Julius Caesar: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama
Set at the birth of the Roman Empire, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a taut historical drama exploring the violent consequences of betrayal and murder. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by Martin Wiggins. 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ...Show more
The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith
$21.95 AUD
Category: Drama
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
Hydra by Sue Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Drama | 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
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
$19.75 AUD
Category: Drama | 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
The Singing and Acting Handbook - Games and Exercises for the Performer by Thomas De Mallet Burgess; Nicholas Skilbeck
$40.65 AUD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
This book is an unique resource which directly addresses all performers who sing and act, whether in opera, musical theatre or music-theatre. By looking beyond the separate acts of singing and acting the performer builds up a greater awareness of how the two interrelate to form a single powerful express ...Show more
The Actor's Audition Manual: v. 1: Australian Handbook for Every Actor Fully Revised with 150 New Speeches by Dean Carey
$26.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: MANUALS
The first edition of The Actor's Audition Manual quickly became known as the 'red audition manual', denoting its status as the essential guide. Now revised and extended, it once more brings together a wealth of practical advice and a fresh, diverse range of speeches for both men and women that will help ...Show more
The Art of Coarse Acting, Or, How to Wreck an Amateur Dramatic Society by Michael Frederick Green
$26.55 AUD
Category: Drama
For thirty years The art of coarse acting has been a standard work in the theatre, both professional and amateur. An outrageous spoof which ridicules pretentiousness, pokes fun at incompetance and disaster, and generally lays bare life backstage.
Alcestis by Ted Hughes
$32.95 AUD
Category: Drama
In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version ...Show more