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1984 (Playscript) by George Orwell; Robert Icke (Adapted by); Duncan Macmillan (Adapted by)
Category: No Category | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
The most iconic novel ever written about the dangers of totalitarianism, media manipulation and the rewriting of history. The quotidian tragedy of Winston and Julia is an exemplary and cruel portrait of an unhappy world, a prophecy that chills our blood and moves us in equal measure.
1984 (stage Version) by George Orwell; Nick Hern (Adapted by)
Category: No Category | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'O'Brien! They've got you too!' 'They got me a long time ago.' Winston Smith is in prison, found guilty of Thoughtcrimes against Big Brother. As part of his reconstruction, he must re-enact key moments from his past life, with the help of other thought criminals, so that everyone can learn from his mist ...Show more
A Disappearing Number (Play) by Simon McBurney & Theatre Complicite
Category: Education | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in Cambridge during the First ...Show more
Alarms and Excursions by Michael Frayn
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh' (Guardian) Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzzers, warblers, beepers and cheeper ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland & THROUGH THE Looking Glass by Carroll, Lewis, Caroll, Lewis, Mitchell, Adrian
Category: Classics | Series: Oberon Plays for Young People Ser.
On a glorious summer's afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed rabbit looking at his watch and muttering, "I'm too late " This not being an everyday occurence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole and falls into Wonderland. Lewis Carroll's timeless children's stories are magically bro ...Show more
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen; Arthur Miller (Translator, Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story, Stockmann appeals to a public me ...Show more
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
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
Anna by Ella Hickson
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
1968. East Berlin. Anna and Hans are married, in love and moving up in the world--but it is a world ruled by suspicion. Who can be trusted when everyone is listening? Can we ever escape our past?
At the Inland Sea by Edward Bond; Tony Coult (Editor); Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
''A new play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event.the severity and seriousness of his message is delivered with extraordinary directness' (Carole Woddis, Times Educational Supplement) On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams ...Show more
Banging Denmark by Van Badham
Category: Art | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.
Ish Madigan is a feminist academic writing a thesis on computer games. Jake Newhouse is a full-time management consultant and part-time pickup artist. They're not exactly best friends. But when Jake's latest crush - a brilliant Danish librarian - doesn't respond to his usual seduction techniques, he kno ...Show more
Barungin (Smell The Wind) by DAVIS Jack
Category: Fiction | Series: Plays Ser.
A powerful culmination of the dramatic history of Aboriginal life from the arrival of the white man 200 years ago (2 acts, 6 men, 4 women).
Blackrock (Play) by Nick Enright
Category: Education | Series: Plays Ser.
This work forms part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations of the University of Glamorgan. It traces the institution's development from its beginnings as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university and sets that history in the context of the university's e ...Show more