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  slope (NHB Modern Plays)

  pamela carter

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  An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle, slope explores the affair between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and its impact on Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde.
  Their verbal sparring is scabrous and hilarious, and their rollercoaster relationships as passionate and claustrophobic as they are cruel and ridiculous.
  Originally produced in 2006 by Untitled Projects, slope returned in a new production by the company at the Glasgow Citizens and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
  'A cruel battle for status, order duelling with chaos, decorum with sensual pleasure' - Guardian
  'Exceptional' superb' breathtakingly successful' - Scotsman

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  Old Fools (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tristan Bernays

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  The story of Tom and Viv, their love and the life they've shared together – from first spark to dying light. But not necessarily in that order.
  Tristan Bernays' Old Fools is a surprising and touching play about a couple, their experience of Alzheimer's, and their enduring efforts to hold their relationship together through the years.
  It premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2018.

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  Lily Of The West

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America.  - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

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  The Domino Effect and other...

  Fin Kennedy

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  This second volume of plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy features three ensemble plays for large casts of young people aged thirteen to nineteen, each developed via a long-term, collaborative process with the target age group.
  In The Dream Collector, a school group on a Media Studies field trip to the isolated country house of a black-and-white movie pioneer enter a sinister dreamworld when they go exploring after dark. Once they step through the movie screen, each of the young friends meets their dream double, the sinister Neverborn...
  In Fast, a twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a new urgency when farmer's daughter Cara refuses to eat again until the supermarkets she holds responsible for her father's suicide agree to her demands.
  In The Domino Effect – a five-star hit at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – a silent girl finds her voice, and her mother, when a mysterious East End antiques dealer teaches her how small actions lead to big effects, and how to master the law of unintended consequences.
  With their flexible, mixed casts, the plays are particularly suited to performance by young people's groups, who will enjoy the demands and challenges of playing roles specifically created for teenage actors.

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  Lilies on the Land (NHB Modern...

  the Lion Part

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  A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II. The play was devised and first performed by the Lions part.
  Based on one hundred and fifty letters and interviews with original Land Girls, along with songs from the period, Lilies on the Land charts the personal journeys of four women who join the Women's Land Army - determined to work endless backbreaking hours on farms across the country in a bid to do their best for the War Effort.
  But how do these women, all hailing from different walks of life, torn from their families and bereft of all basic home comforts, deal with the hardships of farming life and the pressures of war? Maybe work clothes full of mice and toilet rolls falling from the sky are just what it takes for these girls to get through'
  This edition includes notes on staging and performing the play.
  'full of gems... a heartwarming, unsentimental show' - The Stage
  'poignant and humorous... it's impossible not to be awed' - The Times
  'wonderful... beautifully crafted... has the satisfying tang of lived experience... one leaves the theatre moved, amused and with the strong conviction that one has encountered the British character at its absolute best' - Daily Telegraph

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  Brontë (NHB Modern Plays)

  Polly Teale

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  A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Bronte sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.
  In 1845, Branwell Bronte returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write...
  Polly Teale's extraordinary play evokes the real and imagined worlds of the Brontes, as their fictional characters come to haunt their creators.
  Bronte was produced by award-winning theatre company Shared Experience in 2010, in a co-production with the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, directed by Nancy Meckler.
  Shared Experience are acclaimed the world over for their powerful, visually-charged productions.
  'Breathtaking... a rare feat of theatrical imagining' - Evening Standard
  'Ambitious, intelligent and absorbing' - Financial Times
  'Soars on the wings of imagination' - Daily Telegraph
  'Riveting... a tantalising glimpse through the window of a uniquely haunted family home' - The Times

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