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A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
$19.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
A Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government. Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tia ...Show more
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Fleabag: the Special Edition by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
$25.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Celebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition - featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen colour photos, and exclusive bonus content by Phoebe, ...Show more
Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? by ALBEE, EDWARD
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Modern Plays
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
$21.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & 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
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
$21.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Modern Plays
Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by ...Show more
National Theatre Connections 2019 by Rob Drummond; Benjamin Kuffuor; Luke Barnes; Nell Leyshon; Katie Hims; Tom Wells; Ben Bailey Smith; Lajaune Lincoln; Dawn King; Laura Lomas; Katherine Soper
$44.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full c ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
$17.99 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
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'Every winner might be the one who loses the next day.' Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to confront the patriarchal power of the law, where the b ...Show more