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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
$23.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'e ...Show more
Frankenstein: Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear (adapted from Mary Shalley)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered cre ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
Julie by P. STENHAM; August Strindberg (Original Author)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean. It descends into a savage fight for survival. Polly Stenham reimagines August Strindberg's Miss Julie i ...Show more
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by John Osborne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with British socie ...Show more
Red Barn by David Hare; Georges Simenon (Original Author)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"Hitchcock would approve." - The Times (UK) "A dark story of dissolving identity... Mesmeric." - Observer Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not everyone arrives safely. The great detective writer Georges Simenon escaped France at the end of Wo ...Show more
Skylight by David Hare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of s ...Show more
Stuff Happens by David Hare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.' The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in 2003 provides the title for David Hare's play a ...Show more
The Cure at Troy by Heaney, Seamus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. ...Show more
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
$23.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" op ...Show more
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