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The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A daughter is tied to her brilliant father by a passionate bond. But then she is drawn towards an appealing man whose taste in cultural forms follows a disturbing path. The Designated Mourner is a... -
The Fever by Wallace Shawn 9780571251223
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A traveller falls ill in a poor country and plummets into a feverish self-examination.But something's been hidden from me, too. Something - a part of myself - has been hidden from me, and I think... -
Essays by Wallace Shawn 9781608460021
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.05A collection of beautiful essays in which Wallace Shawn takes readers on a revelatory journey where the personal and the political become one. Shawn often focuses on contradictions, even when... -
Essays by Wallace Shawn 9781608460960
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50With his distinctive brand of humour and insight, acclaimed playwright and beloved actor Wallace Shawn takes his readers on a revelatory journey through high art, war, culture, politics and privilege... -
Night Thoughts: An Essay by Wallace Shawn
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.04In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that follow one another in an apparently random chain. ... -
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn 9781559363624
Booksplease Price: £16.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn 9780571251230
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A thrilling friend of her parents casts a spell over a young girl. A study in the glamour of brutal ideas.Susie, he's not just an individual like you and me - he works for the government. It's as if... -
Evening at The Talk House Wallace Shawn 9780571328130
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere,... -
Diary of a Young Boat by Wallace Shawn 9791259910264
RRP: £10.83Booksplease Price: £10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791259910264Author Wallace ShawnFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Intra S.R.L.S.Publisher Intra S... -
Wallace Shawn Plays 1: A Thought in Three Parts; Marie and Bruce; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Fever by Wallace Shawn 9780571190928
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'There is a quality in Shawn's writing - imaginative verve, quiet intensity, a sort of puritan sensitivity or a blend of them all.' The TimesThis first collection of Wallace Shawn's work contains... -
Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play by Wallace Shawn 9780802151032
Booksplease Price: £12.15This title portrays the strange relationship that develops between a reclusive young woman and an eccentric professor.Book InformationISBN 9780802151032Author Wallace ShawnFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition) by Wallace Shawn 9781559365208
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365208Author Wallace ShawnFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc... -
Final Edition: Volume 1, no 1 (the last issue) by Wallace Shawn
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226841Author Wallace ShawnFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky: Essays 1985-2021 by Wallace Shawn
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73"Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking." TONI MORRISON "Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle." PANKAJ MISHRA SLEEPING AMONG SHEEP UNDER A STARRY SKY is a collection of essays written... -
Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows by John Lahr 9780393246407
Booksplease Price: £23.06Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols,... -
Paul Bartel: The Life and Films by Stephen B. Armstrong 9780786499151
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Director Paul Bartel enjoyed poking holes in the expectations of audiences and critics with amusing films about murder, greed and transgressive sex--among them Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul... -
Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre by Derek McLane
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £27.94Together with other leading set design and theatre talents, McLane invites us into the immersive and exhilarating experience of building the striking visual worlds that have brought so many of our... -
As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew by Jen Chaney 9781476799087
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.54Will we ever get tired of watching Cher navigate Beverly Hills high school and discover true love in the movie Clueless? As if! Written by Amy Heckerling and starring Alicia Silverstone, Clueless is... -
Performance Histories by Bonnie Marranca 9781555540777
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88This collection of essays and interviews by the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art covers a wide range of current topics, such as avant-garde legacies, performance and ethics, art as... -
L' Heure Bleue Elisa Gabbert 9781939568175
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the... -
Straight White Male: Performance Art Monologues by Michael Peterson 9781604738841
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Mass media images of the male are central to popular culture. This book analyzes a genre known as ""performance art monologues"" as presented by white heterosexual men. Its focus is stand-up... -
The Princess Bride: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Few films have captured the hearts and imaginations like The Princess Bride. Based on the book by William Goldman, the 1987 film, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy... -
Upstaged: Making Theatre in a Media Age Anne Nicholson Weber 9780878301867
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television? Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere... -
Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage by Grace Schulman 9781885983527
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.33A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Selection "Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable... -
Chomsky and Me: My 24 Years Running Noam Chomsky's Office by Bev Boisseau Stohl 9781682193778
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, working next to a man described by the New... -
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky 9780231175968
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.59Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist... -
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist... -
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.92Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein... -
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
Booksplease Price: £12.90From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film... -
The Marble Bed by Grace Schulman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Selection "The Marble Bed is a vision; it is an ode to life."-Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Each poem in The Marble Bed journeys far, wandering the territory...