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Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

By Robert Holman

An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives.

Making Noise Quietly (short play)

Making Noise Quietly (short play)

By Robert Holman

The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
    House of Many Tongues

    House of Many Tongues

    By Jonathan Garfinkel

    Somehow, two families are going to have to live together — if they don’t kill each other first. Jonathan Garfinkel's gripping socio-political drama 'attacks the Israeli-Palestinian question through laughs and magic realism' NOW Magazine.

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    Foxfinder

    Foxfinder

    By Dawn King

    A darkly comic, spell-binding dystopian drama, winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize.

    Written on the Heart

    Written on the Heart

    By David Edgar

    An enthralling historical drama about the creation of the King James Bible, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to mark its four-hundredth anniversary.

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    Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

    Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

    By Terence Rattigan

    The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

    The Last of the Duchess

    The Last of the Duchess

    By Nicholas Wright

    A compelling study of the corruption of fame, the lure of money and the betrayal that lurks at the heart of portraying the people around us, or the people we love. Based on Caroline Blackwood's book of the same name.

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    13

    13

    By Mike Bartlett

    Coincidences, omens and vision collide with political reality in this epic new play by the award-winning Mike Bartlett.

    Bang Bang Bang

    Bang Bang Bang

    By Stella Feehily

    A revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs.

    Decade

    Decade

    Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

    By various

    Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

    truth and reconciliation

    truth and reconciliation

    By debbie tucker green

    A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.

    Emperor and Galilean

    Emperor and Galilean

    By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben Power

    A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.

    Fixer

    Fixer

    By Lydia Adetunji

    An unsettling, intelligent and savagely funny play about oil geopolitics and the price of human life.

    Belongings

    Belongings

    By Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

    From the deserts of a modern war to the battleground of a family kitchen, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's explosive play delves into one woman's quest for identity and a place she can call home.

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    The League of Youth

    The League of Youth

    By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy Barrett

    Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

    Flare Path

    Flare Path

    By Terence Rattigan

    A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War.

    Little Platoons

    Little Platoons

    By Steve Waters

    Moving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens.

    Ivanov

    Ivanov

    By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

    Chekhov's compelling early play, set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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