Dickens' Women by Miriam Margolyes & Sonia Fraser

$8.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good

In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to us today, making us laugh and sometimes cry. The popular British actress Miriam Margolyes will be touring the world in 2012, the bicentenary of Dicke ns birth, with a one-woman show about Dickens' women, and this book accompanies the show by building on the script and expanding to include many more of the female characters Dickens described and analysed so astutely in his novels. The countries to be visited are Australia, New Zealand, the USA and India. 'Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.' ...Show more

The Square Root of Wonderful by Carson McCullers

$12.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good

The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

$6.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Series: The New Mermaids | Reading Level: good

The Wesker Trilogy: Chicken Soup with Barley; Roots; I'm Talking About Jerusalem by Arnold Wesker

$15.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good

Encore: Stories by W Somerset Maugham; Screen Adaptations by T E B Clarke, Arhtur Macrae, Eric Ambler

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

H being Monologues at Front of Burning Cities by Charles Wood

$10.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good

Tea Party and other plays by Harold Pinter

$8.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

$8.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Series: Faber Drama Ser. | Reading Level: very good

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stage craft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic. "One of the most original and engaging of post-war plays". ("Daily Telegraph"). ...Show more

Lazarus and his Beloved. A One-Act Play by Kahlil Gibran

$10.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good

A Subject of Scandal and Concern by John Osborne

$10.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good

Three Tragedies: Yerma; Blood Wedding; The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca

$14.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good

The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht

$8.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good

Written in exile during the Second World War, the story subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azda k, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy outcome: the child is entrusted to the peasant Grusha, who has loved and nurtured it."One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" (Observer) ...Show more