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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
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
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
Stoning Mary by Debbie Tucker Green
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Mysterious while compelling, bewildering while intoxicating, Stoning Mary is a mix of Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, and Edward Bond. Yet Debbie Tucker Green has a voice all her own, one that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. In 2004, she won the O ...Show more
The President of an Empty Room - A Story of Voodoo, Heroin and Tobacco by Steven Knight
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things. Amid the vibrant, spirited community of a Cuban cigar factory, the senior roller proclaims a democracy and work goes to hell. There's Flamenco dancing, bursts of opera, quarrels, reconciliati ...Show more
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