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  • The Weir

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism.A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman recently moved to the area from Dublin. As the drink flows and the stories become increasingly frightening, it's clear that Valerie has something on her mind. She has a tale to tell that'll stop them all dead in ... Read more

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  • Conor McPherson Plays: Four

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A new collection of plays from the author of The Weir.This volume contains:The Night AliveGirl from the North CountryUncle VanyaThe Brightening Air ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Conor McPherson Plays: Three

    Series series NHB Collected Works
    This volume of Conor McPherson's collected plays, covering a decade of writing, celebrates a fascination with the uncanny which has led him to be described as 'quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation' ( New York Times).In Shining City, a man seeks help from a counsellor, claiming to have seen the ghost of his dead wife. The play, premiered at the Royal Court, London, is 'up there ... Read more

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  • Conor McPherson Plays: Two

    Series series NHB Collected Works
    The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman from Dublin newly moved into the area... 'A spellbinder that transfixes you... No praise in fact is too high' Guardian** ... Read more

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  • Conor McPherson Plays: One

    Series series NHB Collected Works
    Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author.The plays in this volume – three monologues and a three-hander – were all written while Conor McPherson was in his twenties.In This Lime Tree Bower (Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, 1995; Bush Theatre, London, 1996), three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell us in overlapping monologues of their inextricably ... Read more

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  • Cold War

    (stage version)

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Poland, 1949. Zula is bold and brilliant, a singer who ignites the stage. Wiktor is withdrawn and damaged, a composer longing to write. Irresistibly drawn to each other, they dream of escape. But in Communist-controlled Poland, the desire for freedom can be a dangerous thing.Based on the film by Academy Award winner Paweł Pawlikowski, Cold War is an epic love story spanning the decades and breadth ... Read more

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  • Port Authority

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A wry, moving, funny tale of how modern man faces up to the responsibility of love, woven in monologues, from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.A boy leaves home for the first time. A man starts a job for which he is not qualified. A pensioner has just been sent a mysterious package.Away from bar-room bravado, three men show us the reality of big dreams and missed chances, of loves lost ... Read more

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  • The Seafarer

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir.It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be ... Read more

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  • Dublin Carol

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.Present day Dublin. Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the arrival of his daughter Mary – estranged, grown-up – shows him the time has come to face up to his own disastrous past. Otherwise, he will never be able to create some kind of truce ... Read more

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  • Girl from the North Country

    (2022 edition)

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse.The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for.So, when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback turn up in the middle of the night, ... Read more

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  • The Veil

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time.May 1822, rural Ireland. The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen year-old Hannah to England. She is to ... Read more

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  • St Nicholas

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'They have power. Not the power to make you do what they want. But real power. To make you want what they want.'An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.A cynical and jaded drama critic falls for a beautiful young actress. In pursuing her, he meets a group of modern-day vampires who offer him eternal life – his part of the bargain is to feed their bloodlust.Conor ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus