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  • Churchill in Moscow

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'Everything is possible in Moscow at night.'The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English nobility; the other, a Georgian peasant, hell-bent on destroying capitalism and the class system. Can these two leaders find common ground? As diplomats struggle to control the escalating chaos, two ... Read more

    $15.59 CAD

  • Eternal Love

    The Story of Abelard and Heloise

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A spellbinding retelling of a passionate and legendary love story.When Abelard begins a wild affair with his brilliant student Heloise, his enemies find the perfect pretext to destroy him. Abelard is already on thin ice with the church over his contentious views and when Heloise bears his child out of wedlock, their affair becomes the scandal of the age…Howard Brenton's play Eternal Love was first ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Romans in Britain

    by Mr Howard Brenton ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of the late twentieth century.As these scenes bleed into one another, Brenton suggests what it might ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Brenton Plays: 2

    The Romans in Britain; Thirteenth Night; The Genius; Bloody Poetry; Greenland

    by Mr Howard Brenton ...
    Series Book 2 - Contemporary Dramatists
    Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatistsThe Romans in Britain was the play that brought calls to bring back censorship when it was first staged at the National in 1980. It conjures up "an era that is culturally as well as historically remote which is a notoriously difficult task, but Mr Brenton acheives it with great skill and effect...a very good play indeed ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Drawing the Line

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doctor Scroggy's War

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.Jack Twigg, twenty-one years old, enlists in the London Regiment and goes on a journey he never imagined - nor did the rest of the world. On his way, he meets the pioneering medic Harold Gillies, who saves his life and his sanity. And who is the mysterious Doctor Scroggy who appears at night in Gillies' hospital ... Read more

    $15.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jude

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'It wasn't just her freakish ability with language. She saw through to behind the words. It was like she had a direct line to – I was going to say to "the gods"…'About to be fired from her cleaning job for stealing a volume of Euripides, Jude turns her employer's outrage to shock by translating the ancient Greek on the spot. The employer, a Classics teacher, knows great talent when she sees it and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never So Good

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century.Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Never So Good paints the portrait of a brilliant, witty but complex man, at times comically and, in the end, tragically out of kilter ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cancelling Socrates

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'They say Pericles caught democracy from you in bed.'Today, Socrates is revered as the founding father of Western philosophy. But in 399 BC Athens, he was a pain in the neck.The plague is over, democracy is (just about) restored, and everyone would like to get back to normal. How hard is it for one ageing firebrand to stop asking questions? It's time to shut him up...Based on eyewitness accounts, ... Read more

    $15.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anne Boleyn

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Modern Plays
    A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history.Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred into the King's bed or as a predator manipulating her way to power, Anne – and her ghost – are seen in a very different light in Howard Brenton's epic ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shadow Factory

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages.Southampton is home to our only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But, in one of many devastating raids on the town, the Luftwaffe destroy the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory. The Government requisitions local businesses to use as shadow factories – but meets resistance. Fred Dimmock won't give up his family laundry for anyone.As the Dimmocks, and other ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blinding Light

    by Howard Brenton ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'You – miserable, mean, scribbler of a man. You're quoting from that play you put me in.'Abandoning theatre, living a life of squalid splendour, August Strindberg practises alchemy. In his hotel room, he attempts to make gold by finding the philosopher's stone, the secret of creation. As his grasp on reality weakens, his first two wives visit him to bring him to his senses. But their interventions ... Read more

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