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15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid by Jermyn Street Theatre (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women--queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians--in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines. They were the women left in the wake of those swaggering heroes of classical mythology: Theseus, Hercules, U ...Show more
A Passage to India by Martin Sherman
$23.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Modern Plays
First major theatrical adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar Caves with the charming Dr ...Show more
An August Bank Holiday Lark by Deborah McAndrew
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
Tomorrow morning, you and Frank Armitage are getting wed. In my opinion, marriage is blind optimism at any time, but especially in wartime. It's an act of faith. Taking its title from a line in Philip Larkin's poem 'MCMXIV', An August Bank Holiday Lark explores the impact of the First World War on a rur ...Show more
Conservatory by Michael West
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
'I wasn't throwing up. I was dying. I was very ill ...And do you know what? In the middle of all that ...malaise, I remember thinking "This is what it's like to be married." But I'd do it again' An elderly couple sit in a dark room in their house, doing the crossword, taking their tablets and knitting, ...Show more
Little Thing, Big Thing by Donal O'Kelly
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher Sister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to rob a convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. The film roll Martha is ...Show more
Peddling by Harry Melling
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He's a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his world, where he's coming from and where he's going to. peddling received its world premiere at Hightide Fes ...Show more
The Clean Collection: Plays and Poems: Dry Ice; One Hour Only; Clean and Poems by Sabrina Mahfouz
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
A dynamic collection of three of Sabrina Mahfouz's pieces for the theatre, published alongside a selection of her poetry. Dry Ice A critically acclaimed solo show about a young stripper, which was produced at by the Underbelly (Edinburgh) and the Bush Theatre (London) and directed by David Schwimme ...Show more
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