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DK Amazing Colours by Miriam Stoppard
Category: unmapped | Series: Toddler Playskills S.
Red, yellow, blue, green - what's your favourite colour? Filled with fun things to see and do, colourful photography, and magical colour-changing sliders, this book helps your child to learn and discover colours. It also includes fold out parents' notes and developmental milestones to help you understan ...Show more
DONS PARTY by David Williamson
Category: Fiction | Series: Plays
Since its first burst on the Australian stage in 1971, Don's Party has become widely recognised as one of David Williamson's finest comedies. Set during an election night party, Don's guests pursue the rituals of courtship and sexual competitiveness as a means of coping with the insecurities of their ow ...Show more
David Wood Plays For 5-12-Year-Olds - The Gingerbread Man; the See-Saw Tree; the BFG; Save the Human; Mother Goose's Golden Christmas by David Wood; Paul Bateson (Editor)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Plays for Young People Ser.
Looking for a whizzpoppingly wonderful collection of plays for your whole class? Want some ready-made, delumptious lesson plans to accompany them? Biffsquiggled at the thought of how to stage these pieces? Well, look no further because this is a scrumdiddlyumptious selection of David Wood's plays; paire ...Show more
Daylight Saving (Playscript) by Nick Enright
Category: Fiction | Series: PLAYS
Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling when Felicity receives a call from an American boyfriend from her past (2 acts, 3 men, 3 women).
Dear England by James Graham
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards 2024 It's time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can't England's men win at their own game? The team has the worst track record for penalties in the world and manager Gareth ...Show more
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Category: Film & Tv | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Death and the Maiden - playscript by DORFMAN ARIEL
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Plays, Penguin
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor ...Show more
Desdemona by Toni Morrison
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse ...Show more
Doing the Washing by Sarah Garland
Category: Picture Books | Series: Puffin playschool books
Time for all the dirty clothes to go into the washing machine. Soap in, switch on - and the long process of doing a family wash has begun. This book is published simultaneously with "Going Shopping".
Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Poetry | Series: Modern Plays
'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.' Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen, and immediately provoked controversy ...Show more
Donkeys' Years by M. Frayn
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Plays
Michael Frayn's 'gorgeous farce' about a university reunion premiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning to the West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classic comedy. Twenty years after graduation, six former students return to their university college for a reunion d ...Show more