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Sea Wall by Simon Stephens
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful. Alex's story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles, as he sp ...Show more
Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Look it's two two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It's really not that deep... Holed up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent though - she's got a lot to say. On the internet, actions ...Show more
Shirley Valentine by RUSSELL WILLY
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "It is a simple and brilliant idea...the profound and perennial point of the ...Show more
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at the age of 18. No longer the possession of the soci ...Show more
Strangers in Between by Tommy Murphy
Category: Art and Design | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
An unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others. Winner of the Best Play Award at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Shane, sixteen and scared shitless, has fled small-town Australia for downtown Sydney. Ad ...Show more
Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Oberon Modern Plays
I looked around the room and I thought, I m the only person in this room that hasn t killed anyone. "Talking to Terrorists" is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been involved in t ...Show more
Taste of Honey (Modern Classic Edition) by S. Delaney
Category: Classic | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
First issued by Methuen in 1959, this play was the first title in the Modern plays series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoer This title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of titles in print .
Terminus by Mark O'Rowe
Category: Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with demons. 'We go, see the slo-mo ebb and flow; the mill, the babble, the rabble of wobbling waywards, exiled and aimless, unlike us as, purposeful and double-file, like kids on a dare, we head who the fuck knows where?' Three people are ripped from their dail ...Show more
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Oxford Modern Playscripts
Maurice is no ordinary cat. He's amazing. He can think, he can talk...and he has an amazing scam going. And all he needs to pull it off is an army of intelligent rats and one stupid-looking kid. But when his gang enter Bad Blintz, the town they have decided to con next, they soon realize that all is not ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in a cult ...Show more
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Lucy Kirkwood's play The Children premiered at the Royal Court, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 17 November 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald.The Children was named Best Play at the 2018 Writers' Guild Awards.
The Crocodile by Tom Basden (Adapted by); Fyodor Dostoevsky (Original Author)
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Ivan is an actor who hasn't achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when he is swallowed whole by a crocodile. Based on Dostoyevsky's short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try t ...Show more