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HotelCaryl Churchill
An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough. $24.99
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East is EastAyub Khan Din
The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are all caught between their Pakistani father's insistence on Asian traditions, their English mother's laissez-faire attitude, and their own wish to become citizens of the modern world. $24.99
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The Recruiting OfficerGeorge Farquhar
A classic Restoration-era comedy about the sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, as they go about their task of recruiting soldiers in the town of Shrewsbury. $14.99
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The Government InspectorNikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine
A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I. A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in. $14.99
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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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Beauty and the BeastLaurence Boswell
A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, with music by Mick Sands drawn from traditional French folk melodies. $23.99
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (ad. Edgar)Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by David Edgar
A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde. $27.99
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The Venetian TwinsNick Enright, Terence Clarke
This adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy The Venetian Twins quickly earned a reputation as one of the most boisterous, vibrant and irreverent works of Australian musical theatre. $25.99
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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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