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The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer Adapted by Mike Poulton
This two-play adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales encompasses the full span of the original work, containing 21 separate stories. All the famous characters are here – as well as many less well-known but equally full of life. Each of the stories has its own style – heroic verse for the Knight's Tale, vernacular rhymes for the Miller's Tale etc – echoing the many narrative voices employed by Chaucer himself. $24.99
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Playing With FireDavid Edgar
An epic and provocative play about multi-racial Britain, from the UK's leading political playwright. $19.99
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stoning marydebbie tucker green
Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. A husband and wife row about a prescription. A mother and father row about their son, who has become a child soldier. Two sisters row about which one is superior to the other. It emerges that the younger sister, Mary, has killed the child soldier. She is to be stoned to death... $24.99
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Minefields and MiniskirtsTerence O’Connell
If history is told by the victors, the story of war is usually told by the blokes. Now it's the ‘sheilas' turn. Nearly a thousand Australian women had a part in the Vietnam War as entertainers, typists, consular staff and army nurses. $25.99
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Women Beware WomenThomas Middleton
A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. $14.99
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Children of the Black SkirtAngela Betzien
Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, a cruel governess harbouring a mysterious past. $25.99
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A Dream PlayAugust Strindberg Adapted by Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. $27.99
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Through a CloudJack Shepherd
1656. Two revolutionaries meet in the woods at Hampton Court: the blind poet, John Milton, and his long-term comrade, Oliver Cromwell. But after the bitter ravages of revolution, regicide and civil war, freedom is hard to come to terms with. $23.99
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The MandateNikolai Erdman Adapted by Declan Donnellan
A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, banned for decades in the USSR and revived in this uproarious new version by Declan Donnellan. $24.99
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The Pull of Negative GravityJonathan Lichtenstein
Wounded in the war in Iraq, a young farmer-turned-soldier returns home with injuries that have extraordinary consequences. Lust, temptation, sibling rivalry and the pressures of the past combine with the struggle to maintain a rural existence. $23.99
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