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Aftershocks by Paul Brown
Category: Drama | Series: PLAYS
This play documents the cataclysmic Newcastle earthquake and its aftermath. Based entirely on taped interviews, this is the dramatic presentation of real oral history, as told by the staff and friends of the Newcastle Workers Club. In unvarnished tones, sometimes funny, sometimes terrified, they show th ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland & THROUGH THE Looking Glass by Carroll, Lewis, Caroll, Lewis, Mitchell, Adrian
Category: Classics | Series: Oberon Plays for Young People Ser.
On a glorious summer's afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed rabbit looking at his watch and muttering, "I'm too late " This not being an everyday occurence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole and falls into Wonderland. Lewis Carroll's timeless children's stories are magically bro ...Show more
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen; Arthur Miller (Translator, Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story, Stockmann appeals to a public me ...Show more
An Octoroon by Jacobs Jenkins Branden
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'What you gonna do once you free? You just gonna walk up in somebody house and be like,"Hey. I'm a slave. Help me?"' Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent, and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful 'octor ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (in a separate volume). Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a ...Show more
Anna by Ella Hickson
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
1968. East Berlin. Anna and Hans are married, in love and moving up in the world--but it is a world ruled by suspicion. Who can be trusted when everyone is listening? Can we ever escape our past?
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the ...Show more
Artaud on Theatre by ARTAUD ANTONIN
Category: Fiction | Series: Plays and Playwrights
All of Artaud's theatrical ideas collected in one volume Artaud's cherished dream was to found a new kind of theatre in France that would not be an artistic spectacle, but a communion between spectators and actors. This volume contains all of Artaud's key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his ...Show more
Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty by BERMEL ALBERT
Category: Fiction | Series: Plays and Playwrights
The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks closely at Artaud's work as a playwright, director, a ...Show more
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Category: Classic | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. When the extended Weston family is reunited after dad disappears, the Oklahoma household explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets.
Away by Michael Gow
Category: Fiction | Series: PLAYS
Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 women).
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew then, in that moment - that she had taken it literally... Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Richard Gadd has a ...Show more