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
Chehov - Plays - Ivanov/The Seagull/Uncle Vania/Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard/ The Bear/The Proposal/A Jubilee by Anton Chekhov
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
Dario Fo - Plays One - Mistero Buffo/Accidental Death of an Anarchist/Trumpets and Raspberries/The Virtuous Burglar/One Was Nude/ One More Tails by Dario Fo
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Contemporary Dramatists | Reading Level: very good
Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and Raspberries is ...Show more
The Emperor of China/The Mute Canary/The Executioner of Peru by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
$20.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: near fine
This volume collects three savage plays from the man Andre Breton designated as one of the only "true Dadas" (alongside Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia): "The Emperor of China" (1916), "The Mute Canary" (1920) and "The Executioner of Peru" (1928). The first two have long been acknowledged as highpoint ...Show more
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Drama Student Edition | Reading Level: very good
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no ...Show more
The Other Shore - Plays by Gao Xingjian Gao
$14.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
When Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, he became the only Chinese writer to achieve such international acclaim. The Chinese University Press is the first publisher of his work in the English language. Indeed, The Other Shore is one of the few works by the author available in Engli ...Show more
Snow in August - Play by Gao Xingjian by Gao Xingjian
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
From Gao Xingjian, a winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes a "major drama about life. Snow in August blends Eastern and Western cultures. In form, there are elements of Shakespearean and Greek tragedy, but in spirit, it embodies a uniquely Eastern sensibility."-Gao Xingjian Snow in August ...Show more
Three Plays - Dividing the Estate/The Trip to Bountiful/The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote
$14.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Bringing together the rich characters and wry humor of a celebrated Texas scribe, this book collects three of Foote's most recognized plays. In these works, Foote deftly combines the claustrophobia of the Southern families from Tennessee Williams, the physical and psychological dysfunctions of Eugene O' ...Show more
Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5 - A Space Fantasy by Kurt Vonnegut; Joel Schick; Jill Krementz (Photographer)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin to spy on the happy family, ...Show more