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A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
$26.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feist ...Show more
Baghdad Wedding by Hassan Abdulrazzak
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's the way it goes.'From cosmopolitan London to the chaos of war-ravaged Baghdad, this is the comic tale of three friends, ...Show more
Banging Denmark by Van Badham
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.
Ish Madigan is a feminist academic writing a thesis on computer games. Jake Newhouse is a full-time management consultant and part-time pickup artist. They're not exactly best friends. But when Jake's latest crush - a brilliant Danish librarian - doesn't respond to his usual seduction techniques, he kno ...Show more
Bran Nue Dae: A Musical Journey by Jimmy Chi
$21.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: PLAYS
This is the book of the nationally-acclaimed Australian musical from Broome, which features the playscript, musical score and over 70 photographs. In 1991, this book won the WA Premier's Book Award and the Human Rights Literature Award.
Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson
$17.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Currency Plays Ser.
This is a new edition of the play which has stills from the successful 1995 film which closely followed the scene order and dialogue of the original play.
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
Life After George by HANNIE RAYSON
$19.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: PLAYS
This is a moving and perceptive insight into social change across decades told through individual experiences. From the barricades of the student movements of the late 1960s to the new century with its demands for different educational strategies, the university has been central to change. And it is on ...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
National Theatre Connections 2023 - 10 Plays for Young Performers by National Theatre (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Plays for Young People Ser.
National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to i ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging by Headlong, the 'country's most exciting touring company' (Telegraph), who brought us Romeo & Juliet in 2012, directed by Robert Icke. April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary ...Show more
No Sugar by Jack Davis
$22.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Currency Plays
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh & Tim Supple
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers fro ...Show more