Drama

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Report copyright infringementby John Galsworthy (Author)John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wealthy and well established family. His schooling was at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister and being called to the bar in 1890. However, Law was not attractive to him and he travelled abroad becoming great friends with the novelist Joseph Conrad, then a first mate on a sailing ship. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair...

Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth A. Loparo (Author)Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds' controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare's plays - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry V, The Tempest, and Coriolanus - and textual, filmic, and theatrical adaptations of them. With his collaborators, Reynolds challenges traditional readings of Shakespeare, re-evaluating the critical meth...

Louis XIV and the Affair of the Poisons: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Victorien Sardou (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)In 1677 the French court was rocked by a plot to assassinate King Louis XIV. Many high-ranking noblemen and -women were implicated, including the monarch's own mistress, Madame de Montespan, mother of his illegitimate children. "The Affair of the Poisons," as it came to be known, was carefully hushed up to avoid public scandal, and the perpetrators quietly disposed of. This dramatic account of the uncoveri...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Orcutt (Author)The Ronald And Other Plays features a full-length political satire and five one-acts. The Ronald: "Fabulously Caucasian" billionaire The Ronald decides to run for President of the Incorporated States of Freedomland. Aiding him in his quest are his sexy genius daughter, his accountant, a conservative professor, a Broadway producer, his idiot sons, a TV entertainment reporter, a pizza deliveryboy, and the Cork Brothers-a pair of 1,000-year-ol...

Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard

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Report copyright infringementby W. Demastes (Author)Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind s darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work a...

Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher R. Smit (Editor), Anthony W. Enns (Editor)Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet disability itself has no easily recognizable form. When isolated from the mainstream of human existence by artistic representations, the disabled individual is effectively transformed into an object of cultural fascinati...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Pieloor (Author)Inspired and informed by deeply personal experiences, Ruth Pieloor turns her trademark magic realism into an oddly comic, yet breathtaking and touching realisation of dementia. Demented uniquely intercepts clowning, puppetry, and dramatic dialogue, to share a heroine's captivating relationship with dementia. We meet Rachel, the mother, the daughter, the carer, the lover, the artist, and gently take her hand as she unravels new challenges in...

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Report copyright infringementby Caleb Lewis (Author)A man kneels by his dive gear. It's late afternoon on the Limestone Coast. He has a story to tell. It starts in the water. A powerful, visceral and form-busting new work by award-winning South Australian born playwright Caleb Lewis, Cathedral is a thriller, a family drama and an epic journey of self-discovery. From Mount Gambier to Thailand to the North Sea, from soaring first love to shattering loss to ultimate hope, this powerful story pon...

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Sims (Author)LOVE SURVIVES...BUT SECRETS DON'T.Mason and Carly Moore thought the hard part was over. They found their way back to each other. Built a life together. Started planning for a future that finally feels real.Then one decision changes everything.Someone from Mason's past refuses to accept reality. When pride turns to obsession and obsession turns deadly, the life Mason and Carly are building becomes a target. Every stranger could be a threat. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ash Flanders (Author)There's no crueler thing you can say to an actor than 'Don't quit your day job'. Fortunately, thanks to cover bands and theatre restaurants, Ash Flanders never needed one. But after years of glittering appearances on stages and in school gyms across the country, Ash unceremoniously finds himself seated at a computer terminal in a decidedly un-sparkly corporate office. No longer an acclaimed playwright and performer, Ash is now a legal trans...

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Bubnic (Author)Coming home from her sister's funeral, Grace decides that at 87 years old ... her time has come. She's done with it all. She's ready to leave the party.Her daughter, Dorothy, decides her mum is just depressed. She makes it her mission to show Grace the beauty of living. But Dorothy is divorced. Stuck in a dead-end job. Estranged from her own daughter, Suzie, who lives halfway across the world. Soon, Dorothy starts to worry that her mum mi...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Desnoyer (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)French writer Charles Desnoyer provides a striking interpretation of the life of Joan of Arc, who singlehandedly saves the French state at the cost of her own life. Joan leaves her native village over the objections of her father to see King Charles VII, who has yet to be crowned. She convinces the monarch to back her God-given visions and, with an army at her side, defeats the invading English and allows ...

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Report copyright infringementby Agnes Walsh (Author)Tramore Theatre was formed in 1999 by Agnes Walsh and Arlene Morrissey. It is a community-based arts organization dedicated to the promotion of the oral history and the cultural traditions of the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, including the rich Irish heritage of the area. Plays from Tramore showcases the settlement history of the area and depicts the lives of the local people over the centuries. The plays also cross into social injustice, out...

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Report copyright infringementby Csilla Bertha (Translator), Donald E. Morse (Translator), Andras Suto (Author)The Suza Wedding Feast (1981) by the Transylvanian-Hungarian writer, András Sütő is a metaphoric history play about the plight of the Hungarian minority in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s, under Nicolae Ceausescu's totalitarian dictatorship. Alexander the Great, forcing a change of language, culture, religion, attempts to totally assimilate Persia and the Persians into Greeco-Macedonia...

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Nguyen (Author), Petra Kalive (Author), Alice Pung (Author)Adapting Alice Pung's award-winning book, writer and comedian Diana Nguyen and director Petra Kalive bring Laurinda's schoolyard setting to the stage for a fresh and feisty new work. Like Heathers or Mean Girls with a uniquely Australian flavour, this delightful take on the beloved novel is an incisive, funny study of a woman caught between cultures and class. When 15-year-old Lucy Lam wins the in...

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Report copyright infringementby Kerryn Beatty (Author)You are in severe heart failure. I'm sending you to the city.From farm to little town to big town and back again, HER comes face to face with her own mortality. Unable to access the specialist care she needs in the country she travels the long journey in and out of the city confronting the ultimate journey to save herself, alone. As she prepares to go under, HER past returns. HER truth can no longer remain buried. On the operating table HE...

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Report copyright infringementby Cathy Petocz (Author)There's a place in the bush balanced between stone, sky, water. Past stars sending ancient light. You'll find what you need for the initiation and you will come out changed. A double-dare draws six seemingly normal teenagers into the twilight bush of Black Mountain. As night falls and time shifts around, they realise they are lost. When a knife keeps turning up, despite their efforts to get rid of it, they fear they'll never come out alive....

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Cook (Author)I tried dying and it didn't work ... I might as well try living. Struggling actor David can't get enough-of anything. Alcohol, drugs, women, gambling-whatever it takes to escape the bark of the black dog. Bouncing from audition to audition as he battles his debilitating mental health issues and descends into a world of addiction, David is consumed by an overwhelming feeling of never belonging anywhere. Days and nights are lived through a thic...

The Lily of the Valley: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Barriere (Author), Arthur de Beauplan (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Based on an 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac, this play revolves around a platonic love affair between the beautiful Henriette, her much older husband, and the handsome young Félix. But such a relationship cannot be sustained forever. The only question is: who will be the first to crack under the strain? Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aidan Fennessy (Author)From the revered playwright behind one of Melbourne Theatre Company's most beloved recent hits, The Architect, comes this funny and uplifting celebration of music, friendship and community. The Heartbreak Choir is a warm-hearted hug of a play that will make you want to sing out loud. In the old CFA hall on the outskirts of town, a small group of locals come together to sing, and to connect. Aseni, Barbara, Mack, Savannah and Totty have sp...

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Report copyright infringementby Rhoan Flowers (Author)When two young braves were killed for a wild stallion they had caught, the Cherokee warriors went on the warpath and began killing all Caucasian settlers across the outer plains. The instant the U.S president heard about the native's uprise, he dispatched the cavalry to put a stop to the torment. The cavalrymen hunted down and killed many Cherokee warriors. Following their defeat, the Cherokee tribe was struck with massive sanctions by the...

Alexandre Dumas' the San Felice: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice Drack (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator), Alexandre Dumas (Based on a Book by)Adapted from Alexandre Dumas Pere's novel, "La San Felice," this play is set in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies during Napoleonic times, and features tyrants, traitors, and great acts of heroism. First translation into English. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 11, 2009

The Story of a Flag: An Epic Drama of the Napoleonic Wars: A Play in Twelve Scenes

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Report copyright infringementby Frank J. Morlock (Translator), Adolphe D'Ennery (Author)This historical play follows a group of young Frenchmen from 1796-1814, as they're swept up in the Napoleonic Wars. Italy, Egypt, Austria, Russia, and France are mere signposts along the way in this epic drama, with the single unifying element being a flag woven by a group of French women in the mid-1790s, and carried by the soldiers throughout the entire length of their almost twenty-year service to the F...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Leste De Chabrillan (Author), Alexandre Dumas (Author), Celeste De Chabrillan (Author)Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, behind. Arriving in Australia, Ivans finds himself unable to improve his fortune--he's too willing to help the poor, and has a good reputation for charitable works. Then a group of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Giovannoni (Author)SLAP. A video of 16-year-old Immi hitting a security officer goes viral. BANG. Sofia's impassioned speech for the victims of a school shooting makes international news. KISS. In the car park of a small-town Woolies, people rally around Darby and Daniel as the boys lock lips in an attempt to set the world record for the longest kiss. Shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and included on the VCE Drama Playlist for 202...

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Report copyright infringementby David Williamson (Author)Travelling North is David Williamson's moving homage to age and the old radicals who changed the course of Australian history. Soon after Frank and Frances desert their former lives for a northerly bohemian retreat, to the consternation of their conventional children, Frank's mortality asserts itself. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.27 x 5.39 IN Publication Date: January 28, 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Luis Gómez Romero (Author), Desmond Manderson (Joint Author)'You think he's some cowboy from the wild west? You think he's from the past? Wake up man. He's from the future ... the future of the whole stinking world.' Half an hour alone with your worst fears and wildest dreams. No help, no witnesses, and not a minute to lose. When the crisis comes-what would you do? On a lonely desert road in the dead of night, highway police Angela and Romulo are a team-sort of...

The Barricade at Clichy; Or, the Fall of Napoleon: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)This powerful play deals with the aftermath of French Emperor Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Russia in 1812, and the subsequent victory of the allied forces arrayed against him in 1814--a defeat that forced Napoleon into exile on the island of Elba. From Elba he returned to France for "The Hundred Days" revival of his monarchy in 1815, before finally being exiled to the South Atlantic. In the hands of D...

The Two Dianas; Or, Martin Guerre: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Meurice (Author), Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)In mid-1500s France, Martin Guerre is determined to free his father, the Comte de Montgomery, from an unjust prison sentence. Montgomery had dared to love the King's mistress, Diana de Poitiers; to prevent King Henry II from discovering her indiscretion, Poitiers had arranged to have Montgomery put away for life, under conditions where no one is allowed to speak to him--and no one kno...

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Harbison (Author)In 25 10-Minute Plays for Teens, young thespians in high school and middle school will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights, such as Don Nigro, Wendy MacLeod, Jeff Goode, Bekah Brunstetter, and Constance Congdon; and equally terrific plays by such exciting up-and-comers as Chad Beckim, C. S. Hanson, Merridith Allen, Sharyn Rothstein, and Kayla Cagan. The characters are teens, and the subject matter will be of i...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Rose (Author)'So there's this family having dinner in a shitty house. And one of them is Xan.' A small town in the middle of nowhere. A family is talking about everything and anything except what's really going on. Through fantasy and hyper-realism, desert, 6:29pm ponders if it's possible to ever truly know someone you love.Morgan Rose is one of the most exciting emerging playwrights in Australia, bringing her unique humour and attention to detail to th...

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Bates (Author), Mary Rachel Brown (Author), Suzie Miller (Author)Loneliness, fear, bad dreams, repressed attraction or repugnance, lockdown and sudden escapes, jigsaw puzzles, food deliveries, bad tempers and penguins. These were the things that stole our sleep for a year, or that rescued, haunted and comforted us. In the early days of Covid lockdown in 2020, playwrights Vanessa Bates, Mary Rachel Brown, Suzie Miller, Lachlan Philpott and Katie Pollock ...