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Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Alan Cumming (adaptation); Tim Supple (adaptation)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
"I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play, Dario Fo, has the traditional, irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers and so I shall, no doubt, be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes"-Inspector Bertozzo, Central Italian Police HQ In its ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Bertolt Brecht - Collected Plays Volume 1 - 1918-1923 by Bertolt Brecht
$25.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser.
Volume Four of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s.'Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in Germany. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich creates a montage of some thirty short sc ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Christmas Is Miles Away by Chloë Moss
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
" Chlo ] Moss assuredly captures the exhilarating terror of standing on the cusp of adulthood and leaving childhood certainties behind."--Guardian Luke and Christie are typical sixteen-year-old lads from Manchester. They like camping out, drinking lager, and talking about girls. But when they leave scho ...Show more
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good
This translation of Rostand's 19th-century play about the swordsman-poet with a nose too large to be taken seriously was first seen in the 1985 RSC production. This volume contains the full original text, slightly adapted and translated into verse by Burgess, who also writes the introduction.
Exiles by James Joyce; Padraic Colum (Introduction by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Plays Ser. | Reading Level: fair
This early work by James Joyce was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Exiles' is a play in three acts drawing from Joyce's own short story 'The Dead'. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. He excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools ...Show more
Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Plays and Screenplays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major le ...Show more
Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies by Federico García Lorca; J. Graham (Translator)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Plays and Screenplays Ser. | Reading Level: good
Federico Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies . Here, with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his comedies," in the authorized translations, exte ...Show more
Fleabag: the Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
$8.00 NZD
Category: Theatre | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.' The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue fo ...Show more
Forty Winks by Kevin Elyot
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Don still carries a torch for Diana, but Howard stole her away. Fifteen years later, Don shows up on their doorstep, his mother's ashes in a plastic bag. Meanwhile, Howard and Diana's 14-year-old daughter Hermia is the spitting image of her mother. Here we are in Elyot-land, where the wish to re-live th ...Show more
Hard Fruit by Jim Cartwright
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A new play by Jim Cartwright premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in March 2000 From the author of Road and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice comes a new play about life in the North. Sump and Choke are the Little and Large of the local pub. They are friends who have bonded together though a shared pass ...Show more