Plays, playscripts, drama
Alma Books Ltd Spring Awakening Calder Publications
Book SynopsisSpring Awakening is set in a small German town in the 1890s, where adolescent boys and girls grope their way towards knowledge and maturity against the blocks set up by parents and teachers in the name of morality. Melchior, fearless in his pursuit of the truth, manages to retain his freedom of spirit, but his friends are not so lucky or strong.Wedekind's controversial play occupies a special place in modern theatrical history as a key work of the naturalist school and the principal precursor of German Expressionism.Trade ReviewThe best and most enduring German play of its era. * Jonathan Franzen *
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Penguin Putnam Inc Twelfth Night
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Penguin Putnam Inc Henry VIII
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.
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Vintage Publishing Long Days Journey into Night
Book SynopsisLong Day''s Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O''Neill''s death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, ''a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood'', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.Trade ReviewWhy do we continue to find Eugene O'Neill's family drama so moving? Partly because the play draws so closely on the author's own experience... [but] what also grips us is the tension between O'Neill's tight classical structure and the surging contradictions of family life * Guardian *Harrowing... the dramatic impact is shattering... The passage in which he describes his dirt-poor childhood is overpoweringly moving * Daily Telegraph *O'Neill keeps control with dry humour. This is an acute study of the behavioural ruts as well as the mercurial complexity of family relationships * Independent *Epic... a tale of monstrously corrupted intimacy * Herald *
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Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Is My Microphone On
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Servant To Two Masters Modern Plays
Book SynopsisThis is a adaptation of Carlo Goldini's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook and crook.
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Faber & Faber Christopher Hampton Plays 1 Total Eclipse The
Book SynopsisThis first collection of Hampton''s work includes The Philanthropist, which premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970 and went on to become one of the Court''s longest-running West End transfers. The volume also contains Treats, Savages and Hampton''s deeply affecting drama about the relationship of the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, Total Eclipse.
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Faber & Faber The Blue Room freely adapted from Arthur
Book SynopsisSchnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as ''completely unprintable''. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has re-set these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day. Using as much imaginative freedom in his turn as Ophuls did fifty years ago, and with just two actors playing all of the parts, Hare has created a fascinating landscape of dream and longing which seems both eternal and bang-up-to-date.
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Faber & Faber Bennett A Lady in the Van
Book SynopsisAdapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up staying fifteen years. Funny, touching and unexpectedly spectacular, The Lady in the Van marked the return to the stage of one of our leading playwrights.The Lady in the Van with Maggie Smith opened at the Queen''s Theatre, London, in December 1999.
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Faber & Faber Celebration The Room Faber Plays
Book SynopsisA restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It''s a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter''s new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter''s first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.Harold Pinter''s latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premièred as a double-bill at London''s Almeida Theatre in March 2000.
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Faber & Faber The Shape of Things
Book SynopsisHow far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay?Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends'' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath.The world première of The Shape of Things was presented at the Almeida, London, in May 2001.
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Faber & Faber The Faber Book of Monologues Women
Book SynopsisWhether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an impressive array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights.With 25 speeches, ranging in age from 20 to 65, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women contains a rich variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by the best new playwrights, as well as brand new pieces from more established names. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play together with character commentary as well as recommendations for accents and reference to first performance.Jane Edwardes, Theatre Editor at Time Out magazine, also provides a general introduction with helpful hints for the audition process.The companion volume, The Faber Book of Monologues for Men, is also available.
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Faber & Faber Heroes Le Vent des Peupliers
Book SynopsisOne must strive a little for the epic, old boy.It''s 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers'' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the hill...Gérald Sibleyras''s Le Vent des Peupliers premiered at the Wyndham''s Theatre, London, in October 2005 as Heroes, an English-language version by Tom Stoppard. It received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006.
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Faber & Faber Selected Plays 19992009
Book SynopsisDavid Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as ''one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation''. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. San Diego offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. Pyrenees follows a man found lying in the snow in the foothills as he tries to piece together his identity. In The American Pilot a crash-landing in a remote valley in a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world. The collection also includes a trilogy of short
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Faber & Faber David Hare Plays 3
Book SynopsisThis is a new collection of some of David Hare''s finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy''s View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.
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Faber & Faber The Habit of Art
Book SynopsisAuden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn''t otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst others their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play.Alan Bennett''s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion''s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. <
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Faber & Faber People
Book SynopsisA sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It''s a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover.People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one''s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.
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Faber & Faber A Small Family Business
Book SynopsisWell, that''s one down, isn''t it? Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let''s have a crack at that one next, shall we?Jack McCracken is a man of principle until, moments after taking over his father-in-law''s business, he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, operating a network of racketeering from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest and comic hysteria take over as Jack succumbs.A Small Family Business premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1987, and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.This play offers a devastating assault on the way the entrepreneurial values we were taught to admire in the eighties lead ultimately to fraud, theft, self-deceit, even homicide. It is the modern equivalent of An Inspector Calls only, being Ayckbourn, far funnier. It argues just as passionately as the work of more overtly political writers that there is such a thing as so
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Faber & Faber Martin Crimp Plays 3
Book SynopsisA mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... the approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling.
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Faber & Faber Marina Carr Plays 3 Sixteen Possible Glimpses
Book SynopsisThis third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company''s premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov''s short life and work. Phaedra Backwards retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. The Map of Argentina offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down. Hecuba was written in reaction to the bad press this Trojan queen receives, and reimagines how she may have suffered and reacted. Indigo is a dark and passionate romance amongst fairies, demons, ghouls and every sort of fantastic creature out of folklore and myth.
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Faber & Faber Cuttin It Faber Drama
Book SynopsisWe''re opposites, even though we came from the same, she''s nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret. Tracking the urgent issue of FGM in Britain, this devastating play reveals the price some girls pay to become women. Cuttin'' It premiered at the Young Vic, London, in May 2016. Charlene James is the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play.
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Faber & Faber The Lie Faber Drama
Book SynopsisIn Florian Zeller's The Lie, a companion piece to his earlier play The Truth, Michel and Laurence are coming for dinner. But Alice has spotted Michel kissing another woman that very afternoon, leaving her with a dilemma. Her husband Paul believes it is better to behave as if nothing has happened; Alice is far from sure. An argument ensues and as their own relationship is held up to scrutiny, the question as to who is being protected and why grows ever more difficult to answer. Translated by Christopher Hampton, The Lie received its English language world premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in September 2017.
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Faber & Faber Allelujah
Book Synopsis What were you in life? In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward. Meanwhile, the old people's choir, in readiness for next week's concert, is in full swing, augmented by the arrival of Mrs Maudsley, aka Pudsey Nightingale. Alan Bennett's Allelujah! opened at the Bridge Theatre, London, in July 2018. With an introduction by Alan Bennett.
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Faber & Faber The Height of the Storm
Book SynopsisAndré and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. And why does André feel like he isn't there at all?Christopher Hampton's translation of Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm was first performed at Richmond Theatre, London, and opened in the West End at Wyndham's Theatre in October 2018.
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Faber & Faber Peter Gynt
Book SynopsisIn this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century.Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is projected into a freewheeling modern world of music, dance, poetry, weddings, coronations, trolls and two-headed children as Peter steals a bride and embarks on an extraordinary lifetime's journey before returning home, finally, to Scotland.David Hare's Peter Gynt posits the same fundamental question the great Norwegian asked in 1867: does a belief in individualism help or hinder us in trying to live purposefully in the present day?The play opens at the National Theatre in July 2019 and transfers to the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, for the Edinburgh International Festival.
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Faber & Faber Wife
Book Synopsis- And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing.- Into everything, I think.It's 1959. Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; his wife Daisy dashes round to the stage door, in love with both Nora and the actress who plays her, thrilled by their promise of escape.Daisy is at the crossroads. Her moral compass tells her to go one way, society the other. What she chooses to do next will have consequences not just for her and Robert, but for four couples who come after them over ninety years.The truth is we have to give up parts of ourselves if we want to be with someone. And what if, before you know this, you run away from the wrong person?Samuel Adamson's Wife premiered at Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2019.
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Faber & Faber Hansard
Book SynopsisHansard; nounThe official report of all parliamentary debates.It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital sparring quickly turns to blood-sport.A witty and devastating new play.Hansard premiered at the National Theatre, London, in August 2019.
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Faber & Faber Either
Book SynopsisLove is just sex. And sex is just chance. And chance is just timing. And free will.Come onIt beats swiping right.When B spills coffee down A's shirt, an old spark is rekindled. But in a world of infinite possibilities, monogamy is tough. Straight, gay, casual, polyamorous, they find themselves irresistibly drawn both to the new and to each other. In a relationship of ever-changing boundaries, the couple question anything and everything as they attempt to navigate modern love.Funny, smart and sexy, Ruby Thomas' debut play probes contemporary ideas about sexuality, gender and the need to connect, before we die.
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Faber & Faber Scenes with girls
Book SynopsisYou're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before but like Let's Be Modest About It Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes.Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They'll never be like the other girls. They won''t sit in a narrative someone else thought up.This is love. This is enough. This is enough. Scenes with girls by Miriam Battye premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2020.
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Faber & Faber Cyrano de Bergerac in a free adaptation
Book SynopsisA genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 2019.
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Faber & Faber iGirl
Book SynopsisI NeanderthalPrince of the PlainsI saw EdenIt wasn't muchI sawThe treeThe gatesRustyBut stillIntactI sawThe triple lockThe jack bootThe size of an oakI retreatedWiselyGod they WereUgly Marina Carr's iGirl premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in October 2021.
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Faber & Faber Not One Of These People
Book SynopsisIf you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice or is it an act of empathy? If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a limit to how many characters she / he / they are entitled to invent? Who can these people be? And what if an invented voice says things that even the author would prefer not to hear? With characteristically provocative humour, Martin Crimp's latest work brings 299 unique characters to the stage. Not One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international de théâtre, premiered at Théâtre La Bordée, Québec City, in June 2022, and at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2022.
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Faber & Faber Linck Mulhahn
Book SynopsisIt is life's great aim. To find a way to be honest with oneself, even as the world pretends around you.Dashing soldier Anastasius Linck has no intention of falling in love, but a chance encounter with the rebellious Catharina Mülhahn changes everything. As they begin to forge a relationship that breaks boundaries and rejects the rigid rules of their society, they find themselves confronted by a world determined to tear them apart.Ruby Thomas' epic and playful love story, inspired by eighteenth-century court records and the extraordinary lives of a gender-pioneering couple, opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in January 2023.Shortlisted for the 52nd George Devine Award.Finalist for the 45th Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Trade Review'One of the best new plays in years. Ruby Thomas's ambitious, drop-dead gorgeous piece roars onto Hampstead Theatre's main stage with a rare swagger and brio, full of scintillating wit, swashbuckling action and ultimately a hugely satisfying emotional wallop. . . . It's a great piece of storytelling: profoundly moving and wildly funny, delicate yet tough. A tri-umph.' - What's On Stage'There's something so lovable about this play and its quest to find a golden thread of joy in a dark, tattered old story.' - Time Out
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Faber & Faber Joseph K and the Cost of Living
Book SynopsisJoseph K has a comfortable job in financial services and barely notices the growing chaos all around on the walk to work: the homelessness, the food banks, the anger, the protests, the relentless rise of the cost of living. Until one day, K is arrested. No one will explain what the charges are, but they must be answered.Emily White's adaptation of The Trial weaves the nightmare of arrest and injustice into a funny and physical take on Franz Kafka's classic.The play premiered at the Swansea Grand Theatre, in a production by National Theatre Wales, in March 2023.
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Faber & Faber The Divine Mrs S
Book SynopsisThis was your first go. Did Shakespeare let Titus Andronicus put him off? An experimental tragedy about a pie. You've just begun. Mrs Sarah Siddons, acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time, holds complete sway over audiences and critics alike. Behind the scenes, however, she herself is subject to direction from her bone-headed brother, Kemble, who runs the Drury Lane theatre and chooses her roles. Sick of being cast as tragic, wounded mothers, Siddons decides it's time to harness her star power and become the leading lady of her own life. But she reckons without the absurdly comic plot twists of a life on the stage. The Divine Mrs S opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2024.
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Harvard University Press Phormio. The MotherinLaw. The Brothers
Book SynopsisThe six plays by Terence (d. 159 BC), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and refined Latin. They include Phormio, a comedy of intrigue and trickery; The Brothers, which explores parental education of sons; and The Eunuch, which presents the most sympathetically drawn courtesan in Roman comedy.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The School for Scandal
Book SynopsisAnn Blake is Honorary Fellow at the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Merchant of Venice
Book SynopsisAn updatedversion ofTheMerchant of Venicethat speaks to our contemporary reckoning with racism and injustice. Elise Thoron's translation of Shakespeare's searingTheMerchant of Venicecuts straight to the heart of today's fraught issues of social justice and systemic racism. Thoron's clear, compelling contemporary verse translationretainsthe power of the original iambic pentameter while allowing readers and audiences to fullycomprehendand directly experience the brutal dilemmas of Shakespeare's Venice,whereprejudice and privilege reign unchallenged. As the author of three acclaimed music-theater works on the Jewishexperience andinformed by her work directingcross-culturalprojects in locations as different as Russia, Japan, Cuba, and New York City, Thoron brings to herMerchantanimmediacythat speaks directly to the present reckoning with race in America. This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirTrade Review"This translation is easy to read, but retains the iambic pentameter and flow of an original Shakespeare. Overall, very well done." * Seattle Book Review *
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Titus Andronicus
Book SynopsisShakespeare's tragic story of revenge is reimagined for the twenty-first century. One of Shakespeare's goriest plays, Titus Andronicus traces the fall of the Andronicus family in ancient Rome. Clinging to the ways of the past, Titus desperately seeks to remain loyal to the throne as his world crumbles around him. Amy Freed's translation of Titus Andronicus is careful and meticulous, making small but mighty changes in moments that enhance the drama of each scene. Freed's version gives this extraordinary play an even faster track on which to run. This translation of Titus Andronicus was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgroTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil
Book SynopsisJohn McGrath was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1935. After national service and Oxford University, he wrote and directed for theatre and television, as well as writing for cinema. Early work included Z-Cars for BBC-TV (1962), Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (1966) and the screenplay for Billion Dollar Brain (1976). In 1971, together with Elizabeth MacLennan, he co-founded the 7:84 Theatre Company, which divided into Scottish and English companies in 1973 with McGrath remaining as Artistic Director of both. During his career McGrath wrote over 60 plays, including Fish in the Sea(1972), The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973), Blood Red Roses (1980), Border Warfare (1989), Watching for Dolphins (1992) and, most recently, HyperLynx (2001). He was twice Visiting Fellow in Theatre at Cambridge University. His previous books include A Good Night Out(1981), The Bone Won't Break (1990) andTrade ReviewArguably the single most important show in the whole history of Scottish theatre. * Scotsman *As play it has everything, and it throws it at you in generous handfuls; laughter, farce, drama, live song and dance, finely researched political intent. . . . a love song to a beautiful, damaged culture and a warning of the dangers of unchecked capitalism it still rings astonishingly true. * Independent *[McGrath] was Britain's Brecht, Scotland's Dario Fo . . . A creative powerhouse who was often out of fashion, but never out of action . . . Today, few speak, far less make theatre, with such ideological intent. * Guardian *Table of ContentsForeword by Kate McGrath The Play
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC National Theatre Connections 2020
Book SynopsisNational Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year.This anthology brings together 9 new plays by some of the UK''s most prolific and current writers and artists alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for schools and youth groups. Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo This is a play about the British Isles, its past and its present. Set in a senior common room, in a prominent university, a group of 1st year undergraduates are troubled, not by the weight ofTable of Contents1. Introduction to National Theatre Connections 2. Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo 3. Directors Notes on The Changing Room by Chris Bush 4. Tuesday by Alison Carr 5. A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly 6. THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann 7. The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor 8. Look Up by Andrew Muir 9. Crusaders by Frances Poet 10. Witches Can’t Be Burned by Silva Semerciyan 11. Dungeness by Chris Thompson Directors notes follow each of the 10 plays.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC All My Sons
Book SynopsisHis drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMESThree years on from the disappearance of his son, successful businessman Joe Keller has made a comfortable life for his family in America's Midwest: despite being accused of supplying defective aircraft equipment in World War 2, he is altogether happy. But, when a shadowy figure from Joe's past returns, his hidden truths are revealed, and the price of the American Dream is laid bare.Miller''s first successful play on Broadway, All My Sons launched his career and established him as one of America's greatest dramatists, also winning him the 1946 Tony Award for Best Author. An incisive indictment of greed, capitalism and self-interest, All My Sons is remembered as one of the playwright's greatest works.This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Clare GleitTable of ContentsCHRONOLOGY COMMENTARY Historical, social and cultural contexts Genre and themes Play as performance Production history Academic debate Behind the scenes Further study PLAY TEXT NOTES
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Inequalities
Book SynopsisHe is a Chekhov of our time: holding his characters with as much humanity, compassion, humor and love - but without holding back his scathing indictment of deeply entrenched, systemic injustices and inequities.' - David SchwimmerThe Inequalities combines three plays from British author and director Alexander Zeldin into a trilogy that tells new stories of love, compassion and resilience for our time of austerity.Contextualised with an essay before each play and an in-depth interview with the author, Zeldin's three pieces present intimate stories of work, home and community in a radical form of realism. Written after extensive research across the United Kingdom, and involving people affected by the central themes of the plays, The Inequalities goes beyond social chronicle, achieving a timeless portrait of humanity under duress. This is theatre that goes behind the mirror of our time to reveTrade ReviewThis is the National's play of the year - and then some * Evening Standard on LOVE *This desolate, quietly intense devised drama gets under your skin and into your bones... unforgettable * The Times on Beyond Caring *Gripping, amusing, uncomfortable, desperately moving. Zeldin shows us friction…but also kindness and dignity and lots of love without turning sugary * The Times (on Love) *Table of Contents1. Foreword by Rufus Norris 2. Introductory essay to Beyond Caring 3. BEYOND CARING 4. The Beyond Caring Bookshelf 5. Introductory essay to LOVE 6. LOVE 7. The LOVE Bookshelf [1pp] 8. Introductory essay to FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY 9. FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY [96pp] 10. The FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY Bookshelf [1pp] 11. Interview with Alexander Zeldin on Process, edited by Faye Merralls
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hear Me Now
Book SynopsisA brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty original audition monologues, expressly created by a range of award-winning writers brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre Company. They're ideal for actors of colour searching for speeches for auditions or training, writers, teachers, and theatre-makers who are passionate about improving diversity.The book provides varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing material available from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a country music star, or the young Black boy who loves baking as much as football Hear Me Now is an essential tool for actors of colour to showcase their range, and seeks to inspire, empower, and
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beyond The Canons Plays for Young Activists
Book SynopsisNominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education AwardsA first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into activism. With award-winning plays from the UK's most revolutionary female writers of colour, as well as bespoke multimedia learning guides, this collection offers young global activists aged 16+, as well as teachers and creatives at any level, the opportunity to diversify their education and enhance their understanding of politically driven plays, world politics and social justice. Unique in how it amplifies these selected award-winning plays by incorporating learning guides that accommodate different learning styles (be they visual, auditory, reading/writing and kinaesthetic), Beyond The Canon dares readers to take a deeper dive into the world of the play, be inspired by the themes and provocations anTrade ReviewThese are genuinely groundbreaking plays, full of provocations and rich sources of discussion, both in and out of the classroom … The watching, studying and reading of these plays can contribute to those aspirations being realised, encourage students to take a deeper and more clear-eyed view of our shared history and cultural assumptions, and ultimately help them step out of their comfort zones. -- John Dabell * Teach Secondary Magazine *Table of Contents1. About Beyond The Canon Limited 2. Introduction by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway 3. Introduction Sarudzayi Marufu 4. Beyond The Canon’s Top Tips for Approaching Politically Charged Plays: Creating a Safe Space 5. Interview with and Biography of Mojisola Adebayo 6. Muhammad Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo - Playscript 7. Muhammad Ali and Me - Learning Resource written by Award-Winning Writer and Co-Founder at Black Lives Black Words International Project, Reginald Edmund 8. Interview with and Biography of Hannah Khalil 9. A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil 10. A Museum in Baghdad - Learning Resource written by Director, Dramaturg and Education Associate for RSC Chris White 11. Interview with and Biography of Amy Ng 12. Acceptance by Amy Ng 13. Acceptance - Learning Resource Written by the Author 14. Continue the Conversation 15. References and Inspirations
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Private Peaceful
Book SynopsisPrivate Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line. Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year, Private Peaceful is by the third Children''s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse. His inspiration came from a visit to Ypres where he was shocked to discover how many young soldiers were court-martialled and shot for cowardice during the First World War.This edition also includes introductory essays by Michael Morpurgo, Associate Director of Private Peaceful production Mark Leipacher, as well as an essay from Simon Reade, adaptor & director of this stage adaptation of Private Peaceful.Trade ReviewPitched to perfection for a young audience - The glory of Morpurgo is that [he reconnects] us with our past. He simply opens our hearts to feeling. * Daily Telegraph *The sheer restrained power of Morpurgo's writing keeps you gripped. * Guardian *A balanced, considered, well-structured piece of theatre, impeccably performed and beautifully committed. * Five stars - The Public Reviews *A truly special piece of theatre, and from the standing ovation at the end - it looks like I'm not alone in my thinking. * Broadway World *A haunting indictment of war's stupidity and waste * The Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Oresteia
Book SynopsisOrestes'' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus'' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written.Following Mr Burns and 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke radically reimagines Oresteia for the modern stage, in its first major London production in more than a decade. Lia Williams returns to the Almeida as Klytemnestra.Trade ReviewThis Oresteia is a stunning start to the Almeida's six-month season of Greek drama... [The] newly minted first act is a masterpiece... Icke underpins all the mythic resonance here with a razor eye for domestic and psychological detail... the sheer amount of ambition and skill in this quiet riot of theatricality is so great that this still grips, surprises and unsettles throughout. Huge themes, ordinary people, great performances, big success. * The Times *This Oresteia is a stunning start to the Almeida's six-month season of Greek drama... [The] newly minted first act is a masterpiece... Icke underpins all the mythic resonance here with a razor eye for domestic and psychological detail... the sheer amount of ambition and skill in this quiet riot of theatricality is so great that this still grips, surprises and unsettles throughout. Huge themes, ordinary people, great performances, big success. * The Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Antigone
Book SynopsisWhen her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction. Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work, Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009. Drawing on his 'ability to break open texts calcified by tradition' (Guardian), the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece.Trade ReviewA marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight * Arts Desk *
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