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A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
$23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
Closer by Patrick Marber
$35.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
There's a moment. There's always a moment . . . Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry. This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers . . . On its p ...Show more
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
$22.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...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.'
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
$21.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'My dad said he jumped buses. Horseboxes. Jumped an aqueduct once. He was gonna jump Stonehenge but the council put a stop to it.' On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an e ...Show more
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
$22.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.'In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather and politica ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
$22.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
$27.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at the age of 18. No longer the possession of the soci ...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
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
$30.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'Winner of the 1992 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Comedy, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a cracker, 'original, hilarious and hauntingly sad' (Daily Telegraph) Like everything Cartwright writes, Little Voice is playful, magical and terrifying, a view of the ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
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