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Tartuffe by Frank McGuinness 9780571384839
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Let's see how crafty a picture you paint. You're making a demon out of a saint.In this spectacular dramatic comedy, the villainous Tartuffe shocks and enthrals with his deceptive powers. Charming to... -
The Visiting Hour by Frank McGuinness
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26You used to swing me on our garden gate. In and out, in and out - out and in, me, on top of the gate, safe because I was in your arms, my father's big strong arms.Recalling events that may or may not... -
Electra by Frank McGuinness 9780573626951
Booksplease Price: $19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573626951Author Frank McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher... -
Electra by Frank McGuinness 9780571323111
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges... -
Damned by Despair by Frank McGuinness
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that he shares... -
Gates of Gold by Frank McGuinness 9780573697357
Booksplease Price: $19.17Drama / 3m, 2f / Interior Written by acclaimed Irish author Frank McGuinness, whose Someone Who'll Watch Over Me earned a Tony(R) Award nomination, Gates of Gold is an acerbic duel between two... -
The Match Box by Frank McGuinness 9780571297429
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26And she grew to be a girl, my daughter. Sing a song, Mary. Sing for grandma and Granda. Sing. The ties that bind can never be broken. For Sal, they hang like a noose around her neck, just loose... -
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
Booksplease Price: $17.63An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and... -
Frank McGuinness Plays 2: Mary and Lizzie; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me; Dolly West's Kitchen; The Bird Sanctuary by Frank McGuinness
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.54This second collection of Frank McGuinness contains his beautifully lyrical plays from 1989 to 1999. The Bird Sanctuary is published here for the first time. The collection also includes Mary and... -
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war play is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and... -
Frank McGuinness Plays 1: Factory Girls; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Innocence; Carthiginians; Baglady: Volume 1: by Frank McGuinness 9780571177400
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.54This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly... -
Frank McGuinness’s Dramaturgy of Difference and the Irish Theatre by David Cregan 9781433109331
RRP: $88.24Booksplease Price: $78.56This book is the broad application of queer theories to the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness, the only author in Ireland to consistently utilize gay and lesbian... -
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Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness 9780571146116 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.44'This powerful and subtle play... follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start of... -
Irish English: Frank McGuinness - Anne Devlin - Roddy Doyle - Vincent Woods by Jutta Kleine-Horst 9783836600187
RRP: $112.10Booksplease Price: $100.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836600187Author Jutta Kleine-HorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Diplom.dePublisher Diplom... -
Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre by Amina ElHalawani 9781032728902
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.91The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage for the reader to discover the revolutionary... -
White City by Kevin Power
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson... Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish Book... -
White City by Kevin Power 9781471132780
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson...Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish Book... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht 9780713685947
Booksplease Price: $18.37A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness was published to coincide with the National... -
Spies in Canaan: 'One of the most powerful and probing novels so far this year' - Financial Times, Best summer reads of 2022 by David Park
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption'... -
Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to be Oscar's Contemporary by Graham Price 9783030404956
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank... -
Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to be Oscar's Contemporary by Graham Price 9783319933443
Booksplease Price: $85.09This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank... -
Brian Bourke: Five Decades, 1960s-2000s by Brian Bourke 9781843511724
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.67The book contains writings by Seamus Heaney, Frances Ruane, Carlos Garcia-Monzon, Eva Bourke, Frankie Gavin, Rosemarie Noone, James McKenna, Desmond Egan, Patrick Murphy & Frank McGuinness. It is... -
Miss Julie and The Stronger by August Strindberg 9780571205431
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $12.11'There is a sordid and disgusting atmosphere,which makes the immorality of the play glaring and crude. There is the very questionable theme in these days of the relationship between masters and... -
Interviews with Writers: 1990-2026 Martin Doyle 9781843519751
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $22.56Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for more than 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature by Nicholas Taylor-Collins 9783030071165
Booksplease Price: $104.13This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a... -
On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing Bernhard Klein 9780719075858
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $79.48This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and culture. It argues that in much recent Irish writing, history is approached not as the proverbial... -
Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre by Eamonn Jordan 9781789970289
RRP: $32.77Booksplease Price: $30.81Irish 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... -
Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After by Hiroko Mikami 9781788749350
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $30.32Ireland 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... -
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People by Lionel Pilkington 9780415069397
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the... -
Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood by Miriam Haughton 9781350306769
Booksplease Price: $116.84How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate ideas of... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9780571191291
Booksplease Price: $14.96Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the live of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of... -
Playwriting: A Writers' and Artists' Companion by Fraser Grace 9781472529329
Booksplease Price: $36.92Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage. PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan 9783030304522
Booksplease Price: $70.82This 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This 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... -
A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 by Christopher Morash 9780521646826
Booksplease Price: $57.17While most accounts of Irish theatre begin with the Abbey theatre, Chris Morash's comprehensive study goes back three centuries earlier to Ireland's first theatre. Written in an accessible style, yet... -
Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power 9781849833202
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, is the subject of... -
Contemporary Monologues: Men by Michael Earley 9780413681201
Booksplease Price: $26.70A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations) This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between -... -
Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach by Helen Chambers 9783039115587
RRP: $66.31Booksplease Price: $59.69Recently, 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,... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature by Nicholas Taylor-Collins 9783319959238
Booksplease Price: $119.02This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a... -
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut...