The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The play is a parable inspired by Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its pr ...Show more
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Student Editions
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 Rough Guide to Opera by Matthew Boyden
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
The "Rough Guide to Opera" is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, animating the main events of their careers and revealing their soc ...Show more
A Man for All Seasons (Playscript) by Robert Bolt
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Classics
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenac ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Reading Level: good
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azda ...Show more
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
'This beautifully written book by the director Michael Blakemore puts most such volumes to shame. It is full of both sharp insights and sudden shafts of wisdom. Often wonderfully funny, it is also touching and painfully honest. By the time you have finished Arguments with England, the author feels like ...Show more
Hoods (Play) by Angela Betzien
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
From the creators of "Children of the Black Skirt" comes a contemporary tale of Hansel and Gretel. Each night two hoods ride a train to a wrecking yard on the outskirts of the city. Here, in this cemetery of stories, they are storytellers with the power to fast forward, pause and rewind. Tonight, they t ...Show more
Steven Berkoff Plays 2: Decadence; Kvetch; Acapulco; Harry's Christmas; Brighton Beach Scumbags; Dahling You Were Marvelous; Dog; Actor by Steven Berkoff
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Contemporary Classics
Steven Berkoff is probably the most theatrical artist working in theatre today. This second collection of his plays is now available in the contemporary classics series.
Children of the Black Skirt by Angela Betzien
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Teenage S.
Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush. They become trapped in this timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and perpetually tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, the cruel governess who floats up and down the orphanage corridors wielding her enormous scissors. Soon, the c ...Show more
The Theory of the Modern Stage by Eric Bentley
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
In "The Theory of the Modern Stage", leading drama critic, Eric Bentley, brings together landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had a profound effect on the theatre since the mid nineteenth century, from Adolphe Appia to Emile Zola. Here, Antonin Artaud sets out a manifesto for ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more