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The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.96Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many... -
The Mountaintop Katori Hall 9781350187955
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The Mountaintop is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition, featuring notes and commentary by Harvey Young, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Boston University, USA. The introduction... -
The Hot Wing King Katori Hall 9781350529120
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Every kang deserves a crown Things are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, Cordell, his partner Dwayne and friends Isom and Big... -
Katori Hall Plays One: Hoodoo Love; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; The Mountaintop; Hurt Village by Katori Hall 9781408147023
Booksplease Price: £24.63An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dynamic narratives and richly textured characterisation... -
Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works by Sandra Adell 9780252081194
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell... -
Living Legacies: Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement by Laura Dubek 9781138093973
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £84.74In this timely and dynamic collection of essays, Laura Dubek brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the literary response to the most significant social movement of the twentieth... -
Living Legacies: Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement by Laura Dubek
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49In this timely and dynamic collection of essays, Laura Dubek brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the literary response to the most significant social movement of the twentieth... -
The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays: Stunning; The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry; Pullman, WA; Hurt Village; Dying City; The Big Meal by David Adjmi 9781408157015
Booksplease Price: £25.91The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work... -
Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works by Sandra Adell 9780252039713
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell... -
Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep by Michael Schulman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.65Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school to her star-making roles in The... -
Fifty Playwrights on their Craft by Caroline Jester 9781474250887
Booksplease Price: £113.11In a series of interviews with fifty playwrights from the US and UK, this book offers a fascinating study of the voices, thoughts, and opinions of today's most important dramatists. Filled with... -
After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley 9780813942995
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.36Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that... -
25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth and Black Theater by Kelley Nicole Girod 9781350268111
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £84.1525 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth and Black Theatre contains 25 10-minute plays, originally produced by the Obie Award-winning The... -
Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf Jacqueline Springfield 9781032592992
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain't Enuf breaks down the misconception that heightened text sits only within a white tradition and brings the work of Black playwrights from... -
After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley 9780813943008
Booksplease Price: £27.47Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson's... -
Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway
Booksplease Price: £18.06Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actors of black, African American, South... -
Connections 500: Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug by Snoo Wilson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of... -
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature by Trudier Harris 9780817360177
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.'s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American... -
25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth and Black Theater by Kelley Nicole Girod
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68While the past decade proved to be some of the most tumultuous times in modern US history, the Black community has been resilient, opening up dialogues and sustaining advocacy. Nowhere has this been... -
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature by Trudier Harris
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.30African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is a... -
Fifty Playwrights on their Craft by Caroline Jester
Booksplease Price: £34.84In a series of interviews with fifty playwrights from the US and UK, this book offers a fascinating study of the voices, thoughts, and opinions of today's most important dramatists. Filled with... -
Managing the Arts in Rural Areas by David Andrew Snider 9781538177556
Booksplease Price: £44.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDavid Andrew Snider is an educator, producer, administrator and a rare example of an arts leader who has...