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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
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
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