Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
The Plays: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Plays | Series: Evergreens
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are Chekh ...Show more
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. This play was written in 1999 s ...Show more
Henry IV, Part 2: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st-century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st-century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
A moving tragedy of political intrigue and family strife, William Shakespeare's King Lear is edited by George Hunter, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!' The ageing King Lear, tired of office, decides to split ...Show more
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
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Category: Plays | Series: Student Editions
'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore Pushing theatre to its limits, McDonagh is making a serious point a work as subversive as those Synge and O'Casey plays that sparked Dublin riots in the last century' Guardian 'A brave satire Swiftia ...Show more
Life Without Me by Daniel Keene
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Category: Plays
If you don't know who you are and you don't know where you're headed, you might find yourself spiralling in circles until you come to rest in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn't work, and the pot plants set off your allergies.
Stolen by Jane Harrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Cts Ser.
'Stolen' tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from their community, after their release they begin their journey 'home', not all of them successfully.
Three Great Plays: The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, the Hairy Ape by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
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Category: Plays | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Winner of the Nobel prize for literature and 4 Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. The Emperor Jones is an expressionistic play much-admired for its powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness. The Hairy Ape combines elements ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Edition by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic 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 and phrases ...Show more
Cambridge School Shakespeare: King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. The Rex Gibson active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways, sha ...Show more