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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 Man from Mukinupin by Dorothy Hewett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This comic and touching musical play is a celebration of life in a country town at the time of the Great War (2 acts, 4 men, 5 women).
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 Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker; Thomas Middleton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker ca. 1607-10, and originally published in 1611.
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
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
$6.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. ''The Winter's Tale' is high fantasy, a tale to be told by the fire...The play belongs to the type known as "tragicomedy", but Shakespeare has separated the tragedy from the comedy. The first part has th ...Show more