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Deposit by Matt Hartley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A bittersweet and vital play that throws a spotlight on 'Generation Rent' and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder. Rachel and Ben want to buy a flat... -
Precious Little Talent & Hot Mess by Ella Hickson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Two plays by award-winning playwright Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent is about a father desperate not to forget his daughter and two young people determined not to be forgotten by the world. ... -
So You Want To Go To Drama School by Helen Freeman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.16The essential guide to getting into drama school. Newly updated for 2019. Packed with sound advice and essential information for young people who want to train as actors and performers (including... -
The Acting Book John Abbott 9781848421448
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A 'fast-forward' acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use - with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice. John Abbott's The Acting Book... -
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: £4.50Booksplease Price: £4.34Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price An intense and powerful drama, set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. Elizabeth Holroyd is an educated woman with refined... -
Drama Games for Actors: Exploring Self, Character and Text by Thomasina Unsworth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book offers dozens of games to serve as a rich source of ideas and inspiration for all actors - and those... -
Picnic at Hanging Rock (stage version) by Joan Lindsay
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48'I know you're there... Miranda? Miranda!' On a summer's day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen... -
In Event of Moone Disaster by Andrew Thompson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'I'm off to conquer a barren world.' 1969 - Man takes his first steps on the Moon, while Sylvia meets an astronaut at a party. 2055 - Sylvia's granddaughter is set to become the first person to... -
Eyam by Matt Hartley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.101665. As the plague runs rife through London, Reverend William Mompesson arrives in Eyam, Derbyshire, to lead the parish. But Eyam is no sleepy backwater; it is a village at war with itself. The... -
Pentecost by David Edgar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A valuable fresco is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. As international and local art historians argue over who should claim ownership, the fate of the painting becomes a metaphor... -
Lulu by Frank Wedekind
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Nicholas Wright's version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece is the first to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern... -
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a... -
Our New Girl by Nancy Harris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood. Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's immaculate London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic... -
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.63Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice... -
A Screen Acting Workshop (with DVD) by Mel Churcher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.29A comprehensive training course in screen acting by an internationally renowned teacher and acting coach who has worked with actors of all backgrounds and experience - from drama school students at... -
Angels in America (new edition) by Tony Kushner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Originally premiered in... -
The Golden Rules of Acting by Andy Nyman
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37A treasure trove of advice, support and encouragement that no performer should be without. Honest, witty and direct, The Golden Rules of Acting is every actor's best friend - in handy paperback form... -
Sex with a Stranger by Stefan Golaszewski
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.48Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain. Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier... -
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in... -
Being a Playwright: A Career Guide for Writers by Chris Foxon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The essential playwriting career guide, from the team behind acclaimed new writing theatre company Papatango. Writing a good play is only a small part of making it as a successful playwright;... -
Contemporary Monologues for Women by Trilby James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor... -
Medicine & The Same: Two Plays (NHB Modern Plays) by Enda Walsh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42John Kane sits on a hospital trolley. Very shortly, a giant lobster, two women called Mary, a very old man and a jazz percussionist arrive. Then everything starts. Enda Walsh's Medicine is a dark... -
Poppy + George by Diane Samuels
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A romantic drama with music inspired by the days of music hall and beyond, from the author of the modern classic Kindertransport. It is 1919. The Great War is over and Poppy Wright arrives in... -
Swallow by Stef Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?' Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another - if... -
Misty by Arinze Kene
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Here is the city that we live in Notice that the city that we live in is alive Analyse our city and you'll find that our city even has bodily features Our city's organs function like any living... -
Enda Walsh Plays: One by Enda Walsh
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh, 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre' (Guardian). Bursting onto the theatre scene in 1996 with Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh has... -
Then What Happens: Storytelling and Adapting for the Theatre by Mike Alfreds
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.99A practical investigation into story-theatre and the art of telling stories through theatre, by the renowned director who founded Shared Experience Theatre Company. In Then What Happens?, Mike... -
Pack by Louise Monaghan
Booksplease Price: £10.85A raw, uncompromising drama about bigotry and racism that explores the insidious rise of the British National Party. As a BNP rally gathers momentum on the streets outside, four women meet to play... -
The Flick by Annie Baker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants - 'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times. In a run-down movie... -
Joanne by Deborah Bruce
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Five characters share a common thread: Joanne. But it's not about her. It's about Stella, whose tomorrow is as far away as winter from summer. It's the way Grace finds her song on the footpath... -
Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version) by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The story of a young boy's fantastic adventure after being washed up on a Pacific island - adapted for the stage by acclaimed dramatist Stuart Paterson from the best-selling novel by Children's... -
Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42New York. A city that runs on ambition - and coffee. In the offices of a notorious Manhattan magazine, ruthless editorial assistants vie for their bosses' jobs and a book deal before they're... -
The Unreturning by Anna Jordan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'I want to return to my home.' A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war. Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven... -
The Humans by Stephen Karam
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Three generations of the Blake family have assembled for Thanksgiving in Brigid and Richard's ramshackle pre-war apartment in Lower Manhattan. Whilst the event may have a slightly improvised air, the... -
Stop/Over by Gary Duggan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A day and a night in the city that never sleeps. A young woman arrives into JFK with time to kill until her departure tomorrow. She looks up an old college friend who lives in the city. With... -
The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice. The Complete... -
A Dream Play by August Strindberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A... -
Two Billion Beats (NHB Modern Plays) by Sonali Bhattacharyya
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'The smaller you are, the quicker your heart beats. But it doesn't matter what size your heart is, we all only get an average of about two billion beats over our lifetime. It's just a pump at the end... -
The Solid Life of Sugar Water by Jack Thorne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79'It had been a while. I was really nervous. I mean, it's not really like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a...