Your cart
Outstanding Television Screenplays from Australia
In both TV series and serials, the best screenplays are excellent, yet largely unrecognised - because television screenplays are rarely published or critically assessed in terms of the restrictions and…
Ethnicities - Plays from the New West
House of Sacred Cows by Padma Viswanathan & Mo Dad I'm Living with a White Girl by Marty Chan & Elephant Wake by Jonathan Christenson & Joey Tremblay Intercultural issues in Canada's new West are faced…
Entertaining Australia - the Performing Arts in Australia since January 1788
A richly illustrated book telling the story of performing arts in Australia since January 1788. A cultural history covering music, theatre, dance, film, radio and television.
Popular Short Plays for the Australian Stage - Volume I
Includes The Don's Last Innings by Timothy Daly & The Centenarian by Philip Ryall & A Place in the Present by Ron Blair & Family Lore by Michael Cove & The Accidental Poke by John Romeril
Melbourne Stories
The Plays in this Collection are Who's Afraid of the Working Class by Andrew Bovell & Patricia Cornelius & Melissa Reeves & Christos Tsiolkas & Irine Vela & Features of Blown Youth by Raimondo Cortese…
Australian Plays of the 50s
Shipwreck by Douglas Stewart & Sky Without Birds by Oriel Gray & Night of the Ding Dong by Ralph Peterson & The Day Before Tomorrow by Ric Throssell
Learning From Life - Five plays for Young People
Five plays widely performed by TIE groups in schools and theatres : If Only We Had a Cat, Richard Tulloch; Wolf Boy, Peter Charlton; Until Ya Say Ya Love Me and Hey Mum, I Own a Factory, Magpie Company;…
Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Five plays which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre ... Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven & Black Medea by Wesley Enoch & King…
Companion To Theatre In Australia
After ten years of research the Companion is now available. With 200 contributors, 704 pages and nearly 100 illustrations this reference work is essential to the library of every person with an interest…
Australian Women’s Drama - Texts And Feminisms
A survey of Australian women's writing for theatre from 1971 to 1996, this anthology charts feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years. 2 Acts - 3M, 2W (plus chorus) & 2 Acts - 2M, 2W & 4 Acts -…
Don’t Tell Me - Show Me - Directors Talk About Acting
A collection of informal interviews with Australian directors of stage, film, and TV, talking about actors and acting This is not a "how to act" book, nor is it a series of profiles of the directors, but…
Companion To Theatre In Australia
After ten years of research the Companion is now available. With 200 contributors, 704 pages and nearly 100 illustrations this reference work is essential to the library of every person with an interest…
Plays Of The 60s - Volume 2
'The years 1966-68 were at the cusp of reform', writes Katharine Brisbane. 'The writing here reflects a deep sense of the need for change, and awareness of the ground beginning to give way beneath the…
Plays Of The 60s - Volume 1
This first volume of Plays of the 60s opens the door to the Australian contemporary theatre and marks its steady urbanisation. In Oriel Gray's study of race relations in a country town, Burst of Summer…
When the Rain Stops Falling
It begins with a miracle On a rainy day in Alice Springs in 2039 a fish falls like manna from heaven to bless the reunion of a father with his long lost son Perhaps it’s a sign that the pattern of betrayal…
Don’t Say the Words
After a decade under siege a city has finally fallen Ten years of rage have taken their toll For an officer returning from this epic overseas campaign, it’s time to put the horrors of battle behind…
The Commedia Oz - Playing Commedia in Contemporary Australia
Commedia Oz is designed to assist the interpretation and playing of Commedia in an Australian context and is a training manual for teachers, students, actors and directors Chapters cover the history and…
Adaptations - A Guide to Adapting Literature to Film
Turning a 250-page novel or a two-and-a-half-hour stage play into a 90-minute film means leaving out much of the original and changing most of what’s left So why does it remain recognisably the same story?…
The Circuit - Screenplays of Episodes 1-6
In the outback, the law is never black and white ... Drew is a young Aboriginal lawyer fast-tracking his way from Perth to a policy job in Canberra via Broome A stint as a public defender with the Kimberley…
It Just Stopped & Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America
It Just Stopped This savage comedy of manners explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery Sewell’s play is funny and shocking in turn…
The Blonde The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead
One-woman show ... An adulterous husband, a meddlesome neighbour and a dropped ice-cream cone are among the circumstances that combine to shatter the life of suburban housewife Rhonda Russell Everyone…
The Nightwatchman
Bill has lived a life amongst the rambling beauty of the old family home Now he’s gone blind, and children Helen and Michael have returned for a few days to move him to a secure apartment On the…
The Boyce Trilogy - The Woman With Dog’s Eyes & The Marvellous Boy & The Emperor of Sydney
After an extensive period of writing for film, Louis Nowra returns to the stage with The Boyce Trilogy, an epic saga about the Boyce family, a family made wealthy through property development The trilogy…
October
Tim, an airline pilot and Angela, his young, beautiful wife, live the successful urban dream in a streamlined apartment in the inner city One night a friend of Angela’s, Dez, pays them a visit There’s…
