Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Plays
The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. Having fled to Rome, the exiled husband makes a foolish wager with a villain he encounters there gambling on the fidelity of his abandoned wife. Combining courtly menace and horror, c ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
People by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world ...a saleroom here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover. People spoil things; there are so many of the ...Show more
A Man with Five Children by Nick Enright
$21.95 AUD
Category: Plays
Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. He shows the results annually on television. Yet for the children who grow up under Gerry's (and the nation's) watchful eye, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his ...Show more
Blackrock (Play) by Nick Enright
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Plays Ser.
This work forms part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations of the University of Glamorgan. It traces the institution's development from its beginnings as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university and sets that history in the context of the university's e ...Show more
The Devil's Playground by Christos Tsiolkas
$9.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith. Made in 1976, this semi-autobiog ...Show more
Dandy in the Underworld by Tim Fountain
$21.95 AUD
Category: Plays
The story of one of Soho's most colourful characters, the painter and dandy Sebastian Horsley.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford
$17.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: New Mermaids
Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet, she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience know that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineering aunt. Like Juliet, ...Show more
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
$20.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Faber Drama
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stage ...Show more