Set in Stone: The Cell Block Theatre by Deborah Beck
$49.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
Set in Stone is the fascinating story of how a derelict wing of Darlinghurst Gaol, home to Sydney's most notorious female criminals, became the Cell Block Theatre, the hub of Australia's avant-garde theatre, music and dance scene in the 1960s and '70s. A place of creative freedom and ingenuity, this ext ...Show more
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
$60.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
One of "The New York Times Book Review"'s 10 Best Books of the Year For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing "The Sleeping Beauty" today is a link in a long chain of dancers stre ...Show more
Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965 by Alan Brissenden
$70.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Illustrated with a wealth of photographs and designs for decor and costumes, most never before published, Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965 surveys the major companies, the many smaller groups which flourished, modern dance, the beginnings of Aboriginal theatrical dance which became ...Show more
Theatre by David Mamet
$30.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in "Theatre", the acclaimed author of "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed the Plow", calls for nothing less than the ...Show more
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theatre
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, "Death in Venice", seeks advice from his f ...Show more
Saturn's Return by Tommy Murphy
$18.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
Saturn has returned, and a moment of doubt changes everything. The universe conspires against Matt and Zara, and Zara is jettisoned into orbit. Sex on drugs has become sordid, but the allure of the threesome is still tempting. The prospect of having children is no longer odious, but mortgages and respon ...Show more
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
$12.95 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: Penguin Shakespeare
An embittered Roman General returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths and her three sons. Sacrificing the eldest, in memory of his own sons killed in battle, he provokes the queen's unending hatred. And when she is made empress by the new emperor of Rome, she quickly begins to plot a murd ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
The jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife is carrying the child of his best friend. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collapses when the King refuses to accept the divine confirmation of her innocence. The child is abandoned to die on the coast of Bohemia. But when she is found and ...Show more
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
It is the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Greek army is camped outside Troy and Achilles - their military hero - refuses to fight. Inside the city Troilus, the Trojan King's son, falls in love with Cressida, whose father has defected to the Greek camp. In an exchange of prisoners the couple are spli ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, ba ...Show more
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare weaves together two ancient folk tales, one involving a vengeful, greedy creditor trying to exact a pound of flesh, the other involving a marriage suitor's choice among three chests and thereby winning his (or her) mate. Shakespeare's treatment of the first standar ...Show more
Penguin Shakespeare -The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands' wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive, this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be sedu ...Show more