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Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
A rewriting of the Phaedra myth, "Phaedra's Love" continued Kane's fragmentation of naturalism, and was her first play to deal explicitly with what was to become her main theme: love. Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions, particularly love, and need of any t ...Show more
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
Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays
I looked around the room and I thought, I m the only person in this room that hasn t killed anyone. "Talking to Terrorists" is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been involved in t ...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
Wasted by Kate Tempest
$20.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it. Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it. A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is wha ...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