Cambridge School Shakespeare: King Richard III - 3rd Revised edition by Rex Gibson (Founded by); Linzy Brady (Editor); Jane Coles (Editor); Vicki Wienand (General Editor); Richard Andrews (General Editor); William Shakespeare
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. The Rex Gibson active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways, sha ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Visitors by Harrison, Jane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stand looking out to sea. Moored off-shore is a huge nowee (boat)... then there are two, then more. Who are these visitors? Where are they from? What do they want? Should they be turned away -- by force -- or ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Away by Michael Gow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: PLAYS
Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 women).
A Pocketful of Poems - Aussie Flavoured Rhyming Verse by Murray Hartin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
This is not a book you read once and toss in the cupboard. This book will become dog-eared and tattered as your re-read it and pass it around. Its your go-to book to get a great big taste of Australia. And with Muzs poetry the flavour is always spot on.
Stolen by Jane Harrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Cts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Stolen' tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from their community, after their release they begin their journey 'home', not all of them successfully.
Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are precious virtues and seclusion its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again. The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion i ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infeste ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
Parramatta Girls and Eyes to the Floor - Play by Alana Valentine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama
The inmates of The Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times. PARRAMATTA GIRLS: Based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls and this vibrant play is a joyous and ha ...Show more