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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
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
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 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
The Emperor by Colin Teevan
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power. A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, from the ...Show more
The Encounter by Complicite; Simon McBurney
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter traces McIntyre's journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance to build a shifting world of sound.The Encounter opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 20 ...Show more
The Ferryman (West End Edition) by Jez Butterworth
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.' County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be ...Show more
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Precisely balanced . . . a cracking comic thriller' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . 'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only f ...Show more
The Firework-Maker's Daughter (play) by Phillip Pullman
Category: Children's | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Adapted by Stephen Russell, The Firework-Makers Daughter, is award winning childrens writer Philip Pullmans brilliant and inspiring story about Lila, who dreams of becoming a firework-maker just like her father. Her hopes are dashed when her father tells her it is no job for a girl. Setting out in se ...Show more