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Les Miserables: The Story So Far of the World's Longest Running Musical Benedict Nightingale 9781787391406
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90Ever since its first performances in 1985, Les Miserables has been a smash success, and is now the longest running musical in the world with an award-winning Hollywood movie to its name. Les... -
Post-War British Theatre Criticism by John Elsom
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre... -
Post-War British Theatre Criticism by John Elsom 9781138839717
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.82This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre... -
Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC Robert Shaughnessy 9780745015606
Booksplease Price: £46.16This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the... -
My Best Friend by Tamsin Oglesby 9781849430609
Booksplease Price: £12.66Bee and Em have been best friends for thirty years: they're on holiday in rural France, away from the demands of work and family. But just as they're setting the clocks forward, in steps Chris, a... -
Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama by Enoch Brater 9780472750450
Booksplease Price: £38.13When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst into bold and surprising new forms after the Second World War. Around the Absurd is the... -
Between Two Silences: Talking with Peter Brook by Peter Brook 9780413755803
Booksplease Price: £33.86This unusually candid volume of Brook in dialogue provides an uninhibited encounter with contemporary theatre's most influential director The result of twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer... -
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"Fashion": WITH "Progress'", "Hard Feeling'"AND "Doing the Business" by Doug Lucie 9780413650900
Booksplease Price: £20.95"Doug Lucie is perhaps the only young British dramatist with a truly distinctive voice and in Fashion, it is at its most splendidly scornful, bilious and charmless." Benedict Nightingale (The Times)... -
Like a Virgin Gordon Steel 9781350256682
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A romp through the bubble-gum years of teenage life. Angela and Mazine, besotted with Madonna, play truant from school, form a band, attempt to write songs and, with hairbrushes in hand, live out... -
Awaking Beauty by Alan Ayckbourn 9780573180026
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.27Ever wondered what else happened to Sleeping Beauty when she finally woke up in the 21st century? Alan Ayckbourn provides the answer with this alternative seasonal fare in the musical "Awaking... -
Feelgood by Alistair Beaton 9780413771445
Booksplease Price: £14.45An outrageously funny satire on modern politics, New Labour and the fine art of spin Alistair Beaton's hilarious play, part farce, part biting satire, is set in the plush seaside hotel of a party... -
Clubland by Roy Williams 9780413769503
Booksplease Price: £14.45A new play from the award-winning playwright, published to coincide with its premiere at the Royal Court on 15 June 2001 Although Ben is married to Denise he's still on the pull, Kenny's looking for... -
![Townsend Plays: v.1: "Secret Diary of Adrian Mole", "Womberang", "Bazaar and Rummage", "Groping for Words", "Great Celestial Cow" by Sue Townsend 9780413702500](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5300800/5378060/9780413702500__54412.1724935486.jpg?c=1 "Townsend Plays: v.1: "Secret Diary of Adrian Mole", "Womberang", "Bazaar and Rummage", "Groping for Words", "Great Celestial Cow" by Sue Townsend 9780413702500")
Townsend Plays: v.1: "Secret Diary of Adrian Mole", "Womberang", "Bazaar and Rummage", "Groping for Words", "Great Celestial Cow" by Sue Townsend 9780413702500
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.98A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers Bazaar and Rummage brings together a neurotic do-gooder, a trainee social worker and three agoraphobics who have been persuaded to venture out of their... -
Dramatic Critic: Selected Reviews (1922-1939) by Charles Morgan 9781849431354
Booksplease Price: £22.93Charles Morgan was the dramatic critic of The Times for most of the years between 1922 and 1939.The reviews for this small selection are taken from thousands written for The Times and from his weekly... -
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl 9781408130438
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.62An inventive take on the classic myth, Eurydice is by the highly-acclaimed US playwright Sarah Ruhl and includes magical, dreamlike surrealism, lyrical beauty and heart-rending pathos. Eurydice is in... -
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"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton 9780413413406 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
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"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
The Revenger's Tragedy by Professor Brian Gibbons
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86"Oh do not jest thy doom" The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his... -
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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... -
Ian McKellen: The Biography by Garry O'Connor 9781474608534
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'[A] fascinating voyage round McKellen' Simon Callow, Guardian'Surely the definitive McKellen biography' Alexander Larman, Observer'A well-researched, eminently readable book' Benedict Nightingale,... -
Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett: The Falsetto of Reason by Enoch Brater 9781408137222
Booksplease Price: £30.23Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist... -
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... -
![Matura: Six Plays: "As Time Goes by", "Nice", "Play Mas", "Independence", "Welcome Home Jacko" and "Meetings" by Mustapha Matura 9780413660701](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5395984/5473241/9780413660701__94655.1725208892.jpg?c=1 "Matura: Six Plays: "As Time Goes by", "Nice", "Play Mas", "Independence", "Welcome Home Jacko" and "Meetings" by Mustapha Matura 9780413660701")
Matura: Six Plays: "As Time Goes by", "Nice", "Play Mas", "Independence", "Welcome Home Jacko" and "Meetings" by Mustapha Matura 9780413660701
Booksplease Price: £26.90A collection by a leading playwright of the '70s and '80s As Time Goes By, Matura's first play is a satirical comedy of manners set among first-generation immigrants and won the George Devine and... -
![Rattigan Plays: v.1: "French without Tears", "The Winslow Boy" "The Browning Version" "Harlequinade" by Terence Rattigan 9780413490704](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4753412/4752680/9780413490704__47166.1721122706.jpg?c=1 "Rattigan Plays: v.1: "French without Tears", "The Winslow Boy" "The Browning Version" "Harlequinade" by Terence Rattigan 9780413490704")
Rattigan Plays: v.1: "French without Tears", "The Winslow Boy" "The Browning Version" "Harlequinade" by Terence Rattigan 9780413490704
Booksplease Price: £26.90"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian) Constantly revived on stage, radio and television, Rattigan's plays... -
What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis: A Local Habitation and a Name by Dorothy T. Grunes 9781782201366
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human, this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare, literary theory, dramatic arts, and... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.31Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198769729
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.44Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale by David Weston 9781786824752
Booksplease Price: £21.94WINNER OF THE 2011 THEATRE BOOK PRIZEShakespeare's greatest play, directed by the most experienced and acclaimed director in the land, starring one of our very finest actors at the very peak of his...