Scotland Plays (NHB Modern Plays) : New Scottish Drama

✍ Linda McLean; Iain Crichton Smith; Riccardo Galgani 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Nick Hern Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 39 KB

A triptych of short plays on the theme of family, from three generations of Scottish writers. *Acts* by Riccardo Galgani: an old couple have not seen their son in years. One day he walks back into their lives, bringing with him a pictureless picture frame and a set of half-recalled memories of a ti

Stephen Jeffreys: Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

✍ Stephen Jeffreys 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Nick Hern Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 206 KB

A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016. Included here are his first big success, *Valued Friends*, a comedy of manners about the

Stephen Jeffreys: Plays: NHB Modern Plays

✍ Jeffreys, Stephen 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Nick Hern Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 212 KB 👁 2 views

A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016. Included here are his first big success, *Valued Friends*, a comedy of manners about

Three Short Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

✍ Caryl Churchill 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Nick Hern Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 14 KB 👁 2 views

Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events. *War and Peace Gaza Piece* (2014) draws on Tolstoy's novel and accounts of family life in Gaza. *Tickets are Now On Sale* (2015) explores the relationship between sponsorship and

Our New Girl (NHB Modern Plays)

✍ Nancy Harris 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 Nick Hern Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 68 KB

A startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood. Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's immaculate London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic surgeon husband, Richard, has embarked on his latest charitable mission to Haiti, leaving the heavily pregnan

Angel (NHB Modern Plays)

✍ Henry Naylor 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 539 KB

Syria, 2014. In the town of Kobane, there's a siege as fierce as Stalingrad. ISIS, having steam-rollered through Iraq, are expecting to take the town easily. But the citizens have found a heroine: a crackshot sniper with 100 kills to her name. And she appears indestructible. She's the legendary Ange