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Blasted by Sarah Kane
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil wa ...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
Cleansed by Sarah Kane
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with sexuality, social ostracism and the effects of dru ...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
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is ...Show more
Crave - Sarah Kane by Sarah Kane
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a genuinely poetic richness" (Time Out) "A dramatic poem in ...Show more
Curious Incident of the Dog in the by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is ...Show more
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Desdemona by Toni Morrison
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse ...Show more