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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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Aliwa!Dallas Winmar
Traces the true story of three Aboriginal sisters whose mother was determined to keep her children when officials wanted to remove them following the death of their father. $13.99
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The Night HeronJez Butterworth
A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens. $23.99
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The Prisoner's DilemmaDavid Edgar
Beginning in early 1989 and spanning some twelve years, the play follows a team of peace negotiators attempting to resolve an ethnic conflict occurring within a fictional former Soviet republic. $24.99
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The Knight of the Burning PestleFrancis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a five-act satire on chivalric romances, generally considered the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. $14.99
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The WeirConor McPherson
A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman recently moved to the area from Dublin. As the drink flows and the stories become increasingly frightening, it's clear that Valerie has something on her mind. She has a tale to tell that'll stop them all dead in their tracks. $24.99
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The Country WifeWilliam Wycherley
The City of London in the seventeenth century. Harry Horner wants to seduce as many women as possible, but he needs to convince their husbands that he’s physically incapable of any such thing. Cannily, his faux impotence also allows him to sniff out and unmask those respectably virtuous ladies who secretly ache for him. $14.99
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AftershocksPaul Brown, Workers’ Cultural Action Committee
A moving documentary play drawn from the traumatic recollections of members of the Newcastle Workers' Club, which was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake. $25.99
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ThyestesSeneca Translated by Caryl Churchill
A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists. $27.99
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48 Shades of BrownPhilip Dean, Nick Earls
In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. Light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity. $25.99
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