The Taming of the Shrew (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
$18.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Taming of the Shrew is a popular text for study by secondary students the ...Show more
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Deborah Dawkin (Translator); Erik Skuggevik (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
A collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater A Penguin Classic One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the development of realist ...Show more
PLAYBOY OF WESTERN WORLD by SYNGE, J.M.
$14.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
John Millington Synge's classic work set in Mayo. A mysterious traveller, Christy Mahon, arrives in the village believing he has killed his father. He is looked upon as a hero by the locals and falls in love with one of them, Pegeen Mike, who agrees to marry him. But when Christy's 'murdered' father app ...Show more
Titus Andronicus: Revised Edition by Jonathan Bate
$34.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultane ...Show more
Hydra by Sue Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.
Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: the love story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimagining from award-winning playwright Sue Smith. Dedicating their lives to writing, the couple were fi ...Show more
Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah: Soft Revolution by Alana Valentine
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
A story of two Australian Afghan Muslim women and the tension within a family over the wearing of the headscarf. A young Australian-born Muslim woman turns to the religion of her heritage for answers after the September 11 attacks in 2001, resulting in a deep experience of faith and a controversial deci ...Show more
Box the Pony by Scott Rankin, Leah Purcell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
The semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Stephanie - which traces the events of her life growing up on an impoverished Aboriginal mission in Queensland. Despite the poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Stepanie is nurtured through the love of her family.
The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970's Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. Now she has writer's block. Molly, an unannounced visitor and committed fan of Margot and her work, offers a potential solution - unti ...Show more
Highway of Lost Hearts by Mary Anne Butler
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
A woman. A dog. A campervan. And 4,500 km of wide open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe; she has a pulse-but she feels...nothing. So, she decides to go and look for it. With her Dog enlisted as co-pilot, Mot heads down the Highway of Lost H ...Show more
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
$24.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints. Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles (adapted by Jane Montgomery Griffiths)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and readers requires careful guidance if the ...Show more
Cambridge School Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra by Michael (EDT) Mary; Clamp Berry
$15.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare
This new edition of Shakespeare's play takes into account the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English, developments at GCSE and A-level, and the probable development of English and Drama throughout the 1990s. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers Antony and Cleo ...Show more