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Spitting ChipsPeta Murray
Sybil, aka Spud, wants to be a drummer. She lives alone with her father, who refuses to discuss Sybil’s dead mother. Her reluctant friendship with an old woman helps both of them address their loneliness and deal with the future. $25.99
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Muriel’s Wedding: the screenplayP. J. Hogan
Muriel, an unhappy young woman in dismal surroundings, sets out to overcome obstacles such as her family, her joblessness, and her obsession with 70s glamour rockers ABBA. $25.99
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My Heart's a Suitcase & Low Level PanicClare McIntyre
Two modern feminist classics by a writer who was amongst the extraordinary generation of British female playwrights to emerge in the 1980s. 'McIntyre's first Royal Court play, Low Level Panic, [is] a deft and funny all-female three-hander, set in a bathroom... In McIntyre's next play, My Heart's a Suitcase, which had its premiere at the Royal Court in 1990, the sense of invasion felt by the two female central characters is dramatised by characters called Pest and Luggage,… $23.99
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Angels in America Part Two: PerestroikaTony Kushner
Perestroika picks up the stories of Prior and Cohn from Part One: Millennium Approaches. Prior, overwhelmed by the responsibilties of 'prophet' placed on him by the angels, wishes that they would leave him alone. Cohn, now dying from the virus, continues to manipulate the system from his hospital bed. But who is left to look after them now? And does anyone still care? $25.99
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MachinalSophie Treadwell
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder. $24.99
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The Girl Who Saw EverythingAlma de Groen
Liz has retreated to the mountains from the furore created by her latest book. Her husband Gareth is driving to visit her but is shaken when a woman runs into the path of his car—the consequences for all three adults are far-reaching. $23.99
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A Moon for the MisbegottenEugene O'Neill
The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family started by Long Day's Journey into Night. $29.99
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CosìLouis Nowra
Lewis has recently left university and takes up a job in a mental institution directing Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. Lewis, the non-participant, becomes emotionally involved with his actors' lives as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests take place in the streets outside. $25.99
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Angels in America Part One: Millennium ApproachesTony Kushner
Prior, visited by ghosts of his ancestors and abandoned by his lover after his diagnosis with AIDS, is wondering if he is still sane when the angels select him to be their prophet. Powerbroker Roy Cohn also has the virus - but he believes that only the powerless can have that particular illness, and so kicks back against his diagnosis. $25.99
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Sweeney ToddStephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler
The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits. From the writing partnership behind A Little Night Music. $27.99
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