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A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER by MORTIMER JOHN
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Category: Don't use | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramati ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | 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
Hay Fever by COWARD NOEL
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Category: New Classics | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'This much loved classic is published as a Methuen Modern play for the first time. First produced in 1925 Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their co ...Show more
Interesting Times by Stephen Briggs (Adapted by); Terry Pratchett; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
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Category: New Fantasy & Science Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor.He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terr ...Show more
Jingo by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Briggs
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Category: New Fantasy & Science Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Generous, amusing and the ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld' Sunday Telegraph 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 . . . _____________ ...Show more
Longing by William Boyd
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Category: Don't use | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale about nineteenth-century Russian provincial life, both familiar a ...Show more
MONSIEUR IBRAHIM AND THE FLOWERS OF THE QURAN by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt; Patricia Benecke (Translator); Patrick Driver (Translator); Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
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Category: New Religion | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he''s caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a whole new world. Together they embark o ...Show more
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Briggs (Editor)
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Category: New Fantasy & Science Fiction | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original' 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 . . . ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Playscript by George Orwell
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Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging by Headlong, the 'country's most exciting touring company' (Telegraph), who brought us Romeo & Juliet in 2012, directed by Robert Icke. April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary ...Show more
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
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Category: No Category | 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 Truth by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Briggs (Adapted by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
'An unmitigated delight . . . very, very funny' 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 . . . 'A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boot ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more