Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Bob and Fran Price have loved each other for 30 years. They have built a home and raised four strong children. At the end of it all, they are left asking: Was it worth it? Who are we, now that the children have gone? Things I Know to be True is a funny and honest account of family life in the Australian ...Show more
Walking Into The Bigness by Frankland, Richard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
A theatrical collection of stories and songs from Richard Frankland's extraordinary life as a child abattoir-worker, a young soldier, a fisherman and a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. These are Richard's tales, given universal voice on the stage. Richard Frankla ...Show more
Classical Monologues for Men by Marina Caldarone
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Good Audition Guide S.
This is the first of two volumes in a series offering fresh audition pieces for actors at all levels - selected and commentated by a greatly experienced teacher and director. As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are called upon to perform one or more audition pieces ...Show more
The Acting Book by John Abbott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
A 'fast-forward' acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use - with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice. John Abbott's The Acting Book offers various ways to analyse a text and to create character, using not only the established processes of St ...Show more
NELL GWYNN by Swale Jessica
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second-class citizens, can her charm and spirit protect her from the dangers of the Cour ...Show more
Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale
$21.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for ...Show more
The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud; Mark Taylor-Batty (Translator, Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Theatre Makers Ser.
In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', this collection of essays analyses th ...Show more
Shakespeare - The World As a Stage by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. His fame stems not ...Show more
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by Synge , J.M
$19.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers every one of his plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The introduction to this new, definitive edition sets the plays in the ...Show more
Miss Julie and Other Plays by STRINDBURG AUGUST
$21.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death 'Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, 'while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators o ...Show more
Macbeth (an Undoing) by Zinnie Harris
$26.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
The revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris's powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy, telling Lady Macbeth's story as it has never been heard before.
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare (without the boring bits) by Peter Ackroyd
$27.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Brief Histories | Reading Level: very good
This is an accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - "Enigma". Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he a little bit boring? This is an essential guide for anyone who has previously avoided the Bard, ...Show more