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The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Category: Education | Series: Oxford Modern Playscripts
A group of friends take a stand against the actions of their Headmaster, who wants to take over the world.Strange things happen at Lloyd and Harvey Hunter's school. When their new foster sister Dinah arrives she wants to find out why...But can she escape the Demon Headmaster?This work features new, inno ...Show more
The Domino Effect and Other Plays by Fin Kennedy
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A new collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.
The Emperor by Colin Teevan
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power. A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, from the ...Show more
The Enchanted Pig by Alasdair Middleton; Jonathon Dove
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
King Hildebrand is off to war - again. He commands his three daughters not to enter a locked room in the palace. Naturally they do, and in it find the Book of Fate, which announces that two of them will marry handsome Kings, while the third, Flora, must wed a fat pig from the North. Drawing on Romanian ...Show more
The Encounter by Complicite; Simon McBurney
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter traces McIntyre's journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance to build a shifting world of sound.The Encounter opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 20 ...Show more
The Ferryman (West End Edition) by Jez Butterworth
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.' County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be ...Show more
The Firework-Maker's Daughter (play) by Phillip Pullman
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Adapted by Stephen Russell, The Firework-Makers Daughter, is award winning childrens writer Philip Pullmans brilliant and inspiring story about Lila, who dreams of becoming a firework-maker just like her father. Her hopes are dashed when her father tells her it is no job for a girl. Setting out in se ...Show more
The Gambler by Nick Dear; Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer. Dostoevsky, impoverished by gambling debts and desperate, makes a Faustian cont ...Show more
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Category: Reference | Series: Modern Plays
A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of revenge.The second play in Martin McDonagh ...Show more
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen; Pam Gems (Adapted by)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
On the Little Mermaid's fifteenth birthday she visits the world above the sea for the first time and falls in love with a prince whom she rescues from a storm.... Capturing the magic and cruelty of Hans Christian Andersen's original tale, this powerful new version reveals the spectacle of the worlds bel ...Show more
The London Cuckolds by Terry Johnson
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'A young rake sexually plunders and pillages his way through London leaving a dozen angry cuckolds in his wake. First performed in 1681, The London Cuckolds was written by Edward Ravenscroft. Three centuries later, Terry Johnson''s frank and fruity adaptation proves this seminal comedy to be a precursor ...Show more
The Memory of Water and Five Kinds of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother''s funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships. ''Combines a flair for witt ...Show more