A Doll's House + Hedda Gabler + An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Plays | Series: World Classics Ser.
A Doll's House (1879) was Ibsen's first international success, which ''exploded like a bomb into contemporary life. Hedda Gabler (1890) is now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (''The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas'' Pictorial World). Also ...Show more
Cosi (Play) by Louis Nowra
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Category: Plays | Series: Current Theatre
Lewis arrives fresh from university to direct a play at a mental institution. Roy demands Cosi Fan Tutte. An affectionate look at madness and mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 3 women).
Toy Symphony by Michael Gow
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Category: Plays
This Michael Gow's first full-length play in a decade is a dazzling tour-de-force of theatrical invention. Roland Henning has writer's block. When he tries to explain the situation to a therapist, his story begins to tumble back and forth between his childhood in The Shire and his work as a playwright. ...Show more
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays
This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television, and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compac ...Show more
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess's ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Equus by Peter Shaffer
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Hattaway - University of Sheffield (Edited by)
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Category: Plays | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. There is a section on recent cr ...Show more
It Just Stopped / Myth, Propaganda & Disaster in Nazi Germany & Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell
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Category: Plays
A savage comedy of manners, "It Just Stopped" explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays | 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
Honey Spot (Playscript) by Jack Davis
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Category: Plays | Series: Teenage Ser.
Deals with the issues of race relations and conservation of our environment (1 man, 1 woman, 2 boys, 1 girl).