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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
Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments by Leah Scragg
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Revels Plays Companion Library
A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan the ...Show more
Goodnight Mr. Darcy: A Babylit Parody by Kate Coombs; Alli Arnold (Artist); Jane Austen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: BabyLit Board Book and Playset Ser.
The adored children's classic Goodnight Moon gets a classic lit makeover in this charming parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice novel. All of Austen's much-loved characters are at the Netherfield Ball. In the great ballroom, there was a country dance, and a well-played tune, and Elizabeth Bennett; ...Show more
Happy Birthday Flora! by Karen Wallace
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Start Reading : Plays
It is a special day in the jungle, today is Flora's birthday! But when Monty the monkey decides to play a trick on Flora and forget all about her birthday, Flora is very upset! Following on from the successful fiction series, this book banded play continues the adventures of the characters who live in t ...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
$19.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
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
In Basildon by David Eldridge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
'People always get the wrong idea about Essex don't they?' Len's on his death bed and the family gather to say their final farewells. His sisters still aren't speaking after nearly 20 years, his nephew's trying for a baby - and a bigger house, while his best mate Ken remembers 'Bas-vegas' when it was a ...Show more
Land of Our Fathers by Chris Urch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband" "I can't believe we're stuck down a mine." "Yet here we are" 3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks everything these men believ ...Show more