Wonderlands by Katherine Thomson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
In 1931, during a wild afternoon's ride, Alice, a white station owner makes a tentative pact with her Aboriginal head stockman, Jim, to hand her land back to him and his people. An unfortunate accident prevents it from happening, and noone learns of their mutual understanding; and Alice and her pioneeri ...Show more
Run Rabbit Run by Alana Valentine
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good10
Describes the battle to overturn the decision to exclude the South Sydney Rabbitohs from the NRL. Based on interviews with both public faces of the campaign and grassroots supporters, this title tells a story of passion and politics that goes beyond football.
English Mystery Plays - A Selection by Peter Happe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
A collection of plays that features Crucifixion and Resurrection.
Arden of Faversham by Martin White (Editor, Volume Editor); Tom Lockwood
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of f ...Show more
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions | Reading Level: good
It is Australia and the year is 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal...Winner of the Laurence Oli ...Show more
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mum's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad by Arthur L. Kopit
$5.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
Christopher Marlowe - The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters ...Show more
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very goodgood
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The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Contexts" is thematically arranged to include almost all known documents from the period concerning Mary Frith (aka Moll Cutpurse), among them records of her court appearances, letters recounting the same, and her last will. Also reprinted are significant passages from her purported 1662 "autobiography ...Show more
Jack Hibberd: Selected Plays by Jack Hibberd
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Play Collections | Reading Level: very good
Hibberd has been called the most innovative Australian playwright of his generation. His early plays have endured the test of time and continue to be performed, studied and read for pleasure. White with Wire Wheels (1967) satirises a culture of masculinity expressed in cars, booze and work. Women are ma ...Show more
The Man from Mukinupin by Dorothy Hewett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This comic and touching musical play is a celebration of life in a country town at the time of the Great War (2 acts, 4 men, 5 women).