68Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself... -
Neilson Plays by Anthony Neilson 9781408106808
Booksplease Price: £25.27In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia Anthony Neilson 9781350200975
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30'Anthony Neilson's 2004 play is half a lark, half deadly serious' TIME OUT 'A profane, madcap, Alice-in-Wonderland trip morphs into something much more profound in Anthony Neilson's weirdly... -
The Theatre of Anthony Neilson by Trish Reid 9781472570291
Booksplease Price: £37.42Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a reputation for... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson 9781350370012
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Life's full of clatter, but none of it matters, only who'll hold your paw when you die. What would you do if you lost an hour from your day? How far would you go to rescue what you've lost? In... -
Contemporary Rehearsal Practice: Anthony Neilson and the Devised Text Gary Cassidy 9780367615574
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson's unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson's notably collaborative rehearsal process affords an unusual amount of creative... -
The "Wonderful World of Dissocia" and "Realism" by Anthony Neilson 9780713687156
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Neilson Plays:1: Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor by Anthony Neilson 9780413724601
Booksplease Price: £25.13Anthony Neilson's plays collected in one volume Includes the plays: Normal "a tight, powerful, three-hander...achieved with a sense of discipline and thematic energy" (Guardian), Penetrator "This is... -
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin by Trish Reid 9781472574435
Booksplease Price: £27.89To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland... -
The No Rules Handbook for Writers (know the Rules So You Can Break Them) by Lisa Goldman 9781849431118
Booksplease Price: £18.18Shortlisted as one of The Stage's top 10 training books of 2012The No Rules Handbook for Writers is a timely, creative and refreshing antidote to prescriptive guides for writers. It will inspire... -
Caledonia by Alistair Beaton 9781408136270
Booksplease Price: £14.85Caledonia is a story of greed, euphoria and mass delusion. It is the story of a small, poor country mistaking itself for a place that is both big and rich. It is an ancient story for modern times. ... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama by Ian Brown
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.78Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and forms The 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments... -
Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland Trish Reid 9783031611902
Booksplease Price: £61.04This textbook offers a detailed and expansive account of theatre and performance in contemporary Scotland. It considers the underlying historical and cultural developments that have enabled the... -
Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage by Mireia Aragay 9783030584856
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book explores the various manifestations of affects in British theatre of the 21st century. The introduction gives a concise survey of existing and emerging theoretical and research trends and... -
Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage by Mireia Aragay 9783030584887
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book explores the various manifestations of affects in British theatre of the 21st century. The introduction gives a concise survey of existing and emerging theoretical and research trends and... -
The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure by Sarah Grochala 9781472588470
Booksplease Price: £96.35What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs?... -
Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s by Elzbieta Iwona Baraniecka 9783110301151
RRP: £144.50Booksplease Price: £97.30British drama of the 1990s is most commonly associated with the term in-yer-face theatre, which was coined by Aleks Sierz to describe the shocking and provocative work of emerging playwrights such as... -
Words as Swords: Verbal Violence as a Construction of Authority in Renaissance and Contemporary English Drama by Sila Senlen 9783898219822
Booksplease Price: £26.91Verbal violence, as a sophisticated means of persuasion and manipulation, is as effective on the stage as physical violence. Since the destructive effects of verbal violence are less recognized and... -
Theatre and Scotland by Trish Reid 9780230292611
Booksplease Price: £12.27In this cutting-edge text, Trish Reid offers a concise overview of the shifting roles of theatre and theatricality in Scottish culture. She asks important questions about the relationship between... -
Best of the Fest: A Collection of New Plays Celebrating 10 years of London New Play Festival by Phil Setren 9780951587782
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Celebrating 10 years of the London New Play Festival, featuring six plays: Wild Turkey by Joe Penhall: Two small businessmen struggle to keep their flagging burger bar afloat, in the face of... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s by Aleks Sierz 9781408181331
Booksplease Price: £112.13British theatre of the 1990s witnessed an explosion of new talent and presented a new sensibility that sent shockwaves through audiences and critics. What produced this change, the context from which... -
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights by Aleks Sierz 9781408122785
Booksplease Price: £28.57The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international... -
The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68The Pitchfork Disney heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. Manifesting Ridley's vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook,... -
The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure by Sarah Grochala
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.99What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs?... -
The Methuen Drama Book of 21st Century British Plays: Blue/Orange; Elmina's Kitchen; Realism; Gone Too Far!; Pornography by Joe Penhall 9781408123911
Booksplease Price: £33.79The Methuen Drama Book of 21st Century British Plays showcases five of the best new plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century. A perfect reminder of the relevance, vitality and... -
Sixty-Six Books: A Contemporary Response to the King James Bible by Various 9781849432276
Booksplease Price: £22.24The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in...