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1984 (stage Version) by George Orwell; Nick Hern (Adapted by)
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'O'Brien! They've got you too!' 'They got me a long time ago.' Winston Smith is in prison, found guilty of Thoughtcrimes against Big Brother. As part of his reconstruction, he must re-enact key moments from his past life, with the help of other thought criminals, so that everyone can learn from his mist ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Anna by Ella Hickson
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
1968. East Berlin. Anna and Hans are married, in love and moving up in the world--but it is a world ruled by suspicion. Who can be trusted when everyone is listening? Can we ever escape our past?
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
Category: Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tia ...Show more
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
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
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
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
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
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