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One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh & Tim Supple
Category: Classic | Series: Modern Plays
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers fro ...Show more
Oxford Playscripts: Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Oxford Modern Playscripts
Kevin is Catholic. Sadie is Protestant. In Belfast they are supposed to be enemies - so what chance do they have when they fall in love? This title offers new, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfill the Framework objecti ...Show more
Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Modern Plays
A rewriting of the Phaedra myth, "Phaedra's Love" continued Kane's fragmentation of naturalism, and was her first play to deal explicitly with what was to become her main theme: love. Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions, particularly love, and need of any t ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself. Fania Fénelon, a Parisian singer, is arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. There, she finds herself swept into the orchestra, compose ...Show more
Polar Bears by Mark Haddon
Category: Classic | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Polar Bears is a captivating tale by award-winning writer Mark Haddon. Balancing humour and pathos, it tells of one man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition. With an elliptical structure and teasing timeline, the play handles the subject sensitively, ...Show more
Pomona by Alistair McDowall
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city.Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born.Pom ...Show more
Port by Simon Stephens
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
Posh by Laura Wade
Category: Pop Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
In an oak-paneled room in Oxford, ten young punks with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and good wine. Welcome to the Riot Club.
Queers : Eight Monologues by Mark Gatiss
Category: Essays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A BBC series celebrating 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK. A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dares not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding. Queers celebr ...Show more
Quit For Chicks smoking by BUCHANAN KATHY
Category: Other Health | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
"I'm not tame 'cause I want to be with you." Basti and Rdeca are pulling all-nighters. When their paths cross, the sparks fly and an impossible bond spirals dangerously out of control. Rita Kalnejais's audacious new play directed by Steve Marmion is a Soho Theatre commission written whilst on attachment ...Show more
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
Category: Children's History | Series: Modern Plays
An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle across the border. Scavenger. As a violent civil w ...Show more