Plays, Playscripts
Subjects
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NaGL
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Unacceptable, foul, disastrous, inappropriate, or awkward: Not a Good Look! An absurdist portrait of modern Australian life, NaGL uses the conventi...
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Naked Playwriting
Silman-James Press (US)£22.99| /This is a complete playwriting course -- from developing a theme through plotting and structuring a play, developing characters, creating dialog, f...
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Namatjira & Ngapartji / Ngapartji
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji go right to the heart of the intersection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience. These stories of fa...
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Navigating
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In Navigating we meet Bea, an embattled woman who finds herself in possession of damaging documentary evidence. The seaside town in which she and h...
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Neighbourhood Watch
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /And God said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour. He obviously hadn't reckoned on Ana. Neighbourhood Watch is a glorious comedy about hope, death and pe...
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New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£27.99| /This second volume of Austrian Folk Plays gives further evidence of the popularity of this form among contemporary writers. In the late nineteenth ...
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NeXtFest Anthology
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£14.99| /NeXt Fest is a showcase for emerging professional artists in theatre, film, music, dance, and visual art. Included in the anthology is: SuperEd (Ch...
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NextFest Anthology II
NeWest Press (CA)£14.99| /NextFest Anthology II - Plays from the Syncrude Next Generation Arts Festival
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Nightfall
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /It's twilight, and a mother and father wait for the promised return of their daughter who vanished ten years earlier. A stranger arrives at their d...
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No Place for a Woman
Playdead Press£9.99| /The wife of a commandant is throwing a party. She asks her husband for champagne. Instead he brings home a ballet dancer from the camp. An extraord...
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No Sugar
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
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Norm & Ahmed
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A rather ocker, white Australian male encounters a well-mannered Pakistani student with revolutionary ambitions on a Sydney street at midnight. Buz...
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Notes From Other Worlds
Playdead Press£9.99| /11 characters in 11 dramatic puzzles. Well, more if you count the hiveminds. A Series of Voices in a Science Fiction Age - a Collection of Notes fr...
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Obama the Mamba
Playdead Press£7.99| /"My brother has risen to be leader of the most powerful country in the world. My aim, in Kenya, is to be a leader amongst the poorest people on ear...
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October
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Tim, an airline pilot and Angela, his young, beautiful wife, live the successful urban dream in a streamlined apartment in the inner city. One nigh...
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Odysseus at Troy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /This book contains translations of three plays:Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek war...
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Oedipus Retold
Playdead Press£9.99| /Why do we do it? Why do we make these journeys to that smoking crack in the earth at Delphi? We watch for birds flying this or that way, Cringe at ...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oidipous at Colonus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Oedipus who is banished from Thebes and confronts an array of obstacles that stand between ...
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Oliver Reed
Playdead Press£7.99| /Im Oliver Reed from Wimbledon! Id say to anyone I met. I out-drank, out-spoke and out-punched everyone. Join hell-raiser Oliver Reed as he share...
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On Stage! Short Plays for Acting Students
Meriwether Publishing (US)£17.99| /24 one-act monologues; dialogues; comedy sketches; light drama and serious drama. Prop and costume suggestions, provide the mood and setting.
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Opening a Fuzzwollop's Frame of Mind
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£7.99| /In a closed room a group of people trapped by their surroundings accept their predicament. The Eyre, a naïve young stranger, poses the question of ...
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Ophelia Thinks Harder
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /These 19 characters can be played with a minimum of 9 actors doubling, if preferred. A riotous reworking of Shakespeare´s Hamlet. Featuring Ophelia...
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Oresteia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the image...
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Over all the Mountain Tops
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /This play is Thomas Bernhard's devastating satire on the business of literature. The novelist Moritz Meister, after years of neglect, has finally a...
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Parasites
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Two teenagers fleeing unthinkable dangers find solace in each other amidst the unrelentingly damaging confines of an asylum seeker processing centr...
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Parramatta Girls / Eyes to the Floor
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The inmates of The Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the gre...
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Peach Season
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. Th...
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Perfectionist
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£13.99| /An examination of marriage which follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood ...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£9.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wi...
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Persians
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event—the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written—Pe...
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Pete the Sheep
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Shaun the Shearer just wants to give smokin' haircuts to sheep; it's his calling. Unfortunately the other shearers on the station don't like Shaun'...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoktetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet whil...
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Picasso's Artful Occupation
Playdead Press£9.99| /In a gloomy vault of a Paris bank in September 1940, Picasso has been summoned by the German occupation authorities. His precious works of art are ...
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Pinocchio / The Yellow Wallpaper
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The Yellow Wallpaper: It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw not beautiful ones like b...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Playlunch
Otago University Press (NZ)£13.50| /First published in 1996 and now updated, this book contains plays by established New Zealand writers that were written for lunchtime theatre. They ...
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Plays & Poems
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /The well-known painter, Oskar Kokoschka, also produced a considerable and significant body of literary work: plays, a few poems, essays and autobio...
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Plays for Young Audiences, 2nd Edition
Meriwether Publishing (US)£28.99| /An anthology of selected plays for young audiences. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountain-head of the renaissance in playwriting for young audi...
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Plays of the 50's
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /Four plays from the 1950s: "Sky Without Birds" by Oriel Gray; "Shipwreck" by Douglas Stewart; "The Night of the Ding-Dong" by Ralph Peterson; and "...
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Plays of the 50s, Volume 2
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The exhilaration caused by the success in 1955 of Ray Lawler's 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll' galvanised a host of new playwrights. Among them wa...
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Plays of the 60s
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The late 1960s were among the most tumultuous years in recent history. Student revolution spread like wildfire around the world as the past-war gen...
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Plays of the 70s, Volume 2
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /This volume covers the period 1973--75 and marks a consolidation of form, and the recognition of a sense of direction. While public and social issu...
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Plays of the American Experience
Meriwether Publishing (US)£19.99| /"What brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors? The 25 plays in this collection are short theatrical pieces that bring to...
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