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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 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
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 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