Tales from the Arabian Nights by Donna Abela
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays
In this delightful adaptation of the classic tales, Donna Abela brings centuries-old tradition into the modern era with a play that is timeless yet utterly contemporary. Young courtier Shahrazad poses as a 'Smuggle' (a refugee) about to be executed by the despotic King Shahrayar. To save her life, she t ...Show more
Fury by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Plays
A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris. In Greek mythology, it is Hera who blinds the hero Heracles, so that, in a fit of fury, he kills his own family. In the twenty-first century, th ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice (Updated Edition) by William Shakespeare; M. M. Mahood (Editor); Tom Lockwood (Introduction by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The\New Cambridge Shakespeare Ser.
Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon mark ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - Othello by William Shakespeare; Norman Sanders (Editor); Christina Luckyj (Introduction by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The\New Cambridge Shakespeare Ser.
This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of early modern theatre and culture, and demonstrating how careful attention to Shakespeare's language, staging and dramaturgy can open up fresh interpretations of the p ...Show more
The 7 Stages of Grieving (25th Anniversary Edition) by ENOCH WESLEY MAILMAN DEBORAH
$26.00 AUD
Category: Plays
This one-woman show follows the journey of an Aboriginal 'Everywoman' as she tells poignant and humorous stories of grief and reconciliation. Appropriating western form whilst using traditional storytelling, it gives an emotional insight into Murri life. A contemporary Indigenous performance text from t ...Show more
Caryl Churchill - Plays 2 - Softcops/Top Girls/Fen/Serious Money by Caryl Churchill
$44.88 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Methuen Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" —The London Standard"Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness an ...Show more
Fangirls by Yve Blake
$24.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Meet Edna: she's 14, she's a misfit, she's kind of a genius and ... she's in love. With Harry. There's just one problem: Harry doesn't actually know that she exists. Because Harry is in the world's biggest boy band, True Connection. But to Edna, that's just a small obstacle. When True Connection announc ...Show more
A Ghost in My Suitcase by Gabrielle Wang
$24.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Adapted by Vanessa Bates from Gabrielle Wangs award-winning novel, A Ghost in my Suitcase is an action-packed adventure story that crosses cultural and spiritual worlds. Twelve-year-old Celeste -- 'half French, half Chinese and all Australian' -- travels to China to scatter her mothers ashes. There she ...Show more
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
$27.00 AUD
Category: Plays | 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
WARHOLCAPOTE: A Non-Fiction Invention by Rob Roth
$40.00 AUD
Category: Plays
An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would ...Show more
Three Plays: Rising Water, Signs of Life, Shrine by Tim Winton
$23.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col, Baxter and Jackie living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina. Each of them nurse ...Show more