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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
Dreaming by Peter Barnes
26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values. In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home. Dreaming premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre ...Show more
Gary's House by Debra Oswald
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Category: No Category | 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
Glengarry Glen Ross by Mamet David
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Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Lies. Greed. Corruption. It 's business as usual. Set in an office of cut-throat Chicago salesmen, four increasingly desperate employees will do anything, legal or otherwise, to sell the most real estate. Pitched in a high-stakes competition against each other, as time and luck start to run out the mant ...Show more
Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade
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Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
How happily married are the happily married? Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn't as easy as it looks... Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewif ...Show more
Inheritance (Playscript) by Hannie Rayson
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Category: No Category | Series: Standard Plays Ser.
The Myrtle twins, Dibs Hamilton and Girlie Delaney, are turning 80. As the family gathers to celebrate, speculation grows as to who will be the one to inherit the family property, Allandale, when the ageing Farley Hamilton is gone. From award-winning playwright Hannie Rayson, comes a powerful new family ...Show more
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
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Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate, and Harry look on, he prepares for the future of power that lies before him. But how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III i ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Mr Bailey's Minder by Debra Oswald
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Category: No Category | Series: Currency Plays
Abusive, cantankerous and burned out by booze, Leo Bailey is one of Australia's national treasures. A gifted painter and chronic alcoholic, he can no longer take care of himself. His resentful daughter has been through a succession of minders, until Therese comes along, fresh out of jail and determined ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
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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
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Currency Plays
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).