Drama, Plays & Theatre

Sonya Kelly / The Wheelchair on My Face

‘I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone’s eyes. And so it was discovered why I’d thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our local pond...

Henrik Ibsen / Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays' in a single volume. 'I'm going to find out - which of us is right, society or me.' A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, challenged the conventions of...

Alfred Harbage / King Lear (Pelican Shakespeare Series)

Offering an ongoing theatrical commentary alongside the play of "King Lear", this book is intended to help the reader visualize the stage life of the play and give an insight into Shakespeare in his...

William Shakespeare / The Tempest (Hardback)

Each edition includes: - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play- Scene-by-scene plot...

David Hare / Plenty (Hardback)

Hare's play counterpoints the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance with her life in the next 20 years     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Anton Chehov - Three Plays ( The Cherry Orchard| Three Sisters | Ivanov ) Translated by Elisaveta Fen - Penguin Classics PB 1956

Paperback, 1956 reprint of the 1951 original. Penguin code L19excellent condition, light tanning only

Liam Ó Muirthile - Liodán Na hAbhann - PB

This play centres around the meeting of a brother and sister at the anniversary of their brother's death. It is an emotional journey through mourning to spiritual renewal.Dráma as Gaeilge, foilsithe...

John B. Keane - Big Maggie (Vintage Mercier PB 1978 - Originally 1969)

 'Big Maggie 'J. B. Keane's most outspoken play' - The Irish Press'Keane ... has brought the tyranny, the desperation and the frustration of the rural Irish matriarch roaring into the top twenties'...

William Shakespeare / Othello (New Cambridge Shakespeare Edition) (Large Paperback)

Norman Sanders provides a full analysis of the textual problem and theories of transmission of Othello, and presents possible solutions to the stylistic and racial issues which face modern readers...

William Shakespeare / Hamlet -Prince of Denmark ( Illustrated) (Coffee Table Book)

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Aideen Howard - Dream Big : New Plays from the Ark 2019-2025 - BRAND NEW

Since opening its doors in 1995, The Ark has operated in Dublin city as a dedicated cultural centre for children – making and sharing fun, ambitious work that aims to realise every child’s right to...

Sophocles - Electra and Other Plays ( Translated by E.F Watling) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB 1965

All three of the great tragic poets of ancient Greece produced plays about the Electra myth. If Sophocles (496-406 Bc) lacks the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of Euripides,...

Ben Jonson / Three Comedies (Vintage Paperback)

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Edward Albee / Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolfe? (Vintage Paperback)

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J. M. Morrell / Four English Comedies (Vintage Paperback)

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Margery Forde / X-Stacy (Large Paperback)

Drawn by the power of the beat and the tribal escape of dance, Ben hangs out with Fergus, a choice rave DJ who is heading for the stars. For Zoe, an aspiring DJ, music is the drug and she's addicted...

George Bernard Shaw - Collected Plays - 10 Volume Set - HB Pocket Editions1927

A reprint set, unformly sized and with identical design on each of G.B Shaw's plays , in 12 volumes , originally 1926, here in the 'Pocket Edition, 1927' Published by Constable and CompanY. Titles in...

Moliere / Tartuffe (Large Paperback)

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Jean Racine / Phedre (Large Paperback)

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Vern Thiessen / Einstein's Gift (Large Paperback)

Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

John Millington Synge - Deirdre of the Sorrows (1912) | The Tinker's Wedding, Riders to the Sea & The Shadow of the Glen (1915) - 2 Vintage HB Reprints

2 vintage uniformly sized Maunsel & Co hardcovers of J.M Synge plays, as follows -  Deirdre of the Sorrows - A Play, 1912, Maunsel & Co, Dublin & London 1912 ( originally 1910. Clean and unmarked,...

Robert H. Hethmon / Strasberg at the Actors Studio (Large Paperback)

   

Samuel Beckett - Dramatische Dichtungen in Drei Sprachen

With text of dramatist Samuel Beckett's work in three languages - English,  French (Waiting for Godot was originally published in French first) and German.  Originally published 1981. 

Gregory Burke / Black Watch (Large Paperback)

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David Almond / Skellig: The Play (Large Paperback)

"David Almond's Printz Honor-winning novel is a captivating modern classic."Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are...

William Shakespeare / King Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.A boy king, Henry VI, is on the...

Henrik Ibsen / A Doll's House

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Tom Stoppard / The Real Inspector Hound (Large Paperback)

The ultimate parody of the stage and literary convention of the country-house mystery. 'It's an object of pure, virtuoso craft and display, as luxuriously self-sufficient as a netsuke or Faberge...

John P Harrington / Modern Irish Drama - A Norton Critical Edition - PB

Full texts of 12 classic Irish dramas, from Yeats to Friel , with notes, commentaries, criticism and context essays.  Light student underlining and notes added.   

Gate Theatre Programs (9 Book Collection)

Gate Theatre Programs (9 Book Collection)   samuel beckett / waiting for godot arthur miller / a view from the bridge brian friel / a month in the country harold pinter / the caretaker jacques brel...

William Shakespeare / The Penguin Shakespeare ( 1960s Editions) (7 Book Collection)

The Penguin Shakespeare Circa 1960s (7 Book Collection)   The sonnets, and a lover's complaint timon of athens a midsummer night's dream richard the second troylus and cressida the tragedy of king...

Henrik Ibsen / Little Eyolf | Rosmersholm | John Gabriel Borkman( Rupert ( Hart-Davis Publishing) Circa 1960s (3 Book Collection)

The Plays of Ibsen - published by Rupert Hart-Davis, reprint 1960's editions (3 Book Collection) Part of a larger collected edition of Ibsen's plays   Little Eyolf Rosmersholm John Gabriel Borkman

Carl N. Degler / Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America

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Bernard Shaw / Major Barbara

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

William Shakespeare / The Tempest (Large Paperback)

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William Shakespeare - Henry V - The New Penguin Shakespeare - PB

Henry V" is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the...

Christopher Hampton / Carrington (Large Paperback)

A "triangular trinity of happiness" was how Dora Carrington described her early life with her husband Ralph Partridge and the writer Lytton Strachey. But, as Virginia Woolf foretold, Carrington's...

Nicholas Craig / I, an Actor (Large Paperback)

The fully revised new edition of the uncensored 'Acto-biography' of the most controversial thespian of his generation. The memoirs of Nicholas Craig - theatrical eminence best known for his Trueplate...

Brian Friel / Wonderful Tennessee (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Robert G. Lawrence / Restoration Plays

This volume collects some of the most eng

Katherine Duncan Jones / The Arden Shakespeare Book of Quotations from Songs & Sonnets

If you love the beauty of Shakespeare's p

Martha Banta / Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford (Large Paperback)

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Brendan O'Carroll / The Course: A Play

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Sean O'Casey / Three Plays : "Juno and the Paycock", "Shadow of a Gunman" and "Plough and the Stars"

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Tania Kindersley / Elvis Has Left the Building

A washed up Elvis impersonator finds his

Rolf Hochhuth / The Deputy (Large Paperback)

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John Corbett , Bill Findlay / Serving Twa Maisters: Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation (Hardback)

  This collection contains five classic works translated into Scots from the heart of post-war Scottish tradition: Let Wives Tak Tent by Robert Kemp from Molière (1948); The Burdies by Douglas Young...

Ian Bernard / Film and Television Acting : From Stage to Screen (Large Paperback)

Film and Television Acting offers solid techniques for creating a natural, believable performance for film and television. The reader will discover techniques for listening and reacting, blocking and...

Young Conservatory / New Plays from A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory (Large Paperback)

1. Ascension Day Timothy Mason 2. Windshook Mary Gallagher 3. Reindeer Soup Joe Pintauro 4. Sightings Brad Slaight 5. High Tide Ascension Day, by Timothy Nine young people struggle for independence,...

Mel Gussow / Conversations With Miller (Large Paperback)

Offers a personal and revealing account of one of the major playwrights of our time. Arthur Miller is revealed in deep and candid conversation with the highly regarded dramatic critic, Mel Gussow. ...

Sean O'Casey / Juno and the Paycock (Large Paperback)

The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced throughout the world and offers a compelling look at the family conflicts of struggling Irish matriarch...

Helen Forrester / Twopence to Cross the Mersey: The Play (Large Paperback)

Helen Forrester's play is the strong story of a young girl growing up in the Depression. The resource material explores unemployment, poverty and the life in the 1930s.     All of our books are...