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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 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
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.
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
Category: Plays | 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: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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: Film & Tv | 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
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 201 ...Show more
Far Away - Caryl Churchill by Caryl Churchill
Category: Junior Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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