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  • Knives in Hens

    Series series Modern Plays
    'I have no name for the thing which is in my head. It is not envy. It is more than envy. It does not scare me. I must look close enough to look at what it is.'A ploughman and his wife live a simple existence in a pre-industrial time until they, along with the hated local miller, are drawn into a struggle of knowledge, power and attraction.David Harrower's haunting play established him as one of ... Read more

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  • Six Characters Looking For An Author

    Series series Modern Plays
    A new version of one of the most influential plays of the 20th centurySix people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, ... Read more

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  • Knives in Hens

    Series series Modern Classics
    *The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now.Knives in Hens* is a brutal fable set in a timeless spartan rural community. First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in June 1995, before transferring to the Bush Theatre, London, in November 1995, the play was playwright David ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Kill The Old, Torture Their Young

    Series series Modern Plays
    Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragi-comedy from the acclaimed writer of Knives in Hens, one of Scotland's most talented new playwrightsA documentary maker returns to the city of his birth. His task, to film his impressions. An old man remembers a time when eagles flew over the city. A TV executive reaches breaking point in the city he loves. A struggle actor seeks fame in a city ... Read more

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  • Midsummer [a play with songs]

    by David Greig ...
    Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, ... Read more

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  • UPTON SINCLAIR Ultimate Collection: 30+ Books in One Volume

    Progressive Era novels, plays, and essays on labor, industry, religion, health, and the press

    "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." This carefully edited collection of works by Upton Sinclair is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels The Jungle 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Moneychangers King Coal: A Novel The Metropolis A Prisoner of Morro; or, In the Hands of Enemy They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the ... Read more

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    by Bryony Lavery ...
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  • The Angry Brigade

    Series series Modern Plays
    Its government has declared a vicious class war. A one-sided war . . . We have started to fight back . . . with bombs.Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets: MPs, embassies, police, pageant queens. A world of order is shattered by anarchy and the rules have changed. ... Read more

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  • The Miser (Mobi Classics)

    L'Avare is a 1668 five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. Its title is usually translated as The Miser when the play is performed in English. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Hedda Gabler

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    Translated by Brian Friel ...
    Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating effect.Brian Friel's version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in September 2008, to ... Read more

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  • The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939

    by Anthony Roche ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. From a consideration of such influential precursors as Boucicault and Wilde, Anthony Roche goes on to examine the role of Yeats as both founder and playwright, the one who set the agenda until his death in 1939. Each of the major playwrights of the movement ... Read more

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