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History Boys by Alan Bennett
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
Skylight by David Hare
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of s ...Show more
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotio ...Show more
The Penelopiad - play script by Margaret Atwood
$29.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travel ...Show more
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
A writer of short stories is in police custody. He doesn't know why he is being held but assumes it must be something to do with the fact that many of his stories involve children being killed and tortured. As the play unfolds, the police tell him that someone is enacting his stories.
Translations by Brian Friel
$32.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Faber Drama Ser. | Reading Level: good
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic pla ...Show more
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