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A Man With Five ChildrenNick Enright
Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. The results are shown annually on television. Yet for the children who grow up under Gerry’s (and the nation’s) watchful eyes, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his children or his creations? $25.99
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Birthrights and Soulmates: Two playsDavid Williamson
Birthrights is a bittersweet play about motherhood. In Soulmates, Williamson applies his merciless humour to the literary world in a play about the slippery business of books, authors, and the readers who love them both. $31.99
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The Shoemakers' HolidayThomas Dekker
A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. $14.99
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TerrorismThe Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Sasha Dugdale
A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple committing adultery, grannies complaining about their husbands. But the scenes unfold to reveal the mistrust and dysfunction that have become the norm, in Russia and elsewhere. $27.99
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dirty butterflydebbie tucker green
Listening through their thin walls, Amelia and Jason are drawn into the dark and compelling world of their mutual neighbour Jo. $27.99
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Far AwayCaryl Churchill
At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. $24.99
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Mavis goes to TimorKatherine Thomson, Angela Chaplin, Kavisha Mazzella
Stung into action by the suffering of the East Timorese, an 86-year-old retired haberdasher from regional Victoria decides that she can make a difference. Along with her daughter, Mavis takes her sewing machines to Timor and sets in motion her practical contribution. $25.99
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RosmersholmHenrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish
Ibsen's great play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society. $14.99
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'Tis Pity She's a WhoreJohn Ford
When Annabella is found to be pregnant by her brother, she agrees to marry her suitor Soranzo. But when the lovers' incestuous secret is discovered, vengeance and bloody murder follow. $14.99
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The Browning VersionTerence Rattigan
Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) and frequently revived. $25.99
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