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Alarms and Excursions by Michael Frayn
$19.65 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh' (Guardian) Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzzers, warblers, beepers and cheeper ...Show more
At the Inland Sea by Edward Bond; Tony Coult (Editor); Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''A new play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event.the severity and seriousness of his message is delivered with extraordinary directness' (Carole Woddis, Times Educational Supplement) On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams ...Show more
Bombshells by Joanna Murray-Smith
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Standard Plays Ser.
Bombshells is a series of outrageous portraits of six women barely coping with the stresses of modern life.
Bondagers and the Straw Chair by Sue Glover; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
$14.20 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Two plays of haunting lyricism by one of Scotland''s most dynamic playwrights Bondagers, winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award 1990, draws out the shadowy figures of women exploited as cheap agricultural labour in the Border country of the last century, evoking the rich sounds of a way of life, lived ...Show more
Boys Life and Search and Destroy by Howard Korder
$21.85 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'Two gripping plays by one of America''s most exciting playwrights Boy''s Life- love, relationships, and growing up in New York City a substantial play. It makes Howard Korder a presence to take seriously in the theatre (Village Voice); Search and Destroy- corporate politics, lies and relationships You ...Show more
Brecht in Context by John Willett
$27.40 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Plays and Playwrights Ser.
'New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht''s birth, containing additional updated material In this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. Through chapters on Brecht''s relationships and attitudes to contempo ...Show more
Bruises and the Storewatchers' House by Judy Upton; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'This volume brings together two plays of unbearable love and brutality by the winner of the 1994 George Devine and Verity Bargate awards. Bruises- Beyond the windows of a South Coast boarding house lies a world of violence and pain, a world where a father is passing an inheritance of drunken cruelty on ...Show more
Closer by Patrick Marber
$16.40 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
There's a moment. There's always a moment . . . Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry. This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers . . . On its p ...Show more
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?' Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Crackling with wisdom and wit, Di and Viv and Rose is a humorous a ...Show more
Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
$18.55 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Disco Pigs tells the story of Runt and Pig who go out in Cork to celebrate their joint 17th birthday. Drunken fights ensue.
Dreaming by Peter Barnes
$21.85 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values. In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home. Dreaming premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre ...Show more
Eleven Vests + Tuesday by Edward Bond; Jim Mulligan
$19.65 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Two plays for young people. In Eleven Vests, one person is involved in two events; one at school, another as a soldier in the army. Although separated by years, the incidents bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Eleven Vests shows how the adult develops from the younger self and looks at how trag ...Show more