NHB Modern Plays
The NHB Modern Plays series features the pick of modern and contemporary plays from leading UK and international playwrights. Championing quality, accessibility and diversity, it takes the best writing for the stage and gives it enduring life on the page.
World Factory: The Game
A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Words of Advice for Young People
An intriguing and offbeat play about family and religion.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Word-Play
A play about what happens when a Prime Minister ad-libs on live TV, exploring how language seeps into public consciousness and reverberates with far-reaching consequences that will last for generations. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Wonder of Sex
A delightfully wacky comedy about the facts of life, from the fictional 'National Theatre of Brent'.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Wonder Boy
By Ross WillisA play about the power of finding your own voice, revolving around a twelve-year-old boy with a stammer. Winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Women, Power and Politics: Then
Four plays
By variousA collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Women, Power and Politics: Now
Five plays
By variousA collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Women of Llanrumney
By Azuka OforkaA powerful, searing drama that explores the impact of slavery and the lives of women who experienced it. Premiered at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEbook£10.99£8.79Available soonWomen Centre Stage: Eight Short Plays By and About Women
By various Edited by Sue ParrishA collection of short plays curated by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Woman Caught Unaware
By Annie FoxA searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.
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£3.99£3.19
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (stage version)
By Joan Aiken Adapted by Russ TunneyA thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aiken's classic children's novel, perfectly suited to performance by theatre companies and drama groups of any size.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Wolves Are Coming For You
By Joel HorwoodA play for two actors – or many more – exploring just how much wild we're comfortable with.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Wolfie
By Ross WillisA wildly imaginative, irreverent look at life in and after the care system.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Wolf Kisses
By Paloma Pedrero Translated by Roxana SilbertA luminous tale from Spain, about a young woman who returns to her rural village home to await her Parisian lover.
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£3.99£3.19
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Mike PoultonMike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
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£10.99£8.79
Wolf Hall (stage version)
By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Mike PoultonThe first part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
Published in volume Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)The Witness
A dark and piercing thriller of modern morals from the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Mogadishu.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Withdrawal
By Mohammad Al Attar Translated by Clem NaylorA play from Syria, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.
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£5.99£4.79
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