Plays, playscripts, drama
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro
Book SynopsisGriselda Gambaro is arguably one of Argentina's most important dramatists, as well as a playwright of international significance, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cultural and geographical borders. Despite international recognition, her plays remain little performed in the UK, an absence which makes this anthology of new translations a welcome contribution to British theatre culture, and to the English-speaking stage.Prolific since the 1960s, Gambaro's plays are radical, subversive, and endlessly inventive in the use of form and theatricality. This is a theatre of resistance which has the potential to make searing comments on our own domestic and political contexts, an experience which may not be comfortable but is always vital. Dazzling, original, incisive and poetic, this anthology shows Griselda Gambaro at the height of her creative powers. Siamese Twins (1967) In this charged and forceful play, two brothers (one weak, one strong) play Table of ContentsIntroduction Siamese Twins (1967) Mother by Trade (1999) As the Dream Dictates (2002) Asking Too Much (2004) Persistence (2007) Dear Ibsen: I am Nora (2013) The Gift (2015) Acknowledgements
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Dolls House
Book SynopsisNiru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. This edition is published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series, aimed specifically at students aged 16-18 to perform and study.Trade ReviewMoving, multilayered and intelligent. * Guardian *Gupta is gutsy with her rewrite. The first half, in particular, may have characters corresponding to Ibsen but is far more concerned with giving a sense of the Raj as it was in the high Victorian era. * Time Out, London *Fitfully fascinating and eventually mesmerising adaptation. * The Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Orphans
Book SynopsisHelen and Danny keep themselves to themselves. But the outside world comes crashing into their lives one day when Helen''s brother turns up. Covered in blood.Dennis Kelly''s new play is a thrilling contemporary suspense story which takes its audience on a chilling journey into a world just outside the front door. This disturbing urban drama has it''s world premiere at the Traverse Theatre on 31st July 2009, reuniting the team that brought Kelly''s play After The End to the Traverse Theatre in 2005. After a month''s run at the Traverse, it transfers to Birmingham Rep and the Soho Theatre (London).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Little Women
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA delightful adaptation, faithful to the spirit of Louisa May Alcott's novels * Sunday Telegraph *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Present Laughter
Book SynopsisAn honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos. - The Hollywood ReporterAt the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs - his line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered... and all hell breaks loose.Noël Coward''s Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change, and remains one of the playwright''s most enduring hits.This new edition is published in Methuen Drama''s iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward''s death and features a new introduction by Russell Jackson.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Global Theatre Anthologies Ancient Indigenous and
Book SynopsisThe power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora. Because these plays span centuries and are the work of artists from diverse cultures, readers can see elements that occur across time and space. Physicalized ritual, direct interaction with spectators, improvisation, music, drumming, and metaphorical animal characters help create the theatrical forms in multiple plays. Recurring themes include the establishment or challenging of political authority, the oppression or corruption of government, societal expectations based on gender, the complex and transformational nature of identity, and the power of dreams. Though each play is its own unique entity, reading them together allows readersTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Triumph of Horus translated and edited by H. W. Fairman “Masque of the Boa-Constrictor,” a Yoruba masquerade Oba Ko`so (The King did not hang) by Duro Ladipo Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia “The Comedy of Animals” by Tekle Hawariat “When the Hunchback Made Rain” by Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo Sizwe Banzi is Dead devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona Dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott Couvade by Michael Gilkes Further Reading
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Good
Book SynopsisProfessor John Halder is a 'good' man. But 'good' men must adapt to survive. As the world faces its Second World War, Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Good is a story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in the upper reaches of the Nazi administration. John Halder, a professor of literature, seems to be a good man; he diligently visits his blind and senile mother and looks after his vacant wife and three children. He is unremarkable, other than an unusual neurotic tic: the imaginary sound of band music plays in the background of his life, particularly at moments of high emotion. But by writing a book the result of his own experience discussing euthanasia for senile elderly people and by lecturing on the delicacy of German literary culture, John has unintentionally made himself a very desirable acquisition for the Nazi party. A profound and alarming examination of passivity and the rationaTrade ReviewGood is an original and intelligent play, light in texture but serious in content, that tries to work out how decent, liberal, humane men came to be swept up by the Nazi juggernaut. * Michael Billington, The Guardian *Taylor's play is about moral compromise in a political fog, and like all good plays is as much about now. as then * Time Out *One of the most powerful, politically pointed nights at the theatre * Evening Standard *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Oak Tree
Book SynopsisAn Oak Tree is a bold, absurdist, comic play for two actors - one of them different at each performance - about loss, suggestion and the power of the mind. This Student Edition is published with a commentary and notes by Seda Ilter, which explore Tim Crouch''s notion of audience and their role in theatre; possibilities of transformation and the role of visual art in theatre; the implosion of the real and fictional; and the liminal dramaturgy of Crouch''s plays; as well as how this experimental play works in performance. The edition also includes an interview with Tim Crouch, which sheds further light on his philosophy and process.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Surfacing and The Silence and the Noise
Book SynopsisTwo plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell.Surfacing NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. She's definitely not overwhelmed by meeting Owen, a new client, definitely not freaked out by what she's started seeing, definitely doesn't think her reality has been punctured and something else is leaking in. Luc goes for a swim and feels a hand dragging her down to the bottom of the lake When she surfaces, her reality is different. She's haunted by tormented mice, shape-shifting people, and secrets she thought she'd buried.This breathtaking new two-hander creates a contemporary Through The Looking Glass world. It premiered in February 2023.The Silence and the Noise Winner of Best Online Production at the Offies Awards 2024Ben and Daize are teenagers either side of a county line. Drug runner and daughter of an addict. As the adult world around them becomes deadly dangerous, do these natural enemies have it in them to save each other? The Silence andTrade ReviewA modest masterpiece. (on The Silence and the Noise) * The Stage *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shirley Valentine
Book SynopsisNominated for Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024I'd fallen in love with the idea of living... because we don't do what we want to do, do we? We do what we have to do and pretend that it's what we want to do.Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the woman who got lost in marriage and motherhood, the woman who wound up talking to the kitchen wall whilst cooking her husband's chips and egg. But Shirley still has a secret dream. And in her bag, an airline ticket...One day she may just leave a note, saying: Gone! Gone to Greece.'Willy Russell's celebrated one-woman play originally premiered in 1986 and became an instant classic, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and later being adapted into a successful film. This revised edition was published to coincide with the 2023 revival starring double Olivier Award and BAFTA winner Sheridan Smith.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Village Idiot
Book SynopsisIf I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like.Welcome to the village of Syresham; it''s not quite the Cotswolds. Townies have decided they want a lie-in, so they''re building a new high-speed railway. Issue is, it''s going right through Barbara Honeybone''s house, and she ''ent having none of it. Barbara''s grandson Peter works for the townies and it''s his job to convince the village that having a two-tonne bullet hurtling through their cabbage patches will actually be for the best. Then there''s Harry, Barbara''s younger grandson, he ''ent that bothered about trains, he''s only got eyes for Debbie Mahoney. But the only thing Barbara hates more than townies is the Mahoneys.Originally commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse, Village Idiot by Samson Hawkins is an audacious comedy, where family feuds kick off around a country fair that all you townies are invited to.This edition wa
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Falkland Sound
Book SynopsisI stand at my open window. I feel like I''m on the edge of reality.April 1982. The Falkland Islands are invaded by Argentine forces. The shockwaves reverberate around the world. For some, it's overdue: seen in the gradual sweep to decolonise the world it is thought of as an inevitable next step. For others, the act strikes at the very heart of British identity.Falkland Sound tells the incredible story of a small community plunged into the middle of an international crisis. About half the size of Wales, populated by fewer than two thousand people, with conditions so hostile that trees struggle to grow, everyday life on these strange and beguiling islands is changed forever as two powerful nations fight for the right to claim sovereignty.Brad Birch's lyrical new play turns modern history into a theatrical epic, depicting a community and way of life turned upside down. Falkland Sound is a play about empire, community, and what it means to live in someone else's metaph
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Golden Tongues
Book SynopsisA first-of-its-kind anthology that explores adaptations of 17th century Hispanic comedia within contemporary Los Angeles theater. Performed outdoors for audiences of all classes and genders, comedias questioned orthodox ideologies and power systems of the 17th-century Hispanic world: 400 years later, these stories are still being used to call for change, but within modern-day America. Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles explores how adaptations of source texts by authors such as Lope de Vega, Calderón, and María de Zayas harness their energy and themes. Touching on key modern issues like the intersection of power and sexuality, gentrification, and Black identities, this anthology bridges the gap between the classical and the contemporary. Featuring seven plays, each with an introduction that situates the adaptation in relation to its source and contextualises its
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC anthropology
Book SynopsisI have no answers. I have nothing but rage and sorrow. And so yes I built you because this is what I do. And honestly it's not that hard, you're basically a chatbot. Merril is one of Silicon Valley's leading software engineers, but her life disintegrates when her younger sister Angie vanishes on her way home from college. A year later, when the police have long abandoned their search, Merril assembles all the digital material Angie has left behind and sets about building herself a digital simulation of her sister. The resultant virtual Angie' offers her some solace until, that is, it starts to reveal new details about the real Angie's disappearanceA moving exploration of the intersection of family, technology, and legacy, anthropology is the timely new play from award-winning playwright, Lauren Gunderson. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Hampstead Theatre, in September 2023.<
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Abe Koogler Selected Plays
Book SynopsisKoogler's characters are earnest, idiosyncratic, and suspicious of hierarchy. Often bitingly funny, Koogler's playsreveal larger truths about the economic and racial systems under which we all live. (The Yale Review)Abe Koogler writes darkly comedic plays about ordinary Americans confronting larger political and economic forces, from small town residents grappling with environmental change to slaughterhouse workers trying to retain their humanity. Although grounded in realism, Koogler's plays often incorporate imaginary elements and heightened or musical language, creating moving and memorable works of art.In his first play collection, Koogler's work is brought together and introduced by the author, offering an overview of his range in style, from the naturalistic to the absurd.Deep Blue Sound: If anything links all of these people, it is an aching loneliness. That they are trying to figure out what happened to orcas, which are remarkably soci
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mates in Chelsea
Book SynopsisRory Mullarkey's original plays include Pity, The Wolf from the Door (Royal Court Theatre), Saint George and the Dragon (Royal National Theatre), Each Slow Dusk (Pentabus Theatre/UK Tour), Cannibals, Single Sex (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Grandfathers (National Theatre Connections, then Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre) and On the Threshing Floor (Heat & Light Company, Hampstead Theatre). His adaptations/translations include The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Bristol Old Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange), The Oresteia by Aeschylus (Shakespeare's Globe) and Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak (Royal Court). He has written the libretti for The Skating Rink by David Sawer (Garsington Opera), Coraline by Mark-Anthony Turnage (Royal Opera House) and The Way Back Home by Joanna Lee (ENO/Young Vic). He has won the Abraham Woursell Prize (co-winner 2017), the James Tait Black Prize for
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Death of England Closing Time
Book SynopsisLook at it Carly, look at our dream.No one''s happy Denise.There are two sides to every story.Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives' mistakes.Will all be forgiven?Jo Martin (Doctor Who) and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) play Denise and Carly in this thought-provoking drama that explores family dynamics, race, colonialism and cancel culture.Clint Dyer (Othello) and Roy Williams (Sucker Punch) reunite to write this powerful new play, the final, standalone chapter of the award-winning Death of England series.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, London, in September 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel Gonzalez
Book SynopsisOne of Cuba's most important contemporary playwrights, Abel González Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of postmodern life. (Lillian Manzor, University of Miami) Born in Havana in 1980, Abel González Melo is a rare example of a contemporary Cuban playwright whose work is performed and celebrated not only in Cuba, but also in the US, the Americas more widely, Europe, and beyond.Investigating a raft of national and universal themes, such as queer sexuality, the dilemma of leaving or remaining, political power and censorship, family dynamics, the ambition and responsibility of the artist, and so-called cancel culture', González Melo's work is international and universal in scope. The result of a 20-year collaboration with translator William Gregory, this collection of six plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Three Acts of Love
Book SynopsisPassion. Obsession. Acceptance. Betrayal. Three ground-breaking female playwrights have cooked up a feast, with a trio of short plays with music that explore love in all its glorious, sticky complexity. From the boozy warmth of the social club to the endless labyrinth of the internet, this is a show about the communities we form, the care that we show each other and the love that we hope never tears us apart.The Start of Space by Laura Lindow: A visiting expert lecturing on the secrets of the heart has a dark and unexpected truth of their own.fangirl, or the justification of limerence by Naomi Obeng: An obsessive fan poses as her musical idol online and becomes lost in a maze of love and revenge.with the love of neither god nor state by Vici Wreford-Sinnott: A young woman runs away from a world that doesn't understand her and finds shelter in a local social club. But will they have the heart to truly let her in?This edition was published to coincide with the world
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Same Team A Street Soccer Story
Book SynopsisNo.1 Players always come firstNo.2 We look to the futureNo.3 We never leave anyone behindNo.4 We place others before ourselvesNo.5 We keep our promisesFive women have come together with one goal, one dream. Coming from very different backgrounds in life they have to work together as a team if they want to do what no one from Scotland has ever done before. To win the Homeless World Cup, and bring the trophy home.A joyful story of community and teamwork, building connections between each other, and homelessness. Written with the Dundee Women's Street Soccer Team, Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse''s Same Team A Street Soccer Story is an uplifting whirlwind through the highs and lows of homeless football.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, in December 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Staging Black Queer South Africa
Book SynopsisThemes of identity, tradition, and belonging blend together in this collection of five plays celebrating South Africa''s vibrancy and diversity. Delving into African mythology to uncover a rich tapestry of history, spirit, and ancestry, Staging Black, Queer South Africa: Plays for the Gods! offers profound insights into the contemporary Black queer experience, shedding light on the complex interplay between identity and tradition in modern South Africa. Drawing on long-held parables, such as Camus'' Absurd Hero, this collection bridges the gap between Ritual Theatre and Theatre of the Absurd to fully evoke the paradox of being Black and queer in South Africa, with the collection coining the Absurd Ritual' genre. Touching on ideas of Ubungoma, IsiZulu Shamanism, and the legacy of queer individuals in African communities, the plays challenge long-held assumptions on whether queerness ''belongs'' in traditional beliefs. Along with a c
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The EU Killed My Dad
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Woven Voices PrizeWho do you blame? The woman, the gun, or politics?Berker travels from Britain to Turkey to meet his estranged father, but it's too late: his sister Elif informs him that their Baba has already died. A family reunion becomes an exhilarating whodunnit investigation as Berker discovers the truth about his roots, grieves for a man he will never truly know, and accidentally unravels a conspiracy that goes to the heart of global politics.Featuring British spies, Turkish soldiers, and London's kebab shops, Aaron Kilercioglu's The EU Killed My Dad is the winner of the Woven Voices Prize 2023 and an inventive, fast-paced exploration of identity, belonging, and history spanning five decades. Aaron''s previous award-winning work includes the sell-out hit For a Palestinian, which has been seen at Bristol Old Vic, the Camden People's Theatre, and Underbelly.This edition was published to coincide with
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ben and Imo
Book SynopsisThe 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I.Into the world of the disheartened composer enters the exuberant and passionate Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav and an accomplished musician in her own right. Her candid and can-do attitude proves to be the perfect foil for the capricious and often maddening Britten, and what begins as an arrangement of practical support turns into a bond that not only sees Gloriana to its premiere but endures throughout the rest of their lives.This edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the Swan Theatre, Stratford, in February 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Four Northwomen
Book SynopsisThe first collection of plays from writer and BAFTA-nominated actor Maxine Peake, featuring strong female characters in different biographies.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transmedia Theatre Plays
Book SynopsisCaridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits. She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 and 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Lonely Londoners
Book SynopsisSamuel Selvon (1923-1994) was a Trinidad-born writer who moved to London, England in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or nation language, for narrative as well as dialogue. Selvon was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships (in 1955 and 1968), an honorary doctorate from Warwick University in 1989, and in 1985 the honorary degree of DLitt by the University of the West Indies. In 1969 he was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Hummingbird Medal Gold for Literature, and in 1994 he was (posthumously) given another national award, the Chaconia Medal Gold for Literature. In 2012 he was honoured with a NALIS Lifetime Achievement Literary Award for his contributions to Trinidad and Tobago's literature.Roy Williams, OBE, worked as an actor before turning to writing full-time in 1990. He graduated from Rose Bruford in 1995 with a first class BA Hons degree in Writing. The No Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Ro
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Bloomsbury Academic Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon
Book SynopsisAnd I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you.She was a 17 year old girl; the only God she believed in was Taylor Swift.After her sister's untimely death by a Yorkshire Pudding, a funny teenage misfit begrudgingly joins a flailing scout group to help her navigate the kicks and punches of adolescence with varying degrees of success.Rosie Day's debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is a rollercoaster ride through youth. Whether you are a young person, know a young person, or simply were a young person once it's time to rip up the rule book and reconnect with your younger self.This edition was published to coincide with the production which opened at the West End's Garrick Theatre in March 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Isley Lynn Plays 1
Book SynopsisThe first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their deeply human characters through stories that are unexpected, radically intimate, and profoundly theatrical.Lean (2013): It''s not just powerful but it''s incandescent. There is a profound intensity... that truly keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Sensitively written... Exemplary theatre at its best. The London StageSkin A Cat (2016): Frequently hilarious, it's also refreshingly honest and open in its discussion of menstruation, masturbation, oral and anal sex, and might well be the smartest, sharpest piece about female sexual identity since Phoebe Waller Bridge's Fleabag... this is bold and genuinely exciting new writing. The Stagealbatross (2021): Every intimate, individual scene is engaging, as the full-bodied characters knock up against their own judgments and histories... Lynn's scenes are full of g
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Tupperware of Ashes
Book SynopsisI'm falling through a world which makes no senseAn ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence. A vivid and heart-breaking family drama, A Tupperware Of Ashes is about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death and rebirth. This edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London in September 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Forgotten In The Land Of Egypt
Book SynopsisI look at these fields and I try to imagine what they were: crop fields, maybe. Or fields of sheep. And these power lines. I try to imagine that they lead somewhere but they never do. Only under. In 1631, The Fens, the flat area of land stretching from Cambridge to Norwich, were drained. In 2050, The Fens return to the sea. Two children play in the waterscape. They tell tales of a mythic Waterman, who scours the water for sunken parts. But, in the bitter struggle for survival, soon play adopts a more sinister note. Meanwhile in Ely, 2023, a priest gets a visit from a woman haunted by prophetic dreams. Tom Murray's Forgotten In The Land Of Egypt is a play about grief, faith, and the climate crisis; the crashing confluence of past and present; the refusal to heed the warnings we're given. It's a play about loneliness and the longing for human connection. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere UK tour starting in September 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays
Book SynopsisSophie Stevens is Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies, University of London. As a theatre translation researcher and practitioner, she has published with Bloomsbury Academic, Legenda and John Murray Press.William Gregory is a translator and dramaturg whose other publications with Bloomsbury includeSelected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel González Melo, The Uncapturable by Rubén Szuchmacher, and The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Plays.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC My English Persian Kitchen
Book SynopsisHannah Khalil was Resident Writer at Shakespeare's Globe in 2022. Henry VIII was part of their 2022 summer season and her critically acclaimed re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree which premiered in 2021, returned for their 2022 winter season. Hannah's other theatre commissions include new work for the RSC, Soho Theatre, The Kiln and Mosaic/Fishamble. Previous work for stage includes A Museum in Baghdad, which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in 2019 directed by Erica Whyman, Interference for The National Theatre of Scotland, The Scar Test for Soho Theatre and Scenes from 68* Years for the Arcola. Hannah was named Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2021 and was a Creative Fellow of the Samuel Beckett Archive for 2021/2022.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tones
Book SynopsisSome stereotypes have an element of truth. A presented set of rules but in the end you get to choose.What happens if you''re not Black enough for the ends, but too Black for the rest of the world? Gerel Falconer''s Tones follows the pivotal moments of lead character Jerome, aka The Professor, and his upbringing from childhood to his departure from university. As he battles with his identity we go on a journey through the depths of Black-British culture, class, and belonging.Tones combines the gritty underground sounds of Hip-Hop, Grime and Drill with the melodrama of opera to tell the story of a treacherous path to self-discovery. The original production was presented by award-winning Wound Up Theatre.From writer and performer Gerel Falconer, winner of Best Book and Lyrics at the Black British Theatre Awards 2023 and nominee for The Stage Debut Awards 2023, Tones is a riveting exploration of the Black experience and the
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Monologues Duologues and Scenes for Young
Book SynopsisEmma-Louse Tinniswood studied Drama and Music at Royal Holloway and Applied Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama. They are a qualified Drama and Music teacher and also hold a Masters in History. They have been teaching Drama & Music for 25 years, in schools, youth theatres and run their own performing arts school and youth theatre.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Purists
Book SynopsisDan McCabe's play The Purists premiered at The Huntington Theater in Boston where it won the Elliot Norton Award for Best Production and The Elisabeth Osborn Award for Best Play. Other plays include Blame the Parents and Reptilian. He is co-writing the screenplay for the forthcoming James Baldwin biopic, with Billy Porter portraying the author and civil rights activist.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The The Roommate
Book SynopsisJen Silverman (they/them) (Playwright) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: The Roommate (Broadway: The Booth Theatre; Regionally: Actor's Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Repertory Theatre, etc); Highway Patrol (The Goodman); Spain (Second Stage Theater); Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, MCC, Southwark Playhouse London); The Moors (Yale Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights Realm); and Witch (Writer's Theatre, The Geffen, The Huntington). Books include: the debut novel We Play Ourselves, story collection The Island Dwellers, and novel There's Going to be Trouble from Random House. Silverman also wrote the best-selling narrative podcast The Miranda Obsession for Audible, starring Rachel Brosnahan. Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. They w
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ostan
Book SynopsisIranian-Kurd Rebin has been stuck in the UK immigration system and working in a failing car-wash until his routine is shattered by Persian boss Shapur, who proposes using the business as a front for human trafficking.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gerry Sewell A Purely Belter Adventure
Book SynopsisBased on Jonathan Tulloch's novel The Season Ticket, which became the cult Geordie film Purely Belter, Olivier, and combining live music, puppet dogs and Wor Flags, Gerry & Sewell is a vibrant rainbow of black and white. For the Toon
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mens Business
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Moth
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Score
Book SynopsisOliver Cotton was born in London. As an actor he has played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court Theatre, The Old Vic and in London's West End. His many TV appearances include: The Borgias (Cesare Borgia), David Copperfield, The Year of The French, The Party, Redemption, Poirot, The Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Sharpe's Battle, Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley, Waking The Dead, MIT, Beastly Games, Midsomer Murders, Sensitive Skin (series 1 & 2), The Commander, Margaret. and Money. His films include: Here We go Round The Mulberry Bush, The Day Christ Died, Firefox, Oliver Twist, The Sicilian, Eleni, Hiding Out, Christopher Columbus, Son of the Pink Panther, The Innocent Sleep, Phoenix Blue, The Opium War, Beowulf, Baby Blue, The Dancer Upstairs, Shanghai Knights, The Bone Collector, Rain Dogs, Colour Me Kubrick, Pope Joan. His other writing includes: Man Falling Down for Shakespeare's Globe, The Incredible Journey of Sir Frances Younghusband and The Enoch Show both for the Royal Court Theatre. For the cinema he has written: Singing For Stalin, Vines, Wet Weather Cover and Deadline. For television he has written A Touch of Frost and Diamond Geezer.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) This is Not a Happy Room
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC RUM
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Keep On Keepin On
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) MILLENNIUM GIRLS
Book SynopsisSophia Leonie is a writer and performer. She studied writing at Middlesex University and acting at East 15. Her short film Love and More Important Things, was selected to premiere at the 2016 BUFF (British Urban Film Festival) as part of the Odeon Cinema Love Shorts collection. In 2019 her play 35 was longlisted for the Yard Theatre's First Drafts. A screen adaptation of this play was also longlisted by BBC's Writers room 2019. In 2021 Sophia was announced as one of five recipients of a new Screenwriting Bursary from Neal Street Productions.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) KELI
Book SynopsisMartin Green is a multi-award-winning musician and Ivor Novello winning composer. As a member of Lau he has won four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Group an unprecedented four times and toured all over the world. He has received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in recognition of his talent as a composer, and had commissions from Opera North, Edinburgh International Festival, The Barbican. As a writer he has been commissioned by The Guardian, National Theatre of Scotland and Southbank Centre. In 2019 he won the Ivor Novello award for Sound Art for his large scale public installation Aeons. His critically acclaimed work for as a broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 exploring musical and social themes including: rave culture, morris dancing and brass banding, has received millions of listens. He was a recipient of the 2024 National Theatre Peter Shaffer Commissions for new large scale plays.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The 56
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Local
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