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Tanika Gupta: Historical Plays by Tanika Gupta 9781786825452
Booksplease Price: $60.26Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. It charts Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as... -
Bones by Tanika Gupta
Booksplease Price: $26.60In 2014 local historian Catherine Corless made a discovery of baby bones and skeletons in the grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. Built on the grounds of an old... -
The Empress by Tanika Gupta 9781350278974
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.30It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second class... -
Hedda by Tanika Gupta 9781350597679
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60Finally, I'm being brave.London, 1948. The war is over, India is newly independent, and Hedda Gabler has retired: early, elegantly, and with secrets. Once a Hollywood star, now the wife of rising... -
The Empress by Tanika Gupta 9781350428584
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887.At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class... -
Mind Walking by Tanika Gupta 9781849435062
Booksplease Price: $27.77Moving, powerful, ethereal; Mind Walking is a celebration of the life of one extraordinary man, the enduring love story of a mature couple and their family.Bobby has led a remarkable life. Migrating... -
White Boy by Tanika Gupta 9781840028607
Booksplease Price: $27.77Rikki's mates come from all over the world, and as far as they're concerned they are all 'breddas'. But when tragedy befalls one of them, Rikki's forced to ask him self the serious question - what... -
Lions and Tigers by Tanika Gupta 9781786821843
Booksplease Price: $23.93Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. It charts Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as... -
A Tupperware of Ashes by Tanika Gupta 9781350520721
Booksplease Price: $24.41I’m falling through a world which makes no senseAn ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word.But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality... -
Lions and Tigers by Tanika Gupta 9781350234772
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.50"Tanika Gupta's epic drama pushes the boundaries of verbatim theatre, telling an important story in a fresh and authentic way never seen on stage before. A rousing piece of work." - Greg Walker,... -
Gladiator Games by Tanika Gupta 9781840026245
Booksplease Price: $27.77On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man, was attacked by his cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries. Was he sharing a... -
Inside Out by Tanika Gupta 9781840023527
Booksplease Price: $27.77Teenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent family life, they move from dreams to betrayal - with devastating results. Inside Out is commissioned by Clean... -
The Empress Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350190573
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.07Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim, step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a... -
Red Dust Road by Tanika Gupta
Booksplease Price: $25.23Growing up in 70s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossoms into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decides to find her birth parents... Based on... -
Fragile Land by Tanika Gupta 9781840023671
Booksplease Price: $27.77The first performance in The Space at the new premises of the Hampstead Theatre, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants. The pressure to stick to... -
Sugar Mummies by Tanika Gupta 9781840026559
Booksplease Price: $27.77Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. "Sugar Mummies" is a funny,... -
Love 'N Stuff by Tanika Gupta 9781783190553
Booksplease Price: $23.93Tanika Gupta returns with a hilarious and touching story of love, attachment and what we mean by home. Bindi and Mansoor might just be the most popular couple on their street, but after 45 years of... -
A Doll's House Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350262720
Booksplease Price: $26.21Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and... -
A Doll's House Tanika Gupta (Author) 9781350261075
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and... -
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Tanika Gupta 9781786823366
Booksplease Price: $23.93Nikolai, an 86 year old retired Ukrainian engineer and tractor historian in Peterborough, has fallen in love with 36 year old Valentina. His daughters, Vera and Nadezhda, unite in horror to defend... -
Keeping It Active: A Practical Guide to Rhetoric in Performance by Jeannette Nelson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Every time you open your mouth on stage you are trying to persuade somebody of something. Sometimes referred to as 'the art of persuasion', rhetoric means using language to communicate your ideas... -
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play Rebecca Benzie 9781350191266
Booksplease Price: $176.61When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing... -
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play Rebecca Benzie 9781350191310
Booksplease Price: $59.55When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing... -
Anita and Me Meera Syal 9781350262751
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.36This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Meena, a young girl growing up in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village. Meena spends her days happily getting into scrapes with the... -
Romantic Comedy by Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths 9781350183377
Booksplease Price: $156.64'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
At the Sharp End: Uncovering the Work of Five Leading Dramatists: David Edgar, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, David Greig, Tanika Gupta and Mark Ravenhill by Peter Billingham 9780713685077
Booksplease Price: $55.71What value does theatre have in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century? How has theatre responded to the challenge of remaining relevant in the media-saturated world of today? These are... -
Romantic Comedy by Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths 9781350183414
Booksplease Price: $74.98'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism Aleks Sierz 9781350567924
Booksplease Price: $99.86This is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental style. A guide to the key plays and playwriting innovations, it... -
Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse 9781840023831
Booksplease Price: $27.77Hobson's Choice is one of the most popular and enduring of British comedies. With enormous wit and charm, rising star Tanika Gupta has transposed the Hobson family to a modern Bengal-Asian community... -
New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism Aleks Sierz 9781350567917
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38"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... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9781350448223
Booksplease Price: $26.15All my life they looked down on me, always cursing and abusing. But you, you will be different!Bengal, 1903. Rumours that the British Empire plans to partition Bengal spread and uncertainty is never... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9781849431224
Booksplease Price: $25.72Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water's edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss... -
The No Rules Handbook for Writers (know the Rules So You Can Break Them) by Lisa Goldman 9781849431118
Booksplease Price: $35.45Shortlisted as one of The Stage's top 10 training books of 2012The No Rules Handbook for Writers is a timely, creative and refreshing antidote to prescriptive guides for writers. It will inspire... -
Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain by Gabriele Griffin 9780521174510
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $76.46This text was the first monograph to document and analyse the plays written by Black and Asian women in Britain. The volume explores how Black and Asian women playwrights theatricalize their... -
Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain by Gabriele Griffin 9780521817257
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $159.90This text was the first monograph to document and analyse the plays written by Black and Asian women in Britain. The volume explores how Black and Asian women playwrights theatricalize their... -
Glitterball by Yasmin Wilde
Booksplease Price: $26.60More Bassey than Bhangra...Sonia's life has always been a bit of a double act, brought up as one half of a Shirley Bassey tribute act. Alongside her overbearing mother Gloria, she left a trail of... -
Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre: Rethinking Feminist Form in Plays by Women Hannah Greenstreet 9781350425811
Booksplease Price: $167.02This book offers radical new insights into the relation between realism, feminism and gender identities in contemporary theatre. It maps the theatrical forms emerging from a 'new wave' of women's... -
Writing Talk: Interviews with Writers about the Creative Process Derek Neale (The Open University, UK) 9781138320307
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $68.54Writing Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original ideas. Working across genres such as fiction,... -
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights by Aleks Sierz 9781408122785
Booksplease Price: $55.71The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international... -
Out West: The Overseas Student; Blue Water and Cold and Fresh; Go, Girl by Roy Williams 9781350272774
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.36Three new plays from three of the UK's most celebrated playwrights. All rooted in West London, the plays explore race, identity and our sense of place and purpose, presented together as one piece,...