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1984 (Playscript) by George Orwell; Robert Icke (Adapted by); Duncan Macmillan (Adapted by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The most iconic novel ever written about the dangers of totalitarianism, media manipulation and the rewriting of history. The quotidian tragedy of Winston and Julia is an exemplary and cruel portrait of an unhappy world, a prophecy that chills our blood and moves us in equal measure.
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens; David Edgar (Adapted by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation resulting from supernatural visits from Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Chr ...Show more
A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'There's a knock at the door.' Fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling marriage, leaving her family behind, she's back with an urgent request. Lucas Hnath's funny, probing and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen's complex exploration of traditional gender roles, and a shar ...Show more
A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feist ...Show more
A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER by MORTIMER JOHN
Category: Drama | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramati ...Show more
An Octoroon by Jacobs Jenkins Branden
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?"' Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful 'octor ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Category: Plays & Scripts | 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?
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Category: Classic | 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.
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew then, in that moment - that she had taken it literally... Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Richard Gadd has a ...Show more
Candide (Play) by Voltaire; Mark Ravenhill (Adapted by)
Category: Classics | 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