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Bliss by Fraser Grace
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $10.88The water's here, just like us, but soon it'll be flowing past fresh flowers and new grass, and all the way out to the sea. Based on a short story by the brilliant but often overlooked Russian... -
Alice by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won't stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life... -
Best of Enemies James Graham 9781350381261
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." ... -
13 by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don't care if you seem outrageous or stupid... All that's needed, in the end, is belief. An identical, terrifying dream haunts... -
The Play That Goes Wrong: 3rd Edition by Henry Lewis
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.37Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the... -
Our Country's Good: Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally Timberlake Wertenbaker 9781350097889
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who... -
Acting Stanislavski: A practical guide to Stanislavski's approach and legacy by John Gillett
Booksplease Price: $65.64Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely... -
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition by Willy Russell
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key... -
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
Booksplease Price: $70.33This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First published... -
"What the Butler Saw" by Joe Orton
Booksplease Price: $29.80"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from... -
"A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.04A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual... -
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.04I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect. The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing... -
Rough Girls Tara Lynne O'Neil 9781350293717
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73'Football is all very well as a game for Rough Girls but it is hardly suitable for delicate boys.' Oscar Wilde The making of Belfast's first all-female football team. This is the untold story... -
Haunted & If These Wigs Could Talk by Tara Flynn
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85THISISPOPBABY & The Abbey Theatre present If These Wigs Could Talk by Panti Bliss If These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and... -
Wasted Kae Tempest 9781350094925
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it. A day trip through the parks... -
Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a... -
Voiceover Narration: Creating Performances from the Inside Out by Dian Perry
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $54.57What goes on inside a great narrator to make them great? This ground-breaking work answers this question by exploring the psychophysical aspect of voiceover. The reader is given a bird's-eye view of... -
Morning Sun by Simon Stephens
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 9781408126707
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon... -
Lear by Edward Bond
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $25.85Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social... -
Edward II Revised by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of... -
Chapatti by Christian O'Reilly
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73But it's just one of those days. One of those days where I feel like I'm wearing myself on the outside. My heart, my soul, all my soft bits. Romance is a distant memory for two lonely animal... -
The Complete Beyond the Fringe by Alan Bennett
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413773685Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint < -
right where we left us Rebecca Jade Hammond 9781350372832
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85I thought I would be grafting and working on it. Pursuing it until I breathed my last breath. My ambition and drive was that concrete. But ambition will... Ambition will kill you. The spark is... -
Braids and Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Daisy Rees
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's "Best Play for Young Audiences" Award (2022) "Don't you ever get sick of it?" "Being the only one?" "Yeah. Being the Ambassador of... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Modern Monologues for Men: Teens to Thirties by Dee Cannon
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.82Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author... -
Pinocchio by Eve Leigh
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85Sometimes a lie is a wish. Once upon a time there was a lonely carpenter, a curious cat, and a little wooden puppet who one day came to life... In this spectacular new version of the... -
Brief Encounter by Noel Coward
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73Noel Coward's Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic... -
En Folkefiende: An Enemy of the People by Brad Birch
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73You don't want to go to war on this, Tom. I mean, not now. Not after everything. You don't want to lose more than you can afford. Brad Birch (Pinter Commission winner, 2016) takes Ibsen's An Enemy... -
"The Lieutenant of Inishmore" by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.80A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during the Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable... -
We Should Definitely Have More Dancing: Or the Amazing Adventures of the Woman with a Fist in Her Head by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85The amazing adventures of a woman with a fist in her head. Clara Darcy is fit! She's also (almost) care-free, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know,... -
My Dad's Gap Year by Tom Wright
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.73Seriously William, you're eighteen and you're gay, for Christ's sake. You're meant to swim against the tide. A proper gap year is all about traveling. Seeing the world. Popping your cherry. This is... -
Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85WINNER - Best American Play, Obie Awards 2018 In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. In 1990, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and... -
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Bertolt Brecht 9781408100080
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $26.16Brecht's series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s. They dramatise with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety... -
The Country Wife William Wycherley 9781408179895
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.90'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the... -
Rotterdam by Jon Brittain 9781350018334
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman. It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's... -
The Rover by Aphra Behn 9781408152119
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple... -
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane 9780413748300
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.734.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed suicide... -
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams 9781350237988
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.87‘Williams’s favourite among his plays, [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] is perhaps his most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation, the wrenching problems of communication between people and... -
Graceland by Ava Wong Davies 9781350409279
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn't know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn't want to look. She meets him at an old friend's barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy...