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$11.77 $4.55 ex GST
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Jill Morris
Set about 135 million years ago, the story of Rosi, who is a ... well ... Rosi’s not quite sure! She lives in the forest with Arky Archaeopteryx, Allo Allosaurus and the Hadrosaurs. Can be performed with puppets.
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Cast : 6M, 1F Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-209-3 | PB
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Rolf De Heer
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A powerful and disturbing 'De Profundis' story,
Bad Boy Bubby follows Bubby's escape from the subterranean depths of a brutalising and hermetic childhood into a world that at times seems more brutal and damaged than the hellhole from which he has emerged.
Despite obstacles on the way, Bubby, eventually finds his way to redemptive love, after encountering many of the joys and ills of modern life.
The film won five awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1993 including the Grand Special Jury Prize and the International film Critics Award. Also winner of Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 1994 AFI awards.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-426-4 | PB
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$19.95 $4.54 ex GST
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The Story of the Harmonica in Australia
Ray Grieve
A captivating localised history of the most popular and accessible musical instrument in the country. Based on ten years of extensive research and interviews with players, this book also includes an Australian harmonica discography and fascinating illustrations.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-447-9 | PB
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Stuart T. Gurr
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Collits’ Inn (1932) is one of the forgotten triumphs of Australian theatre. Published with songs and music. Its remarkable stage history is remembered in an introduction by ABC showman John West. Lyrics and music by Varney Monk.
Cast : 8M, 3F Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-267-3 | PB
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Elaine Acworth
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Composing Venus was first performed in Brisbane in 1994. It is a female-centric narrative set in Charters Towers, involving a central matriarch, her four talented daughters, and the social constraints in the lives of ordinary women.
David Berthold has described Acworth as a playwright with a "big vision somewhere between Hewett and White".
Cast : 2M, 5F Performance Rights : Curtis Brown (Aust.) Pty Ltd info [ât] curtisbrown.com.au
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-407-3 | PB
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$26.36 $4.55 ex GST
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Eight Award-Winning Arts Critics
Katharine Brisbane (ed)
Eight frank confessions by eight prizewinning arts journalists, delving into their individual ways of thinking. Roger Covell writes on concerts; Bruce Elder on popular music; Sandra Hall on film; Marion Halligan on literature; John McCallum on theatre; Cyrus Meher-Homji on recordings; Joanna Mendelssohn on art; and Alan Saunders on food.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-502-5 | PB
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$81.77 $45.41 ex GST
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John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell (eds)
This publication is unique in its comprehensiveness and recognision of cultural diversity and a broad notion of community.
It covers the history of concert music, opera, ballet, music teaching, composition, instruments, venues, union activity, Aboriginal music, and all forms of popular and folk music and dance. It embraces the wide variety of immigrant influences from Europe, America and particularly the Pacific. There's sound art, computer music, electroacoustics, belly dance, debutante balls, subcultures, music videos and much more. Over two hundred academics, practitioners and private researchers from all parts of Australia and beyond are among this book's contributors.
For more information and reviews, visit John Whiteoak's website: www.ausmdr.com
‘A quick look at the contents, which places Football Songs next to Free Jazz, gives you some idea of its open-mindedness. It serves a much-needed purpose in informing us about many kinds of Australian music and dance missed by other reference books. Highly recommended.’ Lucky Oceans, The Planet, ABC Radio National.
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Currency House | 978-0-95812-131-6
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David Caesar
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For Barry, life is sweet. He runs the girls, the clubs and the illegal casinos, and not even crooked Detective Ray dares to stand in his way. Barry’s wife wears the pants, his mistress Margaret wears him out and his wide-eyed nephew Darcy is learning just how cosy business can be. When the mafia dispatch two Chicago hoods to muscle in on his action, Barry’s life takes a dramatic turn. A rough and riotous screenplay from the award-winning writer-director of Idiot Box and Mullet.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-683-1 | PB
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Shirley Barrett
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Sisters Dimity and Vicki-Ann live in a forlorn Riverina town. Enter Ken Sherry, the ex-drive-time king of Brisbane radio who takes over the running of the local radio station. Exit sibling loyalty as the sisters battle for his affections.
Winner of the prestigious Camera D''Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-529-2 | PB
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$17.23 $4.55 ex GST
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Humphrey Bower
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An adaptation of Marcus Clarke's classic nineteenth century novel,
For the Term of his Natural Life.
Rufus Dawes is a convict condemned to suffer endlessly at the hands of the brutal ruling elite of Australia's early penal colonies. A raw and passionate account of how the human spirit can endure.
Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-555-1 | PB
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