Twelve Angry Men: Methuen Student Editions by Reginald Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions
The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers. In New York, 1954, a man is dead and the life of another is at stake. A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone co ...Show more
Forty Years on by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play ...a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play ...a classic". (Daily Mail).
Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi; Kuckles
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama
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.
Faust - A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Robert David MacDonald (Translator)
$21.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Trans. by Robert David Macdonald Ser.
The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on this poetic drama in burst from his twenties unti ...Show more
Six Plays - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (if You Think You Are), the Jar, the Patent by Luigi Pirandello; Felicity Firth (Translator); Robert Rietty (Translator); John Wardle (Translator); Bruce Penman (Translator); Carlo Ardito (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama
This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tal ...Show more
Hamlet: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
$15.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Arden Performance Editions
The young Prince Hamlet, returning from university, finds his Kingdom in disarray: 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'. With his father dead, and his uncle and mother marrying, Hamlet is confronted by an armored ghost, who, claiming to be the King, implores him to enact revenge upon the newlyw ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama
Though sometimes classified as a 'problem play' for its mix of turbulent emotional and light-hearted comedy, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a timeless study of jealousy and desire. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Ernest Schanzer with an introduction by Russ McDonald. 'You may a ...Show more
The New Adventures of Don Quixote by Tariq Ali
$44.95 AUD
Category: Drama
MULE. Who created us? ROCINANTE. What kind of dumb question is that? The great master Cervantes, of course. Who else? MULE. God. ROCINANTE. Listen you obstinate fool. We're animals. We don't have to believe in God. That's meant for the superior species. MULE. Why did Cervantes create us? ROCINANTE. Bec ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
$22.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words an ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
$19.75 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and n ...Show more
Create Your Own Stage Effects by Gillian Davies
$55.00 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Backstage
Written to help theatre companies to explore a wide range of special effects safely, this book describes lighting, sound, scenic effects, costume, fast changes, transformations, projection, make-up, properties, pyrotechnics, weather effects, fire, smoke and water.