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The Prince and the Pauper by Jemma Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
You are a Prince, not a pauper. And before too long the whole of England will be in your hands...Jemma Kennedy's stage adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper is a dynamic and fast-paced adaptation of Mark Twain's 1881 classic novel of confused identities. Set in a gritty, vibrant Tudor London, the pove ...Show more
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of the release of thousands of US embassy emails to Wikileaks. On Friday 16th December 2011, his pre-trial hearing opened in Fort Meade in Maryland. Manning faces a maximum sentence of life in custody with no chance of parole. But just a few years ag ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory com ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parod ...Show more
The Upstairs Room by David K. O'Hara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Really, we don't have to keep worrying about the time, Gordon. Let's just sit here together. Okay? For a little while. London is sinking, there's constant rain, and everyone is trying to escape. Gordon, an American writer, finds himself holed up in the attic room of a half-way house, awaiting forged pap ...Show more
The Westbridge by Rachel De-Lahay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
'Everyone lived perfectly happily round here together before you young ones try to integrate and confuse things.' The accusation of a Black teenager sparks disturbance on the South London streets. While tensions rise and local rioting starts, a couple from very different backgrounds navigate the minefie ...Show more
The World of Extreme Happiness by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays | Reading Level: very good
When Sunny is born in rural China, her parents leave her in a slop bucket to die because she's a girl. She survives, and at 14 leaves for the city, where she works a low-paying factory job and attends self-help classes to improve her chances at securing a coveted office position. When Sunny's attempts t ...Show more
Thing: The Play by Chris Powling
$14.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Plays | Reading Level: 7 years
Top titles from the gr8read series specially adapted into plays for teens, with reading age 7. Black button eyes. Zig Zag mouth. Stiff body. Thing. Once it was Robbie's best friend. Now it's become his enemy. Chilling horror, suitable for both boys and girls.
This House by James Graham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
This country doesn't need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In tough times, the British do what we have always done. We muddle through. This House is a timely and relevant political comedy, exploring Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament. In the run-up to the Genera ...Show more
Three Kingdoms by Simon Stephens
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Three Kingdoms is a blackly entertaining and unsettling detective story cum parable about the devil in us all, international human trafficking and the changing state of Europe. As the severed human head of an Estonian woman is found in a river in Hammersmith, two British detectives set off in search of ...Show more
Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
The boy who comes back from a war far away in a wooden box is glorified and called a hero. As the funeral plans are made in a small Kent town, his siblings squabble over who he was. Maybe the fanfare isn't needed for this heroic martyr. Vera Vera Vera is a blackly comic play about what we are willing to ...Show more
Wasted by Kate Tempest
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it. Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it. A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is wha ...Show more