Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy by Stephen M. Silverman
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend--a man who stood at the pinnacle of the American musical theatre for more than sixty years. Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Wh ...Show more
The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie B. Parson
27.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street. In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance - time, proximity, space, motion and ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
26.95 AUD
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
Musicals: The Definitive Illustrated Story
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Immerse yourself in the world of musicals, and fall in love all over again with the songs, stories, characters, and legendary stars from every era.From Show Boat and The Wizard of Oz to Les Miserables and Hamilton, discover the story of musical theatre and film and see the world's best-loved musicals br ...Show more
Stolen by Jane Harrison
23.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Cts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Stolen' tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from their community, after their release they begin their journey 'home', not all of them successfully.
Banging Denmark by Van Badham
24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.
Ish Madigan is a feminist academic writing a thesis on computer games. Jake Newhouse is a full-time management consultant and part-time pickup artist. They're not exactly best friends. But when Jake's latest crush - a brilliant Danish librarian - doesn't respond to his usual seduction techniques, he kno ...Show more
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Conquered the World by Rupert Christiansen
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A freshly researched and challenging reassessment of a unique phenomenon, exploring passionate conflicts and outsize personalities in a story embracing triumph and disaster. Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such l ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles; Fagles (trans)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921-1968 – 40 by Daniel Kothenschulte
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney created a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics of cinema, his astonishing collection of animated cartoons revolutionized storytelling on screen and enchant to this day across geographies and generation ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more