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Summer RainNick Enright, Terence Clarke
The dust settles as the populace nurses a Christmas hangover. When Harold Slocum of Slocum’s Travelling Tent Show becomes stranded, emotions run high and the sedentary life of the town is disturbed by the remembrance of an illicit affair. $25.99
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Up for Grabs and Corporate Vibes: Two playsDavid Williamson
In Up for Grabs, Simone Allen likes to see herself as a prophet rather than a parasite, but when given the opportunity to sell one of the better Brett Whiteley paintings, her behaviour becomes less than angelic as the pressure mounts. In Corporate Vibes, a real estate developer faces a staff mutiny. $31.99
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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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LuluFrank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright
Lulu is the story of the decline and fall of a young woman possessed of a fatal combination of sexuality and innocence. She passes from German and Parisian high society to the streets of Jack the Ripper's London – destroying, and ultimately destroyed by, her lovers. $23.99
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EmmaJane Austen Adapted by Doon MacKichan, Martin Millar
A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original. $27.99
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The Lady From the SeaHenrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish
One of Henrik Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, The Lady from the Sea introduces the character of Hilde Wangel, who reappears in Ibsen's later play The Master Builder. $14.99
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Miss TanakaJohn Romeril
Miss Tanaka is the beautiful and enigmatic niece of Broome’s former number one pearl diver. Newly arrived from Japan, she captures the hearts of the town's menfolk, but is promised in marriage to two brawling pearl divers. Who will uncover this mysterious young woman's true identity? $25.99
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Life After GeorgeHannie Rayson
Peter George, charismatic academic, idealist, lover of life, is dead. His wife, two ex-wives and daughter gather for his funeral. As the true nature of the man and his life unfolds, so these women discover much about themselves and the lives they have lived both within and outside his shadow. $25.99
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