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WidowsAriel Dorfman, Tony Kushner
In a war-torn village the men have disappeared. The women – their mothers, wives, daughters – wait by the river, hope and mourn. Their anguish is unspoken until bruised and broken bodies begin being washed up on the banks and the women defy the military in the only form of protest left to them. $27.99
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The Shoe-Horn SonataJohn Misto
In 1945, Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Now, after a half-century apart, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past. $25.99
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Doctor FaustusChristopher Marlowe
The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil. $14.99
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The AlchemistBen Jonson
Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other. $14.99
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Blackrock: the playNick Enright
It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club—and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead—raped by three boys and bashed with a rock. $25.99
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WoyzeckGeorg Büchner Translated by Gregory Motton
One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. $14.99
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The DreamersJack Davis
The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit in him, which has survived 'civilisation'. $25.99
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Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish
Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by jealousy, Hedda destroys Lovborg and his precious manuscript and, finally, herself.
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The Beaux StratagemGeorge Farquhar
George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses. $14.99
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After the DanceTerence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s. $27.99
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