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Candide (Play) by Voltaire; Mark Ravenhill (Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Candide is a satirical novella written by French philosopher and writer Voltaire. The story follows the adventures of Candide, a naive and optimistic young man who is taught by his tutor, Pangloss, that this world is the ""best of all possible worlds"". Candide's beliefs are challenged when he is expell ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tia ...Show more
Cleansed by Sarah Kane
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Modern Plays
This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with sexuality, social ostracism and the effects of dru ...Show more
Closer by Patrick Marber
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
There's a moment. There's always a moment . . . Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry. This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers . . . On its p ...Show more
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is ...Show more
Cold War by Jerome Preisler
Category: Fiction | Series: Tom Clancy's Power Plays S.
Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of Politika and Shadow Watch, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. The fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and ...Show more
Crave - Sarah Kane by Sarah Kane
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Modern Plays
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a genuinely poetic richness" (Time Out) "A dramatic poem in ...Show more
Curious Incident of the Dog in the by Mark Haddon
Category: Classic | Series: Modern Plays
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is ...Show more
Cutting Edge by Tom Clancy; Martin Greenberg (Created by); Jerome Preisler
Category: Fiction | Series: Power Plays Ser.
WIRED. Africa becomes the battle ground in 21st-century war. As fiberoptic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The pan-African fiberoptic ring is his most ambitious—and expensive—endeavor to date. His nemesis ...Show more
Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Powerplays) by Tom Clancy
Category: Fiction | Series: Tom Clancy's Power Plays S.
Africa becomes the battleground in 21st-century war. As fibreoptic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The pan-African fibreoptic ring is his most ambitious . . . and expensive . . . endeavour to date. His neme ...Show more
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
This translation of Rostand's 19th-century play about the swordsman-poet with a nose too large to be taken seriously was first seen in the 1985 RSC production. This volume contains the full original text, slightly adapted and translated into verse by Burgess, who also writes the introduction.