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  Mustafa (NHB Modern Plays)

  Naylah Ahmed

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  A vivid and compelling thriller about belief and retribution.
  Mustafa is in prison for the death of a teenage boy during an exorcism. Racked with guilt at the loss of an innocent life and isolated in a world where his beliefs are constantly challenged, he's trying to avoid trouble. But when prisoners who taunt him suffer mysterious injuries and prison officers start behaving strangely, Mustafa realises the spirit he tried to banish is still with him, and he must confront it once again.
  Naylah Ahmed's play Mustafa was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in 2012 in a co-production by Kali Theatre and Birmingham Rep.
  'Compelling and engaging' - Whatsonstage.com
  'Manages to combine such explosive themes as power, violence, notions of guilt, psychological torture and the competing loyalties of faith and family with a persuasive and surprising theatricality... A sensitive and shocking piece of work' - www.onestoparts.com
  'Weaves a cool and cunning story… delivers a good few cold shivers' - Time Out
  'Naylah Ahmed uses the ideas of possession and haunting as a tantalising way of exploring perceptions of (and prejudices towards) 'otherness'' - Metro (London)

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  Daughter (NHB Modern Plays)

  Adam Lazarus

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  Here is a father who loves his daughter. You can tell from the way he held her when she was born after a difficult delivery; you can tell from the way he dances with her to her favourite songs; you can tell from the way he will do anything to protect her.
  He's not going to apologise for every other little thing he's ever done. Who knows, you might have done them too…
  Told with unsettling charm, Daughter is a darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity, by Canadian playwright and performer Adam Lazarus.
  Daughter received its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018, where it became one of the most talked about shows at the festival, before transferring to Battersea Arts Centre, London, in 2020.
  This edition contains the complete text of the play alongside an introduction by the author and essays about the impact of the play and the issues it raises.
  
  'Powerful and unsettling. Keeps pushing and pushing at the line as if daring us to draw it' - Independent
  'Magnetic. The audience are unsure whether to give a standing ovation or stage a walk-out' - Guardian
  'Electrifying. A timely portrait of everyday misogyny hiding in plain sight' - Herald

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  Doctor Cerberus

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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  A coming-of-age, coming-out cocktail with a twist of terror.  Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence.  His parents don’t understand him, his brother torments him, he has no friends, and he’s more interested in the high school quarterback than any girl.  The one bright spot in his life is the glow of the black-and-white TV in his parents’ basement.  Here, he worships at the altar of the Saturday Night Horror Movie, hosted by the eerie Dr. Cerberus.  Before long, Franklin is convinced that only by going on the show will his life be redeemed - by Dr. Cerberus himself!An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Simon Helberg as Franklin RobertsonJamison Jones as Doctor CerberusSteven Culp as Lawrence RobertsonPamela J. Gray as Lydia RobertsonJarrett Sleeper as Rodney RobertsonDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.Doctor Cerberus is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  Swive [Elizabeth] (NHB Modern...

  Ella Hickson

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  'My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country.'
  Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for forty-four years. Mastermind. Seductress. Survivor.
  Created by award-winning writer Ella Hickson and director Natalie Abrahami, Swive [Elizabeth] shines a light on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.
  It premiered in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in December 2019.

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  Henry VIII

  William Shakespeare

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  This abridged performance of the last of Shakespeare's plays founded on English history was recorded in 1952. Henry VIII was first published in the 1623 folio edition of Shakespeare's plays. This performance stars Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson & Ralph Truman (as King Henry VIII).

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  The Theatre of Illusion

  Pierre Corneille

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  A magician conjures a dramatic adventure of romance and intrigue in this seventeenth-century French tragicomedy by the author of Le Cid. 
   
  In Pierre Corneille’s sparkling play The Theatre of Illusion, magicians, lovers, and heroes prove that all the world truly is a stage. First performed in 1636, it was pioneering in its use of metatheatrical storytelling. It then vanished from the stage for the next three hundred years—to be revived in 1937 at the Comédie Française. Since then it has been widely considered, in Virginia Scott’s words, “Corneille’s baroque masterpiece.” 
   
  Today this classic work is available in a translation from one of America’s finest poets and translators of French, Richard Wilbur. Widely praised for his translations of plays by Molière and Racine, Wilbur now turns his poetic grace to this celebration of the comedy of humanity and the magic of life.

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