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The Methuen Drama Book of Queer Monologues by Scottee
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.80The first collection of its kind, The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues chronicles over one hundred years of queer and trans performance. Combining stage plays with spoken word and performance art,... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Monologues for Young Actors by Anne Harvey
Booksplease Price: €25.49Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these dramatic monologues are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Duologues for Young Actors by Anne Harvey
Booksplease Price: €24.93Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these scenes are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging... -
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance by Daphne Lei 9781350336223
Booksplease Price: €51.28The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Monologues for Women by Chrys Salt
Booksplease Price: €23.79This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Caryl Churchill and Michael Frayn to Martin McDonagh and Sarah... -
The Methuen Drama Audition Book for Women by Annika Bluhm 9780413771933
Booksplease Price: €24.93Annika Bluhm has compiled pieces from mainstream contemporary classics as well as cutting-edge plays from the last ten years. They cover a wide range of mood and character, from comedy to tragedy,... -
Oresteia by Aeschylus
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate... -
A Servant to Two Masters Joseph Farrell 9781408131053
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.08This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph... -
Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: A Practitioner's Guide Sinead Rushe (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK) 9781408156889
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinead... -
How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin
Booksplease Price: €30.56Harold Guskin is an Acting Doctor whose clients include David Suchet, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda and dozens more. In HOW TO STOP ACTING he reveals the insights and techniques that... -
Fame Whore Tom Ratcliffe 9781350378353
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92If you click my face in the corner Yep That's it Then the blue follow button Tap it You're done Welcome hunny Becky wants to be famous. Becky deserves to be famous. Becky has to be famous... -
Solar Bones Mike McCormack 9781350372528
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92why these bleak thoughts today, the whole world in shadow, everything undercut and suspended in its own delirium Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo,. Everything... -
The China Plays: Three Parables of Global Capital by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig: The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in Midsummer; The King of Hell's Palace by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350234376Author Frances Ya-Chu CowhigFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher... -
Albatross by Isley Lynn
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92"It's not just the choice It's never just the choice Choice is a fairytale." Tattoos are forever. Almost. And at Noodle Soup Tattoo there are strict rules: No names unless they're dead. Nothing... -
Very Special Guest Star by Tom Wright
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92In a desperate attempt to bring some spark back to their all-too-cosy married life, professional millennials Michael and Phil switch a sherry on the couch for a night on the town. Their goal: to get... -
Many Moons by Alice Birch
Booksplease Price: €17.36Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they... -
100 Acting Exercises for 8 - 18 Year Olds Samantha Marsden 9781350049949
Booksplease Price: €25.49This book offers a comprehensive guide to teaching acting exercises that will unleash the inner creativity of students aged 8-18. Theories and techniques of some of the greatest theatre... -
The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues: New Monologues Created During the Coronavirus Pandemic by The 24 Hour Plays
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.75Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep... -
Performance in an Age of Precarity: 40 Reflections by Maddy Costa
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.29"This magical book is a love letter to the artists whose imagination and cleverness transport us and unite us, and to the beauty and fragility of their performance. When I read it I feel like I am... -
The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide by Matthew Nichols
Booksplease Price: €96.07"This is a terrific and instructive book, and an essential reminder of how inspiring and empowering a good drama teacher can be. I hope it's read widely and that new generations of pupils and... -
Jellyfish by Ben Weatherill
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86What about people who can't make friends? Or who don't laugh and are full of no love? They're the real disabilities. I think. Agnes and her daughter Kelly have walked the same stretch of Skegness... -
On Bear Ridge by Ed Thomas
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred... -
Gutted by Liz Richardson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86If you're concerned, just talk to a member of our staff or, alternatively, swing your legs over the edge of the bed and walk out, remembering to pull the camera from your bum before leaving the... -
Stanislavski: An Introduction by Jean Benedetti
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.58'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to both Stanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of his writings' Theatre Journal '...shows the System to be a practical... -
Silent and Forgotten by Pat Kinevane
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86Silent is the touching and provocative story of homeless McGoldrig who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all - including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past... -
Sucker Punch by Roy Williams
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.03Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go. In the... -
The Actor's Career Bible by Rob Ostlere
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €22.60The Actor's Career Bible is a practical guide to building an acting career. Based on a huge range of interviews with actors of all backgrounds at every level of the profession, industry experts, key... -
The Laban Workbook for Actors: A Practical Training Guide with Video by Katya Bloom
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €32.02The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban. Written by five internationally recognized movement... -
"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.64Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
The Revenger's Tragedy by Professor Brian Gibbons
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92"Oh do not jest thy doom" The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his... -
Evelyn by Tom Ratcliffe
Booksplease Price: €17.29'Do you think I'm a monster? I do sometimes.' There are a few things that we know about Evelyn: we know what she did, we know that we hate her, and we know that she's still out there. Somewhere... -
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86It's Grandma's birthday and the Frasier family have gathered to celebrate. Beverly just wants everything to run smoothly, but Tyrone has missed his flight, Keisha is freaking out about college and... -
Shopping and F***ing by Mark Ravenhill
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86It's summer. I'm in a supermarket. It's hot and I'm sweaty. Damp. And I'm watching this couple shopping. I'm watching you. And you're both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that... -
Victim by Martin Murphy
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86Performed as a one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between prison guard Tracey and criminal Siobhan as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate. As they both muse on their lives... -
Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €35.97Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and... -
Rutherford and Son Githa Sowerby 9781350132771
Booksplease Price: €15.99No one's any right to be what father is - never questioned, never answered back... First staged in 1912 and described as "the most powerful play produced in England in this decade," Githa... -
Death of England by Roy Williams
Booksplease Price: €16.67He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad,... -
The Death of a Black Man by Alfred Fagon
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86At least I am my own boss. No regrets. I choose what I do. I am lucky It's 1973 and the West Indies have spectacularly beaten England at their own game, in their own backyard. Shakie, an... -
Saved Edward Bond 9781408100103
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration... -
Stephens Plays: 2: "One Minute"; "Country Music"; "Motortown"; "Pornography", "Sea Wall by Simon Stephens
Booksplease Price: €27.63This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most...