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A BEAUTIFUL LIFE by FUTCHER, MICHAEL
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: PLAYS
Brisbane 1992: A boy, Amir, sees his parents on the news, under arrest for protesting at the Iranian Embassy in Canberra against atrocities in their homeland. Amir forces Hamid and Jhila to tell their story, believing that a hostile Australian pubic will understand their 'terrorist' actions which shows ...Show more
A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
$19.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
A Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government. Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger ...Show more
Aftershocks by Paul Brown
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: PLAYS
This play documents the cataclysmic Newcastle earthquake and its aftermath. Based entirely on taped interviews, this is the dramatic presentation of real oral history, as told by the staff and friends of the Newcastle Workers Club. In unvarnished tones, sometimes funny, sometimes terrified, they show th ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Away by Michael Gow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: PLAYS
Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 women).
Blackrock (Play) by Nick Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's | 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
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$21.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oberon Plays for Young People
Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with mean Mr Evans; but there's also kind Auntie Lou, and brilliant young Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who ma ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
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Category: No Category | 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
DONS PARTY by David Williamson
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Category: Classics | Series: Plays
Since its first burst on the Australian stage in 1971, Don's Party has become widely recognised as one of David Williamson's finest comedies. Set during an election night party, Don's guests pursue the rituals of courtship and sexual competitiveness as a means of coping with the insecurities of their ow ...Show more
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Death and the Maiden - playscript by DORFMAN ARIEL
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Category: No Category | Series: Plays, Penguin
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor ...Show more