National Theatre Connections 2015: Plays for Young People: Drama, Baby; Hood; The Boy Preference; The Edelweiss Pirates; Follow, Follow; The Accordion Shop; Hacktivists; Hospital Food; Remote; The Crazy Sexy Cool Girls' Fan Club by Anthony Banks (Director, UK)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Plays
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2015 festival, which takes place across the UK and Ireland, finishing up at the National Theatre in London. The programme o ...Show more
The 13-Storey Treehouse: A Musical Play for Young Audiences by Richard Tulloch; Andy Griffiths
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Category: Plays
Adapted from Andy Griffiths' and Terry Denton's phenomenally successful Treehouse book series, Richard Tulloch's play - The 13-Storey Treehouse - is action-packed, full of laughs...with a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks and a lemonade fountain! Imagine living in a 13-storey t ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Plays
Written in 1879, 'A Doll's House' has been called the first truly feminist play. A scathing critique of the traditional roles of men and women in 19th century marriage, it caused scandal throughout Europe at a time when marriage was regarded as the most sacred of society's institutions.
Girl Asleep by Matthew Whittet
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Category: Plays
Caught in the headlights of her fifteenth birthday, Greta wishes she could be anywhere else. And strangely enough 'anywhere else' is exactly where she finds herself—a peculiar Through-the-Looking-Glass existence that transforms the weird hypocrisy of the adult world into something absurdly beautiful. Th ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura ...Show more
RSC: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: RSC Shakespeare
From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's great comedy of love, folly and mistaken identity THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An introduction to Twelfth Night by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play -- with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A help ...Show more
An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson by Anne Carson; Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides
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Category: Plays | Reading Level: very good
In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murd ...Show more
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz; Simon McBurney; Mark Wheatley
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian) The Street of Crocodiles is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). Originally co-produced by Th ...Show more