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Missing Persons - Four Tragedies and Roy Keane by Colin Teevan; Edith Hall (Introduction by)
Category: Reference | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
"Like a quiet, lethal explosion somewhere in the very heart of you."--Guardian A father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Never Have I Ever by Deborah Frances-White
Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Jacq and Kas's boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin that his investment is toast is only the start of the evening.Cash, class, identity and infidelity are all on the menu. As the last of the expensive wine flows, a dangerous drinking game ...Show more
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels Set in Ankh-Morpork one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy, Night Watch is the story of Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, who finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth. With a psychopath ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging by Headlong, the 'country's most exciting touring company' (Telegraph), who brought us Romeo & Juliet in 2012, directed by Robert Icke. April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary ...Show more
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to interlock, as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into ...Show more
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Gr ...Show more
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Category: Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
"Noughts and Crosses" is about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of your skin - and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up. As Malorie Blackman herself says: 'I wanted to turn society as we ...Show more
Once by Enda Walsh; Glen Hansard (Other Primary Creator); Markéta Irglová (Lyrics by)
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm.--VogueIt may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original's ...Show more
One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess; Lucia Cox (Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world. Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin ...Show more