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Scorch by Stacey Gregg
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, Scorch was inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'. For those who feel they're not living the right... -
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12'I'm not angry with you, Zack, I'm angry in general. I'm an artist, that's my job.' Ivan is a struggling actor who hasn't yet achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about... -
The Kitchen Sink by Tom Wells
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.23An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes. Amid the dreaming, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink? ... -
Dara by Shahid Nadeem
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45An intense domestic drama of global consequence - for India then and for our world now. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess; music, drugs, eunuchs and harems... -
The Heresy of Love by Helen Edmundson
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.00In the late 1600s, in a convent in Mexico, a gifted and progressive writer finds herself at the centre of a deadly battle of ideas. Celebrated by the Court but silenced by the Church, she is betrayed... -
Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74John, a wealthy, brilliant, and successful PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a recent graduate who has fallen on hard times, as his new carer. Across town, truck driver Eddie attempts to... -
Fibres by Frances Poet
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45'We were two weans playing at wee hooses... Now we're both paying the price.' Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's... -
Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49'So I thought, since we can't do Europe this summer, why don't the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We're going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana - all those... -
The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call by Friedrich Du rrenmatt
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.23In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten. Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman. The... -
Touch by Vicky Jones
Booksplease Price: $29.48A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control, from one of the brains behind hit play and TV show Fleabag. Dee's sexual escapades are messy and temporary - just... -
Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.71The Crump family is adrift. Widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in Hollywood illusions to escape racial prejudice... -
The River by Jez Butterworth
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.23On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not... -
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.06For two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with... -
Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor by Mike Alfreds
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.48A top-ranking director sets out his rehearsal techniques in this invaluable handbook for actors and directors. Mike Alfreds' Different Every Night is the culmination of a lifetime of work in the... -
Handbook of Acting Techniques by Arthur Bartow
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A unique survey of the twentieth century's most influential acting methods, offering invaluable practical insights for actors and drama teachers. Each of the ten famous techniques included in this... -
100 by Christopher Heimann
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life. Imagine that... -
Noughts & Crosses (Royal Shakespeare Company version) by Malorie Blackman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.02An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling... -
Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristin Linklater
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36The classic voice-training book for actors, teachers of voice and speech and anyone interested in vocal expression - by a pre-eminent voice teacher, actor and director. Fully revised and expanded... -
Jane Eyre (stage version) by Polly Teale
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.34A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage. As a child, the orphaned Jane Eyre is taught by a succession of severe... -
100 Plays to save the World by Elizabeth Freestone
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20'We - artists, thinkers, creators - have a responsibility to communicate the truth of the climate emergency. The world is shape-shifting and our culture must too.' This book is a guide to one... -
Merit by Alexandra Wood
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45Spain, 2013. Against all odds, young graduate Sofia has got a job as PA to one of the wealthiest bankers in the country. But her mother has her doubts - did Sofia give more than a good interview to... -
The Servant of Two Masters by Stephen Mulrine
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.45Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. ... -
Facing the Fear: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright by Bella Merlin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Stage fright has the power to drive actors away from the stage for months, years, and even a lifetime. It is a monster that can affect any actor at any time - but it is also a challenge that can be... -
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best... -
Hope by Jack Thorne
Booksplease Price: $14.00An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government. How do you save twenty-two... -
Drip by Tom Wells
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45'My mam's always saying, the best thing to do with new things is just chuck yourself in at the deep end.' Liam is fifteen and he's just signed up for Bev Road Baths' first ever synchronised... -
Citysong and Other Plays by Dylan Coburn Gray
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Late-night taxis, teen discos, home nurses, Jewish launderettes, vigilantes, babies, immigrants, seagulls. Citysong is a play, a poem and a chorus of voices showing three generations of a Dublin... -
Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than... -
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
Booksplease Price: $5.16Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A delightfully lewd city comedy written in 1613 by the co-author of The Changeling. Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside... -
Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2 by Trilby James
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a... -
Noughts & Crosses by Sabrina Mahfouz
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. It is forbidden. Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and Crosses there are racial and social divides. A segregated... -
Inside/Outside: six Short Plays by Joe White
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Six short plays in two complementary programmes, exploring estrangement and loneliness, moving towards redemption and hope. Inside looks at the lives of three women forgotten by the world, but not... -
Drama Games for Rehearsals by Jessica Swale
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'I wish I'd had this book when I was starting out as a young director... I cannot recommend it highly enough' Marianne Elliott, from her Foreword This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource... -
Temple by Steve Waters
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45On 15 October 2011, protest movement Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. On 21 October 2011, a building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its... -
Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74'When am I going to wake up and be different?' Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a whole world of men. In this funny, unapologetic play, three twenty-something women figure out how they... -
Plays from VAULT 2: Five new plays from VAULT Festival by Tristan Bernays
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told is exposed in Testament by... -
Flesh and Bone by Elliot Warren
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.23A vivid and fast-paced ride through a working-class estate, which fuses Shakespeare-inspired lyricism with Cockney accents. Flesh and Bone premiered at the Etcetera Theatre, London, in December 2016,... -
CripTales: Six Monologues by Mat Fraser
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12From the liberation of the electric wheelchair to the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration, there have been both great advances and terrible setbacks for disabled people in Britain over the... -
Restoration Comedy by Trevor Griffiths
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.57'One no more owes one's beauty to a lover, than one's wit to an echo.' With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the republican ban on organised theatre was lifted - and plays exploded back... -
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and...