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  • The Government Inspector

    by Nikolai Gogol, Phil Porter ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Don't blame the mirror if your face is askew.One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite.In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a penniless nobody for the inspector they swiftly fall victim to ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Stealing Sweets and Punching People

    by Phil Porter ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Emily is sixteen. She lives with her dad and works in a junk shop with no customers. She's got a nose like a white strawberry, hair like a demented angel and a terrible, terrible secret…Adolescence, sexuality and guilt come together in this richly theatrical, macabre and often hilarious play about an ordinary life going badly wrong…Stealing Sweets and Punching People was produced at the Latchmere ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Boy with Two Hearts

    by Hamed Amiri, Phil Porter ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    You know, I honestly believe he has two hearts? A heart that fails him, of course. But another that keeps him going – a heart that won't be beaten!A story of hope, from Afghanistan to Wales.Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her execution. With no choice but to run, the Amiri family ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Boy With Two Hearts

    by Phil Porter, Hamed Amiri ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    A story of hope, from Afghanistan to Wales.Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her execution. With no choice but to run, the Amiri family embark on a long and terrifying journey out of Afghanistan and across Europe with the UK as their ultimate goal.Thrown into an unfamiliar world of fake ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Two Plays for Young People

    The Flying Machine / Smashed Eggs

    by Phil Porter ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The Flying Machine; Smashed EggsLife isn’t much fun for the two children trapped on Ward One of St Ruth’s Hospital for Damaged Eyes in The Flying Machine. But then a new boy arrives at the hospital and he is soon leading a revolt against Nurse Cakebread’s hard regime. Armed with a set of blueprints and a cunning escape plan, he turns everything on the ward upside down. Full of laughs and action ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • The Miser

    by Phil Porter, Sean Foley, Molière ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Fanatical about protecting his wealth, the paranoid Harpagon (Griff Rhys Jones) suspects all of trying to filch his fortune, and will go to any length to protect it. A matchmaker motivated only by money, he sets his sights on wealthy spouses for his children, so his riches are safe from their grubby hands.As true feelings and identities are revealed will Harpagon allow his children to follow their ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Cracks in my Skin

    by Phil Porter ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'Do you find it hard? Getting close? I want to get close but I can't stop blowing things apart. Vexing people like a bomb'Janie's a force of nature, like some considerable disaster zone. It's baking hot, her mouth is peeling away and now she's got horns. Been on her head for yonks apparently, growing... Roper can feel his grandson Linden pulling away from him, pushing him away... like his eyes are ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Christmas Truce

    by Phil Porter ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    December 1914. As families across Europe gather to celebrate Christmas, a generation of young men find themselves far away from their loved ones in the trenches of the Western Front. There they face a world seemingly devoid of any peace or goodwill. But on Christmas Eve 1914, as the men of the Warwickshire Regiment shelter in their trenches, something astonishing happens. Across no-man's land they ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Vice Versa

    by Phil Porter ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A wily servant and a pair of wronged young lovers team up to bamboozle a pompous general in this riotous new farce. Dodgy disguises, comic capers and a talking monkey create pandemonium as the tricksters try to save the girl, free the servant and live to tell the tale! ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

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    by Mr Benjamin Zephaniah ...
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  • The Eternal Wonder

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    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    A lost novel of self-discovery and love from the New York Times –bestselling and Nobel and Pulitzer prize–winning author of The Good Earth .The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Ko... ... Read more

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  • The Murder List

    by Jackie Kabler ...
    The gripping psychological thriller from the author of Am I Guilty, The Perfect Couple and The Happy FamilyWhen Mary receives a blank diary as a present, she thinks nothing of it. Until she opens the diary, and sees it’s not blank after all…1st January MURDER LISA, OXFORD1st February MURDER JANE, BIRMINGHAM1st March MURDER DAVID, CARDIFF1st A... ... Read more

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