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The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to Thirties by Dee Cannon
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Following on from the bestselling first volume (2008) and second volume (2013) this book showcases selected monologues from some of the ...Show more
The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man by Tom Wright
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Arriving from his East Midlands beginnings into a London thick with the grime of industrialisation, Joseph Merrick is an anomaly. In a city of factories that churn out uniformity, there is no place for someone like him. But Merrick and the city are evolving into something new. We follow him through the ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parod ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory com ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: Children's Graphic Novels | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'Winner of the 1992 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Comedy, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a cracker, 'original, hilarious and hauntingly sad' (Daily Telegraph) Like everything Cartwright writes, Little Voice is playful, magical and terrifying, a view of the ...Show more
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov; Anya Reiss (Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
"Chekhov, speaking simply and never otherwise than as an artist and a humane man, shows us in fullness and plenitude the mystery of our lives."-Eudora Welty "What writers influenced me as a young man? Chekhov! As a dramatist? Chekhov! As a story writer? Chekhov!"-Tennessee Williams The Seagull is Anton ...Show more
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz; Simon McBurney; Mark Wheatley
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
"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 Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
In this stage adaptation of the children's favorite, Andrea is condemned to shuttling between her Mum and Dad when each takes up with a new partner...
The Unfriend (West End Edition) by Steven Moffat
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
The Weir by Conor McPherson
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism. A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman recently moved to the area from Dublin. As the drink flows and the stories become increasingly frightening, it's clear ...Show more
Three Kings by Stephen Beresford
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A triumph... a small yet well-measured tale. --Los Angeles Times When Patrick is eight years old, his absent father returns unexpectedly for a brief but memorable encounter. Years later--recalling that meeting, and the revelations that followed--Patrick traces the events of his father's life, laying bar ...Show more
Traps by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls. Like a painting by Escher 'where the objects can exist on paper, but would be impossible in life', Traps is a mindbending dramatic concoction in which the characters can be thought of ...Show more