Five Plays by Ben Jonson
$9.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: World's Classics S.
A modernized version of Herford and Simpson's 1925-52 edition of five plays by Ben Jonson (1572/3 - 1637), whose plays were first performed by, his contemporary, Shakespeare and his company. The five plays are: "Volpone", "The alchemist", "Bartholomew fair", "Every man in his humour" and "Sejanus".
Saved by Edward Bond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Modern Classics
Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Cou ...Show more
Round Dance and Other Plays by Arthur Schnitzler
$26.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book features the plays - "Flirtations", "Round Dance", "The Green Cockatoo", "The Last Masks", "Countess Mizzi", "The Vast Domain", "Professor Bernhardi". The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. "Round Dance", written in the late 1890s, ...Show more
Sixteen Words for Water: A Play in Two Acts by Billy Marshall- Stoneking
$14.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Imprint poetry
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
Three Sisters by CHEKHOV
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In these stunning new translations of three of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his grou ...Show more
Rising Water by Tim Winton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Reading Level: Adult
Only loosely tethered to shore but never ready to set sail, Col, Baxter and Jackie have made a jumble of boats in a Fremantle marina their barely floating homes. Its Australia Day, and as the city noisily celebrates around them, they just want to hole up and be left in peace. When Dee, a young English b ...Show more
A Passage to India by Martin Sherman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Modern Plays
First major theatrical adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar Caves with the charming Dr ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
$24.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and n ...Show more
The Cherry Orcahard by CHEKHOV
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In these stunning new translations of three of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his grou ...Show more
The Jungle Play by Rudyard Kipling
$16.99 AUD
Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Jungle Play" was discovered among Kipling's papers at the University of Sussex Library. Based on the original stories of "The Jungle Books", the play escaped the destruction that befell almost all of Kipling's other unpublished works.