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Blackrock (Play) by Nick Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Plays Ser.
This work forms part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations of the University of Glamorgan. It traces the institution's development from its beginnings as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university and sets that history in the context of the university's e ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
$15.99 AUD
$23.99 (33% off)
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tia ...Show more
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
This translation of Rostand's 19th-century play about the swordsman-poet with a nose too large to be taken seriously was first seen in the 1985 RSC production. This volume contains the full original text, slightly adapted and translated into verse by Burgess, who also writes the introduction.
Desdemona by Toni Morrison
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse ...Show more
Father Comes Home from the Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks
$25.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama The finest work yet from this gifted writer.--The New York Times Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his d ...Show more
Gary's House by Debra Oswald
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Plays Ser.
Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and pregnant girlfriend... This is a story about Aussie battlers -- battling with each other, the elements and the world in their quest to turn a dream into reali ...Show more
Hydra by Sue Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | 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
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Best known for the novels Little Womenand Little Men,Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo's Boysrevisits P ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.
Taste of Honey (Modern Classic Edition) by S. Delaney
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
First issued by Methuen in 1959, this play was the first title in the Modern plays series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoer This title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of titles in print .
The Play of the Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett
$24.95 AUD
$36.95 (32% off)
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Heinemann Plays For 11-14 Ser.
A powerful and faithful dramatisation of the events in the diary of Anne Frank who, with family and friends, hid for two years from the Nazis before being discovered and sent to a concentration camp. An excellent play in itself, it also forms an active introduction to the original diary.
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more