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  • The Panel

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    The last candidate has just left the room and the door is shut. The clock is ticking, there's a train to catch, and the panel must decide who to appoint. But what is really motivating them, and whose agenda will prevail?Zinnie Harris's short play The Panel was first performed at the Tricycle Theatre, London, as part of the Women, Power and Politics season in June 2010. ... Read more

    $8.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Macbeth (an undoing)

    by Zinnie Harris, William Shakespeare ...
    This story will be told, the way it has always been told. What else use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woman who went mad. The man who became a tyrant.When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he will become king of Scotland, Lady Macbeth vows to make their darkest ambitions a reality. So far, so familiar. But then the story fragments.Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Women, Power and Politics: Now

    Five plays

    by Joy Wilkinson, Various, Zinnie Harris, Bola Agbaje, Sam Holcroft, Sue Townsend ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.The five plays in this volume look at the impact and influence that women have today.In Acting Leader by Joy Wilkinson, Margaret Beckett finds herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.The Panel by Zinnie Harris is about the power ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meet Me at Dawn

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems - and that, though they may be together, they have never been further apart.Unflinchingly honest and tenderly lyrical, Meet Me at Dawn is a modern fable exploring the triumph of everyday love, the mystery ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Zinnie Harris: Plays 1

    Further than the Furthest Thing; Midwinter; How to Hold Your Breath; Meet Me at Dawn

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    In this first collection by Zinnie Harris, Further than the Furthest Thing evokes the fragility of an island community as their way of life is threatened and they must determine their future, while Midwinter opens as a woman steals a dead horse to feed to a child. How To Hold Your Breath tells the story of a woman who sleeps with the devil and defends her belief in love, even as her world ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • This Restless House

    an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    'Electrifying . . . This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax.' GUARDIAN *****Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • The Wheel

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    A man is banished in a soldier's hearing. His daughter is left to wander. In a rash moment, Beatriz offers to take the child back to her father, and so starts an unimaginable journey across continents and in and out of war zones. But in their need to survive, the woman and the child transform in ways that become irreversible.The Wheel by Zinnie Harris premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Scent of Roses

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    You'd be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something. Of being alive.The Scent of Roses begins with a wife who takes her husband hostage in order to have an honest conversation. This simple, transgressive act, and her demand for a straight answer, sparks a chain of conversations, interrogations, obfuscations and revelations, as ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • A Doll's House

    by Henrik Ibsen, Zinnie Harris ...
    The Vaughans are all set to enjoy Christmas. Thomas has been promoted and Nora is delighted. Everything at last seems to be going right, until a visitor arrives uninvited and causes them to question just how perfect their marriage is.Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House caused outrage both in its style and subject matter when first staged in 1879. Zinnie Harris's retelling is played against the backdrop ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Further than the Furthest Thing

    by Zinnie Harris ...
    On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond. Further Than The Furthest Thing is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis.Further Than The Furthest Thing ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Duchess (of Malfi)

    by Zinnie Harris, John Webster ...
    You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won't wear my hair up because you say I should, or do this because you prefer it, in fact I might do the other just to be contrary, but I am utterly and always myself.The Duchess is a young widow. Her husband is dead, she is free. But her financial position, sexual freedom and youth mean that she could be dangerous, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Julie

    A version of Miss Julie

    by August Strindberg, Zinnie Harris ...
    In the oppressive heat of Midsummer's Eve, Julie, daughter of the lord, is drawn into a dangerous tryst with her father's butler. As the night wears on, the couple, from opposite ends of the social spectrum, dance, flirt and fight towards an explosive conclusion that will shake the existing order to its core.Zinnie Harris's new version of Strindberg's nineteenth-century masterpiece, Miss Julie, ... Read more

    $11.89 USD