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Stoning Mary by Debbie Tucker Green
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Mysterious while compelling, bewildering while intoxicating, Stoning Mary is a mix of Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, and Edward Bond. Yet Debbie Tucker Green has a voice all her own, one that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. In 2004, she won the O ...Show more
The Fool and We Come to the River by Edward Bond
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day. She loves her husband Dr Wangel but, ten years ago, promised herself to another man. On a late summer's day he comes to claim her. Henrik Ibsen's elusive masterpiece The Lady from the Sea, in a translation by Stephen Unwin, premiered at t ...Show more
The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen's Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and n ...Show more
The President of an Empty Room - A Story of Voodoo, Heroin and Tobacco by Steven Knight
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things. Amid the vibrant, spirited community of a Cuban cigar factory, the senior roller proclaims a democracy and work goes to hell. There's Flamenco dancing, bursts of opera, quarrels, reconciliati ...Show more
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz; Simon McBurney; Mark Wheatley
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | 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