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A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
$26.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feist ...Show more
Baghdad Wedding by Hassan Abdulrazzak
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's the way it goes.'From cosmopolitan London to the chaos of war-ravaged Baghdad, this is the comic tale of three friends, ...Show more
Curious Incident of the Dog in the by Mark Haddon
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
$19.75 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
$21.95 AUD
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
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh & Tim Supple
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers fro ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | 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.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Bryony Lavery (Adapted by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's one big difference though - Susie is dead.Add: Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Susie is desper ...Show more
The Special Relationship by Hassan Abdulrazzak
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
True stories from the sharp edge of transatlantic deportation.In America, foreign nationals can be deported after serving prison sentences; some of them are British. Hassan Abdulrazzak interviewed ex-prisoners and experts in immigration and criminal law to get behind the political rhetoric, and to explo ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
$26.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
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