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Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Blasted by Sarah Kane
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays
Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil wa ...Show more
Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for ...Show more
Brief Encounter by Noel Coward
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays
I'm a happily married woman. Or rather I was until a few weeks ago. This is my whole world and it's enough, or rather it was until a few weeks ago. Your heart dances. The world seems strange and new. You want to laugh and skip and fall forever...You are in love. You are in love with the wrong person. La ...Show more
Crave - Sarah Kane by Sarah Kane
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Category: No Category | 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
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
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Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Fleabag: the Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.' The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue fo ...Show more
Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? by ALBEE, EDWARD
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays
Hopelessly Devoted by Kate Tempest
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Freedom has only ever meant Love. And life lived without love Is not life enough. Chess is in prison. Facing a lengthy sentence, her cell mate, Serena, becomes her soul mate. But when Serena is given parole, Chess faces total isolation. Hope comes in the form of a music producer looking for a reason to ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Plays
Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by ...Show more
NELL GWYNN by Swale Jessica
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second-class citizens, can her charm and spirit protect her from the dangers of the Cour ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Nicole Kidman made her much-anticipated return to the London stage in the fall 2015 West End production of this new play by Anna Ziegler, about the woman who discovered DNA. Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life, it could hold the key.