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Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?' Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Crackling with wisdom and wit, Di and Viv and Rose is a humorous a ...Show more
Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Disco Pigs tells the story of Runt and Pig who go out in Cork to celebrate their joint 17th birthday. Drunken fights ensue.
Dreaming by Peter Barnes
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values. In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home. Dreaming premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre ...Show more
Eleven Vests + Tuesday by Edward Bond; Jim Mulligan
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Two plays for young people. In Eleven Vests, one person is involved in two events; one at school, another as a soldier in the army. Although separated by years, the incidents bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Eleven Vests shows how the adult develops from the younger self and looks at how trag ...Show more
Far Away - Caryl Churchill by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. Caryl Churchill ...Show more
Father Comes Home from the Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama The finest work yet from this gifted writer.--The New York Times Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his d ...Show more
Faust by Mark Ravenhill
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Mark Ravenhill''s Faust (Faust is Dead) is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality The world''s most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star. In a round of chat show appearances, he announces the Death of Man and the End of History. When he ...Show more
Fleabag: the Special Edition by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Celebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition - featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen colour photos, and exclusive bonus content by Phoebe, ...Show more
Gas Station Angel by Ed H. Thomas
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''Ed Thomas is the most exciting playwright to come out of Wales' (Guardian) Bron meets Ace six days after his house falls into the sea. Their families may share a past of fairies, angels, axe-murderers and chickens, but what do Bron and Ace need with the past when they've got imagination and a tinted g ...Show more
His Dark Materials by Nicholas Wright
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre. His Dark Materials takes us on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. For Lyra and Will, its two central characters, it's a coming of age and a transforming sp ...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