Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced. "Spring Awakening "was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a...
Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on...
This series has been created to assist students of English in their understanding of set texts. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of important...
Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on...
Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS) Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great...
Set in an empty Greek amphitheater, this mad play within a play switches back and forth between ancient Athens and modern Broadway. A Greek actor and a writer are discussing...
A maniacal killer is at large and Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on how to catch him. Kleinman, a logical man in a mad world, is indecisive...
Oxbrook is like so many country towns in Australia, everyone knows everyone else and most young people want to get out. Sam, the butcher's daughter and closet vegetarian, is no...
Bustown Breathe in deep, can ya smell it? Smell of bus seats. Vinyl and sweat. Nothing nowhere beats that. See the yellow bus? That’s where we was born. Bustown. A...
An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.'The idea of Oregon, the word, just the word Oregon really thrills me'.'You can't...
M.Rock is a magical new play, based on a true story, about the enduring joys of music, dancing and self-discovery. In his distinctive language, Philpott charts the fortunes of 18-year-old...
This series has been created to assist students of English in their understanding of set texts. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of important...
Fearless investigates the many portals of loneliness. Ten characters inhabit the world of Fearless, distilled by the Milk Crate Theatre Ensemble, composer Daryl Wallis, chanteuse Christa Hughes and playwright Mirra Todd. Each...
One of the seminal films of the 1970s, Alvin Purple depicts Alvins struggles with his irresistibility to women from his school days and time as a waterbed salesman to his...
An unpredictable portrait of a contemporary Australian woman at three ages. On the cusp of her birthday, Angela goes on a real and imagined journey through time: up the garden...
For nearly three decades women playwrights have been making a significant contribution to the repertoire of Australian drama. This book is the first representative collection of this work and features...
Neil Cameron is well known in Australia for the large scale community events he has staged, which frequently involve thousands of people and spectacular effects with puppets, fire, music, water and...
In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and...
This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It...
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book is written for those beginning a study of American literature as part of an advanced course in English,...
Written by two theatre professionals who worked intimately with Grotowski over the last twenty-five years of his life, this book fills a gap in the published writings about this master...