Contemporary Indigenous Plays (Bitin' Back; Black Medea; King Hit; Rainbow's End; Windmill Baby) by Vivienne Cleven, Wesley Enoch, David Milroy, Geoffrey Narkle, Jane Harrison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plays
'Contemporary Indigenous Plays' brings together five plays from around Australia which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling which is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre.This diverse collection of contemporary plays from all over Australia includes: Bitin Back by Vivie ...Show more
Four Plays - Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama th ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
$23.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the ...Show more
Our Town and Other Plays by Thornton Wilder
$29.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. This title includes "Our Town"; "The Skin of our Teeth"; and "The Matchmaker".
Platform Papers 40 - Take Me to Your Leader: The Dilemma of Cultural Leadership by Wesley Enoch
$18.99 AUD
Category: Plays
To celebrate Platform Papers' tenth anniversary, writer and theatre director Wesley Enoch takes a forensic overview of where the performing arts are going in Australia, why they are no longer seen as integral to a healthy and confident society. He finds the arts community ridden with mistrust, and fearf ...Show more
Pygmalion & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Bernard Shaw
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated English playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning ...Show more
The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table by Wesley Enoch
$23.99 AUD
Category: Plays
In the 1870's a girl is born under a tree - her birth tree - chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down, she follows it into the white man's world, working as a cook for the big house on the island. Her tree has become a kitchen table, one she will pass down through successive gen ...Show more
Three Plays: Rising Water, Signs of Life, Shrine by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col, Baxter and Jackie living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina. Each of them nurse ...Show more
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