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A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feist ...Show more
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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.
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
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Category: Performing Arts Drama 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
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy by Ryan Calais Cameron
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
I found a king in me and now I love youI found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Located on ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Emma Reeves (Adapted by)
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Category: Kid's Classics | 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
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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.
Pomona by Alistair McDowall
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city.Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born.Pom ...Show more
Taste of Honey (Modern Classic Edition) by S. Delaney
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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 .
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of revenge.The second play in Martin McDonagh ...Show more
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Larry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama is set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It follows the efforts of one man, while his friends are dying around him, to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from public officials and the gay community, and gain ...Show more
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
23.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Larry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama, set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Normal Heart traces the story of one man who, while his friends are dying around him, strives to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from public officials and the g ...Show more