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Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Alan Cumming (adaptation); Tim Supple (adaptation)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
"I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play, Dario Fo, has the traditional, irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers and so I shall, no doubt, be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes"-Inspector Bertozzo, Central Italian Police HQ In its ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | 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
Christmas Is Miles Away by Chloë Moss
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
" Chlo ] Moss assuredly captures the exhilarating terror of standing on the cusp of adulthood and leaving childhood certainties behind."--Guardian Luke and Christie are typical sixteen-year-old lads from Manchester. They like camping out, drinking lager, and talking about girls. But when they leave scho ...Show more
Fleabag: the Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
$8.00 NZD
Category: Theatre | 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
Forty Winks by Kevin Elyot
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Don still carries a torch for Diana, but Howard stole her away. Fifteen years later, Don shows up on their doorstep, his mother's ashes in a plastic bag. Meanwhile, Howard and Diana's 14-year-old daughter Hermia is the spitting image of her mother. Here we are in Elyot-land, where the wish to re-live th ...Show more
Hard Fruit by Jim Cartwright
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A new play by Jim Cartwright premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in March 2000 From the author of Road and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice comes a new play about life in the North. Sump and Choke are the Little and Large of the local pub. They are friends who have bonded together though a shared pass ...Show more
Making Noise Quietly - Three Short Plays by Robert Holman by Robert Holman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives. In Being Friends, two young men meet in a Kentish field in 1944 as doodlebugs whizz overhead. One is a conscientious objector, the other an artist, but an intense bond forms between them. In Lost, May Appleton, whose son is ser ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Old Times by Harold Pinter
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good
Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004. 'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.' New York Times 'What am I writing ...Show more
Other Places by Harold Pinter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Deborah was a lively 16-year-old and part of a close-knit family when she fell victim to sleeping sickness. Twenty-nine years later, having been watched over throughout by the same doctor, she comes to life and gradually tries to adjust to the world around her.
Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig; Maja Zade (Translator)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A savage satire on the rapacious nature of office lives and lusts - the British debut from a writer whose work has been seen in prestigious theatres all over Germany. Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So, they push for it ...Show more
Shopping and F* * *Ing by Mark Ravenhill; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff; Chris Megson (Series edited by); Jenny Stevens (Series edited by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Shopping and F***ing is... Falling in love with your best friend - if you can get the right mix of Es and whizz... Passion buried beneath layers of bubble and wrap and cellophane. A world where microwaves are the only source of heat. A place where Shopping is sexy and F***ing is a job... And if you kil ...Show more