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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
Hushabye Mountain by Jonathan Harvey; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'From the author of the hugely successful stage play/film Beautiful Thing. Hushabye Mountain reveals a world that has learned to live with AIDS. It is full of love, pain, laughs and friendship, where drugs in their various combinations are exhilarating, destructive, costly and even life restoring. Husha ...Show more
Inside Trading by Malcolm Bradbury
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'The only full-length stage play by the acclaimed novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury. Set in Battenberg''s, an ancient London merchant bank with a proud tradition and a suspect past, Inside Trading centres on a rogue trader whose ambitions for his own survival draw in government, European funding and ...Show more
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'My dad said he jumped buses. Horseboxes. Jumped an aqueduct once. He was gonna jump Stonehenge but the council put a stop to it.' On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an e ...Show more
Kenneth's First Play by R. Nelson; C. Chambers
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Designed for 9 to 14 year-olds, this play is an imaginative journey into the history of Western theatre, ancient Greeks, a day in Shakespeare's theatre, and an encounter with a play by Anton Chekov. Included with the text are the authors' commentary and notes about the script and its production.
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate, and Harry look on, he prepares for the future of power that lies before him. But how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III i ...Show more
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate, and Harry look on, he prepares for the future of power that lies before him. But how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III is th ...Show more
Knives in Hens by David Harrower
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now. Knives in Hens is a brutal fable set in a timeless spartan rural community. First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in June 1995, befo ...Show more
Lazarus by Walsh, Enda
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Thomas Newton came to Earth seeking water for his drought-ridden planet. Years later he's still stranded here, soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. But the arrival of another lost soul brings one last chance of freedom... Inspired by the book The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and its ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Best known for the novels Little Womenand Little Men,Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo's Boysrevisits P ...Show more
Magnificence by Howard Brenton
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
I loathe us, I loathe our stupid puerile view of the world ... That we have only to do it, that we have only to go puff, and the monster buildings will go splat ...London, the early 70s. Poverty, homelessness, rising inequality, unemployment, industrial disputes. Five young activists squat a disused bui ...Show more