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1984 (Playscript) by George Orwell; Robert Icke (Adapted by); Duncan Macmillan (Adapted by)
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The most iconic novel ever written about the dangers of totalitarianism, media manipulation and the rewriting of history. The quotidian tragedy of Winston and Julia is an exemplary and cruel portrait of an unhappy world, a prophecy that chills our blood and moves us in equal measure.
1984 (stage Version) by George Orwell; Nick Hern (Adapted by)
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'O'Brien! They've got you too!' 'They got me a long time ago.' Winston Smith is in prison, found guilty of Thoughtcrimes against Big Brother. As part of his reconstruction, he must re-enact key moments from his past life, with the help of other thought criminals, so that everyone can learn from his mist ...Show more
A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
Category: Education | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
A Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government. Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger ...Show more
A Passage to India by Martin Sherman
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays
First major theatrical adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar Caves with the charming Dr ...Show more
"A Servant to Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays
This is a Christmas pantomime with an Italian accent from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic Company. "Two wages. Two men's meals. Am I mad? Not half." Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook and crook, is one of the great classic co ...Show more
Alarms and Excursions by Michael Frayn
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh' (Guardian) Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzzers, warblers, beepers and cheeper ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Anna by Ella Hickson
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
1968. East Berlin. Anna and Hans are married, in love and moving up in the world--but it is a world ruled by suspicion. Who can be trusted when everyone is listening? Can we ever escape our past?
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the ...Show more
At the Inland Sea by Edward Bond; Tony Coult (Editor); Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''A new play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event.the severity and seriousness of his message is delivered with extraordinary directness' (Carole Woddis, Times Educational Supplement) On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams ...Show more
Barking in Essex by Clive Exton
Category: Education | Series: Modern Plays
Freedom finally beckons for Algie Packer, Essex's most notorious gangster. He's done seven years inside and now he's coming home to collect his reward - GBP3,672,000 in untraceable notes. But there's something Algie's family have forgotten to mention ...The Packers are Essex's lovable, but most dysfunct ...Show more