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NHB Collected Works

NHB Modern Plays

A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.

A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys. Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, The Clink, A Going Concern, and Jeffreys' smash-hit, The Libertine. Rounding off the volume are two previously unpublished plays: Interruptions, and a  short autobiographical monologue, Finsbury Park.

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Stephen Jeffreys: Plays

"Energetic and erotic...an intelligent slice of historical fiction." -Guardian Christopher Marlowe-rockstar of Elizabethan theatre and notorious spy for the Crown-is danger and seduction combined. William Shakespeare-jobbing actor and promising young playwright-is dazzled by Marlowe, but with ambitions of his own. When the pair meet in the backroom of a pub to collaborate on a cycle of history plays, tensions rise as they navigate the perils of art under an oppressive regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose... An explosively entertaining duel of wits, words, and powerplay, Liz Duffy Adams's Born With Teeth is a playful and daring imagining of the relationship between two literary icons.

Born With Teeth

"A rollercoaster of soaring highs and devastating lows...utterly truthful and deeply poetic." -Theatre and Tonic Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. It's the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it? Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie's recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted? By turns hilarious and devastating, Anna Jordan's Lost Atoms tells a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it.

Lost Atoms

Modern Plays

Look, there are two ways to go. Do you freeze in place, looking backwards all the time. or do you move on?

Summer 2021. Lockdown is over. Just.

Three months ago Milo lost his wife to Covid. She was only forty five. So young.

Tonight he has invited his two oldest pals, Davie and Liane, to come round and drink some wine, listen to some tunes and reminisce about the olden days.

And there's something else. He wants them to meet the new love of his life. Her name is Greta. They met online. And she's twenty years old.

From the celebrated writer of Decky Does a Bronco and I Can Go Anywhere, Douglas Maxwell's So Young sees an innocuous evening slide towards ruin as old friends face the challenges of middle age. the pull of the past. and the promise of the future.

This edition was published to coincide with the TravFest24 run at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in August 2024.

Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024
Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024

Look, there are two ways to go. Do you freeze in place, looking backwards all the time… or do you move on?

Summer 2021. Lockdown is over. Just.

Three months ago Milo lost his wife to Covid. She was only forty five. So young.

Tonight he has invited his two oldest pals, Davie and Liane, to come round and drink some wine, listen to some tunes and reminisce about the olden days.

And there’s something else… He wants them to meet the new love of his life. Her name is Greta. They met online. And she’s twenty years old.

From the celebrated writer of Decky Does a Bronco and I Can Go Anywhere, Douglas Maxwell’s So Young sees an innocuous evening slide towards ruin as old friends face the challenges of middle age… the pull of the past… and the promise of the future.

This edition was published to coincide with the TravFest24 run at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre in August 2024.

So Young

"A clever commentary on the social climate of the United States with privilege, power, and fame at its heart...an incredibly well-crafted play." -Theatre Weekly 1978. Holly, a young heiress, sits in a California prison awaiting trial for her role in a string of armed robberies that have captivated the nation. Her only hope? Her hotshot lawyer, Robert-who might make his name, if he can save hers. 2017. Robert, now one of the most famous attorneys in America, faces a different kind of trial: the court of public opinion. In a last-ditch bid for redemption, he turns to the one former client who could help him plead his case. But will she? Inspired by the real-life trial of Patty Hearst, Katherine Moar's play Ragdoll is a psychedelic swirl of celebrity, violence and scandal.

Ragdoll

There's something perverted about a Christmas tree I think they're weird they've got an aura like a malicious kind of an aura it looks perverted and it gives me the creeps. In an abandoned building somewhere above the Northern Line, with foxes prowling the deserted streets outside, a Jewish family gathers on Christmas Day.

Christmas Day

"A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman's coming-of-age... This is electrifying."-Publishers Weekly, starred review"Is this a ghost story?" Meena asked the barber's wife who told the tale. "I don't want to hear scary stories one night before I marry."&nbsp;"Not all ghost stories are scary," said the barber's wife, laughing at Meena. "Besides, we have a long time before us, and stories are little baskets to carry time away in."Exquisitely written, a blend of ghost stories, myths, and song, The Woman Who Climbed Trees is a haunting, deeply felt multi-generational story that illuminates the transitional nature of women's lives and the feeling of loss they experience, as they give up one home and family to become part of another. When she marries a man from Nepal, Meena must leave behind her family and home in India and forge a new identity in a strange place. The Woman Who Climbed Trees follows her, the women who surround her, and the daughter she eventually raises, as they carefully navigate the uncertain tides of their diasporic lives.

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t want to hear scary stories one night before I marry.”&nbsp;“Not all ghost stories are scary,” said the barber’s wife, laughing at Meena. “Besides, we have a long time before us, and stories are little baskets to carry time away in.”Exquisitely written, a blend of ghost stories, myths, and song, The Woman Who Climbed Trees is a haunting, deeply felt multi-generational family saga that illuminates the transitional nature of women’s lives and the feeling of loss they experience, as they give up one home and family to become part of another.When Meena enters an arranged marriage with a man from Nepal, she must leave behind her family and home in India to forge a new identity in a strange place. A moving work of South Asian literature, The Woman Who Climbed Trees follows her, the women who surround her, and the daughter she eventually raises, as they carefully navigate the uncertain tides of their diasporic lives in this powerful coming-of-age story.This unforgettable literary fiction explores:

A Novel

The Woman Who Climbed Trees

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She also commented obliquely but perceptively on the social and cultural changes of a troubled century. Christie's work tells the story of a changing Britain, but perhaps her greatest achievement is not to be limited by that national context. Her stories achieve the rare feat of appearing both universal and specific and can seemingly be adapted for almost any context. This Very Short Introduction investigates why the novels of a middle-class, middlebrow Englishwoman were so successful, and why they continue to appeal to such a broad range of readers. Chapters explore the context of Christie's writing, and the clue-puzzle detective fiction structure at which she excelled, but they also question the familiar assumptions that surround her and what we think we know about her work. Gill Plain examines Christie's capacity to register the zeitgeist, and consider how her novels reveal anxieties surrounding gender roles, the family, war, justice, ethics, and nation. Her fascination with hypocrisy, power, abuse, deceit, and despair continues to resonate with readers - and screenwriters - who respond to her light touch and dark imagination to repurpose her stories with the fears and desires most appropriate to their time. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This Very Short Introduction will explore this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and her convoluted plotting, and it will examine the construction of her most popular serial characters.

A Very Short Introduction

Agatha Christie

Modern Classics

"There is great imagination and intrigue here, and it is eminently entertaining." - The Guardian Backdropped by the bleak English moors, two sisters (and their dog) live a dreary existence, as they dream of forbidden love and power. So, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen arrive at their manor house, the two see a chance to claim what they've always wanted... no matter how destructive. A loving pastiche of the gothic genre, Jen Silverman echoes and channels the Brontë sisters in this irreverent celebration, that is equal parts brutal, lusty, and deranged. A macabre, queer thriller, The Moors is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Christine Scarfuto.

The Moors

Henry VIII's court is a stage for love and treachery, where the weapons of choice are sex, marriage - and the executioner's axe. As Henry's mistress, Mary Boleyn is a pawn in her family's lust for power. Queen Katherine of Aragon hasn't produced a male heir, and Mary's ruthless uncle scents the chance of putting his niece on the throne.But Henry's wandering eye has fallen on another: Mary's headstrong sister, Anne, whose ambition not only threatens to destroy her bond with Mary, but shakes the foundations of Church and State.Based on Philippa Gregory's internationally bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl is a brilliant evocation of intrigue at the Tudor court - a racy and riveting drama of events that changed the course of English history. This stage adaptation by Mike Poulton was premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2024, directed by Lucy Bailey.

The Other Boleyn Girl

This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian, placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre.

Sophocles

Sleeping on Paper Boats

Die dunkle Seite der Inspiration: Packendes Boys-Love-Drama mit düsterem CharmeYokohama in der Nachkriegszeit: 
Eine Bar wird zum Zufluchtsort für Kei Kitahara, der nach einer Sinnkrise am Schreiben eines Drehbuchs für einen Film neuen Lebensmut schöpft. Inmitten von Rauch und Melancholie begegnet er einem Mann, der seine Leidenschaft für die Fotografie teilt. Die gemeinsamen Tage erscheinen wie ein Traum - voller Sehnsucht und Bewunderung.Doch je stärker Keis Gefühle werden, desto deutlicher spürt er die unüberwindbare Distanz zwischen ihnen. Seine unerwiderte Liebe bleibt verborgen, wächst im Schatten und lässt ihn das Herz des anderen aus der Ferne ersehnen. 
Eine Geschichte von Hoffnung, unerfüllter Liebe und dem Wunsch, endlich das Herz eines anderen zu erreichen.<ul><li>Mischung aus Leidenschaftund Tragik</li><li>Miniserie von Teki Yatsuda, Mangaka von HOME FAR AWAY</li><li>Abgeschlossen in 2 Bänden</li><li>Spice-Level: 2 von 4 Flammen. In diesem Boys-Love-Titel stehen die Gefühle im Mittelpunkt. Mit einzelnen expliziten Szenen.</li><li>Empfohlen für Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren </li></ul>Abschlussband: Ein fesselnder Boys-Love-Manga über die gefährliche Nähe von Liebe und Tod!

Die dunkle Seite der Inspiration: Packendes Boys-Love-Drama mit düsterem CharmeYokohama in der Nachkriegszeit: 
 Eine Bar wird zum Zufluchtsort für Kei Kitahara, der nach einer Sinnkrise am Schreiben eines Drehbuchs für einen Film neuen Lebensmut schöpft. Inmitten von Rauch und Melancholie begegnet er einem Mann, der seine Leidenschaft für die Fotografie teilt. Die gemeinsamen Tage erscheinen wie ein Traum – voller Sehnsucht und Bewunderung.
 
 Doch je stärker Keis Gefühle werden, desto deutlicher spürt er die unüberwindbare Distanz zwischen ihnen. Seine unerwiderte Liebe bleibt verborgen, wächst im Schatten und lässt ihn das Herz des anderen aus der Ferne ersehnen.
 
 Eine Geschichte von Hoffnung, unerfüllter Liebe und dem Wunsch, endlich das Herz eines anderen zu erreichen.
 <ul><li>
 Mischung aus 
 Leidenschaft 
 und 
 Tragik</li><li>Miniserie
 von Teki Yatsuda, Mangaka von HOME FAR AWAY
 </li><li>Abgeschlossen in 2 Bänden</li><li>Spice-Level: 2 von 4 Flammen.
 In diesem Boys-Love-Titel stehen die Gefühle im Mittelpunkt. Mit einzelnen expliziten Szenen.
 </li><li>
 Empfohlen für 
 Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren </li></ul>Abschlussband: Ein fesselnder Boys-Love-Manga über die gefährliche Nähe von Liebe und Tod.

Sleeping on Paper Boats 2

You can't lie to family. I think we lie to family more than anyone else. The Lady from the Sea is a thrilling dissection of desire, loss and rebirth for the contemporary age. Fearful she may have settled too easily for a comfortable life married to a well-off doctor, Ellida searches for a way to break the predictable routine her existence has become. When a lover from her past appears at their remote country house, she has to choose between the life she has now built and the one she left behind long ago. This new adaptation of Ibsen's classic play is written and directed by Simon Stone (Yerma, Phaedra). Published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Bridge Theatre starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and Andrew Lincoln, this is an unforgettable contemporary version of a classic text.

The Lady from the Sea

Stephen Jeffreys: Plays

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