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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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written and presented by Uncle Semolina (& Friends); concept by Christian Leavesley and Philip Rolfe

Australian company Uncle Semolina (and Friends) pitch up at the Barbican and squeeze an epic into a pint pot. Or, in this case, a small oblong sandpit. Here, the tyrant and demi-god Gilgamesh does what boys do best, playing with his toys - Matchbox tanks, plastic Action Man figures and cranes, Legoland cities - and throwing everything out of the pram (sorry, sandpit) like a monstrous baby suffering a titanic tantrum. When his friend Enkidu, the wild man discovered in the forest, turns up, there is twice the testosterone and twice the destruction. To a thumping soundtrack, Barbie dolls get humped, forests are razed and the boys behave as if they are invincible and can take on the world and achieve absolute power. But they can not: even when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh refuses to face up to his own mortality. Apparently the company began working on the show around the time of the US and British invasion of Iraq, and perhaps if it had arrived on these shores a little more speedily, then the parallels between Bush and Blair - two little boys wrecking havoc and destruction in the sand and enjoying every minute of getting their chance to play with the big toys - may have hit home harder.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian