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Girl from the North Country by Mcpherson Conor
$23.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for. So, when a ...Show more
Hostage by Beatrice Behan; Brendan Behan
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'An essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood''s Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to ...Show more
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate, and Harry look on, he prepares for the future of power that lies before him. But how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III i ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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.
The Crocodile by Tom Basden (Adapted by); Fyodor Dostoevsky (Original Author)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Ivan is an actor who hasn't achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when he is swallowed whole by a crocodile. Based on Dostoyevsky's short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try t ...Show more
The Emperor by Colin Teevan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Playscript | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power. A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, from the ...Show more
The Encounter by Complicite; Simon McBurney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter traces McIntyre's journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance to build a shifting world of sound.The Encounter opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 20 ...Show more
The Ferryman (West End Edition) by Jez Butterworth
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.' County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be ...Show more
The Weir by Conor McPherson
$23.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism. A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman recently moved to the area from Dublin. As the drink flows and the stories become increasingly frightening, it's clear ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
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