Antigone by Anne Carson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oberon Classics
When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act ...Show more
The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau; Daniel Raggett (Translator)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.' A woman, a phone call, a final conversation. In this extraordinary and prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves. Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that ...Show more
Cambridge School Shakespeare: Julius Caesar by Rex Gibson (Founded by); Richard Andrews (General Editor); Vicki Wienand (Editor, General Editor); Robert Smith (Editor); William Shakespeare
$18.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are en ...Show more
Australia in 50 Plays by Julian Meyrick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Australia in 50 Plays is Julian Meyrick's lively and accessible account of the remarkable relationship between our national drama and our national life, examining fifty outstanding plays of diverse content and style that have appeared in the 120 years since Federation. Energetic, entertaining and origin ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe Playscript by Trent Dalton, Tim McGarry
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
The bestselling novel, which has taken Australia and the world by storm, now comes alive onstage. Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli Bell's life isn't complicated enough already. He's ju ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
$30.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
$19.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Stage Edition Ser.
Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In these stunning new translations of three of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his grou ...Show more
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
$24.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.'
Paradise by Kae Tempest
$20.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest will make her National Theatre debut in June with Paradise, a potent and dynamic reimagining of the Greek classic Philoctetes by Sophocles. Once comrades, now enemies after Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes to suffer a terrible wound alone, Odysseus is p ...Show more
Arden Plays: 1: Waters of Babylon, When is a Door?, Live Like Pigs, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, The Happy Haven: Waters of Babylon, When is a Door?, Live Like Pigs, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, The Happy Haven by John Arden
$45.00 AUD
Category: Plays
''Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey.the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the social environment and the texture of people's lives.' This first volume of Arden's dramatic work contains plays f ...Show more
Arden Plays: 2: The Workhouse Donkey, Armstrong's Last Goodnight, Left-Handed Liberty, Squire Jonathan, The Bagman: The Workhouse Donkey, Armstrong's Last Goodnight, Left-Handed Liberty, Squire Jonathan, The Bagman by John Arden
$45.00 AUD
Category: Plays
''Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey.the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the social environment and the texture of people's lives.' This second volume of John Arden's plays includes works fro ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
$19.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
For this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. T ...Show more