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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
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
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
The Domino Effect and Other Plays by Fin Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A new collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.
The Firework-Maker's Daughter (play) by Phillip Pullman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Adapted by Stephen Russell, The Firework-Makers Daughter, is award winning childrens writer Philip Pullmans brilliant and inspiring story about Lila, who dreams of becoming a firework-maker just like her father. Her hopes are dashed when her father tells her it is no job for a girl. Setting out in se ...Show more
The Visit, or the Old Lady Comes to Call by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Tony Kushner (Adapted by)
$23.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten. Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman. The locals hope her arrival signals a change in their fortunes, but they soon realise that prosperity will only com ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more