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Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle across the border. Scavenger. As a violent civil w ...Show more
Shivered by Philip Ridley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
'We can't all just be hurtling through nothing towards nowhere...can we?' A young couple are moving into their new home. A soldier is being held hostage. Two boys are searching for monsters. All these things are connected by both family and time but what story can be told when family and time are broken ...Show more
Skin Tight by Gary Henderson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
I'm not afraid, Tom. Sooner or later your life becomes parched. Its rivers run thin. Its mountains have melted into the distance as blue and cool as memories. An ordinary couple with an extraordinary love relive their darkest secrets, deepest passions and heart-breaking truths. Throughout all the moment ...Show more
Takin' Over the Asylum by Donna Franceschild
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Adapted for the stage by the author, Takin' Over the Asylum is a hilarious, updated and profoundly moving adaptation of Donna Franceschild's Bafta-winning BBC TV-series. Set in a Scottish mental institution, the play reveals hope and joy in the fragile beauty of the human heart. When Ready Eddie McKenna ...Show more
The Beloved by Amir Nizar Zuabi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
When Abraham returns home from a journey with his son, his wife is troubled by the boy's state of mind. What took place on the mountain that day is the beginning of a lifetime of suffering for his son and the dawn of a new age for millions. A haunting and heartbreaking twist on the story of Abraham and ...Show more
The Chair Plays: Have I None, The Under Room and Chair by Edward Bond
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
'I am nothing. Nobody. One day I could forget what I have done. Then I am nothing with no past. My knife is to tell me who I am. It is my passport to myself.' The Chair Plays are three one-act plays that Edward Bond has combined into one continuous drama on the state of society towards the end of the pr ...Show more
The Clean Collection: Plays and Poems: Dry Ice; One Hour Only; Clean and Poems by Sabrina Mahfouz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no ...Show more
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a control. This is all just you. The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and lov ...Show more
The Nativity Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
The Christian Humanitarian Reading Initiative for Spiritual Theatre (or C.H.R.I.S.T. for short) are putting on a production of The Nativity Story. It's opening night and nothing is going to plan. Despite a collapsing manger, a deranged donkey, and a director on the brink of hysteria, the show must go on ...Show more
The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Good evening, I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder myster ...Show more
The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder my ...Show more