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Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
Category: Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself. Fania Fénelon, a Parisian singer, is arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. There, she finds herself swept into the orchestra, compose ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'Every winner might be the one who loses the next day.' Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to confront the patriarchal power of the law, where the b ...Show more
Shirley Valentine by RUSSELL WILLY
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "It is a simple and brilliant idea...the profound and perennial point of the ...Show more
Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans
Category: Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays
I looked around the room and I thought, I m the only person in this room that hasn t killed anyone. "Talking to Terrorists" is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been involved in t ...Show more
Taste of Honey (Modern Classic Edition) by S. Delaney
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
First issued by Methuen in 1959, this play was the first title in the Modern plays series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoer This title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of titles in print .
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford Modern Playscripts
Maurice is no ordinary cat. He's amazing. He can think, he can talk...and he has an amazing scam going. And all he needs to pull it off is an army of intelligent rats and one stupid-looking kid. But when his gang enter Bad Blintz, the town they have decided to con next, they soon realize that all is not ...Show more
The American Dreams - Reflecting Skin and Passion of Darkly Noon by Philip Ridley
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Philip Ridley is a singular writer, a prolific polymath, probably a genius, and the creator of some of the most peculiar, grotesque and compelling British plays (and films) of the last several years (Time Out) Ridley's film debut The Reflecting Skin caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival a ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in a cult ...Show more
The Censor by Anthony Neilson; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'This is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare, forked basics (Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard) The Censor is a gripping brief encounter between a pornographic film actress and the man with the licensing scissors. ''A moving parable of the critic and artist as a healing and finally trag ...Show more
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Lucy Kirkwood's play The Children premiered at the Royal Court, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 17 November 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald.The Children was named Best Play at the 2018 Writers' Guild Awards.
The Crocodile by Tom Basden (Adapted by); Fyodor Dostoevsky (Original Author)
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Ivan is an actor who hasn't achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when he is swallowed whole by a crocodile. Based on Dostoyevsky's short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try t ...Show more