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In Basildon by David Eldridge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
'People always get the wrong idea about Essex don't they?' Len's on his death bed and the family gather to say their final farewells. His sisters still aren't speaking after nearly 20 years, his nephew's trying for a baby - and a bigger house, while his best mate Ken remembers 'Bas-vegas' when it was a ...Show more
Land of Our Fathers by Chris Urch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband" "I can't believe we're stuck down a mine." "Yet here we are" 3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks everything these men believ ...Show more
Little Thing, Big Thing by Donal O'Kelly
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher Sister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to rob a convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. The film roll Martha is ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho by Jon Brittain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Look at us, Margaret - the press is on our side. We're heroes: the public is behind us, we're protecting our children, the party is united behind the cause. You can stand against it if you want, but you will stand alone. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female Prime Minister, gets lost around the stre ...Show more
Medea by Mike Bartlett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash. Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep and increasingly can't cope. While her child plays, s ...Show more
Melody Loses Her Mojo by Keith Saha
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
I gotta keep hold of my Mojo He keeps me bouncing up and down like a yo-yo When I'm on a low low He makes me ho ho Gets me flying out of black holes like Chewbacca and Han Solo Melody is in the care system and is out of control ...the only thing that is constant in Melody's life is her toy monster, Mojo ...Show more
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
$21.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
"Noughts and Crosses" is about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of your skin - and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up. As Malorie Blackman herself says: 'I wanted to turn society as we ...Show more
Peddling by Harry Melling
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He's a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his world, where he's coming from and where he's going to. peddling received its world premiere at Hightide Fes ...Show more
Peter Pan Goes Wrong by Jonathan Sayer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011's production of Jack and the Bean-Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan! The inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to ...Show more
Private Lives by Noel Coward
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Coward's wit and precision as a modern dramatist is nowhere better exemplified than in this classic modern play from 1930. Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne (originally played by Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward), recently divorced from one another five years previously, arrive coincidentally at the same F ...Show more
Protest Song by Tim Price
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
Danny sleeps rough on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Has done for years. Then one morning he wakes to see a canvas city being erected in front of him. And Danny finds himself swept up in the last occupation of London. Protest Song is a fictional play inspired by real events. Tim Price's funny and sav ...Show more
Race by David Mamet
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Plays
There is nothing. A white person. Can say to a black person. About Race ...Race. Is the most incendiary topic in our history. And the moment it comes out, you cannot close the lid on that box. Sparks fly when three lawyers and a defendant clash over the issue of race and the American judicial system. A ...Show more