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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'e ...Show more
Box of Delights by Piers Torday; John Masefield (Original Author)
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Kay Harker is heading home for the school holidays. Recently orphaned, he knows this Christmas will be different but nothing could prepare him for the journey that lies ahead. On the train he meets an old magician, Cole Hawlings, who charges Kay with safeguarding a wondrous device that has time-travell ...Show more
Julie by P. STENHAM; August Strindberg (Original Author)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean. It descends into a savage fight for survival. Polly Stenham reimagines August Strindberg's Miss Julie i ...Show more
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics by John Osborne
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with British socie ...Show more
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama | Reading Level: very good
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stage ...Show more
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotio ...Show more
The Cure at Troy by Heaney, Seamus
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. ...Show more
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
A writer of short stories is in police custody. He doesn't know why he is being held but assumes it must be something to do with the fact that many of his stories involve children being killed and tortured. As the play unfolds, the police tell him that someone is enacting his stories.
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" op ...Show more
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