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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
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 by Bertolt Brecht
$22.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...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 .
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 Blind Giant is Dancing by Stephen Sewell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Plays Ser.
Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they've forgotten why they're there. The intellectual torpor of modern Australia. How power corrupts. The Blind Giant is Dancing is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist, Allen Fitzg ...Show more
The Golden Age by Louis Nowra
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: PLAYS
Inspired by the true story of a group of people who were discovered in the wilds of Tasmania in 1939 (2 acts, 10 men, 6 women).
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