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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T.S. Eliot, New York Post, 22 September 1963
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9781848373686
Hamlet
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author:
William Shakespeare
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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9781869693039
Sons
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NZ$ 22.00 each
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Author:
Victor Rodger
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Huia Publishers
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DoP - Jan 2008
100pp
Explores a volatile, fractured extended family of Samoans, New Zealand-born Samoans, palagi, and afakasi (half caste), and a variety of family ‘legitimacies’. Noah, a successful young afakasi man, goes to see his father after a ten year silence. During his visit he sees a photograph of his half brother, who he always knew existed but has never met. Ignoring the advice of his mother and grandmother, he delves into his unexplored Samoan heritage, leading to an explosive and emotionally gripping climax.
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The Habit of Art
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NZ$ 33.00 each
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Alan Bennett
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Faber and Faber
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Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, "Death in Venice", seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst others their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play. Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of ...
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9780140449990
The Persians and Other Plays
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Aeschylus
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Penguin Books Ltd
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Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. In "Prometheus Bound", the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. "Seven Against Thebes" shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while "The Suppliants" relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.
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All the World's a Grave: a tragedy
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John Reed
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Plume Books
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An epic tragedy of love, war, murder, and madness, plucked from the pages of Shakespeare In "All the World's a Grave," John Reed reconstructs the works of William Shakespeare into a new five-act tragedy. The language is Shakespeareas, but the drama that unfolds is as fresh as the blood on the stage. Prince Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear. Having captured Juliet as his brideaby reckless warahe returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Enter Iago, who persuades Hamlet that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo. As the Prince goes mad with jealousy, King Lear mounts his army. . . This play promises to be the most provocative and entertaining work to be added to the Shakespeare canon since Tom Stoppardas "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,"
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Death of a Salesman - Penguin Modern Classics
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Author:
Arthur Miller
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This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.
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