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  • Hannah Khalil: Plays of Arabic Heritage

    Plan D; Scenes from 73* Years; A Negotiation; A Museum in Baghdad; Last of the Pearl Fishers; Hakawatis

    by Hannah Khalil ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    This is the first ever collection of plays by Palestinian-Irish playwright Hannah Khalil; the first woman of Arab heritage to have a main-stage play at the RSC. It encompasses a decade's worth of plays exploring her Arab heritage, drawing on family histories as well as significant events in the Arab World. They were all written during a period that included the end of the war in Iraq, the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Love Omar

    by Hannah Khalil ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    They're coming to see whether or not I can REALLY act. Hoping I can't - knives out.One hour until curtain up, and Omar Sharif isn't happy. The show went well last night, but he feels aggrieved that he was upstaged by his fellow actor. He puts on his makeup and longs for a little moment of peace. But that isn't easy when he has to share a dressing room. It's more than Omar can endure – he is the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • HAKAWATIS

    Women of the Arabian Nights

    by Hannah Khalil ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Hakawati Noun: Storyteller. From the Arabic terms 'hekaye' meaning story and 'haki' meaning to talk.A tyrant revenges his wife's infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new bride every day. Years later, only five brides-in-waiting remain.These women are unapologetic, and united in their fight to keep themselves – and the whole of womankind – alive. They've got other ideas for their future, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Interference

    Series series Modern Plays
    Can you ever really trust a machine?It is the near future.A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution.A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her young daughter.In a care home staffed by advanced AIs, a woman struggles to make a connection with her android carer.Interference is a trilogy of near-future plays. Staged in an empty office ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Fir Tree

    by Hannah Khalil ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    I want to know what the other trees knowGo where the other trees goWhere do they go?Writer Hannah Khalil collaborates with Shakespeare's Globe in London in this magical re-imagining and re-wilding of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale The Fir Tree.Written for just four actors this inventive and dynamic adaptation harnesses all of the joy of the Christmas season and reminds us that we can ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Not Beckett, The Plays

    Female and Non-binary Irish Playwrights Respond

    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Five new short plays, including author commentaries, from female and non-binary writers of Irish heritage in response to Samuel Beckett.What does Irish heritage mean to members of the modern-day diaspora? Global playwrights Olwen Fouéré, Jennifer Barclay, FELISPEAKS, Nicola McCartney and Hannah Khalil make their mark with five unique pieces loosely inspired by seeds from the Beckett canon ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • My English Persian Kitchen

    by Hannah Khalil ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024Every time I've tried to make this dish there's been something missing. It hasn't been quite right. But now I think I know what it is. The missing piece. I'm almost sure. Today is the day. I'll get this recipe right. I have to. For them.What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Wood of Words

    In Every Leaf

    Series series Plays for Young People
    Friendship makes us fresh.And doth beget new courage in our breasts.A new play for young people and schools, created from Shakespeare's works.In this wood of words, a band of newcomers arrive to witness banishments, storms, unhappy endings, reunions, and murder most foul... and try to make sense of it all. This unique and thoughtful adaptation for young performers of several of Shakespeare's works ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Scenes from 68* Years

    by Hannah Khalil ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    *What are we doing then? Come on, lets go – all of us, lets tell everyone in the street, its too late we've lost, all the years of hardship, being murdered, imprisoned, having your homes taken, your jobs, your fields, your olives, your ability to move from one place to another – everything you have endured has been for nothing. They'vewon. So let's just leave it to them, disappear. It's what they ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists

    Three Plays by Women from the Global Majority

    Series series Plays for Young People
    Nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education AwardsA first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into activism.With award-winning plays from the UK's most revolutionary female writers of colour, as well as bespoke multimedia learning guides, this collection ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Life of King Henry VIII: All is True

    Series series Modern Plays
    'Who knows yetBut from this Lady may proceed a gemTo lighten all this isle'You know the story: a King who turns his country upside down to try and secure a male heir. But it's never been told this way before.A Queen fights for justice. A Lady provokes reformation. But in the absence of a son, cana Princess change the future?See the story of Henry VIII from a female perspective: this exploration of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Theatre in Times of Crisis

    20 Scenes for the Stage in Troubled Times

    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