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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Gr ...Show more
Oxford Playscripts: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Philip Pullman
32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Oxford Playscripts S.
"Oxford Classic Playscripts: Frankenstein" is the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. It contains new, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teachi ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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.
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in a cult ...Show more
The Chapel Perilous by Dorothy Hewett
22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Plays Ser.
The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts -- through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics -- to extract meaning from her environment
The Club by David Williamson
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Plays Ser.
Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes, a head-on tackle of brawn versus bure ...Show more
The Flick by Annie Baker
22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking...The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theater." --Jesse Green, New York "Hilarious and ineffably touching...Ms. Baker's peerless aptitude for ex ...Show more
The Golden Age by Louis Nowra
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | 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 Play of the Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett
33.95 AUD
Category: No Category | 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.
The Removalists by David Williamson
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Plays
A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent initiation into the nastier aspects of law enforcement (2 acts, 4 men, 2 women).
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parod ...Show more