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Martin Crimp Plays 1 by Martin Crimp 9780571203451
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. It includes the plays Dealing with Clair, Play with... -
The Treatment by Martin Crimp
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell. But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to... -
The Seagull: by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Martin Crimp by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Young girl lives on shore of lake since childhood - like you. Loves the lake - like the seagull. Is happy and free - like the seagull. Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys... -
Not One Of These People by Martin Crimp
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy? If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a... -
Dealing With Claire by Martin Crimp
Booksplease Price: £10.17'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, but That That That is what I enjoy. That is what I'm good at, okay?' Clair works in real estate. Mike and Liz are... -
Pains of Youth by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of... -
In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95- What're you doing here Robert? - Well to be frank with you, I've really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared. A family Christmas is interrupted by the... -
The False Servant by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?When Lelio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of... -
Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying... -
Play House by Martin Crimp 9780573000263
Booksplease Price: £11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573000263Author Martin CrimpFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint -
Martin Crimp: Plays 3: Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City; In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Cruel and Tender'A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... The approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling... Highly recommended... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Martin Crimp 9780573709982
Booksplease Price: £16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709982Author Martin CrimpFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Martin Crimp 9780573133589
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133589Author Martin CrimpFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint -
Illusions: translated by Cazimir Liske by Ivan Viripaev 9780571295326
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95I guess that's how it was meant to be. Love can only be mutual, I agree with you Albert, and forgive me for this cruel sincerity.Love and death, loyalty and betrayal, truth and fiction, this darkly... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.98This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The... -
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.23A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to... -
The Theatre of Martin Crimp epub by Aleks Sierz 9780413775887
Booksplease Price: £29.55A guide to all of the plays of Martin Crimp. For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of new writing for the British stage. His main stage plays include Dealing with Clair, The Treatment,... -
The Theatre of Martin Crimp: Second Edition by Aleks Sierz 9781408185841
Booksplease Price: £102.21First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and... -
The Theatre of Martin Crimp: Second Edition by Aleks Sierz 9781408184417
Booksplease Price: £32.38First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and... -
The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange by Vasiliki Angelaki 9780230293717
Booksplease Price: £92.21This book rigorously examines the work of leading contemporary playwright Martin Crimp. It examines his plays, adaptations, translations and versions, treats them as texts and performance events and... -
Writing for Nothing: Fiction, Short Plays, Texts for Opera by Martin Crimp
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her... -
Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire by Vicky Angelaki 9781032344331
Booksplease Price: £20.14This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the... -
Martin Crimp's Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire Vicky Angelaki 9780367471026
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the... -
Martin Crimp's Theatre: Collapse as Resistance to Late Capitalist Society by Clara Escoda Agusti 9783110309072
RRP: £144.50Booksplease Price: £97.60This book reads Martin Crimp's The Treatment (1993), Attempts on her Life (1997), The Country (2000), Face to the Wall (2002), Cruel and Tender (2004) and his adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull... -
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Go on then: lock the doors and see what happens. Show me how much power you really have.When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other breaks through the surface of contemporary debate to explore the... -
Traces of Dialogue: Language, Identity and Form in European Postdramatic Theatre Mads Thygesen 9781350518179
Booksplease Price: £92.62This book offers a captivating exploration of the evolving dynamics of language, dialogue and identity in modern theatre, highlighting the pioneering contributions of European playwrights Martin... -
Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage by Sara Soncini 9780859899949
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.01Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet... -
Killing Hercules: Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror by Richard Rowland 9780367595562
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book offers an entirely new reception history of the myth of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira. The book poses, and attempts to answer, two important and related questions. First, why have... -
Contemporary European Playwrights by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's... -
Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts Benjamin Fowler 9781138082366
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts offers the first comprehensive study of Britain's most internationally recognised, influential, and controversial theatre director. It examines Mitchell's... -
The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco 9780571194513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human... -
Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays by Mary Mazzilli 9781350036130
Booksplease Price: £35.83Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China,... -
Literary Worlds and Deleuze: Expression as Mimesis and Event by Zornitsa Dimitrova 9781498544375
Booksplease Price: £91.39Literary Worlds and Deleuze contributes to debates on mimesis by offering an `expressionist' take on the matter of the generation of literary worlds in drama. In examining postdramatic plays by Sarah... -
Adapting Translation for the Stage Geraldine Brodie 9780367736095
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those... -
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... -
After In-Yer-Face Theatre: Remnants of a Theatrical Revolution by William C. Boles 9783030394264
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book revisits In-Yer-Face theatre, an explosive, energetic theatrical movement from the 1990s that introduced the world to playwrights Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Mark Ravenhill, Jez... -
After In-Yer-Face Theatre: Remnants of a Theatrical Revolution by William C. Boles 9783030394295
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book revisits In-Yer-Face theatre, an explosive, energetic theatrical movement from the 1990s that introduced the world to playwrights Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Mark Ravenhill, Jez... -
Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage by Sara Soncini 9780859899932
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet... -
Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis by Vicky Angelaki 9781474213165
Booksplease Price: £28.88In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book... -
Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre by Mireia Aragay 9783110546743
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.68Drawing primarily on Judith Butler's, Jacques Derrida's, Emmanuel Levinas's and Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation,...