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Americana:  Utah Blue / Over Milk Wood
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Americana: Utah Blue / Over Milk Wood

Dic Edwards

Two plays from this uncompromising Welsh dramatist about what he calls ‘the evicted’. His characters serve as a metaphor for Wales itself: lost, angry and in search of an identity.

Utah Blue is a powerful reworking of the story of Gary Gilmore, the man who killed two black men and then famously insisted the state carry out the death penalty it had imposed upon him.

In Over Milk Wood we follow Hugh Pugh, a character of Dylan Thomas, as he heads into the Bronx, trying to exorcise the curse of being portrayed as a murderer.

'a brooding, provocative play...a challenging piece...uncompromising in its violence, brutality and sexual obsession Independent (Utah Blue)

'mischievously splendid' New Welsh Review (Over Milk Wood)

Oberon Books | 978-1-840021-59-2 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Australia Plays
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Australia Plays

Katharine Brisbane (ed)
This volume offers five of the best plays from the 1980s, introduced and edited by Katharine Brisbane. Published in conjunction with Nick Hern Books, UK, the plays are: David Williamson, Travelling North, Jack Davis, No Sugar, Michael Gow, Away, Alma De Groen, The Rivers of China and Louis Nowra, The Golden Age.
Currency Press | 978-1-85459-056-5 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Australian Gay & Lesbian Plays
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Australian Gay & Lesbian Plays

Bruce Parr (ed)
A collection of gay and lesbian themed drama.

Contains Is That You Nancy? (Sandra Shotlander); The Gay Divorcee (Margaret Fischer); What Do They Call Me? (Eva Johnson); Pinball (Alison Lyssa); Mates (Peter Kenna); Furious (Michael Gow); A Manual of Trench Warfare (Clem Gorman); and Blood and Honour (Alex Harding).


Currency Press | 978-0-86819-455-4 | PB
Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms
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Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms

Peta Tait & Elizabeth Schafer (eds)

A collection of plays that charts some of the shifts in feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years and features some of Australia’s most renowned female dramatists.

The plays are: The Chapel Perilous (Dorothy Hewett); Vocations (Alma De Groen); Running Up A Dress (Suzanne Spunner); Murras (Eva Johnson); The Forty Lounge Cafe (Tes Lyssiotis); Remember (Jenny Kemp); and Historia (Noëlle Janaczewska).

Currency Press | 978-0-86819-497-4 | PB
Blak Inside
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Blak Inside

Tammy Anderson et. al.

A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience.

Includes: Enuff (John Harding); I Don’t Wanna Play House (Tammy Anderson); Belonging (Tracey Rigney); Casting Doubts (Maryanne Sam); Crowfire (Jadah Milroy); and Conversations With the Dead (Richard J. Frankland).

Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | PB
Boris Godunov / The Little Tragedies
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Boris Godunov / The Little Tragedies

Aleksandr Pushkin

Five plays translated by Stephen Mulrine.

Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Boris Godunov became regent for the feeble-minded Tsar Fyodor following the death of Ivan the Terrible. But the heir to the throne, the boy-prince Dimitri, died mysteriously in 1591, and Boris was widely rumoured to have murdered him. When a renegade monk appeared claiming to be Dimitri, there was reason for revolt.

This volume also includes four plays from Pushkin's 'Little Tragedies': A Feast in Time of Plague, The Miserly Knight, Mozart and Salieri and The Stone Guest.

Oberon Books | 978-1-840022-62-9 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Boyce Trilogy, The
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Boyce Trilogy, The

The Woman With Dog's Eyes/The Marvellous Boy/The Emperor of Sydney

Louis Nowra
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 starts with The Woman with Dog's Eyes which introduces us to the Boyce family as they gather to celebrate the parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. Inspired by events that traumatised Sydney’s Moran family, the play explores the universal themes of family, love and disappointment.

The second part of the trilogy , The Marvellous Boy, unwraps the story of this notorious Sydney family. Malcolm Boyce is dying at a time when his biggest building project—and so his whole empire—is threatened by protesters. He hires an important criminal, the charismatic Ray Pollard, to threaten his enemies. Malcolm gets his son, Luke, to liaise with Ray. Luke not only falls under Ray's spell but also finds himself involved with his father's mistress. The results are tragic. This story follows Luke from detachment into an emotional involvement that will be liberating and then shattering as the consequences of his and his father's moral duplicity emerge.

In the final instalment of the trilogy, The Emperor of Sydney , the three sons fight for control of the company as their father lays dying in the master bedroom above the huge Beauchamp mansion living room. The company is near bankruptcy because of a huge stalled project (their father's personal vision) and they are facing a criminal investigation into the father's role in the suspicious death of the project's outspoken critic.

Cast : 4M, 1F
Currency Press  | 978-0-86819-798-2 | PB
Chekhov: 4 Plays
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Chekhov: 4 Plays

Anton Chekhov, trans. Mulrine
Anton Chekhov's four greatest plays in one volume - in sensitive, accurate and much-performed translations by Stephen Mulrine. With an extensive introduction, including biographical notes and suggestions for further reading.
 
The plays —The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya —are also available in single editions. Click on the individual titles above for plot details, and further information.
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-845-5 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Cherry Orchard, The
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Cherry Orchard, The

Chekhov: 4 Plays

Anton Chekhov, trans. Mulrine
Published in Chekhov: 4 Plays
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-845-5 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Collected Plays:  Volume One
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Collected Plays: Volume One

A Voyage Round My Father / Collaborators / The Dock Brief / What Shall We Tell Caroline? / Lunch Hour

John Mortimer

An unsuccessful barrister and even more unsuccessful murderer are the subjects of Mortimer’s first play, The Dock Brief. This was followed by What Shall We Tell Caroline? and then Lunch Hour, another short play about love and lies in the lunch-hour. The Collaborators covers the wear and tear of a marriage subsequently fortified by the threat of a third party.

A Voyage Round My Father, one of Mortimer’s greatest theatrical successes, is a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric, brave and impossible barrister who was John Mortimer's father.

Cast : 28, 4, 2, 4, 3
Oberon Books | 978-1-840022-14-8 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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