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    Sebastian Barry: Andersen's English [2010] paperback

    €5.99

    Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To...

    Tom Murphy: A Whistle In The Dark [1989] paperback

    €7.99€15.70

    Tom Murphy's early masterpiece, A Whistle in the Dark depicts the reunion of an Irish family in Coventy: a picture of Irishmen 'over here' asserting themselves in one of England's...

    Peter Sheridan: Forty Four [2000] paperback

    €4.99

    Snow is falling all over Dublin. It is half an hour to the start of the New Year. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place, a 10-year-old boy clings to...

    Linda Gates: Voice for Performance [2011]

    €9.99

    EA complete guide for all who want to make more effective use of their voice.ETH The goal of voice work Linda Gates explains in EVoice for Performance E is to...

    Brian Friel: BRIAN FRIEL COLLECTED PLAYS 4 FABER [2016] paperback

    €9.99€12.99

    This fourth collection of Brian Friel's work contains:The London Vertigo (after Macklin) (1992) (January)A Month in the Country (after Turgenev) (1992) (August) Wonderful Tennessee (1993) Molly Sweeney (1994) Give Me...

    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts & The Urfaust (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) [1999] paperback

    €3.99€6.99

    Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams.Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman...

    Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays [2007] paperback

    €6.99€14.30

    Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent...

    Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest [1995] paperback

    €1.99€2.86

    Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with...

    John (University of Exeter, UK) Rudlin: Commedia Dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook [1994] paperback

    €24.99

    There has been an enormous revival of interest in Commedia dell'arte. And it remians a central part of many drama school courses. In Commedia dell'arte in the Twentieth Century John...

    Euripides: Medea and Other Plays [1998] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    'the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought,...

    Natalie (Author) Burt: Acting: Cut the Crap, Cue the Truth [2013] paperback

    €12.99€21.41

    Acting: Cut the Crap, Cue the Truth fills a gap in the drama school curriculum, tackling many areas which are unaddressed during training and discussing issues that are more often...

    Deirdre Kinahan: Halcyon Days [2012] paperback

    €4.99€14.27

    An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a feisty woman...

    Billy Roche: Lay Me Down Softly [2008] paperback

    €5.99€12.84

    A heartfelt slice of life in small-town Ireland, brimming with passions and all-too-human foibles, from the author of the well-loved Wexford Trilogy.Set in rural Ireland of the early 1960s, Lay...

    Christine Dwyer Hickey: Snow Angels [2015] paperback

    €4.99€15.64

    The day after moving in, three young men wake up in an isolated house on the edge of the city, each one struggling with his own particular hangover. Outside is...

    Jim Cullenton: Tiny Plays for Ireland [2013] paperback

    €8.99€24.27

    In Autumn 2011, Fishamble: The New Play Company, in partnership with The Irish Times, launched Tiny Plays for Ireland, commissioning short works by some of Ireland's best-loved writers and calling...

    Cormac McCarthy: The Counselor [2013] hardback

    €2.99€4.99

    In early 2012 it was announced that Cormac McCarthy had written an original screenplay - news which provoked huge excitement, a swift deal and the appointment of Ridley Scott to...

    Anton Chekhov: Plays: New Translation: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya [2017] paperback

    €8.99

    The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for...

    Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot [1998] paperback

    €6.99€7.99

    'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it is terrible.' Jean Anouilh's judgement on the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Babylone in 1953 went on to conclude that...

    Rebecca Schneider: Theatre and History [2014] paperback

    €11.41

    This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the...

    Victoria Stewart: About O'Casey [2006] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    In About O'Casey Dr Victoria Stewart explores the life and work of Sean O'Casey, whose writing career spanned some of the most tumultuous times in Ireland's history, tracing the path...

    J. C. F. Von Schiller: Don Carlos and Mary Stuart (Oxford World's Classics) [1999] paperback

    €6.99€13.00

    Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was...

    James Robson: Aristophanes: Lysistrata (Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions) [2023] paperback

    €23.40

    Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt...

    Andrew Dickson: Worlds Elsewhere [2015] hardback

    €3.99

    Andrew Dickson's startlingly original and joyously entertaining Worlds Elsewhere traverses centuries and continents to reveal Shakespeare and his works in a fantastic array of new guises... 'Extraordinarily exhilarating ... like...

    Frank Mcguinness: Greta Garbo Came to Donegal [2010] paperback

    €6.99

    In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal.Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman tries to save...

    Dylan Thomas: UNDER MILK WOOD P/B Z25 [2014] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day...

    Martin Middeke: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights (Guides to Contemporary Drama) [2010] paperback

    €6.99

    The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and...

    Phaidon: Stage Management and Theatre Administration [1994] paperback

    €6.99

    Staging a play or musical can be exciting, demanding and rewarding. It can also be exhausting, frustrating and chaotic. However, a good stage management team can turn a potentially embarrassing...

    Phaidon: Lighting and Sound [1994] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    This book is a comprehensive introduction to the art of theatre lighting and sound. It can be used by the novice who aims to become expert, or by the experienced...

    Phaidon: Directing a Play [1994] paperback

    €6.99

    Throughout any theatrical production, the director is pivotal to the success of the operation. He or she is entrusted with the responsibility of making decisions that affect the artistic and...

    Bill Bryson: Shakespeare [2008] paperback

    €4.99€7.99

    From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense...

    Brian Friel: Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 5 [2016] paperback

    €9.99

    This fifth collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1998) The Yalta Game (after Chekhov) (2001) The Bear (after Chekhov) (2002) Afterplay (after 2002) Performances (2003) The Home...

    Michael Pennington: Let Me Play the Lion Too [2015] paperback

    €9.99

    How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What's the effect of...

    Dominic Dromgoole: The Full Room, [2002] paperback

    €6.99

    Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z,...

    Roy Williams: Not Black and White [2009] paperback

    €5.99

    Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah...

    Pierre Marivaux: The False Servant [2004] paperback

    €5.99

    I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. Just you remember.Lust and avarice trample on the finer feelings of love in...

    Ted Hughes: ALCESTIS Z44 [2000] paperback

    €4.99

    Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond...

    Harold Bloom: Shakespeare and Me [2014] hardback

    €9.99

    Why Shakespeare?It's been 400 years since his death and yet we continue to find inspiration, revelation, solace, and entertainment in his poems and plays. In this original collection, Susannah Carson...

    David Eldridge: Eldridge Plays: 2 [2012] paperback

    €7.99€9.99

    This second collection of plays by David Eldridge showcases the development of one of the most impressive playwriting talents of recent years. His plays combine emotional impact with complexity, realistic...

    Arcturus Publishing: Mermaid Press-out & Play: Beautiful Mermaids * Puzzles and Games * Mermaid Treasure (Magical Worlds) [2014] hardback

    €3.99€4.99

    With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,...

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