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A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath
37.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'There's a knock at the door.' Fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling marriage, leaving her family behind, she's back with an urgent request. Lucas Hnath's funny, probing and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen's complex exploration of traditional gender roles, and a shar ...Show more
A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feist ...Show more
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd
24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate TheatreI looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew then, in that moment - that she had taken it literally...Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Richard Gadd has a chil ...Show more
Boys by Ella Hickson
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Four boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play. The Class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn't want them, these boys start to wonder whether there's any point in getting any older. H ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
21.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is ...Show more
Desdemona by Toni Morrison
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse ...Show more
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 201 ...Show more
Father Comes Home from the Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama The finest work yet from this gifted writer.--The New York Times Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his d ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Best known for the novels Little Womenand Little Men,Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo's Boysrevisits P ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
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.