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Category: Plays
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The White Devil
John Webster

The Duke Brascino is openly seducing a married woman, Vittoria, while plotting the murder of his own wife. Vittoria's brother Flamineo, a cold-blooded murderer, tries to exploit his position as Brascino's servant and pander. Finally Brascino's enemies, outraged by his perversions, seek a vicious revenge.

A young girl, Rowena, moves to a new country town and school. Although Rowena can hear, she is mute. Her widowed father has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public.

Lockie Leonard has arrived in town, but no-one wants to know the city boy whose dad’s the new cop. Things change when he starts going out with Vicki Streeton, the girl of his dreams. But the course of true love is not inclined to run smoothly.

A woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.

The Dreamers
Jack Davis

The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit in him, which has survived 'civilisation'.

Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by jealousy, Hedda destroys Lovborg and his precious manuscript and, finally, herself.

 

A Little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler

Oozing with sophistication and wit, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music is a passionate story of intertwined love affairs, regret and longing centred on elegant actress Desirée Armfeldt, and her family and flirtations.

Ah! Wilderness
Eugene O'Neill

An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Eugene O'Neill's only well-known comedy, Ah! Wilderness is a family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.

Miss Julie
August Strindberg Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for...

The Beaux Stratagem
George Farquhar

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

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