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Conor McPherson Plays: Two by Conor McPherson
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote... -
Conor McPherson Plays: Three by Conor McPherson
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53This volume of Conor McPherson's collected plays, covering a decade of writing, celebrates a fascination with the uncanny which has led him to be described as 'quite possibly the finest playwright of... -
Conor McPherson Plays: One by Conor McPherson 9781848422216
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author. The plays in this volume - three monologues and a three-hander - were all written while Conor McPherson was in his... -
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.36A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir. It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old... -
The Veil by Conor McPherson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.01Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and... -
Uncle Vanya by Conor McPherson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov. However, when Sonya's... -
The Night Alive by Conor McPherson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.20An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations. Tommy's not a bad man, he's getting by. Renting a run-down room in his uncle... -
Shining City by Conor McPherson
Booksplease Price: $21.36A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award winning author of The Weir. Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a... -
The Weir by Conor McPherson 9781854596437
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism. A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman... -
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson 9781559363129
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363129Author Conor McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Theatre Communications Group... -
Cold War by Conor McPherson 9781839043093
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.46Poland, 1949. Zula is bold and brilliant, a singer who ignites the stage. Wiktor is withdrawn and damaged, a composer longing to write. Irresistibly drawn to each other, they dream of escape. But in... -
The Brightening Air Conor McPherson 9781839044199
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68How much of living is really just forgetting? The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic. ... -
The Weir and Other Plays by Conor McPherson 9781559361675
Booksplease Price: $29.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361675Author Conor McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group... -
The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson by Eamonn Jordan 9781350051218
Booksplease Price: $214.64The spellbinding premiere of The Weir at the Royal Court in 1997 was the first of many works to bring Conor McPherson to the attention of the theatre-going public. Acclaimed plays followed, including... -
The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities by Eamonn Jordan 9781350178724
Booksplease Price: $74.47The spellbinding premiere of The Weir at the Royal Court in 1997 was the first of many works to bring Conor McPherson to the attention of the theatre-going public. Acclaimed plays followed, including... -
The Theatre of Conor McPherson: "Right beside the Beyond" by Lilian Chambers 9781788748278
RRP: $63.53Booksplease Price: $58.93Multiple productions and the international successes of plays like The Weir have led to Conor McPherson being regarded by many as one of the finest writers of his generation. McPherson has also been... -
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin 9780063336568
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063336568Author Alan MurrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Nest by Frank Xaver Kroetz
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.01Parents to be Kurt and Martha just want the best for their baby. They're not afraid of hard work ' the latest buggy doesn't come cheap. But when Kurt's boss offers him a chance to make some easy... -
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCAWith an Introduction by 'Britain's most sophisticated film critic' David Thomson, THE TIMES'A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror'... -
Eden by Eugene O'Brien 9780413767400
Booksplease Price: $29.90A new play from the Abbey Theatre, directed by Conor McPherson, author of The Weir Billy and Breda haven't had a night out together in years. Tonight, Breda's lost the weight and gained a babysitter... -
Yeats Is Dead by Joseph O'Connor 9780224061759 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.33A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary... -
Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre by Eamonn Jordan 9781789970289
RRP: $53.34Booksplease Price: $50.15Irish theatre has never been so successful, yet at the same time never more in need of rigorous evaluation. Many of the plays by Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Frank McGuinness, Anne... -
The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 by Anthony Roche 9781408175279
Booksplease Price: $202.34The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. From a consideration of such influential precursors as... -
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama by John P. Harrington
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.78This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey,... -
Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After by Hiroko Mikami 9781788749350
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $49.35Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter... -
Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora by John P. Harrington 9780815631699
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $36.20For more than 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences. However, Irish theater as represented on the American stage is merely a... -
Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic 'i' by Susanne Colleary 9781137343895
Booksplease Price: $101.64One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy... -
Frontline Drama: Bush Theatre Book: v. 5 by Michael Boyd 9780413713209
Booksplease Price: $66.19A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Bush Theatre Two new plays, Mackerel Sky by Hilary Fannin and Caravan by Helen Blakeman, are accompanied by highlights and reminiscences from Bush... -
Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan 9781474262644
Booksplease Price: $179.87Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative, highly readable and informative account of Irish drama and theatre since 1950. The book focuses... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan 9783030304522
Booksplease Price: $112.46This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven... -
Irish Theatre: Interrogating Intersecting Inequalities Eamonn Jordan 9781032017938
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on... -
Horror on the Stage: Monsters, Murders and Terrifying Moments in Theater by Amnon Kabatchnik
RRP: $113.38Booksplease Price: $96.94There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most... -
The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting by Dominic Dromgoole 9780413771346
Booksplease Price: $52.33Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z,... -
Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach by Helen Chambers 9783039115587
RRP: $107.94Booksplease Price: $97.17Recently, the issue of postnationalism has encouraged intense debate, which has been reflected in the publication of numerous books and articles in various fields of study, including politics,... -
Bob Dylan in London: Troubadour Tales by Jackie Lees 9780857162144
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13This is both a guide and history on the impact of London on Dylan, and the lasting legacy of Bob Dylan on the London music scene. Bob Dylan In London celebrates this journey, and allows readers to... -
John Millington Synge, the Aran Islands, and His Influences: A Short Study by James MacGuire 9781680532982
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89John Millington Synge, who along with William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century, was chiefly inspired by the four... -
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century Nicholas Grene 9780198893073
RRP: $161.70Booksplease Price: $148.43Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin... -
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx 9781839042485
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'I been lookin at people on the street. This happen a other people? What the hell do they do?' Wyoming, 1963. A wild, unforgiving land where people live simple, unforgiving lives. When ranch... -
The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays by Helen Heusner Lojek 9780230115231
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $70.31Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era... -
Writing Analytically by David Rosenwasser
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $115.48Learning to write well requires learning to use writing as a tool to think well, and Rosenwasser/Stephen's WRITING ANALYTICALLY, 9th edition, shows you how. This reader-friendly book is built on...