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?
Ken Ludwig's Baskerville - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Ken Ludwig
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Get your deerstalker cap on-the play's afoot Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatche ...Show more
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton; Colin Counsell (Introduction by)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside ...Show more
The Seagull, The by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama Classics S.
A new translation of the first of Chekhov's four great plays. The Seagull is Chekhov's classic drama of spurned love, restlessness, frustration, and self-deception.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The tragic story of incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister Annabella. When Annabella is found to be pregnant by her brother, she agrees to marry her suitor Soranzo. But when the lovers' incestuous secret is discovered, vengeance an ...Show more
THE WILD DUCK by Ibsen, Henrik
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama classics
The eighth of Ibsen's great plays in Drama Classics.
The Ubu Plays by Alfred Jarry
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
Three plays following the adventures of Pa and Ma Ubu in their absurd world. King Ubu, the best known of the three, mirrors Macbeth as Ubu ousts the King, becomes a tyrant and is finally killed. This volume also includes Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu. Translated by Kenneth McLeish. Provoking riots ...Show more
The Secret River: An adaptation for the stage by Andrew Bovell
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance Actors need actions. They cannot 'act' adjectives, they need verbs: they need an aim to achieve, an action to perform. 'Actions' are active verbs. 'I tempt you.''You taunt me.' In order to perform an action ...Show more
Classical Monologues for Women by Marina Caldarone
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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
Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
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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
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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