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Cruising by Alecky Blythe
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.23A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy. Maureen is a pensioner in search of passion. After 33 blind dates, 12 cruises and... -
Salome by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.23The savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth-century decadence in Oscar Wilde's astonishing tragedy. Salome, stepdaughter of King Herod, agrees to perform the mysterious and erotic... -
Tribes by Nina Raine
Booksplease Price: $28.56Nina Raine's clever and subtle new play. Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as... -
Words Into Action: Finding the Life of the Play by William Gaskill
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was... -
The Middlemarch Trilogy by George Eliot
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.44Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces. George Eliot's Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature's most memorable... -
The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers by Fin Kennedy
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.69This second volume of plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy features three ensemble plays for large casts of young people aged thirteen to nineteen, each developed via a long-term,... -
Game by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12In a housing crisis, a young couple are offered a home of their own. But at what price? Mike Bartlett's provocative play Game invites us to spy on a family as they embark on a dangerous new way to... -
Red by Somalia Seaton
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09'Maybe she just doesn't wanna be found, maybe that last day she felt freedom was when she ran, and she just didn't stop, maybe that was it.' When her best friend Jay goes missing, Dee withdraws... -
Yous Two by Georgia Christou
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Fifteen year old Billie has lived with her Dad in their little flat for as long as she can remember, but all that's about to change. She's got big plans - get Dad a job, sort out her grades, and live... -
Vassa by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'There are no miracles in this world. Only those we make for ourselves.' It's 8 a.m. and a revolt is underway. The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is... -
Yen by Anna Jordan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen... -
The IT (NHB Modern Plays) by Vivienne Franzmann
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'It is really small. Whatever it is. But it's here. It's definitely here.' A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It... -
Alexander Technique for Actors: A Practical Course by Penny O'Connor
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The Alexander Technique has revolutionised the physicality, presence and professional lives of generations of actors. By first asking you to identify your own acquired habits, the technique enables... -
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's... -
The Space to Move: Essentials of Movement Training by Christian Darley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12The vital building blocks of movement training - a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers. In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with... -
Drama Menu: Theatre Games in Three Courses by Glyn Trefor-Jones
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.35Drama Menu is a brand new concept for planning and delivering dynamic, progressive drama lessons and workshops. Packed with over 150 tried-and-tested theatre games, exercises and improvisation ideas,... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'Let's just talk until it goes.' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons... -
Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family - and a marriage - through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Bob and... -
Broken Biscuits by Tom Wells
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74'The point is: we're losers. Nobodies. Carry on like this, we're losers forever. And we don't have to be. Fresh start, two months to completely one hundred per cent reinvent ourselves. And I know... -
Ghost Stories by Jeremy Dyson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Professor of Parapsychology, Philip Goodman, is an arch-sceptic with a mission to debunk the paranormal, wherever it occurs. But when he embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings -... -
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.34A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney... -
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance, with a foreword by Terry Johnson. Finding the right action is an essential part of the process... -
Be My Baby by Amanda Whittington
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain. Mary Adams, aged 19, is unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to a Mother-and-Baby Home in the north of England... -
White Noise (NHB Modern Plays) by Suzan Lori-Parks
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable since college. Making their way together in the big city, they are liberal, open-minded and socially aware. As best friends and... -
Black Love (NHB Modern Plays) by Chinonyerem Odimba
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam. They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their... -
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard... -
Bunny by Jack Thorne
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer. Scorching heat. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When her boyfriend is attacked on the street, feisty eighteen-year-old Katie is thrust on a... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.15A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to... -
Enda Walsh Plays: Two by Enda Walsh
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.52The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights... -
All Change Please: A Practical Guide to Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre by Lucy Kerbel
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'Lucy Kerbel's work has become increasingly pivotal in helping the entire industry raise its game... this illuminating book answers the cynic, informs the impartial, converts the supporter into an... -
Holy Sh!t by Alexis Zegerman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45Simone and Sam will do anything to get their daughter into the local Church of England school. Juliet and Nick agree to show them the ropes. The bonds of family, faith and friendship are stretched... -
Crossings by Deirdre Kinahan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45In 1919, Badgersbridge Village Hall is Margaret's domain and the last place she expected to come face to face with Grace, who knew and loved Margaret's brother. This chance meeting results in an... -
A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'It's a bit weird to be sitting at the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your dad's ashes in your backpack.' Rory's dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally, he was a geography... -
I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'i think i'm falling in love with you' Ella is from Yorkshire. Haseeb is from London. They order a pizza. House red for Ella. Hot chocolate for Haseeb. People and playlists. Christmas and Eid... -
How Love is Spelt by Chloe Moss
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.73'She wanted spontaneity, adventure... I said I can be spontaneous... I just need a little bit of time to plan.' Peta is new in town and ready for whatever London has to throw at her. She's looking... -
Wit by Margaret Edson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a... -
Commedia Plays: Scenarios, Scripts, Lazzi by Barry Grantham
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.65A unique collection of performance pieces and improvisation exercises in the Commedia style, a companion volume to the author's best-selling Playing Commedia. Commedia Plays offers eight original... -
The Integrated Voice (with DVD: A Complete Voice Course for Actors by Sarah Case
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36The Integrated Voice is a unique new approach to the understanding and training of the actor's voice. Structured as a series of practical workshops, the book leads you, session by session, through... -
Bang Bang Bang by Stella Feehily
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and... -
Lionboy (stage version) by Zizou Corder
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can...