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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.

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The Shape of the Table

The Shape of the Table

By David Edgar

An urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.

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The Guid Sisters and other plays

The Guid Sisters and other plays

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay, Martin Bowman, John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer.

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The Guid Sisters

The Guid Sisters

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman

Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

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    Manon / Sandra

    Manon / Sandra

    By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek

    A controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.

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      Albertine in Five Times

      Albertine in Five Times

      By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

      A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.

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        Sweeney Todd

        Sweeney Todd

        By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

        The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.

        Light in the Village

        Light in the Village

        By John Clifford

        A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.

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        Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

        Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

        By Tony Kushner

        Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

        A Moon for the Misbegotten

        A Moon for the Misbegotten

        By Eugene O'Neill

        The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family.

        Grace

        Grace

        By Doug Lucie

        A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

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        A Going Concern

        A Going Concern

        By Stephen Jeffreys

        A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.

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        The Skriker

        The Skriker

        By Caryl Churchill

        An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

        Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

        Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

        By Tony Kushner

        The second part of Tony Kushner's acclaimed epic drama set during the Reagan years in America.

        Dora: A Case of Hysteria

        Dora: A Case of Hysteria

        By Kim Morrissey

        A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.

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        My Heart's a Suitcase & Low Level Panic

        My Heart's a Suitcase & Low Level Panic

        By Clare McIntyre

        Two modern feminist classics by a writer who was amongst the extraordinary generation of British female playwrights to emerge in the 1980s.

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        The Mill on the Floss

        The Mill on the Floss (stage version)

        By George Eliot Adapted by Helen Edmundson

        A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

        The Clearing

        The Clearing

        By Helen Edmundson

        A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.

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        The Crack in the Emerald

        The Crack in the Emerald

        New Irish Plays

        Edited by David Grant

        Four Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

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