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Finn and the Fair by Mick Gowar
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Start Reading Plays: Finn's Fortune
Finn attempts to make his fortune once again but as usual things do not go to plan! Following on from the successful fiction series, this book banded play continues the adventures of Finn. Written for Gold Band 9 of the Start Reading programme.
Girl from the North Country by Mcpherson Conor
$23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for. So, when a ...Show more
Hard Feelings by Doug Lucie
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
We're supposed to be having a party. It's s'posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun. Thatcher's Britain - Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, in the safety of their home, a group of Oxford University graduates barely notice what's happen ...Show more
Haunted Child by Joe Penhall
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
We have the tools to enlighten and yet our world is darkening. We live in an era of pessimism and worry; we are hollowed out, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no faith that anything will improve, and no great hopes to sustain us. So what's the answer? A small boy is driving his mother to distraction ...Show more
Hidden in the Sand by James Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
Sometimes we don't live, we cope. I have coped, not lived, for a long time. So have you I think. A passionate love story set between London and Cyprus. Alexandra, a refugee from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, has made a home in London and cocooned herself from ghosts of the past. There, she mee ...Show more
Home by David Storey
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place ...That is the nature of this little island. As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain. What they discuss is supe ...Show more
Hostage by Beatrice Behan; Brendan Behan
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'An essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood''s Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to ...Show more
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote morality." David Cameron, January 2012 Anders Lustgarten's play is an exploration of our current government ...Show more
In Basildon by David Eldridge
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
'People always get the wrong idea about Essex don't they?' Len's on his death bed and the family gather to say their final farewells. His sisters still aren't speaking after nearly 20 years, his nephew's trying for a baby - and a bigger house, while his best mate Ken remembers 'Bas-vegas' when it was a ...Show more
Inheritance (Playscript) by Hannie Rayson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Standard Plays Ser.
The Myrtle twins, Dibs Hamilton and Girlie Delaney, are turning 80. As the family gathers to celebrate, speculation grows as to who will be the one to inherit the family property, Allandale, when the ageing Farley Hamilton is gone. From award-winning playwright Hannie Rayson, comes a powerful new family ...Show more
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate, and Harry look on, he prepares for the future of power that lies before him. But how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III i ...Show more
Land of Our Fathers by Chris Urch
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband" "I can't believe we're stuck down a mine." "Yet here we are" 3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks everything these men believ ...Show more