Plays, playscripts, drama
Faber & Faber Reverberation
Book SynopsisYou don''t have to tell me everything at once. Just tell me a little bit. And then a little bit more. And you could just keep telling me until eventually I''d know you.After a tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, curtailing his social life to brief encounters with men he meets online. When free spirit Claire moves into the flat upstairs, she tries to coax him out of his shell. Drawn together by their desire for emotional attachment, they form a connection, but the happiness they find is threatened as the past reverberates.Matthew López''s funny, sexy play about loneliness and longing was first performed at Hartford Stage, Connecticut, in 2015. It received its European premiere, in this reshaped version, at the Bristol Old Vic in October 2024.
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Samuel French Ltd The Real Inspector Hound Acting Edition S
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The House Of Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisLorca's tragic tale of the destruction of Bernarda Alba's family following the death of her husband. This Student Edition includes a commentary, chronology, notes and bibliography.Trade Review'Best of all is Ann Mitchell's superb Bernarda Alba, who presides over her daughters like a malevolent mother superior. As polished and shiney as her own furniture, a husk of a woman who puts pride and honour before love and generosity, and who is so out of touch with her own heart that she ignores all the signs of the coming disaster, content to rule her house with her eyes wide shut.' Lyn Gardner, Gaurdian, 30 April 2009 It is a play about what happens to hearts when they are walled up and denied the opportunity to sweel with love and happiness' Lyn Gardener, Gaurdian, 30 April 2009
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Manchester University Press La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisAfter her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of tragic events.Trade Review'Professsor Ramsden gives very good value on the areas discussed. His analysis is exhaustive, scrupulously balanced and illuminating.' Bulletin of Hispanic Studies'This edition's major contribution is the well-conceived and executed introduction. The reader is led on a step-by-step journey through the Lorca text as well as through the particular biographical circumstances that had an impact on the play. The presentation is clear, orderly and intelligent.'Modern Languages Journal -- .Table of Contents1. IntroductionPreliminariesAn outline of the playVitality and RepressionRealism and poetry'La obra más perfecta'?2. Selected bibliography3. La casa de Bernarda Alba4. Endnotes5. Selected vocabulary
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Edward III
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hansel Gretel
Book SynopsisTimes are tough for the family in the woodThey''d eat like kings if only they couldBut hunger gnaws - famine stalks the landSomething quite wicked has the upper hand!Poor mother and father must do what is best...And Hansel and Gretel will be put to the test!Armed with their very last slice of breadWill they eat to surviveOr ........leave..a..........................trail...................................home..............................................instead? The school edition of Carl Grose and Kneehigh Theatre Company''s acclaimed version of Hansel & Gretel, which includes notes for teachers and those studying the play for GCSE English, as written by Anthony Banks.
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Bloomsbury Academic A Gamblers Guide to Dying
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Manic Street Creature
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jajas African Hair Braiding
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Enron
Book SynopsisA play that charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the century.Trade Review'Lucy Prebble's powerful, pertinent new play Enron shines a startling light on the sudden collapse of the US energy and communications giant' Mark Shenton, Sunday Express, 27.9.09 'Lucy Prebble's hugely ambitious play, covering the rise and fall of the Texan energy company, Enron, is an exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 23.7.09 'The political theatre of the 21st century has arrived, in some style' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23.7.09 'Caryl Churchill's Serious Money skewered the 1980s; Prebble's Enron knifes the Noughties' Robert Hewison, Sunday Times, 26.7.09 'the collapse of US energy giant Enron brilliantly reconfigured by Lucy Prebble as classical tragedy' 'Prebble's great skill lies in her ability to take us through complex concepts with ease, without bemusing or, worse, patronising us.' Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard, 23.7.09 'Lucy Prebble's dazzling play is a firecracker' 'hugely entertaining - and accessible' Charles Spencer, Telegraph, 23.06.09 'Purely electrifying drama.' Mslexia (April 2010)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Punk Rock
Book SynopsisExplores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. This title presents the story of seven sixth-formers as they face up to the pressures of teenage life, while preparing for their mock A-levels and trying to get into Oxbridge.Trade Review'Simon Stephens has created a stark, bracing and eventually brutal portrait of adolescent relationships in his new play Punk Rock' Mark Shenton, Daily Express, 13.9.09 'Stephens's play...confronts young people as they really are, and builds inexorably towards its tragic and violent climax.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 9.9.09 'Simon Stephens evokes the twilight world of the teenager with scary vividness' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 9.9.09 'Simon Stephens' powerful and compelling new play' Michael Coveney, Independent, 10.9.09 'Simon Stephens's cracking new play' Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 10.9.09 'This riveting new work confirms Simon Stephens as one of the most important and exciting British playwrights working today' : 'compassion, insight -- and theatrical panache' : 'The writer's perfectly calibrated setup leads auds to some of the biggest, most complex questions of our times' Karen Fricker, Variety, 09.09.09 'Simon Stephens... writes funny and cruel banter which strikes a truthfully juvenile tone.' Matilda Battersby, Independent, 13.09.10 'The piece is gripping, shocking and ferociously funny as anxieties jitter, hormones fizz and misery festers in the library of a Stockport private school.' Sam Marlowe, Time Out London, 16.09.10 'A fierce and eventually shocking story that really taps into the anxieties of teenage youth' Mark Shenton, Sunday Express, 19.09.10 The dialogue zips along, and students love it; the characters swear and bully, but make clever, biting remarks, and the chemistry between them sizzles through the writing. Teaching Drama, Autumn Term 2 2011/12
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Importance of Being Earnest
Book SynopsisFrancesca Coppa is Professor of English,Muhlenberg College, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Bibliography The Importance of Being Earnest
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CHEERIO Publishing Ubu Royale
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Nick Hern Books The Bone Sparrow
Book SynopsisSubhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he's ever known. Now his imagination is pushing at the limits of his world. One day, Jimmie appears on the other side of the fence, bringing a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family's mysterious and moving history. Together, Subhi and Jimmie must find a way to freedom, and they must be braver than they've ever been before... The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers, has been widely read and studied around the world since its publication in 2017. This enthralling stage adaptation by award-winning Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan was first produced on a UK tour in 2022 by Pilot Theatre with York Theatre Royal, Derby Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Mercury Theatre Colchester. Also included is a range of teaching materials and resources designed to help educators bring the play to life for their students. Praise for the novel, The Bone Sparrow: 'With an affecting and distinctive narrative voice... [Zana Fraillon] builds a convincing and complete world. Moving and memorable, The Bone Sparrow deserves to be read by all who care about our common humanity' Guardian 'A heartrending tale about how our stories make us, and also an angry polemic, vividly convincing in its detailed description of what it means for your home to be a tent in the dust behind a guarded fence' Sunday Times 'This is a tragic, beautifully crafted and wonderful book whose chirpy, stoic hero shames us all' Independent Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour Award Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction PrizeTrade Review'Powerful... such stories are as necessary as ever' * Guardian *'Powerful and moving... the writing soul-shakingly communicates the truthfulness of the characters' experiences' * Observer *'A timely reminder of our unseeing cruelty towards those forced out of their homes by war, genocide, or other atrocities' * British Theatre Guide *'A touching, relevant and educational text on refugees… highlights the awful conditions that millions are forced to live in' * Drama & Theatre magazine *
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Nick Hern Books This Bitter Earth
Book SynopsisLove is challenged by divisive political realities in Harrison David Rivers' play at Soho Theatre, London, in 2025, starring Omari Douglas.
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Nick Hern Books Cinderella
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Nick Hern Books The Ferryman
Book Synopsis‘Vanishing. It’s a powerful word, that. A powerful word.’ County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor. Developed by Sonia Friedman Productions, Jez Butterworth's play The Ferryman premiered to huge acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2017, before transferring to the West End and then Broadway. The production was directed by Sam Mendes. It went on to win the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, and the Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play. It also won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play.Trade Review'A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play… an instant classic' * Independent *'An astonishing, enormous, shattering eruption of a play… it left me genuinely stunned' * Time Out *'Huge in the scale of its cast, of its ambition, of its rich themes. But above all, massive in its capacity to hold an audience rapt, in silence, telling them a story. It is, like Jerusalem before it, an extraordinary, thrilling act of belief in the power of theatre to gather people in a room and make them listen… Butterworth's writing, both flexible and controlled, makes every moment, whether funny, tender or tragic worth leaning forward to catch… a triumphant, bold piece of theatre, full of life and heart and passion' * WhatsOnStage *'Butterworth has done it again… a drama of mighty magnitude... miss this and you've missed a marvel' * Telegraph *'A ripping thriller in a big family home, stuffed with eccentricity and black comedy, it swells into an expansive examination of Republican history, politics and identity, as tied up with the IRA… a tumbling and tumultuous play, one that swerves off into storytelling, song and dance, and debate, without taking its eye off the need for suspense. It's a thriller that bursts the bounds of its genre, but never forgets what makes the form tick. Butterworth loads his traps patiently, then bides his time... it's a prime example of thinking through theater, as Butterworth embodies ideas and makes images felt, rubs stories off against each other and stirs motifs into the mix. From missed-out motherhood to lost love, the play courses with yearned-for connections that remain agonizingly incomplete. But it is, above all, entirely entertaining' * Variety *'Fully justifies the hype... a feast of intricate storytelling, it's absorbing, soulful and ultimately shattering' * Evening Standard *'Jez Butterworth is back – and how... his new play is a mighty affair, sending stories, characters, history, politics and love skittering across the floor with the flair of a gambler rolling dice. It's a stunning piece of writing: teeming with life; haunted by death… Butterworth takes the great family drama and makes it his own. You can see traces of Friel, Miller, Chekhov, Ibsen, even Aeschylus and Sophocles, and it's clearly a twist on the Irish dramatic canon. He offers a masterclass in observing the classical unities, using dramatic irony and building tension. But he also brings to it his own love of storytelling and skill with menace, binding the two to depict the tragic mesh of conflict… a magnificent play that uses, brilliantly, the vitality of live theatre to express the deadly legacy of violence' * Financial Times *'A serious, seriously good, grown-up play... something special' * The Times *'A rich, serious, deeply involving play… what gives Butterworth's play such shattering force is its Hardyesque love of rural rituals and its compassionate exploration of unspoken love' * Guardian *'A stunning, sprawling and richly written play… a mixing of the mythic and the modern' * The Stage *'A story that heaves with narratives and with incidents, with jokes and with surreal moments… an amazing experience. Butterworth’s storytelling finesse carries all before it' * The Arts Desk *'A harvest feast of immeasurable brilliance. Butterworth's writing offers an exquisite balance of humour and drama, revelry and mourning, surprise and expectation. It is a masterclass in every aspect… an unforgettable piece of theatre that will no doubt be talked about for decades to come' * Broadway World *'A stunning piece that might be even better than Mojo and even Jerusalem, which is really saying something… combines elements of Greek tragedy with a shrewd commentary on recent Irish history in the wrapping of a high octane family drama' * British Theatre Guide *'Fiercely gripping… overflows with storytelling vitality, the kind that so holds the attention that three and a quarter-hours seem to pass in the blink of an eye, albeit a bloodied and black one' * New York Times *
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Nick Hern Books Blood Wedding
Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece. Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Ballad Of The White Horse
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Double 9 Books LLP Rose of Old Harpeth
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Independently Published The Park Bench: A Comedy Play
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Theatre Communications Group Yellow Face
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mother Courage and her Children
Book SynopsisIn Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece translated by John Willett features an extensive introduction and Brecht's notes and textual variants.Trade Review"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" The Observer
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Nick Hern Books Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Book SynopsisPart One of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Prior, visited by ghosts of his ancestors and abandoned by his lover after his diagnosis with AIDS, is wondering if he is still sane when the angels select him to be their prophet. Powerbroker Roy Cohn also has the virus - but he believes that only the powerless can have that particular illness, and so kicks back against his diagnosis. In the 'melting pot where nothing melted' of modern America, the nation's reaction to the sickness – and its sufferers – is laid bare. Millennium Approaches was premiered in May 1991 by the Eureka Theatre Company, San Francisco, directed by David Esbjornson. In London it was premiered in January 1992 in a National Theatre production at the Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Declan Donnellan. The play received many awards, including Best Play at the 1992 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play at the 1992 Critics' Circle Awards, Best Play at the 1993 Tony Awards and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Trade Review'One of the greatest plays of the 20th century' * New York Observer *'The most ambitious American play of our time' * Newsweek *'A vast, miraculous play, a true millennial work of art' * New York Times *'A victory for the theatre, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty' * The New Yorker *'Something dark, rare and harrowing has erupted upon the London stage' * Evening Standard *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1984
Book SynopsisApril, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be our reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant as ever.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Comedy About Spies
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Penguin Books Ltd The Birds and Other Plays The
Book SynopsisFive comedies from Ancient Greece that freely blend satire and slapstickOffering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In The Birds, two cunning Athenians persuade the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds' in the sky, blockading the Olympian gods and installing themselves as new deities. The Knights is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, who vies with a humble sausage-seller for the approval of the people; while The Assembly-Women deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise. The lengthy conflict with Sparta is the subject of Peace, inspired by the hope of a settlement in 421 BC, and Table of ContentsThe Birds and Other PlaysAbout the Author7Aristophanes in Antiquity9Aristophanes, Comedian and Poet21The Knights29Peace91The Birds147The Assemblywoman215Wealth265Notes313Select Bibliography336
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Dover Publications Inc. The Duchess of Malfi
Book SynopsisThe evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner. John Webster''s great Jacobean drama detailing the fiendish schemes of two brothers who desire their wealthy sister''s title and estates ends with a bloody and horrifying climax.
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Faber & Faber Art
Book Synopsis''Art'' is a profound and hilarious comedy about the value of truth and friendship.My friend Serge has bought a painting.It's a canvas about five foot by four: white. The background is white and, if you screw up your eyes, you can make out some fine white diagonal lines.Serge is one of my oldest friends.Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could feel differently. Yvan attempts to placate both sides, with hilarious consequences. The question is: Are you who you think you are, or are you who your friends think you are?Art' premiered in this translation at Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1996. It won Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy, and New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Play.A remarkably wise, witty and intelligent comedy. Art has
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Faber & Faber Frozen
Book SynopsisFour days ago phone call from the policeThey think they have some news for usCan they come over?A psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing; a play about retribution, remorse and redemption and the interwoven lives of three strangers as they try to make sense of the unimaginable. Bryony Lavery's Frozen was winner of the TMA Best New Play award and the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play. Frozen premiered at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1998. The play was revived at the National Theatre, London, in 2002 and at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in February 2018. Bryony Lavery's big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.' Guardian
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Alma Books Ltd The Bérenger Plays
Book SynopsisWhile each play in the Berenger cycle is unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco's conception of the theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied Ionesco throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and the evils of Fascism.Trade ReviewIf life is absurd for Eugène Ionesco, it is also alluring. His capacity for delight in the details of human existence struggles with his conviction of its futility; it lends depth and verve to his despair. * The New York Times *
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Nick Hern Books Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics
Book SynopsisIt's Bobbie's thirty-fifth birthday party, and all her friends are wondering why she isn't married. Why can't she find the right man, settle down and start a family? A breakthrough on Broadway in 1970, Company is Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical comedy about life, love and loneliness, featuring some of Sondheim's most iconic songs including 'Company', 'You Could Drive a Person Crazy', 'The Ladies Who Lunch', 'Side by Side' and 'Being Alive'. The acclaimed West End revival in 2018 was conceived and directed by award-winning director Marianne Elliott and produced by Elliott & Harper Productions. Reimagining the musical by switching the gender of several characters, including the protagonist Bobbie, played by Rosalie Craig, the production also starred Patti LuPone, Mel Giedroyc and Jonathan Bailey. It won the Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical at the 2018 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards. This edition features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, colour production photographs, and an introduction by Sondheim's biographer David Benedict.Trade Review'A magic mixture of New York grit and Broadway heart... the text stands alone as a razor-sharp piece of art - and a hugely significant musical renaissance… [this edition includes] a superb introduction by David Benedict... Company jumps off the page from the word go. It's a delight to read' * Broadway World *'An astonishing reinvention of a classic musical' * The Stage *'This is more than a revival: it is a remaking' * Observer *'A sublime cocktail of an entertainment… Sensational. Theatrical magic' * Daily Telegraph *'A game changer. I can't remember ever laughing more at a musical' * i *'Thrillingly inventive' * WhatsOnStage *
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Faber & Faber Joyces Women
Book SynopsisI love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting. Therefore I decided to depict him as seen by the key figures in his life - Mother, Wife, Mistress of a fleeting moment, his patron Harriet Weaver and his beloved Daughter Lucia, of whom he said her mind was but a transparent leaf away from his.'Written to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses, Joyce's Women premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2022. This revised edition includes changes made by the author during rehearsals and previews of the play''s first production.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Champion
Book SynopsisIshy Din is an award winning writer for stage screen and radio Currently he is under commission from the RSC for a new play about the Mughals. Other original projects in development include a crime drama for Lime Pictures, a feature film, FRAUD, through Gurinder Chadha's company Bend It Networks and PAAK UNITED. His most recent play, APPROACHING EMPTY, a co-production between Tamasha/The Kiln/Live Theatre, Newcastle opened at The Kiln in London in January 2019 and toured until April. Other credits for the same year include an episode of SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY (BBC). In 2018 TAXI TALES, produced by Tamasha, was broadcast on BBC2 as part of BBC LIVE, (BAC/ACE/BBC) live theatre broadcast. In 2016/2017, Ishy wrote on C4 series ACKLEY BRIDGE. Ishy Din's first radio play was JOHN BARNES SAVED MY LIFE for BBC Radio 5 Live. Other credits include LIFE'S LIKE THAT for the the BBC TV and PARKING AND PAKORAS for local radio. His play SNOOKERED toured in 2012 taking in the Traverse Edinburgh and a 4 week run at the Bush Theatre, London.Ishy was the 2012 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange and in 2013 Snookered won Best New Play' at the Manchester Theatre Awards.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Exam
Book SynopsisThe Exam is a funny but serious look at the pressures faced by pupils today, both at school and at home. The play is accompanied by teaching materials containing fantastic ideas for drama work, as well as other activities designed to answer English Framework and NC objectives.The exam is comic look at the pressures put on young people by parents and teachers.Andrew, Chas and Bea are three candidates of mixed ability who find themselves holed up in the same exam hall waiting for their papers to arrive.As the wait lenghens, each has to survive a powerful barrage of self doubt, parental pressure and adult incompetence. They must come to terms with themselves, their peers and parents provoked and helped by 'Ex', the mysterious, disembodied voice of the exam.Trade Review“This new series of plays commissioned by National Theatre Education, in editions containing excellent resources and activities, is long overdue… The Exam is a real gem – funny, relevant, clear-sighted and eminently suitable for either performance or classroom study.”Ink Pellet “The funniest play I have ever read.”TES “Written with school productions in mind, the stage directions give clear instructions about character’s mood, appearance and behaviour, while a comprehensive section of notes suggests a variety of methods young actors can use to reach a better understanding of their characters.”The Guardian “This script contains plenty of multi-cultural and popular culture references, which will help to strengthen its appeal to the age group it is intended for… It is an ideal choice for work by a drama group.”The Secondary English Magazine
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Oxford University Press The Trojan Women and Other Plays
Book SynopsisHecuba The Trojan Women AndromacheIn the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy''s survivors to a harrowing examination.The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband''s killer, endures her existence in the victor''s country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewI imagine that everyone who teaches Greek tragedy in translation entertains a mental wish list for the ideal classroom text. . . . The volume under review, the third in a series of translations of selected plays of Euripides by the team of James Morwood and Edith Hall, comes closer to meeting these criteria than any other with which I am familiar; it is thus welcome indeed . . . This is a translation I shall definietly be ordering for my classes * Bryn Mawr Classical Review 20/09/01 *Review from other book by this author 'Morwood's prose translations read smoothly and reflect current, idiomatic English speech...the impressively ample and up-to-date select bibliography, genuinely helpful explanatory notes for each play, useful discussion of Euripides' thought and style, and the concise, informative background information about the world in which Euripides lived all contribute to the value of this book' Review of Medea and Other Plays * Choice *Table of ContentsHecuba ; The Trojan Women ; Andromache
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Penguin Books Ltd Caligula and Three Other Plays
Book SynopsisIn brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogueCaligula/The Misunderstanding /State of Emergency/The JustAlthough renowned for his novels, Albert Camus described the theatre as ''one of the only places in the world I''m happy'', and staged the four plays gathered in this collection in Paris between 1944-49. Caligula, his first full-length dramatic work, portrays the monstrous emperor who destroys men, gods and ultimately himself. Here too are The Misunderstanding, a murderous tangle of longing; State of Emergency, where ''The Plague'' appears as a central character; and The Just, which explores the limits of political conviction. This new translation brings together Camus''s final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue.
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Yale University Press this dry spell
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Faber & Faber The Caretaker
Book SynopsisIt was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The obsessive caretaker, Davies, whose papers are in Sidcup, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick established the author''s individuality with an international audience.
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Faber & Faber Alan Bennett Plays 1 Forty Years On Getting On
Book SynopsisA collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.
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Faber & Faber Tom Stoppard Plays 3
Book SynopsisThis third collection of plays by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard''s writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly Professional Foul demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the individual pieces came to be written and the circumstances of their original production.
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Faber & Faber The House of Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisFinished just two months before the author''s murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco''s supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca''s great masterpiece of love and loathing.Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family. Lorca''s fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in an English version by David Hare, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama. The House of Bernarda Alba premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2005.
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Faber & Faber Her Naked Skin
Book SynopsisLove is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.The first original play by a living female playwright to be performed on the National Theatre''s main stage. London, 1913. The Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Amongst them is Lady Celia Cain, shackled by both the policies of the day and a frustrating marriage. Inside, she meets a young seamstress, Eve Douglas, and her life spirals into an erotic but dangerous chaos.Her Naked Skin premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2008.''Rebecca Lenkiewicz''s outstanding play is a remarkable testament to the courage of a band of sisters who were vilified and viciously repressed in their quest for representation and emancipation . . . Her Naked Skin marries epic public
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Faber & Faber Shakespeare in Love Adapted for the Stage Faber
Book SynopsisI will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer''s block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.Based on Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard''s Oscar-winning screenplay, Lee Hall''s stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love premiered in July 2014 at the Noel Coward Theatre, London, in a co-production by Disney and Sonia Friedman Productions.
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Faber & Faber Travesties
Book SynopsisTom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday TimesIt is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches the sublime heights where mathematics merge with poetry, and the audacious juggling of a master conjuror.' Sunday Telegraph A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in marvellously judicious proportions. The text itself is a Joycean web of literary allusions; yet it also radiates sheer intellectual joie de vivre, as if Stoppard were delightedly communicating the fruits of his own researches.' GuardianTravesties was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in June 1974. This edition includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made
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Faber & Faber Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour Faber Drama
Book SynopsisListen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round... Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex, sambuca and a night back home with the submarine crew in Mantrap. Funny, sad and raucously rude, Lee Hall's musical play Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted from Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in August 2015, in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre and transferred to the National Theatre, London, in August 2016. The play won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 2017 and transferred to the Duke of York's, London, in May 2017 in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions.
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Faber & Faber Camp Siegfried
Book SynopsisI''m a killer I told youI told you that all alongYou were the dummy to believeI could ever be anything elseTwo teenagers fall in love on Long Island. There's fun and dancing, sports and team spirit, there's the woods and beer and physical hard work. But it's 1938, the world is on the brink of war, and their wholesome summer camp is exclusively for American youth of German descent. As their mutual attraction deepens, so they become intoxicated by the Nazi ideology that fuels the camp, an ideology that will culminate in global atrocity and genocide.Inspired by the real Camp Siegfried, Bess Wohl's play premiered at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in September 2021.
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Faber & Faber Penelope
Book SynopsisLet others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love.With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War ''took away my husband for ten years, and ten more coming the long way home'', and Odysseus''s dramatic arrival back on Ithaca.Weaving Homeric tropes with the wry wit of a woman of our time, Penelope tells this still vibrant love story from the oldest poem in Western literature.
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