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Boys Life and Search and Destroy by Howard Korder
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'Two gripping plays by one of America''s most exciting playwrights Boy''s Life- love, relationships, and growing up in New York City a substantial play. It makes Howard Korder a presence to take seriously in the theatre (Village Voice); Search and Destroy- corporate politics, lies and relationships You ...Show more
Closer by Patrick Marber
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
There's a moment. There's always a moment . . . Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry. This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers . . . On its p ...Show more
Hostage by Beatrice Behan; Brendan Behan
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'An essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood''s Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to ...Show more
Inside Trading by Malcolm Bradbury
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'The only full-length stage play by the acclaimed novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury. Set in Battenberg''s, an ancient London merchant bank with a proud tradition and a suspect past, Inside Trading centres on a rogue trader whose ambitions for his own survival draw in government, European funding and ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more
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