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SENIOR DRAMA

By: (Edited By Sadler and Hayllar)

Price: $19.00

Publisher: South Yarra, VIC, Australia, Macmillan Education Australia: 1992

Seller ID: 007876

ISBN: 0333381173

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

v, + 242pp., b/white illustrations (production photographs), throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. " . . . a book designed to appeal to students in the senior years of high school. Tragedy, comedy, excitement, conflict and suspense are all here for the acting and the reading. A special introductory section defines and explians dramatic terms such as setting, plot, theme, climax, characterization and dialogue . . . The questions following each play or script assist understanding and interpretation. A detailed discussion of th...
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PLAYS OF THE 70s (Volume 3)

By: Brisbane, Katharine (edited by)

Price: $20.90

Publisher: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., Australia, Currency Press: 2001

Seller ID: 010870

ISBN: 0868195995

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

x, + 211pp., several b/white photographic illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper near fine. This stand-alone volume in the Currency Modern Drama Series includes four plays: 'Crossfire', by Jennifer Compton; 'The Christian Brothers', by Ron Blair; 'A Happy and Holy Occasion', by John O'Donoghue; and 'Inner Voices', by Louis Nowra. " . . . covering 1975-77, years of consolidation for some, disappointment for others, the authors take stock of the progress of reform. In 'Crossfire's' critique of feminism; in the 'Christian Brothers' satire of Cath...
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PLAYS OF THE 70s (Volume 3)

By: Brisbane, Katharine (edited by)

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., Australia, Currency Press: 2001

Seller ID: 010919

ISBN: 0868195995

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

x, + 211pp., b/white photographic illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a small, soft corner crease to front panel. This stand-alone volume in the Currency Modern Drama Series includes four plays: 'Crossfire', by Jennifer Compton; 'The Christian Brothers', by Ron Blair; 'A Happy and Holy Occasion', by John O'Donoghue; and 'Inner Voices', by Louis Nowra. " . . . covering 1975-77, years of consolidation for some, disappointment for others, the authors take stock of the progress of reform. In 'Crossfire's' critique of feminism; in the 'Chris...
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WANDA DREAMS- AND WAKES AND OTHER SKETCHES

By: Bryan, Col. Sir Herbert

Price: $12.35

Publisher: London, Mitre Press:

Seller ID: 000641

Binding: Cloth Covered Hardback

Condition: Good

48pp., book square, light edgewear, spine firm, leaves mildly tanned. Dirt marks on paste-downs along with original seller's sticker affixed lower front same. Sketch/sketches in which the central characters are Wanda [a Cocker spaniel], Wanda's mother, Master, Mistress, A vet, Two maids. Contents: Wanda dreams-and wakes, Roses in Autumn, Reticence, Thanksgiving, The Lock-keeper. Book weight approx. 150g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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NEW BRITISH POLITICAL DRAMATISTS

By: Bull, John

Price: $19.00

Publisher: United Kingdom, Grove Press: 1984

Seller ID: 009358

ISBN: 0394623096

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

xix, + 244pp., plus 12 page, b/white, photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Two miniscule pen dots to last page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn, tiny corner crease to rear panel. A stand-alone title in the 'Grove Press Modern Dramatists' series. "In the late 1960s a number of startling changes occurred in British theatre, heralding the beginning of the most exciting period of drama of the entire century . . . " Contents include: List of Plates, Acks., (Series) Editors' Preface, 1968-1983: A History, 7 chapter...
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DENNIS POTTER: A Biography

By: Carpenter, Humphrey

Price: $20.90

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1998

Seller ID: 005786

ISBN: 0571176852

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good +

xi, + 672pp., two unpaginated, (mostly) candidly-illustrated, b/white halftone plate sections. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Backstrip mildly bumped on heel. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. The biography of Dennis Potter is a story of a scriptwriting genius. Physically and psychologically scarred by illness which ailed him from the age of twenty-six, he was one of the most controversial figures in the history of British television, noted for his subversive plays "Pennies From Heaven', 'The Singing Detective'. and 'Blac...
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ONCE UPON A TIME (Or a Trip Through Storyland)

By: Cole, P.C. (Words by) Loam, Arthur S. (Music by)

Price: $10.45

Publisher: Melbourne/London, Allan & Co./Paxton & Co.:

Seller ID: 006639

Binding: Softcover (Staplebound)

Condition: Good

No publication date (copyright 1951). 28pp. Staple-bound. Several annotations, tape stains to margins. Art-illustrated limp wrapper edgeworn, nipped, several closed tears, plus previous owner's name and a number to top corner, front cover. 'Once Upon A Time' is a visit to Storyland, which includes such endearing favourites as: Red Riding Hood, Bo-Peep, Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Mother Hubbard, Aladdin, Jack and Jill, Witch and others. Contents include: Prelims., Characters and Costumes, Scene, Musical contents (11 total). Item weight approx. 20g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item...
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MY LEFT FOOT

By: Connaughton, Shane and Sheridan, Jim

Price: $6.65

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1989

Seller ID: 001509

ISBN: 0571143016

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

ix, + 68pp., b/w film still illustrations throughout. Book slightly cocked. Clear acetate adhesive film applied to illustrated card wrapper, which has light creases and edgewear. White deletion fluid applied over name on half-title page, light pencil annotations on several pages. 'My Left Foot' was first shown at the Curzon Mayfair Theatre on August 18, 1989, and starred Daniel Day Lewis as Christy Brown. Book weight approx. 150g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.
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SCREENWRITING : A Manual

By: Dawson, Jonathon (Edited By L. Elaine Miller)

Price: $38.00

Publisher: South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oxford University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 009010

ISBN: 0195508327

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

viii, + 230pp., b/white illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has minor scuffing, plus a small hole to lower foredge of front panel, which has been covered over by previous owner with clear selotape to front and inside cover. " . . . a wide-ranging and accessible guide to industry practices and principles. Covering all forms of screenwriting and providing a comprehensive and considered approach to presenting work, it also allows for maximum creative freedom. Documentaries, television series, feature films, advertising, and children's programm...
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COMRADES (Script)

By: Douglas, Bill

Price: $12.35

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1987

Seller ID: 007715

ISBN: 0571149472

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

vii, + 134pp., illustrated throughout with b/white film stills. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, albeit tanned. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn. Remainder stripe on foot of textblock. "The published script of 'Comrades' is almost wholly taken from the shooting script dated August, 1984, which in turn was based very closely upon the original screenplay written in 1980. For ease of reading, all technical directions have been omitted . . . " The epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, farm labourers whose meagre wages were reduced and reduced again until,...
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CHANGI

By: Doyle, John

Price: $17.10

Publisher: Sydney, ABC Books: 2001

Seller ID: 007928

ISBN: 0733310362

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 289pp. Illustrated throughout in b/white with stills from the teleseries. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly scuffed. Text is a copy of the script for the ABC Television program: CHANGI. The cast included: Bud Tingwell, Slim de Grey, Terry Norris, Jill Perryman, Tsunashima Gotharo and many others. Weight approx. 600g.
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THE THEATRE STUDENT: Nine Hundred American Plays: A Synopsis-History of American Theatre

By: Erhard, Thomas A.

Price: $16.15

Publisher: New York, Richards Rosen Press: 1978

Seller ID: 003291

ISBN: 0823904067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xxi, + 106pp. Book clean, square. Library standard binding, but no identifiers to indicate library use. Leaves clean. Printed boards mildly bumped and scuffed, with poor production finish on one foredge corner. A stand-alone volume in the 'Theatre Student' series, written for students of the theatre involved in producing drama and musicals. Contents include: Prelims., Index of authors, Index of titles, Intro., Short synopsis of 900 American plays. Book weight approx. 630g. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING : The Film Script

By: Flanagan, Richard

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Australia, Picador: 2000

Seller ID: 008580

ISBN: 0330362399

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xxiv, + 174pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, albeit with slight tanning to edges. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. "Richard Flanagan's script of his celebrated film is a beautiful prose-poem in its own right, which can be read with as much pleasure as his novel of the same name . . . Includes a frank essay by Richard Flanagan on film and writing. Book weight approx. 160g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.
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UNDERWEAR, PERFUME AND CRASH HELMET (Current Theatre Series)

By: Gurr, Michael

Price: $14.25

Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Currency Press/ Playbox Theatre C: 1994

Seller ID: 012111

ISBN: 0868193860

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

vi, + 73pp., b/white thumbnail images of Playbox Theatre cast. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly surface indented only. From the rear panel; 'Robert is an MP with a dangerously slim majority. His wife, Caroline, is a reformed hippy, with a little too much time on her hands. Nicholas is her brother, a musician, destined for fame but with a lot to learn. Into their lives comes Lionel, a right-wing philosopher . . . On the fringes lives Michelle, young, disturbed . . . A contemporary thriller in which all of these lives hurtle headlong towards an in...
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HIT AND RUN

By: Herbert, Kate

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., Australia, Currency Press: 2001

Seller ID: 011207

ISBN: 0868196541

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

46pp., b/white thumbnail illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly indented, small corner crease. A stand-alone title in the Current Theatre Series. From the rear panel: "Anita has a terrible secret, one she can't even share with her husband, Adam. One that she won't even face herself. And it's tearing her apart inside. Then along comes an anonymous and slightly mysterious stranger and her life is to change forever . . . " Contents include: Hit and Run, Appendix, Theatre Program in centre pages. Book weight approx. 85g. *Postage charge...
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THE ADMAN

By: Hewett, Robert

Price: $22.80

Publisher: Paddington, N.S.W., Australia, Currency Press/ Playbox Theatre C: 1991

Seller ID: 007558

ISBN: 0868192848

Binding: Staplebound Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

85pp., small b/white photographic illustrations of playwright, cast members, etc. Book clean. Staples firm, no rust. Leaves unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn and scuffed. This stand-alone title in the 'Playbox Current Theatre' series " . . . captures both the superficial glamour and the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the advertising world . . . " 'The Adman' was first performed by the Playbox Theatre Company at the Merlyn Theatre, Melbourne, on 20 July, 1991. Book weight approx. 120g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight...
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THE FANTASY OF PEER GYNT: Being Selections from the Dramatic Poem "Peer Gynt"

By: IBSEN, HENRIK (interpreted by Isabelle M.Pagan)

Price: $15.20

Publisher: London, Theosophical Publishing Society: 1909

Seller ID: 005233

Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)

Condition: Good

129pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, lightly cocked. Gilt titles and black decorations on mildly soiled, bumped and abraded green cloth, plus a stain, and a (just) starting hinge on rear board. An original seller's stamp on front pastedown, a nondescript inscription on ffep., plus noticeable tanned splotches on all endpapers. An extensive Introduction by Isabelle M. Pagan explains how Ibsen's dramatic poem of 'Peer Gynt" has been transcribed for the stage. English text throughout. Dramatis Personae, Act 1/ Actual Events. 2/ Astral Illusions. An Echo. 3/ Path of Action. 4/ Peer on his Tra...
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MONOLOGUES FOR MEN

By: Jeayes, Allan

Price: $8.55

Publisher: London, Samuel French: 1947

Seller ID: 003803

Binding: Limp Wrapper Booklet, 12mo

Condition: Good

20pp. Staplebound booklet square. Latent staples. Spine holding. Publisher's affiliate stamp, alomg with an original seller's stamp on title page, otherwise mildly tanned leaves clean. Art-illustrated ['Paul'] limp wrapper slightly sunned and soiled, together with an Australian price and stamp extant. A series of short monologues ["No fee payable, or licence required, if performed by amateur performers, professional entertainers must apply."] . Contents include: Full Cockney [East End]. Half Cockney [Suburban].Rustic, The Yank, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Down & Out, Court Scene, Foreigner, ...
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THE PLAY BEGINS: A Documentary-Novel Upon the Mounting of a Play

By: Kenton, Warren

Price: $12.35

Publisher: London, Elek Books: 1971

Seller ID: 004839

ISBN: 023615401X

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Good

127pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Discrete indication that this was an ex-library copy [front pastedown, title page, colophon], else clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed, loose-plastic protected dustjacket price-clipped, edgeworn, with closed tear, several biopredation holes and stain. An introduction to the theatre, in the form of a documentary-novel, it tells the story of what happens between the playwright's first idea for a play, and the play's opening night in a West End theatre.Book weight approx. 410g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾...
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THE PICCADILLY BUSHMAN [Revised Edition]. (Signed Copy)

By: Lawler, Ray

Price: $11.40

Publisher: Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, Currency Press: 1998

Seller ID: 002717

ISBN: 086819560X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

95pp., plus [xvi] bound-in program. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Inscription, signed/dated 17-11-98 [ Opening night of the revised edition of the play, Playbox Theatre, Melbourne] by author on title page, otherwise leaves clean. Printed card wrapper just slightly edgeworn only. First produced in 1959, this revised edition of 'The Piccadilly Bushman' finds Alec Ritchie, as did many of his contemporaries, travel overseas to pursue an acting career. Becoming successful and highly regarded, he returns to his native Australia to make a film for a British company. Circumstances have changed durin...
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