Mr James Graham: 15 books
James Graham Plays: 2
This House; The Angry Brigade; The Vote; Monster Raving Loony
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays.
The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author:
This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through...
James Graham Plays: 1
A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, The Man, The Whisky Taster, Sons of York
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This collection brings together four of Graham's most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for...
Connections 500
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.
Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and...
Contemporary English Plays
Eden’s Empire; Alaska; Shades; A Day at the Racists; The Westbridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural.
Eden's...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
I have to believe in the institutions we trust to be fair, and functional. Whether that be the judiciary, the police, the media … That they should all be able to resist the temptations of a more entertaining lie, over a less extraordinary truth.
April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience
Why do you think I've been locked in this room? I've been grieving for a wife, a sister, three hundred thousand Japanese civilians, the presence of a universe gone mad, and the absence of a theory to explain it.
Albert Einstein...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Its government has declared a vicious class war. A one-sided war . . . We have started to fight back . . . with bombs.
Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets:...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the best stories are true.
Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises.
James Graham'sruthless, red-topped play leads with the birth of this country's most influential newspaper – when a young...
by Naomi Westerman, Sumerah Srivastav, Himanshu Ojha
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century.
Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances, adventures, the remarkable and the everyday.
Olivier...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
I just remember, even as a, as a young . . . man, not even man, just a boy . . . when nothing makes sense, and you're not sure who you are . . . the idea of – the strength of the person that stands alone, carves their own path . . . of it not being who you are or where you're from but what you do.
Sam,...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The Whisky Taster is a contemporary, subtle and witty exploration of feeling and perception in the modern world of advertising. Moving from monochrome to technicolour, James Graham's latest play is about seeing things too clearly in a city that never stands still.
Barney and Nicola are advertising...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. Meanwhile, the monitoring and evaluation team have to present The Audit – a measurement of the impact 'the culture' has had on the city. Can their logic models,...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Fifty years ago, Britain propelled itself into a disastrous war in
the Middle East. Condemned by the UN and accused of falsifying
intelligence, the Prime Minister was left fighting for his political
life against a Party disillusioned, a public betrayed, and a wily
Chancellor with ambitions to take...
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