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    John B. Keane: Sive [2009] paperback

    €4.99€9.99

    Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Sean Rua, wants Sive to marry...

    Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come [1975] paperback

    €4.99€11.99

    Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan...

    Arthur Miller: The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback

    €5.99€11.99

    Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' -...

    Brian Friel: Dancing at Lughnasa [1990] paperback

    €3.99€13.00

    It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging...

    William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (Penguin classics) [2015] paperback

    €4.99€10.40

    'The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul' John DrydenAntonio, a Venetian merchant, wishes to help his friend get money to...

    Euripides: Medea and Other Plays : Medea; Hecabe; Electra; Heracles (Penguin Classics) [2002] paperback

    €3.99€13.00

    Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak...

    Sean O'Casey: Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & the Plough and the Stars [1998] paperback

    €5.99€12.99

    Three early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during...

    Willy Russell: BLOOD BROTHERS [2001] trade paperback

    €4.99€14.30

    A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons...

    Brian Friel: Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2 [2016] paperback

    €9.99

    This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains:The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters (1977) Aristocrats (1979) (March) Faith Healer (1979) (April) Translations (1980)

    Willy Russell: OUR DAY OUT HEINEMANN EDITION Z90 [1993] hardback

    €3.99€4.99

    Our Day Out is both funny and poignant, asking what a group of back-street kids from Liverpool can expect beyond a rare 'day out'? 24 parts: 10 adult males, 4...

    Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Vintage Classics) [2016] paperback

    €4.99

    A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day. Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a...

    Jez Butterworth: The Ferryman (NHB Modern Plays) [2017] paperback

    €14.30

    'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.'County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of...

    Sophocles: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics) [1973] mass_market

    €4.99€13.00

    King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful...

    Kindertransport (NHB Modern Plays) [2008] paperback

    €14.30

    A 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...

    Prof. Toby (Professor of English Zinman: All My Sons [2010] paperback

    €4.99

    This Student Edition of All My Sons is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Toby...

    Arthur Miller: The Crucible [2022] paperback

    €11.99

    Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the...

    William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Collins Classics) [2011] paperback

    €2.99€3.90

    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.' Arguably...

    Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays: "Sweet Bird of Youth"; "A Streetcar Named Desire"; "The Glass Menagerie" [2000] paperback

    €6.99€14.27

    "A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern...

    William Shakespeare: The Tempest: William Shakespeare [2015] paperback

    €4.99€10.40

    'The magic in The Tempest is real ... It contains a great many unanswered questions' Margaret AtwoodA storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a...

    Veronica Coburn: Clown Through Mask [2013] hardback

    €49.99

    Richard Pochinko (1946-89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theater through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European and indigenous Native American techniques. In Clown Through...

    Aeschylus: The Oresteia [1977] paperback

    €6.99€16.90

    The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford...

    Phillip (Author) McMahon: Once Before I Go [2021] paperback

    €8.99€15.60

    You can paint your placards 'til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it...

    Vincent Woods: Far From The Land: Contemporary Irish Plays [1998] paperback

    €7.99

    A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre At The Black Pig's...

    Skip Mort: Stage Lighting: The Technicians' Guide [2023] paperback

    €29.99

    This practical guide covers all aspects of stage lighting equipment, special effects, lighting a performance space and lighting design. It is well illustrated with examples of equipment, diagrams, plans and...

    J.M. Synge: The Complete Works of J.M. Synge (Wordsworth Poetry Library) [2008] paperback

    €3.99€5.99

    Edited and with an Introduction by Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University.The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The...

    Evelyn Gajowski: The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism (The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks) [2022] paperback

    €45.50

    The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters...

    Samuel Beckett: WAITING FOR GODOT [2006] paperback

    €7.99€13.00

    Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre...

    Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics) [1984] paperback

    €5.99€11.99

    Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert...

    Casey Sean O: The Plough and the Stars [2001] paperback

    €3.99€11.70

    This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes...

    Conor McPherson: Conor McPherson Plays: Two [2004] paperback

    €27.13

    The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar...

    Constantin Stanislavski: An Actor Prepares [1980] paperback

    €6.99

    In An Actor Prepares Stanislavski deals with the inward preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the its full. He introduces the concepts of the...

    Caryl Churchill: Top Girls [2008] paperback

    €7.99€15.70

    Caryl Churchill: 'A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing...a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in...

    Michael Earley: The Classical Monologue (W) [1992] paperback

    €4.99€24.27

    First Published in 1993. The Classical Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is a fresh selection of the best speeches from the repertoire of the...

    Euripides: Medea [2002] paperback

    €14.30

    A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary. The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies, a...

    William Shakespeare: The Merry Wives Of Windsor [2024] paperback

    €9.10

    'Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.'The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only...

    Marina Carr: Girl On An Altar [2022] paperback

    €14.30

    A sinister night.Evil and edge in the air.What are they celebrating?Clytemnestra's world is torn apart when Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war. Ten years later, the couple...

    John Galsworthy: Galsworthy Five Plays [1999] paperback

    €14.99€32.84

    John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over...

    Carmel (Playwright, Ireland) Winters: B for Baby [2010] paperback

    €4.99

    'It was like we were two children - two innocent children just...playing' Mrs C wants a baby not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser's scissors and a wife....

    Hugo Hamilton: The Speckled People (Modern Plays) [2011] paperback

    €7.99

    Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this...

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