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Lazarus by Walsh, Enda
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Thomas Newton came to Earth seeking water for his drought-ridden planet. Years later he's still stranded here, soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. But the arrival of another lost soul brings one last chance of freedom... Inspired by the book The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and its ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Best known for the novels Little Womenand Little Men,Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo's Boysrevisits P ...Show more
Longing by William Boyd
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale about nineteenth-century Russian provincial life, both familiar a ...Show more
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.'In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather and politica ...Show more
Magnificence by Howard Brenton
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
I loathe us, I loathe our stupid puerile view of the world ... That we have only to do it, that we have only to go puff, and the monster buildings will go splat ...London, the early 70s. Poverty, homelessness, rising inequality, unemployment, industrial disputes. Five young activists squat a disused bui ...Show more
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; Lemn Sissay (Adapted by)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the ...Show more
Misery Guts & Tartuffe by Liz Lochhead
Category: Performing Arts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
One of Scotland's most popular writers, the multi-award-winning Liz Lochhead, takes on Moli re's most famous play. Le Misanthrope is a bitter comedy about a sophisticated Parisian who cannot help telling uncomfortable truths about his fellow men. Lochhead transposes the setting to present-day Scotland, ...Show more
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: 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
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
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