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Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
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Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. When the extended Weston family is reunited after dad disappears, the Oklahoma household explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets.
Candide by Voltaire; Mark Ravenhill (Adapted by)
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Candide is a satirical novella written by French philosopher and writer Voltaire. The story follows the adventures of Candide, a naive and optimistic young man who is taught by his tutor, Pangloss, that this world is the ""best of all possible worlds"". Candide's beliefs are challenged when he is expell ...Show more
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
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Category: Plays & Scripts | 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
Port by Simon Stephens
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''A major new voice in British theatre' (Scotsman) Stockport 1988-2002. Rachel Keats is growing up in town she doesn't like. Abandoned by her mother, her family life is torn to tatters as she is left to bring up her younger brother, who, increasingly is drawn to the excitement out on the streets. When h ...Show more
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Precisely balanced . . . a cracking comic thriller' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . 'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only f ...Show more
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz; Simon McBurney; Mark Wheatley
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian) The Street of Crocodiles is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). Originally co-produced by Th ...Show more
The Unfriend (West End Edition) by Steven Moffat
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'We're dying of manners. We're under siege from personal embarrassment. This is not sane. This is not rational. That woman is a monster!' While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touc ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more
Wit (plays, playscript) by Margaret Edson
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Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with stage f ...Show more
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