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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
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?
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
Bondagers and the Straw Chair by Sue Glover; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Two plays of haunting lyricism by one of Scotland''s most dynamic playwrights Bondagers, winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award 1990, draws out the shadowy figures of women exploited as cheap agricultural labour in the Border country of the last century, evoking the rich sounds of a way of life, lived ...Show more
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
Bruises and the Storewatchers' House by Judy Upton; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'This volume brings together two plays of unbearable love and brutality by the winner of the 1994 George Devine and Verity Bargate awards. Bruises- Beyond the windows of a South Coast boarding house lies a world of violence and pain, a world where a father is passing an inheritance of drunken cruelty on ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
Category: Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tia ...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