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Clockwork by Laura Poliakoff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Old friends Carl and Mikey must say their farewells this evening as Mikey makes plans to leave the care home that has become their new stomping ground. Troll Face just wants to keep things running to time and Etienne is forced to see out his community service with two old geezers scrounging for fags. Sh ...Show more
Conservatory by Michael West
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Coriolanus: Donmar Warehouse by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens' hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people. T ...Show more
DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy by Tom Murphy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
This collection brings together three of Tom Murphy's finest plays, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming. Together, they tell the story of Irish emigration - of those who went and those who were left behind. Crossing oceans and spanning decades, Murphy's three plays cover the ...Show more
Feathers in the Snow by Philip Ridley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Beneath a sky full of stars a decision is made. This decision sets off an astonishing chain of events. And a journey involving a talking leopard, a greedy King, a magical bird, a tidal wave, a Sea Witch, a lost soldier, a devious dolphin, a war - and a trail of feathers in the snow ...Feathers in the Sn ...Show more
Filumena by Eduardo De Filippo & Tanya Ronder
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo's best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of late 1940s Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who ha ...Show more
Hard Feelings by Doug Lucie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
We're supposed to be having a party. It's s'posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun. Thatcher's Britain - Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, in the safety of their home, a group of Oxford University graduates barely notice what's happen ...Show more
Haunted Child by Joe Penhall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
We have the tools to enlighten and yet our world is darkening. We live in an era of pessimism and worry; we are hollowed out, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no faith that anything will improve, and no great hopes to sustain us. So what's the answer? A small boy is driving his mother to distraction ...Show more
Hidden in the Sand by James Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Sometimes we don't live, we cope. I have coped, not lived, for a long time. So have you I think. A passionate love story set between London and Cyprus. Alexandra, a refugee from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, has made a home in London and cocooned herself from ghosts of the past. There, she mee ...Show more
Home by David Storey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place ...That is the nature of this little island. As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain. What they discuss is supe ...Show more
Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade
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Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
How happily married are the happily married? Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn't as easy as it looks... Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewif ...Show more
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote morality." David Cameron, January 2012 Anders Lustgarten's play is an exploration of our current government ...Show more