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Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
His Dark Materials by Nicholas Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre. His Dark Materials takes us on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. For Lyra and Will, its two central characters, it's a coming of age and a transforming sp ...Show more
Once by Enda Walsh; Glen Hansard (Other Primary Creator); Markéta Irglová (Lyrics by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm.--VogueIt may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original's ...Show more
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | 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.
Taste of Honey (Modern Classic Edition) by S. Delaney
$13.00 AUD
$23.99 (45% off)
Category: Classics | 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 Crocodile by Tom Basden (Adapted by); Fyodor Dostoevsky (Original Author)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education | 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 Ferryman (West End Edition) by Jez Butterworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education | 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
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Education | 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
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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