Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
This edition of Dwight Allen's acclaimed story collection, The Green Suit, ends with a new story, rounding out a dozen interlinked tales about a well-to-do Kentucky family called the Sackriders. The stories cover a period of forty years, from the Vietnam War to the Age of Foreclosure. Chief among the ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Burracombe Village Ser.
Originally commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD is an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. We meet Captain Cat ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Reading Level: very good
A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, ba ...Show more
Our TownA Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in ...Show more
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by John Osborne
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | 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
The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house - with a crack in the shins and a bullet in the neck. The only issue now is disposing of the body. Triggered into thrilling motion by an act of revenge, The Ble ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
A relentlessly witty battle of the sexes, William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew is edited by G.R. Hibbard, with an introduction by Margaret Jane Kidnie in Penguin Shakespeare. The beautiful but sharp-tongued 'shrew' Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Reading Level: very good
'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble' Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. 'How many good ...Show more
Equus by Peter Shaffer
$28.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a ...Show more
National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People: 2012: Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me; Journey to X; Little Foot; Prince of Denmark; Socialism is Great; The Grandfathers; Alice by Heart; Generation Next; So You Think You're a Superhero?; The Ritua by Hilary Bell
$55.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Play Anthologies
This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is acco ...Show more
The Willow Pattern (National Theatre) by Judith Johnson
$21.95 AUD
Category: Plays
The Willow Pattern is a charming and witty play that is ideal for pupils at KS3, accompanied by stimulating background materials containing fantastic ideas for drama exercises, as well as other activities designed to answer English Framework and NC objectives. Humorously adapted from an ancient Chinese ...Show more