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Granny Beggard's Chair is the first in our chapbook collection of new plays. This is Howard Firkin's astonishing story of the small country town of Mullock, its tearaway citizenry, and the sedan chair that put it on the map...

Herman Melville's classic short story of Bartleby, a lowly scrivener who exerts his will infuriatingly but irresistibly. A warning and a lesson to us all...

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“Despite everything he was a loving man, a man with much to give mankind and womankind, a man who in fact did give, who gave until it hurt. And yet, the world was ungrateful, and even contemptuous. Inevitably he was hurt, and hurt again, and again, and again, and again.”
(from the papers of Reginald Wells )

Reginald Wells' explosive tales of life in rural Australia. 

Howard Firkin's eclectic play which features appearances by Martin Heidegger, Anne Hathaway (both of them), and Pish, the spirit of our age.

A story of love triumphant, even as it fails...