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  • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

    by Javaad Alipoor ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'Fereydoun Farrokhzad is invisible to everyone apart from, mostly, Iranians, because nobody apart from them ever has to think about him.'It's the 1970s, and Fereydoun Farrokhzad's star is blazing bright – he's a sex symbol and chart-topping pop singer. Imagine an Iranian Tom Jones. A decade on and he's living in political exile in Germany, though still selling out the Royal Albert Hall. Then, on 7 ... Read more

    $16.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trueman and the Arsonists

    by Max Frisch, Chris Thorpe, Simon Stephens ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it.This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it.Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all down. It's a plague. And we don't know why.But Trueman is no fool. He can spot an arsonist from a mile ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • I Wish I Was Lonely/The Oh Fuck Moment

    by Hannah Walker, Chris Thorpe ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Two performance texts by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris ThorpeThe Oh Fuck MomentFucking up is the truest, funniest, most terrifying moment you can experience. Poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre-maker Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lighting. The Oh Fuck Moment is an award-winning conversation around a desk for brave souls to hold their hands up and ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Positive Stories For Negative Times

    Five Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

    by Ms Sabrina Mahfouz, Stef Smith, Chris Thorpe, Bea Webster, Jack Nurse, Robbie Gordon ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space.Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, these five plays offer a variety of stories, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Theatre in Times of Crisis

    20 Scenes for the Stage in Troubled Times

    by Mr Edward Bond, Mojisola Adebayo, Ms Sudha Bhuchar, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Zoe Cooper, MS Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Tim Crouch, Inua Ellams, Mr James Graham, Tanika Gupta, Hannah Khalil, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Mr Alistair McDowall, MR Vinay Patel, Ms Lucy Prebble, Philip Ridley, Mr Christopher Shinn, Simon Stephens, Chris Thorpe, Laura Wade, Anne Washburn, Luckstar Enterprises ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help audiences understand the world around them. Since the theatre of the Greeks, audiences have turned to live theatre in order to find answers in uncertain political, social and economic times, and through this ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Shape of the Pain

    by Chris Thorpe, Rachel Bagshaw ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain. Pain with no apparent cause. Also, she's met someone, and they want to make this work.Words, light and an original sound score collide in a new piece from this Scotsman Fringe First award-winning team – exploring life in extremity, and the joy that can be found there. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Iphigenia Quartet

    by Caroline Bird, Lulu Raczka, Chris Thorpe, Ms Suhayla El-Bushra ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch.Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. To raise the winds to send his fleet to Troy, Agamemnon is commanded by the gods to sacrifice his ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • There Has Possibly Been An Incident

    by Chris Thorpe ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don’t land the way they’re supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but those leaders have to be replaced with something. A person steps out of a crowd and, for a moment, becomes more than human. A man walks into the lobby of a building and brings death with him to prove his ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Confirmation

    by Chris Thorpe, Rachel Chavkin ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014If you pinned me against a wall and put a gun to my head, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Actually if you pinned me against a wall and put a gun to my head,I’d probably admit to being whatever you wanted me to be. And of course, putting a gun to my head is exactly what I’d expect from someone likeyou.Confirmation is a show about the gulf between ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Mysteries

    by Chris Thorpe ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Six plays, six places: Eskdale, Staindrop, Whitby, Boston, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester.ChrisThorpe's cycle of six warm, witty new plays crosses Northern England, from a sheep farm in Eskdale via a tourist information centre in Whitby to Manchester.A fort on a hilltop, a landowner's estate, a tourist information office, a bird sanctuary, a re-developed factory, a public square, silent and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Status

    by Chris Thorpe ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Status is a show about someone who doesn't want his any more. About running away from the national story you're given. About who is responsible for that story and what might happen to it if you give it up.A globe-spanning journey of attempted escape, with songs along the way. Status springs from conversations about who we might be, and whether your country needs you more than you might need it.A ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Victory Condition

    by Chris Thorpe ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    “A thousand people are taking a sip of coffee within the city limits of Johannesburg, each unaware of the other doing it, each one necessarily thinking they are the only one.”An attempt to get to grips with the fact that everything happens at once.And to see if there’s anything we can do about it.“Find the connection between where you are and where I am. Open up the space between us and do ... Read more

    $13.69 USD