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A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
$21.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is ...Show more
Lazarus by Walsh, Enda
$23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Thomas Newton came to Earth seeking water for his drought-ridden planet. Years later he's still stranded here, soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. But the arrival of another lost soul brings one last chance of freedom... Inspired by the book The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and its ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Best known for the novels Little Womenand Little Men,Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo's Boysrevisits P ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
$21.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging by Headlong, the 'country's most exciting touring company' (Telegraph), who brought us Romeo & Juliet in 2012, directed by Robert Icke. April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself. Fania Fénelon, a Parisian singer, is arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. There, she finds herself swept into the orchestra, compose ...Show more
Ulster American by David Ireland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? Jay is the Oscar-winning actor taking the lead in a new play that connects with his Irish roots. Leigh is the ambitious director who will do anything to get noticed. Ruth is the Northern Irish playwright whose voice must be heard. The stage is set fo ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
$26.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
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