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This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Pelican Bks.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding book ... lively, curious and passionate' Literary Review Why should you read a book about Shakespeare and his plays? Because he is a timeless genius whose work encapsulates the human condition? Or is it something more unexpected?
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Full Length, DramaCharacters: 8 male, 1 female Unit set. A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enra ...Show more
Pygmalion and Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Bernard Shaw
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated English playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning ...Show more
Feelings Are Facts: A Life by Yvonne Rainer
$51.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Writing Art
If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals -- including breakfast -- have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. ...Show more
How to Think Like Shakespeare - Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott L. Newstok
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought — one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how ...Show more
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .' Zadie Smith's first time writing for the ...Show more
Shakespearean: Life According to Shakespeare by Robert McCrum
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind by Harold Bloom
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes--the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iag ...Show more
Our Town - A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
$27.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
" Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth."-- New Yorker Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation ...Show more
Paradise by Kate Tempest
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest will make her National Theatre debut in June with Paradise, a potent and dynamic reimagining of the Greek classic Philoctetes by Sophocles. Once comrades, now enemies after Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes to suffer a terrible wound alone, Odysseus is p ...Show more
Six Plays - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (if You Think You Are), the Jar, the Patent by Luigi Pirandello; Felicity Firth (Translator); Robert Rietty (Translator); John Wardle (Translator); Bruce Penman (Translator); Carlo Ardito (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tal ...Show more
The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso; Roland Penrose (Translator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love; the ...Show more