H being Monologues at Front of Burning Cities by Charles Wood
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Lazarus and his Beloved. A One-Act Play by Kahlil Gibran
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | 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
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
In "The House of Bernarda Alba", a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's longing for a child in "Yerma", and a bride's year ...Show more
Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his des ...Show more
Six Yuan Plays by Liu Jung-En (Translator, Introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket of Confucianism, the Chinese made ...Show more
The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats by Jack B. Yeats
$25.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Edited, with an introduction by Robin Skelton
The Frolicks or The Lawyer Cheated, 1671 by Elizabeth Polwhele; Judith Milhous (Editor); Robert D. Hume (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The ...Show more