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Noises Off by Michael Frayn
19.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to interlock, as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
19.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.
Pomona by Alistair McDowall
19.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city.Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born.Pom ...Show more
Taste of Honey (Modern Classic Edition) by S. Delaney
23.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
First issued by Methuen in 1959, this play was the first title in the Modern plays series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoer This title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of titles in print .
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in a cult ...Show more
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
19.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
The funny thing is the harder I work the more clearly I understand things. When I'm worn out after a day's work then it's like my brain relaxes. And sometimes then I get it. The meaning of my life. My purpose on this earth. How many people ever get to say that? And you know what? It doesn't matter. Do ...Show more
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Larry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama, set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Normal Heart traces the story of one man who, while his friends are dying around him, strives to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from public officials and the g ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
Women of Troy by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more