Plays, Playscripts
Subjects
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Slackers & Other Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£21.99| /Turrini's theatre works extend far beyond their Austrian origins in expressing the hopes, frustrations, and hypocrisies of life in the modern world...
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Smilin' Through & Still Ill
Playdead Press£10.99| /Smilin' Through. On the eve of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Kyle Morrow comes out to his fiercely Presbyterian mother, Peggy. When she...
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Smurf in Wanderland
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /David Williams -- acclaimed documentary theatre maker, writer and football fanatic -- is the Smurf. For the uninitiated, Smurf is the nickname ...
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Songket / This Territory
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /"Songket" -- What happens when one person's culture is another's crime? Koua Neng Vang, a Hmong migrant is accused of raping Chan, a young textile ...
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Sons of Cain
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£13.99| /The story of a fighting newspaper editor who with three investigative journalists takes on the 'Mr Bigs' of the drug trade (2 acts, 6 men, 3 women).
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Speed Twins
Playdead Press£9.99| /The Speed Twins is an exhilarating, intriguing and moving story about a long lost love between two women. Respectable widow, Queenie, is astonished...
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Spitting Chips
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Syblil, aka Spud, lives with her father who won't discuss Sybil's dead mother. Her reluctant friendship with an old woman helps both of them addres...
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Splinter
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Tales of missing children have always held a terrible fascination. Celtic folklore chilled the bones of many a superstitious new mother with storie...
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St James Infirmary
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /As protestors march against the war in Vietnam, boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams (4 men, 2 women).
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St Kilda Tales
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /This play chronicles the subculture that is St Kilda. Its numerous stories cross like tramlines, building a many-faceted picture of city life. Yupp...
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Staging Asylum
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The first of its kind, this timely anthology brings together six contemporary Australian plays that offer a range of narratives and perspectives on...
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Stars of the New Jersey Shore
Schiffer£18.99| /In the pre-Hollywood era, theatrical stars flocked to the New Jersey coast to escape the eastern cities' sweltering heat. After performing from Sep...
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State of Shock
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Based on the true story of Alwyn Peter, a Queensland Aboriginal charged with murder in 1979; his case created legal precedent when he was released ...
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Still Angela
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /STILL ANGELA is an unpredictable portrait of a contemporary Australian woman at three ages. On the cusp of Angela's birthday, we are invited on a r...
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Stolen
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /"Stolen" tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domesti...
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Stop. Rewind.
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A disparate group of seven work colleagues in a local government office struggle to hold onto their dreams, as they desperately attempt to prevent ...
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Stories in the Dark
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out h...
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Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /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 int...
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Strange Attractor
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Deep in Western Australia's mining country, against the blood-red landscape of the Pilbara, a cyclone has wreaked havoc in a remote railway constru...
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Strategic Plan
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /"Failure is not on the whiteboard". Feel like you are drowning in paper work? Beaten by the impenetrable weight of office bureaucracy? Adrift in a ...
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Suicidal Airplane
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /This is NZ's first 'Graphic Play', presented as a series of full colour drawings and text, and designed to be imaginatively interpreted for the sta...
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Sum
Playdead Press£9.99| /A technology that will change the concepts of self and other, love and death. This is just the pilot. Following the pioneering technology of the ne...
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Summer of the Aliens
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Takes an affectionate look at madness and mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 4 women, 2 boys, 3 girls).
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Every summer Roo and Barney have come down from their work in the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Olive and Nancy for an...
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Summer Rain
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Turnaround Creek, outback Australia, Boxing Day, 1945. The dust and inertia settle on the town as Harold Slocum of Slocum's Travelling Tent Show be...
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Sunset Strip
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /At Sunset Strip the only people left are those who couldnt leave. Arriving home after a bout of chemotherapy to this once-thriving summer hot spot...
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Sunshine Super Girl
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A grimy old ball, a racquet made from a wooden fruit box, a pair of borrowed shoes then the world at her feet. This is the heart-warming story of...
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Superheroes
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying to figure out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mo...
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Switzerland
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Its 1995 in the Swiss Alps and the ailing reclusive crime writer Patricia Highsmith is visited by a genial young man from her New York publisher, ...
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Tales From The Arabian Nights
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /In this delightful adaptation of the classic tales, Donna Abela brings centuries-old tradition into the modern era with a play that is timeless yet...
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Tales From the Vienna Woods & Other Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£26.99| /Ödön von Horváth (1901-1939) is one of the most important theatre writers in the 1930s. His reputation rests largely on the four plays in this coll...
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Tales of a City by the Sea
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers. This...
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Tales Tall & True
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /A compelling collection of four plays by multi-award winning playwright Reg Cribb. THE HAUNTING OF DANIEL GARTRELL -- In the tradition of Australia...
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Tartuffe
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...
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Tartuffe
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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Tchekov at the House of Special Purpose
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /To Moscow! To Moscow! What are you waiting for? The Reds -- once the powerless, now the powerful. The Whitesonce the absolute rulers, now the pow...
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Teatro Trilogy
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£14.99| /This is a collection of three plays that span the career of award-winning playwright Stewart Lemoine and provide a taste of the delightful variety ...
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Tell It Slant
Playdead Press£9.99| /"Dara and Vick have a history. Dara is the veteran press officer, Vick the rookie struggling through an uncomfortable first day. They thought the m...
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Ten-Minute Plays for Middle School Performers
Meriwether Publishing (US)£18.99| /The plays in this theatre book give teenage performers the chance to reveal the unique identities and motivations of students their own age. These ...
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Tender
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Nicki Bloom's astonishing first play is a haunting examination of love, loss and grief. Sarah can't remember what happened in the gardens. Her memo...
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The Arthasastra
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian politic...
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The Birds
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes back...
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The Book of Darkness & Light
Playdead Press£9.99| /Three chilling tales. Two ghostly performers. One thrilling night. Legend has it that many years ago a book of terrifying tales was found. Now, you...
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The Cherry Orchard
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's ...
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The Cherry Orchard
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's ...
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The Comedy of Errors
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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