First published in 1957. Besides tracing the history and development of the Peking Theatre, this volume explains acting techniques, stage costume and symbolism, musical forms and the various types of plays.

The Good Old Days in China are over by the time Rafaella turns eight. She knows war and privation as she breathes air. She is 18 when she and her parents reach Italy with almost no money. Her father dying, Rafaella finds herself head of the family. In Naples, they are shunted to a refugee relocation camp in bombed-out Catania, Sicily, not a city in 1952 where a job can be found. Borrowing the train fare, Rafaella travels to Rome and there looks up her shipboard friend, Stefano. He seems to...

Free episodes available on Facebook - just hit one of the Facebook icons and short episodes will be delivered to your news feed daily. It's easy to defriend if you don't like it.What reviewers said about The Feast of the Bunya..."A charming, lyrical and magnificently researched evocation of clan life in Australia at the advent of European exploration… beautifully crafted."Tom FloodMiles Franklin Award Winner"While there is plenty of action and thrills ...

Volume of eight plays by Guan Hanqing, the "Shakespeare of China." Includes Snow in Midsummer, a work which appears on International Baccalaureate Curricula.

Lea and Andrew’s story continues in this sequel to My Lea. From the city of San Francisco, the tale journeys on to the other part of the world: Jakarta, Bali, and Tokyo.It’s been five years since Andrew walked out of his apartment and left Lea in America. Five long years without any single contact.Andrew is now a twenty-eight-year-old man who just inherited his father’s business empire and is about to marry the granddaughter of the wealthiest man in Singapore. At t...

SuvaRna-Padma, the Golden Lotus is one the most important works of well-known Malaysian writer and scholar, Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, whose two previous plays, Halfway Road, Penang and The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great, have become internationally recognized for their originality of style, as well as significance of issues raised. This play, written in similarly original style, this time approaching the subject matter through the slant of symbolism and myth, deals with the existential dilemma o...

When Lew and Barbara Chiverton-Jones, on their honeymoon, board the passenger train service from Geelong to Melbourne, little do they realise that a man they are about to meet will have an impact upon their lives.Although they will never meet the man again, the few hours they are spending in his company will plant the seeds of a splendid idea.

From the beautiful island of Formosa comes a romantic tale of a young Japanese officer and a local Hakka woman. There is tragedy and hope as the story moves from Taiwan to Japan.

A London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir. When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds.Sanctuary was part of the National Theatre's 'Transformations' season in 2002.

This a short play for two actors that follows a school-age boyfriend and girlfriend through a break-up. Suitable for all ages. No performance fee required as long as authorial attribution is correctly used. The play was short-listed for inclusion in the 2012 Short+Sweet Sydney theater festival.

The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China explores how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times. In particular, playwright and activist Tian Han (1898-1968) exemplified the instability of conventional delineations between the avant-garde, popular culture, and political propaganda. Liang Luo traces Tian’s trajectory through key moments in the ev...

"Please God, No Wedding or Shooting at the End has Chekhov and Masha on stage while he writes The Seagull under the influence of Hamlet … Sunde imagines Chekhov returning from a production of which he must now review (except that a new play forms in his mind. Surrounded by Shakespeare's characters plus creations of his own, Chekhov turns into . She also weaves Chekhov's own life into his creative process, as his friend Levitan's suicide attempts and seagull shooting as well as Lika's aband...