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Dramatexts - Creative Practice for Senior Drama Students by Helen Strube et al

 

The Writing Book (A Workbook for Fiction Writers) by Kate Grenville

 

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News from Book Nook
Australia's Performing Arts Bookshop

June 2011

Supporting Australian

We believe that supporting Australian authors, performers, and companies is an important contribution to our culture and economy.

 

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supplying...

 

Australian Plays

 

Classical to Contemporary World Plays

 

Drama Texts

 

Teaching Resources

 

Acting Theory

 

Monologues

 

Poetry

 

Film Books

 

Class Sets of Scripts & Texts

Special Offer
(terms one & two, 2011)

With every class set of 15+ you earn a Free bonus copy of one of our new plays from Playlab or Currency Press. Please remember to request your bonus title at the time you order. If you have already ordered class sets this term please contact us to claim your bonus.

 

We have some old, rare, and out-of-print scripts. Just ask us!

New Playscripts in 2011 so far include:

  • "Waltzing the Wilarra" by David Milroy
  • "Engine" by Janis Balodis
  • "I Will Kiss You in Four Places" (PDF file) by Helen Howard et al.

  • "Don Parties On" by David Williamson
  • "Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper" by Tim Stitz and Kelly Somes
  • "House on Fire" by Debra Oswald
  • "Red Sky Morning" by Tom Holloway
  • "Silent Disco" by Lachlan Philpott
  • "The Business" (Based on Vassa Zheleznova by Maxim Gorky) by Jonathan Gavin
  • "The Gift" by Joanna Murray-Smith

 

New Playscripts in 2010 were:

  • "Antigone" by Sophocles (adapted by Eamon Flack)

  • "April’s Fool" by David Burton
  • "Colder & Bison" byLachlan Philpott
  • "The Bougainville Photoplay Project" by Paul Dwyer
  • "Bustown and Desiree Din and the Red Forest" by Lachlan Philpott and Maxine Mellor
  • "The Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol (adapted by David Holman with Armfield & Rush)
  • "Gwen in Purgatory" by Tommy Murphy
  • "Life without Me" by Daniel Keene
  • "Like a Fishbone" by Anthony Weigh
  • "Prayer to an Iron God" by Caroline Reid
  • "Quack" by Ian Wilding
  • "Sappho ... in 9 fragments" by Jane Montgomery Griffiths
  • "The Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldioni (adapted by Nick Enright & Ron Blair)
  • "Shafana & Aunt Sarrinah" by Alana Valentine
  • "Silence" by Ho Pham
  • "Something Like Lost, Something Like Found and I'll Show You Yours" by David Brown and Finegan Kruckemeyer
  • "Songs for Nobodies" by Johanna Murray-Smith
  • "The Swimming Club" by Hannie Rayson
  • "Worry Warts and Ivy Shambitt and the Sound Machine (by Morris Gleitzman)" by Eva Di Cesare

Other new texts are:

  • "Keith Bain on Movement" by Michael Campbell (editor)
  • "Verbatim (Staging Memory & Community)" by Paul Brown (editor)
  • "Zeal Theatre Collection" by Tom Lycos and Stefo Nantsou

Follow this link to the website's New Currency Press and Playlab scripts section.