Plays, playscripts, drama
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC God's Island
Book SynopsisGregory Motton's latest play, and his fourth to be premiered in France, is a lyrical comedy. It concerns God's relationship with his creations, and Man's destiny. It includes episodes with God and Lucifer, Isaac and Rebecca and their sons Jacob and Esau, Jacob and the Angel, Jacob begetting his children, God's love affair with Mary, the birth of Jesus, and the Saviour's final betrayal by his idolising follower, the lonely, fearful Judas.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Book SynopsisFrom Broadchurch and Doctor Who writer Chris Chibnall - Kiss Me Like You Mean It - A play about love and death that was shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) School Play Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisFifteen-year-old Charlie has serious ambitions - to mess with teachers' heads, to front a gang, to ride the motorbike that blows all competition out of the water. But when the new music teacher, Miss Fry, arrives, things start to change.
£13.62
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Afore Night Come
£15.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Losing My Marbles
Book SynopsisLosing My Marbles is a series of hilarious true stories from Trader Faulkner's varied life, describing his extraordinary encounters with Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Vivien Leigh, his involvements with the tearaway, womanising Peter Finch, his poignant meeting with Picasso and his unforgettable appearance on stage with the great flamenco dancer Antonio. 'Losing My Marbles is a series of true stories. These are events in my life wherein the heartache, error and folly of my youth are transformed into comedy and tragedy, if you can call the heartbreak of youthful idealism tragedy! The result has become an evening in the theatre where people can forget their troubles and laugh at mine. Marbles can be played anywhere there is an audience who like a good story, and there are many more from my picaresque life yet to be told.' Trader Faulkner
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dangerous Corner
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tartuffe
Book Synopsis"The religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant, Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and imprisoning Orgon. Moliere's classic satire was denounced on its first performance as a sacrilegious outrage and banned from further public view. Only after petition to Louis XIV was the ban lifted, and the play's trenchant mockery of human frailties has ensured its popularity ever since."Trade Review"Much of the credit for the evening's success belongs to Bolt's superb translation.' Guardian 'Bolt's irreverent, colloquial translation, in neat, octosyllabic rhyming couplets, is blessed with a filthy wit' Daily Telegraph"
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Murders at Argos Cressida Among the Greeks
£19.56
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gengis Among the Pygmies Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisGengis discovers he's won the competition to become leader of the nation. He'll be in charge of stocking the shelves and a marketing outreach policy statement, and great things are expected of him. He has plans to modernise the shop, increase profit and sell his people the one commodity they haven't already got: the noose.After trying in vain to reform his rude, stupid and greedy population he ends up in a trade war against the US. He goes to work undercover in a clothes factory in the Philippines, where he falls in love with his fellow worker, the minute Thumbelina.Gregory Motton's volatile satire slashes into the smooth surfaces of consumer culture. With absurdity, irony and hilarity Gengis Amongst the Pygmies exposes the hypocrisy and banality of attitudes and strategies often accepted without a second thought.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Academic The Marriage of Figaro
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Precious Bane
Book SynopsisByrony Laveny has been hailed as one of the UK's most important playwrights by the Observer. Her other erecent plays include Frozen and adaptations of The Magic Toyshop and Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her adaptation of the Finnish play Cherished Disappointments in Loce is also published by Oberon Books amd available from TCG.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jamaica Inn
Book SynopsisFrom the gothic story by Daphne du Maurier.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Debris
Book SynopsisAn odyssey of pain, blood, love and loss. An unreal journey through two disturbed minds, and the unfolding events leading up to the self crucifixtion of their father in the front room. Enter the insane world of siblings Michael and Michelle. Debris is a depraved vision of an alien world seen through their eyes. Debris was developed whilst Kelly was on attachment at the National Theatre Studio. A production by the Latchmere Theatre opened at Battersea Arts Centre in March 2004.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Dog in The Manger
Book Synopsis"The Spanish Golden Age celebrated one of the most dynamic, energetic and stylish periods of world drama which exploded onto the stages of Madrid at the turn of the seventeenth century. It was a decisive period in world drama, similar to the periods of great national drama which occurred in seventeenth century London and fifth century Athens. The Spanish Golden Age was big business - professional, commercial theatre with plays touring all over Spain and Europe Lope de Vega was one of the Spanish Golden Age's best known playwrights. In his classic The Dog in the Manger, Diana, Countess of Belfor, a beautiful and headstrong young woman, is beset by aristocratic suitors urging marriage but refuses them all. One-night she discovers her handsome young secretary seducing her favourite lady in waiting and is consumed with jealousy. A heartbreaking love triangle is forged and so begins a tale of forbidden love, envy and passion. The Dog in the Manger is a painful and hilarious comedy for anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone they shouldn't have."
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Behzti Dishonour Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisYou think it is pleasant watching a fat virgin become infertile? I want to be seen and noticed and invited by people. I want anything... that is not this.Past her prime, Min joyfully spends her life caring for her sick, foul-mouthed mother, Balbir. Today, for the first time in years, theyre off out. Mother and daughter head to the local Sikh Temple, but when Balbir encounters old friends, a past trauma rears its ugly head. Min and Balbirs illusions are about to be shattered as they become immersed in a world of desperate aspiration and dangerous deals.In a community where public honour is paramount, is there any room for the truth? Behzti was scheduled to open at The Door (Birmingham Rep) in December 2004 but was cancelled due to protests by some members of the local Sikh community.
£15.60
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Professor Bernhardi
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Lush Life Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisLotte is a club singer from Newcastle, who's spent a lifetime singing the songs of Ella Fitzgerald. With two kids to support she sings by night and works by day to make ends meet.After a series of bad relationships, Lotte meets Michael, a charismatic art dealer from London and her luck seems to have changed for the better. But when he disappears without explanation, she follws him to America where she must make a pilgrimage of her own. Beside the grave of Ella Fitzgerald, the extraordinary events and scenes of Lotte's life are revealed.Lush Life opened at the Live Theatre, Newcastle in March 2005.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Osama the Hero
Book SynopsisGary's not stupid. He just dares to see the world differently. In the class room and on the estate, he provokes without intent. When another act of violence unsettles those around him, Gary must shoulder the blame. A visceral rollercoaster of a play by one of Britain's hottest writers. Raw, angry and urgent, this is an explosive piece of work.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Kingfisher Blue Oberon Modern Plays
Book Synopsis'I started out like you. Bit of rubbish. And look at me now...A young man, he don't have no one to blame but himself if he don't make something of his life'Winter on a crumbling South London estate. Denny's up to his neck in toilets; his hopeless apprentice Elvis is about as useful as the pot-noodles he subsists on. Elvis's mate Ally has come up with a can't-lose-get-rich-quick scam that might just save their bacon. And Cooper may have big plans for the karaoke bar - but can he really compete with 'Posh and Becks' night down Mandy's?Just four London lads, doing their best to keep afloat, with big plans for getting on; but things take a serious turn for the worse when Ally and Elvis's money-making plan dangerously backfires.Kingfisher Blue is an urban tale of stuffed weasels, avocado sandwiches and dreams of escape. It premiered at the Bush Theatre in May 2005.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) On Love
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Barker: Plays One
Book SynopsisIncludes the plays Victory, The Europeans, The Possibilities and Scenes From An Execution. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. These plays are among his best-known works, and their energy, poetic language and imagination have fixed them firmly in the international repertoire. Exploring the tragic form defined by Barker as Theatre of Catastrophe, three of the plays speculate on human behaviour in moments of historical crisis. Victory is set in the English Civil War and follows the ethical voyage of a widow towards personal reconstruction. The Europeans takes one of the great eruptions of Islamic imperialism asthe background for a young woman's insistence on her right to her own identity. Scenes from an Execution shows the struggle of an independently-minded artist against the power of the Venetian state. The Possibilities, a disturbing series of short plays set in various times and cultures, reveals Barker's unconventional way with moral dilemmas.Trade Review‘Barker’s work remains emotionally true, poetic psychologically and full of startling insights.’ - The Arts Desk * The Arts Desk *‘Shows Barker’s poetic talent at its most disciplined.’ - The Guardian * The Guardian *
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays The Robbers Passion and Politics v 1 Oberon Classics
Book SynopsisIncludes the plays The Robbers and Passion and PoliticsTwo plays concerned with tyranny and freedom. Schiller's first play, The Robbers (1781), was written in great secrecy under the prison like conditions of Württenberg's Karlsschule: Karl, the son of a count, is disinherited through the machinations of his brother Franz, and, turning his back on a social order he finds unjust and corrupt, becomes the leader of a band of robbers.In Passion and Politics (1784), a 'bourgeoise tragedy', the love between Louise, a musician's daughter, and Ferdinand, a politician's son, crosses an unbridgeable social divide.One of the great figures in German literature, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most significant playwright of his day, numbering among his devotees Coleridge and Carlyle. His plays are known for their originality of form, vivid stage imagery and powerful language, faithfully rendered in Robert David MacDonald's acclaimed translations.
£23.51
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Worlds Biggest Diamond Oberon Modern Plays Royal Court Theatre Presents
Book SynopsisA cottage by the sea. Two old lovers re-unite for the weekend after thirty years. He has an appointment with death, she has left her husband upstairs. Both think the other has betrayed their love. They fight it out as a storm grows out at sea.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mercy Fine
Book SynopsisMercy Fine is in her prison bed at midnight. In just over 24 hours she'll be going back home, but home was the family she destroyed. As Mercy's future looms, her past haunts her...Clean Break Theatre Company commissions a play from a female playwright every year. These plays are based upon issues relating to women in the criminal justice system. Writer Shelley Silas researched "Mercy Fine" together with women prisoners in HMP East Sutton Park. Shelley Silas's stage plays "Falling" and "Calcutta Kosher" are both published by Oberon Books. Her plays for BBC Radio 4 include "The Sound of Silence" and a co-adaptation of "The Raj Quartet". "Mercy Fine" opens at The Drum, Birmingham Rep in October 2005.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Love Song
Book SynopsisBeane is an exile from life - an oddball. His well-meaning sister Joan and brother-in-law Harry try and make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary on his apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind Beane's mysterious new love Molly.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) companyofangels
Book SynopsisIn Hannah & Hanna having escaped from Kosovo, Hanna, 16 meets Hannah, 16, from Margate. An unlikely friendship develops when they find that music is a common bond between them despite their different cultures and circumstances.Virgins explores issues of sexuality for young people: How do you explore your sexuality when you are still living at home with your parents? How do your parents sustain their love life with you in the house? And why do we find it so difficult to talk about?Risk asks how young people can discover their limits, how can they find out who they are? It asks why young people are drawn to danger; why they risk their freedom, their bodies, their minds and their futures, through dangerous activities and crime.Club Asylum is a devised dance theatre piece about teenage asylum seekers in Glasgow based on research with both young asylum seekers and residents. A thrilling fusion of dance, theatre and music.
£20.54
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dont Look Now
Book SynopsisFollowing the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen.Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, Daphne du Maurier's classic thriller starts as a moving examination of grief but gradually becomes a chilling tale with a dark and terrifying climax.This adaptation of Don't Look Now premiered in 2007 at the Sheffield Lyceum with a transfer to the Lyric Hammersmith.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Glass Eels
Book SynopsisLate August heat, still and heavy, down on the Somerset Levels. A land of water and silt and mud and eels. Something is moving. Unfurling...During a heady hot summer, a young girl's sexual awakening is coloured by shadows of her early childhood. Written with Leyshon's characteristic stark lyricism and suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, "Glass Eels" dramatises the unconscious world of instinct where the lives of humans, plants and eels are all ruled by the primal rhythms of the wetlands. It opens at the Hampstead Theatre in June 2007.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Racine: Three Plays
Book SynopsisThis work contains three masterpieces by one of the most important French dramatists of the 17th century. "Berenice" is a tale of love and personal happiness in conflict with public duty. "Phedre" concerns a princess with an overwhelming infatuation with her stepson. "Britannicus" lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos. These new versions by two of the country's most distinguished director-translators prove that Racine is far from untranslatable; they offer blisteringly effective poetry, urgent plotting and powerhouse roles for both actors and actresses.
£24.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Last Confession
Book SynopsisThe Vatican, 1978: a little-known Cardinal from Venice is elected to succeed Pope Paul VI. A compromise candidate, he takes the name Pope John Paul I, and quickly shows himself to be the liberal the reactionaries within the Catholic Church most feared. Thirty-three days later he is dead. No official investigation is conducted, no autopsy is performed, and the Vatican's press release about the cause of death is found to be largely false. With a premiere at the Chichester Festival in April 2007 starring David Suchet, this gripping thriller goes behind the scenes at the Vatican, uncovering the bitter rivalries, the political manoeuvrings and the unspoken crises of faith that surrounded the death of 'the Smiling Pope'.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Baghdad Wedding
Book Synopsis'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the brides' maids. That's just the way it goes.'Against a backdrop of London and war-torn Baghdad, three friends grapple with their sexual, cultural and political identity. This is a surprising first play from Iraqi writer Hassan Abdulrazzak.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Elling
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC England
Book SynopsisTwo guides in a gallery - Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain - Two hearts beating 8,000 miles apart - Translations - Transactions - And a transplantation. "England" is the story of a search for a new heart. It's a story about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost. It's a tour through spaces and across borders: from an art gallery to a jam factory, from Edinburgh to Osaka, from a hospital bed to a hotel room. It's a tour to the end of the world.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Shylock Play
Book Synopsis" When Warsaw Ghetto-escapee Sarah visits the Venice Ghetto she happens to witness a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice, upon this chance encounter Sarah is confronted by the terrible story of 'The Jew' which touches her own life. Through this emotive and provocative play Julia Pascal re-works Shakespeare's controversial text, transposing the fervent theme of anti-Semitism raised by the bard, playing it out in a contemporary setting. Challenging the portrayal of 'The Jew' that for many years has dominated society's attitudes towards the Jewish people, Pascal ambitiously places her own text within Shakespeare's classic, producing a thoroughly thought-provoking and original work."
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theatre as Witness
Book SynopsisThese are three testimonial plays from South Africa by the hugely influential and highly acclaimed young playwright Yael Farber. Uniquely, this collection of testimonial plays is based on the lives of the original black South African performers. It includes: A Woman in Waiting, Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise, and He Left Quietly.
£19.56
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Disappearing Number
Book SynopsisA Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of one of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time. Simultaneously a narrative and an enquiry, the production crosses three continents and several histories, to weave a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G.H. Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.Threaded through this pattern of stories and ideas are questions. About mathematics and beauty; imagination and the nature of infinity; about what is continuous and what is permanent; how we are attached to the past and how we affect the future; how we create and how we love.The book features an essay by Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford, and an introduction by Simon McBurney. The Complicité production was an astonishing success during its run at the Barbican, London in Spring 2007, winning The Evening Standard’s Best New Play Award 2007. Called ' Mesmerizing' by the New York Times, 'A Disappearing Number' is a brilliant play, aided with original music composed by the award winning DJ, producer and writer Nitin Sawhney. 'A Disappearing Number' was revived at the Novello Theatre, London in autumn 2010.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cracks in my Skin
Book SynopsisA funny play about a new kind of love story and a new kind of family.
£13.62
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Molora
Book Synopsis"Based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus In this reworking of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation. Attempts to come to terms with their violent past echo testimonies delivered in Apartheid's wake throughout South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Aeschylus' chorus is replaced by Xhosa tribeswomen, who bring grace and humanity through their ancient art of split tone singing. Molora (the Sesotho word for 'ash') is an examination of vengeance, and the breaking of its cycles by the everyman."
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC On the Rocks
Book SynopsisBased on true events, this is the story of women, and men, in love. An uplifting and passionate comedy about four friends trying to live together, two marriages struggling for survival and a group of writers striving for creativity in the midst of war.
£15.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC I'm a Minger
Book SynopsisA turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Deep Cut
Book Synopsis18 year old Private Cheryl James from Llangollen was one of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002. Cheryl’s parents wanted answers from the people responsible for their daughter’s care. But how do you begin to grieve when no-one seems to have a proper explanation? What would give you the determination to continue asking awkward, demanding questions? Taken from original source material and powerful first hand testimonies, Deep Cut is a bold and compelling account of one family’s journey through a time they thought they’d never experience, to places they hoped they’d never be.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Happy Savages
Book SynopsisTwo couples trample on friends and lovers as they search for happiness. In Fringe First and Peggy Ramsay award winner Ryan Craig's play, their dialogue crackles with desperation and raw humour. Happy Savages was performed at the Underbelly, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Lower Depths
Book SynopsisSet amongst the whores, alcoholics, cynics and doss house dreamers of a Russia on the brink of revolution, The Lower Depths is a harrowing, violent and uncompromising portrayal of the human spirit at its lowest ebb, with destitution and death an ever present spectre.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Amazonia
Book SynopsisInspired by the life and politics of Brazilian folk hero Chico Mendes.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Political Plays
Book Synopsis"Includes the plays Chips With Everything, Their Very Own and Golden City, The Journalists, Badenheim 1939 and, published here for the first time, Phoenix Phoenix, Burning Bright. Described variously as 'a dangerous playwright, 'a melancholy optimist', and 'the unique outsider in the British Theatre', Arnold Wesker is one of Britain's most celebrated playwrights. This latest volume in Oberon Books' Wesker series brings together five of his political plays. It features some of his best-known works including Chips With Everything, perhaps the most celebrated of his plays, and about which Harold Hobson, writing in The Sunday Times in 1961, said 'this is the first play of which the Establishment need be afraid.' "
£22.52
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Dark Things
Book SynopsisA brave and brilliant new play about art, fame, and death. Opened at the Traverse Theatre in October 2009.
£14.61
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Spur of the Moment
Book SynopsisWinner of 2010 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award For Most Promising Playwright, of the 2010 TMA Award for Best New Play and Winner of 2011 Critics Circle award for Most Promising Playwright. This play looks at the distance between close family relations and a young girl on the brink of adolescence.Trade ReviewReiss's raw, edgy play deals with the impetuous passion of a pre-teen girl for her family's lodge Reiss combines sardonic observation with confessional honesty . "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising," Cyril Connolly wrote; but I've a hunch Reiss has the strength to survive such dangerous labels. 3 stars”Michael Billington, The Guardian This is the most accomplished debut from a young playwright I’ve ever had the pleasure to see. A sharp-as-cat-claws drama, by a playwright who has only just sat her A-levels. The tyro playwright inhabits different generational mindsets with equal emotional fluency, wit and insight. Ignore the bland title this is a fresh, funny and blistering indictment of the way we live, parent and grow to maturity now. Whether you’re 17 or 70, go marvel. 4 stars”Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph A sharply observed, mightily impressive promising piece of work . Reiss excels at showing the way that our actions betray our thought . A distinctive and delightful debut” Dominic Maxwell, The Times Vivid and spiky Reiss’ ear for dialogue is so sharp”Susannah Clapp, The Observer Wow! Writers over the lofty age of, say, 20 will find themselves weeping with envy. Anya Reiss, an 18-year-old A-Level student has produced a debut drama of astounding accomplishment”Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard A remarkably accomplished debut . A startlingly sophisticated play”Sam Marlowe, Time Out (London) There is an amazing maturity about this debut Reiss is a genuine discovery” Lloyd Evans, The Spectator“Reiss's raw, edgy play deals with the impetuous passion of a pre-teen girl for her family's lodge… Reiss combines sardonic observation with confessional honesty…. "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising," Cyril Connolly wrote; but I've a hunch Reiss has the strength to survive such dangerous labels. 3 stars”—Michael Billington, The Guardian “This is the most accomplished debut from a young playwright I’ve ever had the pleasure to see. A sharp-as-cat-claws drama, by a playwright who has only just sat her A-levels. The tyro playwright inhabits different generational mindsets with equal emotional fluency, wit and insight. Ignore the bland title – this is a fresh, funny and blistering indictment of the way we live, parent and grow to maturity now. Whether you’re 17 or 70, go marvel. 4 stars”—Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph “A sharply observed, mightily impressive promising piece of work…. Reiss excels at showing the way that our actions betray our thought…. A distinctive and delightful debut”— Dominic Maxwell, The Times “Vivid and spiky… Reiss’ ear for dialogue is so sharp”—Susannah Clapp, The Observer “Wow! Writers over the lofty age of, say, 20 will find themselves weeping with envy. Anya Reiss, an 18-year-old A-Level student has produced a debut drama of astounding accomplishment”—Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard “A remarkably accomplished debut…. A startlingly sophisticated play”—Sam Marlowe, Time Out (London) “There is an amazing maturity about this debut… Reiss is a genuine discovery”— Lloyd Evans, The Spectator
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Heldenplatz
Book SynopsisThomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors. He wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler's Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. 'Heldenplatz' is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss.Trade Review"""Bernhard's dialogue already evokes so stirringly and with such cliche free precision what it feels like to live in the shadow of the Holocaust"" - Robert Shore> - The Metro ""What is initially strange continues to be strange, but the sheer strangeness becomes mesmerising, and then marvellous... Deftly translated by Meredith Oakes and Andres Tierney"" - Jeremy Kingston, The Times "" - it is as much an absurdist comedy as a piece of toxic rhetoric - this is an important European play that pins down a particularly fearful moment in Austrian history with ferocious elan."" - Michael Billington, The Guardian,"
£17.58