This is an exciting Australian adaptation of the highly successful Acting in Person and in Style student book from the USA. The text incorporates discussion of Australian playwrights, plays and...
Performance: A Practical Approach to Drama is a textbook which aims to develop expressive skills, improvisation and playbuilding strategies, acting technique, and critical response to live theatre. It has been written...
And God said: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour’. He obviously hadn’t reckoned on Ana. A battle hardened, Hungarian-Australian World War survivor, Ana’s bark is as ferocious as her German shepherd’s....
This is an engaging collection of ten original Australian plays for junior secondary students. The plays are fun to perform and are full of all sorts of characters caught up...
n Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to...
A large cast of outlandish characters combines with quite subtle treatment of a serious theme to present an excellent piece for performance and drama study, Mirror, Mirror on the wall......
Living Drama comprehensively covers all of the content, skills and knowledge senior drama and theatre studies students need. The student book presents authentic industry links (developed with key theatre companies...
The most influential contemporary theatre director in Japan, Suzuki provides a thorough and accesible formulation of his ideas and beliefs, and insights into his training methods. Features his compelling adaptation...
Sophocles (translated by Ian McAuslan & Judith Affleck)
Translated from the original Greek, Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to bring students of Classical Civilisation and Drama courses as close as possible to the playwright's original words and...
Jeff is a pretty regular guy. A plumber in Sydney, he shares a house with his widowed dad, Harry. Harry likes a few beers and is actively looking for a...
Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy...
Stolen tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children’s home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from...
The 2018 HSC Performing Arts written: Dance Music and Drama Dance, Drama and Music (Combined) Exam Workbook helps students practise for the HSC using authentic exam material collected by the...
The unique selling point applying to all InsightText Guides is the fact that Insight is the only publisher in Australia thattakes the time and has the in-house expertise to source...
The inmates of the Girls Training School (GTS) Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold...
Sydney has become the prime destination for the world's athletes as the 2000 Olympic Games approach. Teenage Stace Lukovic has been identified as a potential Australian swimming medalist. With some...
Victimised by the cruel, cunning Stubbs, Terry Dumpton, nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, resorts to truancy to avoid his bullies. Following pressure from his tormentors to prove he isn't a coward, Terry...
Written and performed in 1968, Norm and Ahmed was Alex Buzo's first performed play. It gained immediate notice, both for Norm's spectacular language and for the character of Ahmed, one...
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...
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...
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...
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
'A great, disturbing play.' Guardian'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday TimesStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two...