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Harold Pinter by Michael Billington
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006. During the past ten years Harold Pinter has written... -
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal... -
Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992 to 2020 by Michael Billington
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.07"The best theatrical read of the year." - British Theatre Guide A book of selected theatre reviews from 1992 to 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Each chapter... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210497
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992 to 2020 Michael Billington 9781350367258
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.17A book of selected theatre reviews from 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Starting each chapter is a brief commentary on the developments of that era and the social,... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War James Shapiro 9780571372775
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Tremendous.' DAVID HARE'An absorbing, necessary book.' AHAD AKHTAR'Fascinating and energising.' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story... -
The Story of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme: A New History of the Three Townships by Michael Billington 9780750987899
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49The townships of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme nestle neatly in a triangular area bordered on the south by the River Mersey, on the north-west by the River Irwell/Manchester Ship Canal and on the... -
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State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210343 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.42State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
![Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney 9781474600231 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9751276/10767876/9781474600231__52716.1781686246.jpg?c=1 "Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney 9781474600231 [USED COPY]")
Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney 9781474600231 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £4.59WINNER OF BEST MEMOIR AT THE WOMAN & HOME READERS' CHOICE AWARDS 2016 AND A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame... -
Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYFrom her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path... -
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753828786
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.20A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.'I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.'When... -
Edgar the Playwright by Susan Painter 9780413699602
Booksplease Price: £20.95"The best review I've ever had was when Michael Billington said, 'like Balzac, David Edgar seems to be a secretary for our times'...I'd like to be a secretary for the times through which I'm living."... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413773425
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Dario Fo's classic farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist was a sensation when it premiered in Italy in 1970. Based on the story of a political activist who "fell" to his death from the... -
!["Good": A Tragedy by Cecil P. Taylor 9780413521309](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5158490/5235752/9780413521309__58621.1724535981.jpg?c=1 ""Good": A Tragedy by Cecil P. Taylor 9780413521309")
"Good": A Tragedy by Cecil P. Taylor 9780413521309
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99'Germany in the Thirties. Nothing, I should have thought, was harder to dramatise. Witness all those turgid films and telly-plays full of stuffed SS uniforms. But C. P. Taylor's Good is an original... -
!["Rafts and Dreams" and "Outside Whale" by Robert Holman 9780413655707](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5408659/5485916/9780413655707__32299.1725248525.jpg?c=1 ""Rafts and Dreams" and "Outside Whale" by Robert Holman 9780413655707")
"Rafts and Dreams" and "Outside Whale" by Robert Holman 9780413655707
Booksplease Price: £14.45"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play...is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Rafts and Dreams:... -
The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol by John Berger 9780413696908
Booksplease Price: £14.24Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover,... -
Across Oka by Robert Holman 9780413683205
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Eileen and her grandson Matty,... -
A Good Night Out by John McGrath
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies. John McGrath's manifesto is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1981. Looking at the ways... -
Smash! by Jack Rosenthal 9780573113901
Booksplease Price: £12.27Producer Theo has assembled a crack transatlantic team to launch the new musical Whatever Happened to Tomorrow? Liz, a successful British novelist, has written the book, her compatriot Mike the... -
Life and Beth by Alan Ayckbourn
Booksplease Price: £12.27This title features 3 Males, 3 Females and 2 voices (1 Male, 1Female). A living room. It's Christmas, and Beth Timms is mourning the recent death of her health and safety officer husband, Gordon... -
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz 9780413738707
Booksplease Price: £14.80"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian) The Street of... -
File on Frayn by Malcolm Page 9780413653109
Booksplease Price: £19.96"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a... -
This Wretched Splendour/Wild with All Regrets: Two First World War Plays by Rebecca Wilby 9781908011930
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.79This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stage play in two acts. Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916 find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David... -
Breakfast with Mugabe by Fraser Grace 9781840026306
Booksplease Price: £14.24Fraser Grace's other plays include "Perpetua", "Gifts of War", "Butterfly Fingers", and "Who Killed Mr Drum?". A psychiatrist waits in State House, Harare, for his first encounter with a most unusual... -
![Arden Plays: v.2: "The Workhouse Donkey", "Armstrong's Last Goodnight", "Left-handed Liberty", "Squire Jonathan", "The Bagman" by John Arden 9780413688101](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5158518/5235780/9780413688101__15063.1724536004.jpg?c=1 "Arden Plays: v.2: "The Workhouse Donkey", "Armstrong's Last Goodnight", "Left-handed Liberty", "Squire Jonathan", "The Bagman" by John Arden 9780413688101")
Arden Plays: v.2: "The Workhouse Donkey", "Armstrong's Last Goodnight", "Left-handed Liberty", "Squire Jonathan", "The Bagman" by John Arden 9780413688101
Booksplease Price: £25.91"Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey...the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the... -
Gentlemen by Matt Parvin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94Freshers' term. Greg has taken to university like a duck to water. Kasper is struggling to fit in. Summoned to a mediation session with Kasper and the college welfare officer to discuss an accusation... -
A Tempest: Based on Shakeskpeare's the Tempest : Adaptation for a Black Theatre by Aime Cesaire
Booksplease Price: £14.24A Tempest is Aime Cesaire's anti-colonialist refashioning of Shakespeare. Alongside The Tragedy of King Cristophe and A Season in the Congo, it completes a 'triptych' of plays that examine the... -
New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism Aleks Sierz 9781350567917
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09"Informative, provocative and entertaining all at the same time." - Michael BillingtonThis is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a... -
Counting Stars by Atiha Sen Gupta 9781786820358
Booksplease Price: £13.59Woolwich. Club Paradise. Valentine's Night. Nigerian nightclub toilet attendants Abiodun and Sophie brace themselves for the busiest night of the year. Tonight Abiodun and Sophie are also marking... -
1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama by Prof. Dan Rebellato
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been... -
Making an Exhibition of Myself: the Autobiography of Peter Hall by Sir Peter Hall 9781840021158
Booksplease Price: £28.88The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company,... -
Tales of the Tricycle Theatre by Terry Stoller 9781408183151
Booksplease Price: £103.11Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published... -
Lingua Franca by Peter Nichols 9780573112287
Booksplease Price: £12.27M3 F4. A classroom. Mid 1950s. Based around a leading character in Peter Nichols' acclaimed work, "Privates on Parade", and inspired by his own experiences, "Lingua Franca" is a fast-paced,... -
Antigone by Sophocles 9781840021363
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.82Thebes is under attack. In a bloody battle outside the city's gates, the sons of Oedipus fight to the death. King Creon issues an edict: Eteocles, who nobly defended Thebes against his brother and... -
It Is Easy To Be Dead by Neil McPherson 9781786820099
Booksplease Price: £14.24It Is Easy To Be Dead tells the story of war poet Charles Sorley's brief life through his work and music and songs from some of the greatest composers of the period. Born in Aberdeen, Sorley was... -
Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo 9780413183804
Booksplease Price: £12.27A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is... -
Great Moments in the Theatre by Benedict Nightingale 9781849432337
Booksplease Price: £18.18'A magnificently readable tour of theatrical history conducted by our best-informed living critic.' - Michael Billington 'Benedict Nightingale's characteristically witty, insightful and... -
![Cartwright Plays: v.1: "Road", "Bed", "Two", "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/919303/919014/9780413702302__85210.1687821867.jpg?c=1 "Cartwright Plays: v.1: "Road", "Bed", "Two", "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright")
Cartwright Plays: v.1: "Road", "Bed", "Two", "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.23Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright... -
Kaspar by Peter Handke 9780413289100
Booksplease Price: £14.45'Kaspar is based on the historical case of a 16-year-old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch . . . Handke's play is a downright attack on... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875806853
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition...