Plays, playscripts, drama
University of Missouri Press Lanford Wilson
Book SynopsisBefore Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s, small-town Missouri where he grew up. This selection of Wilson's early work, written between 1955 and 1967 provides a rare look at a young writer developing his style.Trade ReviewA significant addition to the published work of Lanford Wilson, illuminating his work as a playwright and enlarging the scope of his work as a writer, adding a substantial group of stories and poems to Midwest, and particularly Missouri regional literature, and adding an important group of stories to the coming-of-age and LGBTQ literature of the 1950s."" - Brenda Murphy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Connecticut, author of The Theatre of Tennessee WilliamsTable of Contents Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction by David Crespy SECTION 1: Six Stories A Section of Orange Goodbye Sparta Miss Misty The Beautiful Children The Polar Bear The Canary (A Fairy Tale) SECTION 2: Travels to and from the City The Train to Washington The Water Commissioner Fish Kite SECTION 3: Sketches of Town Life The Rimers of Eldritch Green Grow the Rushes Chalk Eye Drift SECTION 4: Sketches of City Life Mama Fuzz on Orion’s Sword Uptown in Snow Dear Mr. Goldberg Doors SECTION 5: Poems Outside Tulsa Mountains Orange Grove Flower Box Marigold Oakwood Gothic [Well, there she is, after all] Cathedral of St. Paul The Street Artist Village Walking Rhyme On a Day of Crisis Fifth Avenue was quiet Winter So the Sky Lullaby Lullaby (2) If Yours Cannot Be I Saw All the Workers in the Field at Noon Why When I Love You Notes on a Poem for Bill Noel The great-hearted Dean A Love Story about the Next Best Thing Afterword by Marshall W. Mason Editorial Note
£51.30
Liverpool University Press The Selftormentor Classical Texts Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Preface Introduction: I. Greek new comedy II. Comedy at Rome III. The life and works of Terence IV. The Terence nd his critics V. The Self-Tormentor and its relationship to Menander's play VI. The Self-Tormentor as a Roman comedy VII. The text Notes to the introduction Bibliography List to metres Text and translation Commentary
£32.54
Seagull Books London Ltd Three Plays
Book SynopsisCollected here are three of his plays—Philoctetes, The Horatian, and Mauser—whose poetic texts evidence the influence of Shakespeare, classical Greek tragedy, and avant-garde political theater on his works.
£12.24
BROADWAY PLAY PUB INC (NY) Uncle Vanya
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Salamander Street Limited Placeholder Parallel Text
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Victim
Book SynopsisMartin Murphy's recent plays include Victim (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh) RockStar (Lyric Hammersmith) Villain (Underbelly / Kings Head Theatre) and Worlds (VAULT Festival). His previous works include Manor (Soho Theatre) and Barren (Old Vic Theatre, 24 Hour Plays.) Martin also wrote the short film Poisoned and is half of the musical comedy double act Pistol and Jack who have performed at a range of venues including Soho Theatre, Assembly Edinburgh, NuWrite Festival Zagreb & Secret Garden Party.Trade Review[A] monologue that scarily and effectively shows how life can be shattered by public vilification, however unearned * Stage *Whatever the situation, it’s never fully revealed – the focus isn’t important in Martin Murphy’s writing, merely the emotion and the maelstrom that surrounds the detail. The moment itself is fleeting; the effect everlasting...Murphy’s show effortlessly proves that even the noblest of intentions can throw good people into the harsh realities of society * A Younger Theatre *I thoroughly recommend this play. ***** * one4review.co.uk *Engaging, provocative and insightful. 4.5 stars * The Fountain *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rare Earth Mettle
Book SynopsisYou don't tell an American to switch off her light; you build her a better light bulb.A leading British doctor with a radical plan to save the NHS and a Silicon Valley billionaire with a radical plan to halt climate change, meet outside an abandoned train on a salt flat in South America.A landscape so bright in its whiteness that it isn't easy to look at, and so uninterrupted in its flatness there's no echo.For Kimsa and his daughter who live there, the arrival of these strangers initially seems like an opportunity. Until they both stake their claim on the land, each following their ruthless pursuit of the greater good'.Al Smith''s landmark play premieres at the Royal Court following his 2016 hit Harrogate which saw him nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.Trade ReviewThe beauty of Smith’s occasionally Pinteresque writing is that while it is dark, it is never gratuitously ugly. * Telegraph *Al Smith knows how to set up and detonate a joke. He has a wicked, inky sense of humour. * The Stage (on Diary of a Madman) *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Positive Stories For Negative Times
Book SynopsisFive exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space.Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools'' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, these five plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 8-25. These original and innovative plays are:Is This A Fairytale? by Bea WebsaterA new play that rips apart the traditional fairy tale canon and turns it on its head in a surprising, inventive and unconventional way. Ages 8+Hold Out Your Hand by Chris ThorpeA dynamic text asking questions about place, where we are now and the moment we are living through. Ages 13+The Pack by Stef SmithA playful and poetic exploration about getting lost in the loneliness of your living room and trying to find your way home. Ages 13+OzTrade ReviewThe thing I love most about this selection of plays ... is the variety of themes, stories, styles and the diversity of the cast size; you can pick up this anthology and find something for a lesson, a series of workshops, an exam piece, and even a full scale production. * National Drama *If you are looking for something that will really revitalise a mid-Key Stage 3 drama unit, and require more than a desk study of a play script, then these [plays] could well be the answer. * Teaching English *Table of Contents1. Editor's Note 2. Credits and Biographies 3. Handbook 4. Is This A Fairytale? by Bea Webster 5. The Pack by Stef Smith 6. Hold Out Your Hand by Chris Thorpe 7. Ozymandias by Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon 8. Bad Bored Women of the Rooms by Sabrina Mahfouz
£20.89
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Positive Stories For Negative Times Volume Two
Book SynopsisSeven exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools with guidance for staging the plays, and other creative responses, either online or live in the space.Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools'' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times: Season 2, these plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages between 6 and 25.Spyrates 2 (Spies vs Pirates): Journey to the Forbidden Island by Robbie Gordon & Jack NuseFeaturing spies, pirates, robots, talking animals and everything in between, ''Spyrates'' is an interactive, playful and imaginative adventure story. Ages 6+At First I Was Afraid (I Was Petrified!) by Douglas Maxwell A feel-good comedy drama about a girl who keeps a diary of all her anxieties; but as she moves from Primary School to Secondary, from normal life to Lockdown, all of her worries appear to come true. Ages 11 +Table of ContentsAbout the Project Editor’s Note About Wonder Fools About the Traverse Creative Team Biographies The Handbook Steps of the process 1. Pick your play 2. Prepare your process 3. Create an open, safe and inclusive space 4. Build a creative and environment to work in 5. Form positive relationships through active listening, storytelling and discussion 6. Explore the play 7. Make a response 8. Upload your work 9. Share and celebrate 10. Evaluation The Plays Spyrates (Spies vs Pirates) 2: Journey to the Forbidden Island by Robbie Gordon & Jack Nurse At First I Was Afraid… (I Was Petrified!) by Douglas Maxwell The Raven by Hannah Lavery Thanks for Nothing by The PappyShow with Lewis Hetherington Revolting by Bryony Kimmings The Skirt by Ellen Bannerman Write to Rave: Step Pon by Debris Stevenson
£23.74
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Ancestors
Book SynopsisA clique of Caribbean maroon warrior women, a general of Haiti and his right-hand man, an ex-enslaved couple reclaiming their land, a group of Black French Caribbean soldiers held captive in Portchester and their wives travelling across the Atlantic to be reunited with them. These are The Ancestors: manifesting in our world, in the hopes we can stop history repeating itself. But do we really hold the key? What dark forces are still currently at play?In October 1796 a fleet of ships from the Caribbean carrying over 2,500 prisoners-of-war, who were mostly Black or mixed-race, began to arrive in Portsmouth Harbour. By the end of that month, almost all of them were held at Portchester Castle, accompanied by their families. About 100 women and children were sent to live nearby.The Ancestors is a site-specific play by Lakesha Arie-Angelo that explores the grounds of Portchester Castle and the voices of Black revolutionaries imprisoned therein that history forgot. It was commissioned bTrade ReviewWith a large cast and a worthwhile focus, The Ancestors is perfect for school productions. * Drama & Theatre Magazine *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC christopher oscar peña
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Ryan Craig
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£76.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sonya Kellys Druid Plays
Book SynopsisSonya Kelly is an Irish writer and actor. She has performed with all the major Irish companies including the Gate Theatre, Druid Theatre and The Corn Exchange and Fishamble: the new play company. She is a cast member of RTE's hugely successful, sketch show, The Savage Eye. Her debut solo show, The Wheelchair on My Face: a look back at a myopic childhood, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe 2012. The show played 150 performances in over 50 venues and toured to Paris and New York where it received a Critic's Pick in the New York Times.
£58.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Black Wolfe Tone
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£10.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hot Chicks
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£10.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fight Night
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dealers Choice
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) H to He Im turning into a man and See Primark and
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 54.60 Africa
Book SynopsisFemi Elufowoju jr born in Hammersmith, West London is the Creative Director of the company Elufowoju jr Ensemble. His quest to place the heart of Africa on the global stage stems from his love of his home nation Nigeria and the untold stories of trials and triumphs from the many countries that form the continent.Femi Elufowoju jr's recent engagements include his new national touring production of The Little Prince adapted by Inua Ellams for Fuel. In 2019 his reinterpretation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie for Watford Palace Theatre and Arcola Theatre was described as a radical new reimagining by The Guardian. In the same year Screen International announced he was set to step behind the camera and direct his first feature film, the UK-South Africa co-production Incensed, with principal photography commencing in Durban, South Africa.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Vincent River
Book SynopsisDavey has seen something he can't forget. Anita has been forced to flee her home. These two have never met. Tonight their paths cross with devastating consequences. Vincent River received its West End premiere at the Trafalgar Studios on 30 October 2007.Trade ReviewThe dark subtleties eddying beneath its surface tug fiercely at the emotions and the imagination. The Times Philip Ridley's devastating two-hander has lost none of its glinting edge in the seven years since it premiered ... his writing is among the very sharpest in British theatre. Time Out London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alphabetical Order
Book SynopsisWinner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the forces of order and chaos, between arid organisation in the person of the new library assistant, Leslie, and humane confusion in the person of Lucy, the much-loved resident librarian. Drawing on his experience as a journalist, Frayn draws his gallery of characters with the hilarious accuracy which can only come from first-hand experience.This edition features the author''s revised version of the script presented at the Hampstead Theatre in April 2009.Trade Review'It is no barrier to the enjoyment of Michael Frayn's 1975 comedy that the kind of newspaper cuttings library in which it takes place has been superseded by digital archives... The great virtue of this enlightened comedy is that it transcends the technological revolution to deal with eternal verities.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 22.4.09 'Michael Frayn's sweet-natured comedy about an endangered regional newspaper raises wry chuckles 34 years on from its first performance... The play is a sentimental and prescient protest against those who prioritise efficiency and profit margins over human beings... Its quasi-philosophical homage to the art of cataloguing information...has arguably become more interesting over the intervening years, an inadvertent prophecy of the triumphant age of Google.' Claire Allfree, Metro, 23.4.09 'Frayn studs his script with typically wry, philosophical one-liners that slip easily off his over-analytical characters' tongues. And their goal, at first murky, turns out to be survival itself.' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23.4.09 'Alphabetical Order proves poignant as well as funny. It also seems astonishingly prescient... Frayn's fictional paper's fate eerily mirrors the current acute anxiety in the newspaper business where long established titles are collapsing with alarming frequency.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 23.4.09 'Michael Frayn's delightful 1975 newspaper cuttings-library comedy' Michael Coveney, Independent, 23.4.09
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) I am Yusuf and This Is My Brother Modern Plays
Book SynopsisI am Yusuf and This Is My Brother is a powerful, poetic exploration of history, memory and different forms of love.'Before it happened I didn't know those people existed. Now I'm not certain that we do...' January 1948. Palestine. The British Mandate is ending. The UN is voting on who will control what part of the land. Ali is in love with Nada - but he is in despair. Her father won't let them marry because his brother Yusuf is 'odd' with his own eccentric, child-like point of view. Rufus, a soldier on the occupying British forces, longs for the cold fogs of Sheffield. War begins and, as the villagers are scattered and become refugees, the secret that's kept Ali and Nada apart is revealed. Although set within a politically charged context, the play is full of haunting, dreamlike poetry rather than didactic polemicism. Instead of simply exploring the political debate, Zuabi concentrates more on the richness of language and culture. With a Trade Review'moves one because of its provenance' : 'the tone...is more poetic than rancorous and steeped in sorrow rather than in hate' : 'The play makes a direct appeal to our emotions and our sense of guilt' Michael Billington, The Guardian, 22.01.10 'a powerful and highly personal piece' : 'Belatedly but most beautifully, a drama about the appalling tensions of 1948' Paul Taylor, The Independent, 25.01.10
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Baltimore Waltz and other plays
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Passion
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Talk Radio
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£999.99
St Augustine's Press Don`t Worry about Socrates – Three Plays for
Book SynopsisThis book exemplifies Pieper’s skills as a communicator. Despite his concentration on the depths—which, beneath the stormy surface level of life, he is constantly able to plumb—Pieper is able to stage his profoundest thoughts. Here, in a clear and appealing Pieper re-enacts the central meanings of three of Plato’s most famous dialogues, all touching on the central purpose of life: how do we gain by giving, what is love and how do we show it, what is the purpose of our action and where do we find full happiness? In the first of the three plays, Gorgias: Or the Abuse of Words and Power, he is able to vent his concerns about the dishonest use of language for purely political purposes or for purely personal advancement. Socrates contends that gaining power does not lead to happiness, and that, in the end, suffering wrong is to be preferred over doing wrong. In the second of the plays, The Symposium, Socrates sits back and listens to all the speakers say what they understand by Eros, for love is seen here in many forms from the speakers. Then, when his turn comes, he merely reports the wise words which Diotima spoke to him about the highest form of Eros—which is love of that which is beautiful in itself, that “is” eternal, that neither becomes nor passes away. In the third play, The Death of Socrates (from Plato’s dialogue Phaedo) Pieper shows how Socrates’ profound values enable him to face death with equanimity. Even his close disciples and friends (Plato is absent) are nonplussed as they witness his total selfless integrity. Without popularizing, this book succeeds in highlighting some fundamental issues which are not only central to Plato’s thought, but are also shown to be acutely relevant to our current society.
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St Augustine's Press The Invisible Threshold – Two Plays by Gabriel
Book SynopsisFrench philosopher and dramatist, Gabriel Marcel (1888-1973), who belonged to the movement of French existentialism, is one of the most insightful thinkers of the twentieth century. Unlike some of his contemporaries who took existentialism in an atheistic, even nihilistic, direction, Marcel approaches human existence from a theistic perspective, and gives priority to the themes of hope, fidelity and faith in the human search for meaning in a challenging world. Author of seventeen major works of philosophy, Marcel also wrote more than thirty plays, including tragedies and comedies, many of which were staged in theaters in Paris, Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland and the United States. Marcel regarded dramatic art as having priority in both a chronological and an intellectual sense. His plays deal with challenging experiences and issues of contention that arise between people, especially families, in day-to-day life. Describing his own style as “post-Ibsen,” because it involves a sense of realism, depictions of passion and sincerity, and a sense of moral duty, Marcel’s plays rarely provide complete or settled answers to the difficulties they confront, but suggest possibilities both of interpretation and with regard to the choices on life’s journey. One of his aims is to allow audiences (and readers) not only to arrive at their own conclusions, but to feel the echo of the dramatic action in their own lives, and so provoke both insight and critical reflection on the dramas of existence. The plays in this new volume were written early in his career, and were published together under the title Le Seuil invisible (The Invisible Threshold) in 1913. The first play, Grace, explores the theme of religious conversion. The drama depicts a crisis between characters of genuine depth and sincerity, who are struggling with different interpretations of shared experiences. After a serious illness, Gerard, one of the main protagonists, undergoes a religious conversion, an experience which allows of two different and irreconcilable interpretations. The first is the interpretation of the scientific materialist; the second regards Gerard’s illness not as a cause but as an occasion to exercise the subject’s creative freedom. The play also raises the question of grace: the role that God may play in the choice of faith. Marcel asks us to consider the sincerity of our choices, and those attitudes and temptations that play a role in our motivations, in a profound dramatization of the experience of the religious as it emerges through challenging life situations. Similar themes are addressed but developed differently in the second play, The Sandcastle. Through the character of Moirans, this drama explores the confrontation between one’s beliefs and their consequences when faced with challenging family and social circumstances. The play asks us to think about what happens when our beliefs and theories, especially about religion, morality and politics, come up against situations in life that can test them. Marcel raises issues of moral character, commitment and sincerity, and introduces the role doubt plays in the way we form and hold our convictions. The springboard for the unfolding of the drama is Moirans’ egotism, and his growing realization of the difference between accepting Christianity in an intellectual and cultural sense, and a Christianity that is lived. This predicament then provokes his daughter, Clarisse, into some profound soul-searching of her own. Drama of this profundity offers audiences and readers a mirror that reflects their own problems, which leads to further awareness and understanding. Marcel’s dramatic works deal with the difficulties in acknowledging many of life’s most profound experiences, in reacting to them in an authentic way, and often illustrates our failures with regard to them. One of the major themes of both his dramatic and philosophical work is that life’s most profound, fulfilling experiences are being compromised more than ever in what he describes as the modern, broken world (le monde cassé), one unfortunately characterized by alienation, loss of meaning and feelings of despair. These new plays of Marcel’s, here translated into English for the first time, will appeal to all who are interested in the role of grace in everyday life, in the influence of culture on belief, the relationship between faith and reason, the choice of faith in a secular world, and the struggle between inauthentic and authentic existence. Marcel raises profound questions about these and related topics, but does not offer final answers. In his plays, he leaves that to us.
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University of Massachusetts Press The Oven: An Anti-Lecture
Book SynopsisAfter a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a religious ceremony that involved taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Even though he considered himself a skeptic and a rational intellectual, as someone whose worldview was defined by his education and his heritage as a Mexican Jew, Stavans found that the ritual pushed him to reconsider many of his basic understandings, including his perceptions of indigenous cultures in Latin America, as well as his career as teacher, thinker, and artist. This one-act play is delivered in the form of a lecture that mimics the author's startling spiritual journey. The book includes twenty-five bold images, in color and black and white, which capture the author's performance of the play.
£27.43
University of Wyoming Press Shakespeare Violence Prevention
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Wits University Press The House of Truth Bloke and His American Bantu
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Operation Crucible
Book Synopsis“Sheffield’s on fire, it glows orange, like hell, like a furnace, like steel. The streets which were familiar are now just bricks, mortar and flame. My childhood, my home… just a pile of stone.” A story of four ordinary men in extraordinary times... On the 12 December 1940, more than six hundred people lost their lives in over seven hours of continuous bombing by Germany's Luftwaffe. Their objective? Wiping Sheffield’s world famous steel works - the heartland of Britain’s munitions manufacturing - clean off the map. The ruthless attack left Sheffield in ruins – destroying families, shattering a way of life, and changing the city forever. At 11.44pm on the night of the raid, a single 500kg bomb reduced the Marples Hotel, which stood proudly in Fitzalan Square, from seven storeys to just fifteen feet of rubble. Only one of the ten compartments in the hotel’s cellars withstood the blast. Within it, trapped, were four men. This is their story, from beginning to end...Trade ReviewKieran Knowles has fashioned a remarkable first play... while showing that steelwork depends on a carefully synchronised collaboration, Knowles also individualises the men... While celebrating the men's courage, Knowles also shows how, in the crisis of enforced incarceration, their solidarity breaks down... Although created from research, this is a play that vividly evokes both the terrors of wartime bombing and Sheffield's capacity for survival. * Michael Billington, The Guardian *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Black Lives, Black Words: 32 Short Plays
Book SynopsisSelected and edited by the award-winning American playwright Reginald Edmund, who produced Black Lives, Black Words across the US, which premiered in Chicago, July 2015. The international project has explored the black diaspora’s experiences in some of the largest multicultural cities in the world, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Toronto and London. Over sixty Black writers from the UK, USA, and Canada have each written a short play to address Black issues today. "I started Black Lives, Black Words because I felt there needed to be an opportunity for me as a playwright to speak out against the sins committed in this world inflicted upon black bodies: Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, and the countless many others. This in turn caused me to wonder what other artists were out there that possess this overwhelming desire to speak out for the unheard voices. Companies in Minneapolis with Guthrie Theatre, Carlyle Brown and Company, Bedlam Theatre, Freestyle Theatre, the Million Artist Movement, in Maryland – Columbia Arts Festival, Chicago – Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Toronto – Obsidian Theatre, Buddies and Bad Times Theatre, and the National Arts Centre, along with many others joined us and now, two years later we have given voice to over sixty Black Playwrights and over a hundred performers. From city to city, Black Lives, Black Words has remained an event that is accessible and affordable to all. Embraced by a wide range of different theatres that vary in capacity, playing to houses from 70 to 300 audience members. Selling out in every venue. I collected these works showcased at BLBW events from all over in hopes that the narratives that have been placed in here speaks to the Black Struggle, Black Achievement, Black Love, Black Aspirations, Black Hopes, Black Dreams, BLACK EVERYTHING. I hope that the narratives amplify the importance of the Black Lives Matter Movement, that these plays find themselves in theatres both community and regional, in classrooms and libraries, church houses, and communal gathering serving as a rallying cry for those that are artists and even those who are not that OUR BLACK LIVES MATTER, individually, globally, and spiritually." - Reginald Edmund, Managing Curating Producer, Black Lives, Black Words Featured in this collection are: Reginald Edmund, Idris Goodwin, James Austin Williams, Rachel Dubose, Becca C. Browne, Marsha Estell, Aaron Holland, Loy A. Webb, Lisa Langford, Christina Ham, Harrison David Rivers, Dominique Morisseau, Winsome Pinnock, Trish Cooke, Mojisola Adebayo, Rachel De-Lahay, Max Kolaru, Yolanda Mercy, Somalia Seaton, Courttia Newland, Luke Reece, Tawiah BenEben M’Carthy, Jordan Laffrenier, Meghan Swaby, Mary Ann Anane, Allie Woodson, Elliot Sagay, Amira Danan, Cat Davidson, Noelle Fourte, Kori Alston
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ulysses
Book SynopsisLeopold Bloom’s odyssey is a pandemonium of live music, puppets, dancing, clowning, bowler hats and kazoos. It’s Ulysses as you’ve never imagined it before, a superbly theatrical homage to Joyce’s chronicle of Dublin life and the greatest novel of all time. With his wife Molly waiting in bed for the nefarious Blazes Boylan, Leopold Bloom traverses Dublin, conversing in pubs, graveyards and brothels, enduring ridicule and prejudice as he steadfastly clings to his principles and subtly slays his dragons while drawing ever closer to his fateful encounter with the young Stephen Dedalus.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Brexit
Book SynopsisA new Tory PM must unite his party’s warring factions with his masterful plan for a final Brexit deal. Just... what was it again? A new satire by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky.Trade Review★★★★★ "Deliciously played… wonderful" * The Scotsman *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British
Book SynopsisAn essential introduction to the British East Asian theatrical community, this is a collection of full plays, short plays and monologues from British East Asian writers, including Jingan Young, Kathryn Golding, Amber Hsu, Cathy Lam, Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen, Tan Suet Lee, Julie Cheung Inhin & Stephen Hoo. Contains a foreword written by David Henry Hwang and Jingan Young.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Strange Fruit
Book Synopsis"I go half way round the world and back thinking I’d made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can’t picture much of a future for themselves. They’re young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past – the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago. But when Alvin returns home from his grandfather’s funeral a new version of their past emerges, and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the truth about their existence. Powerful and compelling, Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no man’s land that can come between parents and their children.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Parents' Evening
Book Synopsis“Would you please remember that it’s not us they’re assessing.” She’s been disruptive in class. She’s rude to the teachers. And now she wants to learn the trumpet. But whose performance is really being judged? A mother and father prepare to discuss their daughter’s progress at the local primary school, but their rare opportunity for some quality time together begins to test the bonds of love, work and family. Charged, passionate and surprising, Parents’ Evening is a fierce and funny play about modern marriage and parenthood. This European premiere marks the homecoming of a major British talent already acclaimed in America.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Fauna – and Other Plays
Book SynopsisThe best-known dramatic works of Paula in its first English translation. This volume brings together the best-known dramatic works of Argentine playwright Romina Paula for the first time in English translation. As a playwright, novelist, actor, and director of theater and film, Paula defies traditional boundaries between the arts, engaging different modes of production, and borrowing freely from the languages of theater, film, dance, photography, and music. In the four plays collected here—The Sound It Makes (2007), The Whole of Time (2009), Fauna (2013), and Rewilding (2016)—Paula moves us to think about how we tell the stories of people’s lives, exploring synergies between documentary and fiction, and the role of art in expressing ideas of love, family, gender, and sexuality. Paula’s plays imagine worlds that are both poetically expansive and intimate. Paula belongs to a new generation of Argentine artists influenced by feminist activism and the collective mobilization against gender violence that has revolutionized Latin America in the early twenty-first century. Her vision expressed through these moving plays collected in this volume will be welcome by literature enthusiasts and activists alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rewilding the poetics of love, life, and intimacy in Romina Paula's theater1. The Sound It Makes2. The Whole of Time3. Fauna4. Rewilding
£34.97
Arlen House Silent Trade
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Nick Hern Books Women of Troy
Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price In the aftermath of the bloody Trojan Wars, the women of the city lament their fate and look fearfully ahead to the future. Covering themes of religious scepticism, the injustices within roles for women and the destructive power of war, Euripides' tragedy Women of Troy is as relevant now as it ever was. This English translation by Kenneth McLeish is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with an introduction by Marianne McDonald and Michael Walton.
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Liverpool University Press Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek
Book SynopsisSatyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies. Euripides'Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary - but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.Trade Review'This volume, in short, will be game-changing, … [it] marks a formidable work of scholarship in its own right, an accessible compilation of the genre’s remains and a spectacular addition to the teacher’s toolbox.' Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction General Bibliography Euripides’Cyclops Critical Apparatus ΚΥΚΛΩΨ/ CYCLOPS Commentary MAJOR FRAGMENTS OF GREEK SATYRIC DRAMA Introductory Note Bibliography and Abbreviations Advice to Readers Bibliographical Guidance Pratinas 4 F 3: Hyporchema Aeschylus Glaucus the Sea-god (Glaucus Marinus) Net-Fishers (Dictyulci) Sacred Delegates or Isthmian Contestants (Theori or Isthmiastae) Prometheus the Fire-Kindler (Prometheus Pyrkaeus) Sisyphus the Runaway and/or Stone-Roller (Sisyphus Drapetes or Petrokulistes) F 281a, b, *451n: from a‘Justice’ play Sophocles Lovers of Achilles (Achillis Amatores) Inachus Trackers (Ichneutae) Oeneus, F **1130 Euripides Autolycus A and B Eurystheus Sciron Syleus Ion of Chios 19 F 17a–33a, *59: Omphale Achaeus I Selected shorter fragments, from The Games (Ludi, 20 F 3–4), Aethon (F 6–11), Alcmeon (F 12–14), Hephaestus (F 17), Linus (F 26), The Fates (Fata, F 27–8), Omphale (F 33–4) Critias (?) 43 F 19: from a‘Sisyphus’ play Python 91 F 1: Agen Sositheus 99 F 2–3: Daphnis or Lityerses Lycophron 100 F 2–4: Menedemus Anonymous Adespota F 646a Adespota F 655: from an‘Atlas’ play Adespota F 667a: from a‘Medea’ play A new (2007) adespoton: satyric (?) Appendix: summary details of some other satyr-plays, by Pratinas, Aeschylus, Aristias, Sophocles, Euripides, Astydamas II and Chaeremon Index of Motifs and Characters General Index
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Liverpool University Press Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
Book SynopsisAeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his people, who vote to accept the girls, but while they sing blessings on Argos, Danaus spies their cousins' ships arriving. Left on their own when he goes for help, they sing more seriously of suicide, and seek sanctuary upstage when the Egyptians enter. A remarkable tussle of two choruses ensues; in the nick of time the king arrives, sees off the Egyptians (but they promise a return) and offers his hospitality. The girls want their father, however, and go when guided by him and his escort of Argive soldiers. Their final song has elements of wedding song in it; they share it, provocatively, with the Argives. The rest of the tetralogy is lost, but enough is known to indicate that marriage is the theme. Aeschylus probably surprised his first audience in his use of the myth; his command of theatre and poetry is fully mature. A.J.Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University.Trade ReviewThis is a fine commentary, in which the editor has omitted no point of significance or dispute.Colin Leach, Classics for AllTable of Contents Introduction: Synopsis (1) Text and facing translation Apparatus criticus Commentary Bibliography Index
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Shoestring Press Silvermans Travels
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ISI Books Edward Albee: (The Later Plays)
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Lake Forest College Two Short Plays: The Wonder Hat and Back of the
Book SynopsisTwo Short Plays by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman breathes new life into Chicago’s historic Little Theater Movement. This illustrated edition of two of Goodman’s best-known plays, The Wonder Hat and Back of the Yards, recalls that Goodman—still wellremembered as a key figure in Chicago’s theater scene and the man for whom the Goodman Theatre was named—wrote and produced his own works before the influenza epidemic of 1918 cut short his life.Cowritten in 1916 with Ben Hecht, The Wonder Hat comically updates classic European commedia dell’arte. The Wonder Hat was Goodman’s most widely performed play and is still his bestknown work. Whimsical illustrations accompany this vivid play, which features a hat that confers invisibility on the wearer, a pair of star-crossed lovers, and the assurance that love still conquers all. In contrast, Back of the Yards presents a gritty realist drama about Irish Americans in one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, in which a cop and a priest collaborate to save a young man at risk.Original artwork accompanies both plays, and Ioana Cornea and Benjamin Goluboff’s critical introduction uses material from the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman archives at Chicago’s Newberry Library to illustrate Goodman’s life and career, the Little Theater Movement, and Goodman’s collaboration with Hecht.
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Jasper Project Therapy
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Gallimard Ubu roi
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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