Banging Denmark by Van Badham

$24.99 AUD

Category: Plays | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.

Ish Madigan is a feminist academic writing a thesis on computer games. Jake Newhouse is a full-time management consultant and part-time pickup artist. They're not exactly best friends. But when Jake's latest crush - a brilliant Danish librarian - doesn't respond to his usual seduction techniques, he kno ws he needs help. Jake asks Ish to coach him in feminist-friendly flirtation. He'll pay. And Ish needs the money. So, what's stopping her? Oh, you know, just ethics, morals and every fibre of her being. Banging Denmark is a swinging satire on the men who claim to understand the 'female mind' and the online culture that inspires them. ...Show more

BlurredCreating Performance for Young People by Stephen Davis

$18.95 AUD

Category: Plays

This collection of critical essays, CD and materials for educators and students, together with the play text BLURRED, explores the creative process of building a new performance with young people within the Australian theatre context. The common theme is leaving secondary school, an important rite of pa ssage. A CD, which comprises sounds and music for each scene, accompanies this text: "Blurred: Creating performance for young people (CD)" - CD 828.2 COL. ...Show more

Hydra by Sue Smith

$24.99 AUD

Category: Plays | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.

Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: the love story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimagining from award-winning playwright Sue Smith. Dedicating their lives to writing, the couple were fi gureheads of Hydra's bohemian community of artists and dreamers, which included Leonard Cohen, Sidney and Cynthia Nolan, Alan Moorehead and others. In Hydra, inspiration runs wild, as the couple pen works which will go on to be classics, including Charmain Clift's famed Sydney Morning Herald essays and George Johnson's Miles Franklin-winning classic My Brother Jack. And yet their lives were wrought with jealously, money woes, illness and alcoholism. Told from the perspective of their eldest son Martin, and weaving in text from their own writing, Hydra brings to these remarkable artists to life. ...Show more

ON THE WHIPPING SIDE by O'NEILL, ERROL

$15.00 AUD

Category: Plays

Prize Fighter by Future D. Fidel

$23.95 AUD

Category: Plays

A Congolese refugee getting by in the Australian suburbs, Isa has a background that seems unimaginable in his new country - a childhood as a boy soldier. Now, Isa's a brilliant boxer, but his most difficult opponent isn't in the ring - it's the terrors of his past. The powerful debut novel from acclaime d playwright Future D. Fidel. Isa Alaki is not from here. At ten years old, Isa's life in the Congolese city of Bukavu changed forever. The streets were burning. The town was mostly silent, like a ghost town, until the yelling started. At school, Isa knows he has to get home. The soldiers would be looking for his father. The sound of gunfire, the sharp smell of blood and the screams of his sister still echo in his head. Back then, he had a choice to make. Death or a gun. He picked up the gun and became a child soldier, forced to fight for the same forces that massacred his family. After years of horror, Isa escaped, and he is given a chance of freedom when he travels to Australia. He brings with him papers that grant him refugee status, the hope that he can find his brother, Moise, and the scars of a brutal war. Here, the fighting skills Moise taught him when he was a boy see Isa become a talented young boxer. He spends his days punching away the past, punching away the demons in his mind, literally trying to punch his way to a better life. His powerful left hook promises much, but the demons he is wrestling with have a power all their own. The question for Isa is ... will the past ever let him free? A moving debut novel that packs an emotional punch based on the critically acclaimed play by Future D. Fidel. 'Prize Fighter is a gripping read, as compelling as it is confronting. It is a testament to Fidel's craft and to the power of the human spirit.' - Books+Publishing ...Show more

The 13-Storey Treehouse: A Musical Play for Young Audiences by Richard Tulloch (Adapted by); Andy Griffiths (Original Author); Terry Denton (Screenplay by); Terry Denton (Original Author)

$24.99 AUD

Category: Plays | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.

Adapted from Andy Griffiths' and Terry Denton's phenomenally successful Treehouse book series, Richard Tulloch's play - The 13-Storey Treehouse - is action-packed, full of laughs...with a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks and a lemonade fountain! Imagine living in a 13-storey t reehouse that includes a secret underground laboratory, self-making beds, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that shoots marshmallows into your mouth? Well Andy and Terry are lucky enough to live in one, where they have a series of completely mad adventures. And today Andy and Terry manage to get their dates all mixed up. They thought that they were going to rehearse their new play, The 13-Storey Treehouse, except they forgot to write it! And to make matters worse, they need to find flying cats, a mermaid, a sea monster, an invasion of monkeys, and a giant gorilla! Despite not having any of these things, they do have a box of costumes and props, some pretty awesome technology and friends to help out! ...Show more

Walking by Apple Tree Creek by Ian Brown

$23.95 AUD

Category: Plays

Black Is the New White (Play) by Nakkiah Lui

$24.99 AUD

Category: Plays

The smash-hit play, in print for the first time with a forward and notes from multitalented playwright, writer, commentator and actor Nakkiah Lui. Winner of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting, NSW Premier's Awards

CHALLENGING THE CENTRE by CAPELIN, STEVE

$15.00 AUD

Category: Plays

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

$24.99 AUD

Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i n the light of their father's impending death. This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Philip Kolin, a world authority on Williams. The introduction includes a chronology of Williams' life and times, a summary of the plot, commentary on the characters, themes, language and context, and a production history of the play. Together with questions for further study and notes on words and phrases from the text, this is the essential edition of the play for students of literature and drama. Since being made into a classic Hollywood film starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has become one of Tennessee Williams' most celebrated plays. ...Show more

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling

$39.99 AUD

Category: Plays | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14

J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World . . . When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone . . . Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. A feat of imagination and featuring a cast of remarkable characters and magical creatures, this is epic adventure-packed storytelling at its very best. Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition for any film lover or reader's bookshelf. ...Show more

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

$5.99 AUD

Category: Plays | Series: Collins Classics

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare's most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to R oman citizens, his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesar's assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius. Shakespeare's contemporaries would have spotted the playwright's attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare's plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies. ...Show more