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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Height of Summer New Plays from Williamstown
Book SynopsisFew institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 provides a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condition, these plays frequently feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors. These six plays are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. These plays imagine and interrogate pieces of the human experience we are still in the midst of unpacking and understanding.Complete with introductions by each of the authors reflecting on their work, these hTrade ReviewThe quality shines through in this selection. * British Theatre Guide *Table of Contents1. Introduction by Mandy Greenfield 2. Brief History of Williamstown Theatre Festival 3. Note from Martyna Majok COST OF LIVING by Martyna Majok 4. Note from Anna Ziegler ACTUALLY by Anna Ziegler 5. Note from Sylvia Khoury SELLING KABUL by Sylvia Khoury 6. Note from Bess Wohl GRAND HORIZONS by Bess Wohl 7. Note from Dominique Morisseau PARADISE BLUE by Dominique Morisseau 8. Note from Harrison David Rivers WHERE STORMS ARE BORN by Harrison David Rivers
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hear Me Now
Book SynopsisA brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty original audition monologues, expressly created by a range of award-winning writers brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre Company. They're ideal for actors of colour searching for speeches for auditions or training, writers, teachers, and theatre-makers who are passionate about improving diversity.The book provides varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing material available from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a country music star, or the young Black boy who loves baking as much as football Hear Me Now is an essential tool for actors of colour to showcase their range, and seeks to inspire, empower, and
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beyond The Canons Plays for Young Activists
Book SynopsisNominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education AwardsA first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into activism. With award-winning plays from the UK's most revolutionary female writers of colour, as well as bespoke multimedia learning guides, this collection offers young global activists aged 16+, as well as teachers and creatives at any level, the opportunity to diversify their education and enhance their understanding of politically driven plays, world politics and social justice. Unique in how it amplifies these selected award-winning plays by incorporating learning guides that accommodate different learning styles (be they visual, auditory, reading/writing and kinaesthetic), Beyond The Canon dares readers to take a deeper dive into the world of the play, be inspired by the themes and provocations anTrade ReviewThese are genuinely groundbreaking plays, full of provocations and rich sources of discussion, both in and out of the classroom … The watching, studying and reading of these plays can contribute to those aspirations being realised, encourage students to take a deeper and more clear-eyed view of our shared history and cultural assumptions, and ultimately help them step out of their comfort zones. -- John Dabell * Teach Secondary Magazine *Table of Contents1. About Beyond The Canon Limited 2. Introduction by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway 3. Introduction Sarudzayi Marufu 4. Beyond The Canon’s Top Tips for Approaching Politically Charged Plays: Creating a Safe Space 5. Interview with and Biography of Mojisola Adebayo 6. Muhammad Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo - Playscript 7. Muhammad Ali and Me - Learning Resource written by Award-Winning Writer and Co-Founder at Black Lives Black Words International Project, Reginald Edmund 8. Interview with and Biography of Hannah Khalil 9. A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil 10. A Museum in Baghdad - Learning Resource written by Director, Dramaturg and Education Associate for RSC Chris White 11. Interview with and Biography of Amy Ng 12. Acceptance by Amy Ng 13. Acceptance - Learning Resource Written by the Author 14. Continue the Conversation 15. References and Inspirations
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Private Peaceful
Book SynopsisPrivate Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line. Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year, Private Peaceful is by the third Children''s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse. His inspiration came from a visit to Ypres where he was shocked to discover how many young soldiers were court-martialled and shot for cowardice during the First World War.This edition also includes introductory essays by Michael Morpurgo, Associate Director of Private Peaceful production Mark Leipacher, as well as an essay from Simon Reade, adaptor & director of this stage adaptation of Private Peaceful.Trade ReviewPitched to perfection for a young audience - The glory of Morpurgo is that [he reconnects] us with our past. He simply opens our hearts to feeling. * Daily Telegraph *The sheer restrained power of Morpurgo's writing keeps you gripped. * Guardian *A balanced, considered, well-structured piece of theatre, impeccably performed and beautifully committed. * Five stars - The Public Reviews *A truly special piece of theatre, and from the standing ovation at the end - it looks like I'm not alone in my thinking. * Broadway World *A haunting indictment of war's stupidity and waste * The Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Oresteia
Book SynopsisOrestes'' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus'' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written.Following Mr Burns and 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke radically reimagines Oresteia for the modern stage, in its first major London production in more than a decade. Lia Williams returns to the Almeida as Klytemnestra.Trade ReviewThis Oresteia is a stunning start to the Almeida's six-month season of Greek drama... [The] newly minted first act is a masterpiece... Icke underpins all the mythic resonance here with a razor eye for domestic and psychological detail... the sheer amount of ambition and skill in this quiet riot of theatricality is so great that this still grips, surprises and unsettles throughout. Huge themes, ordinary people, great performances, big success. * The Times *This Oresteia is a stunning start to the Almeida's six-month season of Greek drama... [The] newly minted first act is a masterpiece... Icke underpins all the mythic resonance here with a razor eye for domestic and psychological detail... the sheer amount of ambition and skill in this quiet riot of theatricality is so great that this still grips, surprises and unsettles throughout. Huge themes, ordinary people, great performances, big success. * The Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of
Book SynopsisBathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Antigone
Book SynopsisWhen her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction. Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work, Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009. Drawing on his 'ability to break open texts calcified by tradition' (Guardian), the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece.Trade ReviewA marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight * Arts Desk *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Women of Troy
Book SynopsisThere''s no decent way to say an indecent thingAn industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. First performed in 415BC, the play focuses on the human cost of war and the impact of loss.This new Student Edition of The Women of Troy includes a commentary and notes by Emma Cole, which looks at the Trojan War as represented in Greek literature and myth; the context in which Euripides was writing and within which the play was first performed; how it would have been originally staged and dramaturgical challenges met; as well as recent performance history of the play, including Katie Mitchell''s iconic 2007 production at the National Theatre. Euripides'' great anti-war play is published here in Don Taylor''s classic translation.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Big House Anthology Diverse Plays for Diverse
Book SynopsisThe Big House Anthology is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre''s literature.As a UK-based theatre company, The Big House empowers care leavers and other disadvantaged young people through performance and long-term support. Their plays are born from the hearts and minds of the young people they engage, with this anthology offering five very different plays: a runner struck down by MS; a rapper who spits and snarls and tries to find it in herself to forgive; a teenager who fights for wealth, status and respect in the underworld of county lines; a cackling cowboy they call Corona; and a dog that has been tracked, murdered and stuck in a stew. This anthology celebrates the explosive creativity that comes from mobilising and platforming diverse voices, and its importance in generating social change. FramTrade ReviewThe epic scale and hugely ambitious writing indicates the theatrical chutzpah of The Big House. Similarly, the accompanying interviews and production notes are enormously helpful and offer encouragement and advice ... All these plays offer something unique and distinctive. * Drama and Theatre *Table of ContentsForeword by Jez Butterworth Introduction by Maggie Norris Phoenix Rising by Andrew Day In Conversation with Writer Andrew Day Production Information Play In Conversation with Director Maggie Norris Knife Edge by David Watson In Conversation with Writer David Watson Production Information Play In Conversation with Director Maggie Norris Bullet Tongue (Reloaded) by Andrew Day How it was Written In Conversation with Writer Andrew Day Production Information Play In Conversation with Director Maggie Norris The Ballad of Corona V – The Remix by David Watson In Conversation with Writer David Watson Production Information Play In Conversation with Director Maggie Norris Redemption by James Meteyard In Conversation with Writer James Meteyard Production Information Play In Conversation with Director Maggie Norris
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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 The Narcissist
Book SynopsisYou can't live your life thinking everything you text will become public knowledge.Censoring yourself is no way to live.Everyone needs Jim.His mother.His best friend.His brother.A hopeful future President.But can Jim really help anyone, when he isn't sure who he is any more, or what he actually believes? An expert in electoral strategy, he's forged a successful career by advising politicians how to communicate with voters. But following seismic shifts in the political landscape, he's disillusioned. And his marriage is in crisis. As he juggles the demands on his life through his smartphone, will the lure of success and fame prove irresistible?The Narcissist is a gripping, inventive and witty take on personal and political communication in the internet age by celebrated US playwright Christopher Shinn. This edition was published to coincide with the premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre in August 2022.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary
Book SynopsisMargherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent. She is the author of Playwriting in Europe: Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi (Routledge Focus, 2022); Theatre & Translation (Red Globe Press, 2019) and Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (Peter Lang, 2013), and editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Bloomsbury, 2014). Margherita also works as a theatre translator from and into Italian and English. She is the founder of Performing International Plays, an organization promoting theatre (in) translation in secondary schools.BiographiesFrancesco Alberici is an actor, author and theatre director. Alongside his work with his company Frigoproduzioni, he collaborates with other artists too. With the company, Deflorian/Tagliarini, he took part in five shows as an interpreter and co-author: among them the Italian version of the m
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein
Book SynopsisThe 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'. Webling's play sought to humanize the creature, was the first stage adaptation to position Frankenstein and his creation as doppelgängers, and offered a feminist perspective on scientific efforts to create life without women, ideas that suffuse today's perceptions of Frankenstein's monster. The original play script exists in several different versions, only two of which have ever been consulted by scholars; no version has ever been published. Nor have scholars had access to Webling's private papers and correspondence, preserved in a family archive, so that the evolution of Frankenstein from book to stage to screen has never been fully charted. In Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (Webling's great
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Best of Enemies
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Critics'' Circle Award for Best New PlayNominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New PlayA man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television.1968 a year of protest that divided America. As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal. Beliefs are challenged and slurs slung as these political idols feud nightly in a new television format, debating the moral landscape of a shattered nation. Little do they know they're about to open up a new frontier in American politics, and transform television news foreverBest of Enemies is the electric new play by James Graham (Quiz, Labour of Love), directed by Jeremy Herrin, inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon.This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer to the Noel Coward Trade ReviewRushes at the audience like a newshound after a story. * Observer *James Graham's captivating drama is raw and timely. * The Times *Astoundingly Good. * Time Out London *These monumental moments in American history, along with other key moments of the time that explored in the play, could be a captivating starting point for students' work and allows a range of themes to be explored. * Drama and Theatre *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC School Girls Or The African Mean Girls Play
Book Synopsis1986. Ghana's prestigious Aburi Girls Boarding School. Queen Bee Paulina and her crew excitedly await the arrival of the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter. It's clear that Paulina is in top position to take the title until her place is threatened by Ericka a beautiful and talented new transfer student. As the friendship group's status quo is upended, who will be chosen for Miss Ghana and at what cost?Bursting with hilarity and joy, this award-winning comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls around the world. This edition is published to coincide with the UK premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Hampstead, in June 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aesthetic Movement Satire A Dramatic Anthology
Book SynopsisFrom long-haired Fleshly Poets' to intense, ultra pre-Raphaelite' artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the Aesthetic Movement.During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the zeitgeist, capitalizing on the unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. The quite too utterly utter' Apostles of this new school were satirized to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) complained that the London stage was thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers', with aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced'. This edited volume brings the four key plays satirizing the Aesthetic Movement together for the first time in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Room
Book SynopsisIn this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love.Written for the stage by Academy Award nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit.This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.Trade ReviewRoom soars! Visually arresting and emotionally rich, Emma Donoghue’s Room is boldly realised for the stage … harrowing … astonishingly moving. * Toronto Star *Emma Donoghue's adaptation of her novel works beautifully onstage, and the songs capture heightened moments with sensitivity. A story of survival and love — something we all need to hear more of at this time. * Now Magazine *The most striking thing about Emma Donoghue’s stage version of her award-winning novel, Room, is its intense imaginative quality… Kathryn Joseph’s songs, co-written with Cora Bissett, burst from the texture of the play like some heightened form of speech… The story of Room is in some ways a harrowing one, that brings many in the audience to tears. Yet it is also a tremendously beautiful, vivid and uplifting show about the power of a mother’s love * The Scotsman *Haunting and reflective music and lyrics. They emerge naturally from the narrative … Compelling viewing (even in you know the ending.) This coproduction… is a triumph * Times of London *A strangely moving work about the power of imagination and the pain of adjustment to a new reality. … I found the prospect of the play intimidating. In the end, I was deeply touched by its testament to human resourcefulness * Guardian *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Girls
Book SynopsisScorchingly intelligent and as powerful as a gut punch. The TimesThree ordinary girls, Tisana, Ruhab and Haleema. Best friends forever. All the big issues: love, sex, religion... and being kidnapped from their hometown in Nigeria.Fiercely funny and powerfully political, Theresa Ikoko''s Girls explores enduring friendship, girlhood and the stories behind the headlines that quickly become yesterday's news.Winner of the 2015 Alfred Fagon Award and 2016 George Devine Award, Girls is published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Bailey.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing Queer Performance
Book SynopsisThis anthology documents a decade of some of the UK''s most exciting queer performances, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development material and visual documentation. Queer performances are expected to live a brief, bright life without leaving any textual record. Indeed, they rarely begin with complete scripts at all, being often developed instead by performance practices designed to fill noisy bars, clinking cabaret venues and fringe theatres, typically for short runs. This lack of textual documentation underplays the importance of writing to contemporary queer performances, while rendering them vulnerable to disappearance in the diaphanous archives of memory. Writing Queer Performance: Contemporary Texts and Documents features eight seminal works, captured though performance texts and visual documentation, that ensures their accessibility long after the event of live performance. Supported by a contextualizing introduction, the anthology provides
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beneathas Place
Book SynopsisSome things we do for those we are responsible for, some things for ourselves, and some things we do for the ancestors.Today, it's all three!1959. The first wave of independence is sweeping across Africa and Beneatha has left the prejudice of 1950s America for a brighter future with her Nigerian husband in Lagos. But on the day they move into their new house in the white suburbs, it doesn't take long for cracks to appear, changing the course of the rest of their lives.Present day. Now a renowned Dean whose colleagues are questioning the role of African American studies for future generations, Beneatha returns to the same house in search of answers. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry''s ground-breaking modern classic, A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha's Place challenges today's culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past. A razor-sharp satire from Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, about the power of knowing your hi
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Wood of Words
Book SynopsisFriendship makes us fresh.And doth beget new courage in our breasts.A new play for young people and schools, created from Shakespeare's works.In this wood of words, a band of newcomers arrive to witness banishments, storms, unhappy endings, reunions, and murder most foul... and try to make sense of it all. This unique and thoughtful adaptation for young performers of several of Shakespeare's works is co-written by director Chris White and award-winning playwright Hannah Khalil, in honour of the 400th anniversary of the First Folio this year.The Wood of Words was created as part of the Associate Schools Programme (the RSC's long term partnership programme with schools and theatre partners). This edition was published to coincide with the Playmaking Festival at the RSC, in July 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Richard III Arden Performance Edition
Book SynopsisRichard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals, betrayals and kingly power, this edition is presented in an easy to read format with notes for performance and rehearsal by directors and actors. It is edited by academic and director, Abigail Rokison-Woodall and the leading Shakespearean actor, Sir Simon Russell Beale. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate. Eac
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) National Theatre Connections 2024
Book SynopsisNational Theatre Connections 2024 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK''s most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like trans-rights, the mental health crisis, colonial history, disability activism, and climate change, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance.This 2024 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2024 Festival (eight brand-new plays, and two returning favourites), as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a producti
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1 Thursdays
Book SynopsisNewcastle, London, America. You can go anywhere, it's still the same old shit. People just getting by, in any way they know how. But I tell you what they don't have, they don't have a 1 Thursday!17-year-old Jen and Stacey are best friends. Since forever.Stacey always dreamed of being a dancer. And she's actually got the talent for it. Only her school career advisor hasn't even been to London, let alone heard of Urdang. Jen is smart. Like Oxbridge smart. But all smart' gives her is the ability to see that there's no use trying to change the story prewritten for her, growing up in an underfunded and forgotten Bradford in the 2010s.They only have one place they can escape to Club Ocean on a Thursday night. Freedom for Jen and Stacey. A beautiful and hilarious coming-of-age story, Kat Rose-Martin''s 1 Thursdays captures and celebrates the trials and tribulations of what it means to be young, Northern and working class, when for one Vodka-blurred second, you're allowed to forg
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Manic Street Creature
Book SynopsisMaimuna Memon is a Lancashire born writer, composer, musician and actor. She is Co-Founder and Resident Composer of Wildcard Theatre Company. Maimuna's one woman concept album musical Manic Street Creature was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the 2022 Mental Health Fringe Award. Maimuna has written music and lyrics for Electrolyte (a gig theatre piece which had a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018/19 and won the Scotsman Mental Health Award), Nine Lessons and Carols at the Almeida Theatre and Welcome To Iran for the National Theatre and Stratford East (cancelled due to the pandemic but then adapted for BBC Radio 3). Maimuna is commissioned by The Bush and Bolton Octagon Theatre for her new musical Sparrow Girl, an autobiographical four woman show about choice and heritage. She was nominated for a 2023 Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the National Theatre's Standing at the Sky's
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2
Book SynopsisLeanna Keyes is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist and producer with a primary focus on queer and trans people. She aims to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future).Lindsey Mantoan is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and an Associate Professor at Linfield University. Her current research focuses on contemporary musical theater. She is the author or co-editor of seven books, an intimacy director, a director, and a dramaturg.Angela Farr Schiller is an Emmy Awardwinning director, a multiple award-winning dramaturg, scholar, and professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Additionally, Angela works as a Dramaturg-in-Residence with the Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, United States.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The House of Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisYou bring such scandal to my house.In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother's tight grip as they mourn their father's death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable matriarch, guarding her reputation against the rising tide of her family's desires in this pitch-black drama exploring the consequences of oppressing women, in Alice Birch''s radical new version of Federico García Lorca's modern masterpiece.This edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in November 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ulster American
Book SynopsisWould you mind if I asked you a troubling question?An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns out that they're not on the same page, the night threatens to spiral out of control.Power dynamics, cultural identity and the perils of being a woman in the entertainment industry; nothing is off limits in this pitch-black comedy from the award-winning playwright David Ireland.This edition is published to coincide with the revival at Riverside Studios, London, in December 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Until I Return The Selected Plays of Ismail
Book SynopsisDiscover the complex histories and experiences of the Palestinian people through the work of Ismail Khalidi. With compelling characters, engaging storytelling, quick-witted humor, and unwavering political commitment, Khalidi has entertained and informed audiences in America and around the globe, providing diverse perspectives on the Palestinian experience from the British Mandate era to the challenges faced under occupation today. This new collection spans Khalidi's career, featuring both his early monodramas and never-before-published new plays. An essential intervention in academic and artistic discourses that often overlook or marginalize Palestinian and Arab voices, Khalidi's work proves him to be an influential figure on an international scale, bridging the Americas and the Middle East. Until I Return: The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi further contextualizes his work with an essay by Professor Edward Ziter (NYU Tisch, USA), an enlightening interview with the playwright co
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Bloomsbury Academic The Big Life
Book SynopsisEROS!! Do your thing!It''s 1950s London, and Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie arrive from the West Indies full of expectations and aspirations.Eager to make successes of themselves, they are optimistic about what the future holds. Building this new life will take focus and sacrifice, and the young men make the bold decision to forswear wine and women for three whole years and devote themselves to their future in London. However, Sybil, Mary, Zulieka and Kathy have other ideas and the men''s resolve is put to the test as the reality of life in a less-than-welcoming England makes forgoing the warmth of female company hard to resist. Will the men stick with their idea of the Big Life, or will Eros have the final say? A joyful and uplifting journey, where the story of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost meets that of the Windrush generation in a fun-packed Ska musical. The Big Life returns to the stage twenty years after its Stratford
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sonya Kellys Druid Plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Boys from the Blackstuff
Book SynopsisGizza job. Go on, gizzit, go head, giz it if you've got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go head, gizza job.80sLiverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance.Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find the jobs, avoid the sniffers'' and see if you can have a laugh along the way.40 years after Alan Bleasdale's ground-breaking television series of the same name was essential viewing, this edition is published to coincide with the co-production between the Liverpool Royal Court and London''s National Theatre, in April 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When
Book SynopsisNominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier AwardsI found a king in me and now I love youI found a king in you and now I love meFather figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild.Inspired by Ntozake Shange''s essential work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is a profound and playful work, co-commissioned by Boundless Theatre, from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron.For Black Boys... gained critical acclaim for the world premiere in October 2021 at New Diorama Theatre, before successfully transferring to London''s Royal Court Theatre in March 2022. This edition was published to coincide with th
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC English Kings Killing Foreigners
Book SynopsisSo we've been cast in a post-war English Nationalist Anti-Fascist Kebab Shop reimagining of Henry V set in the future?The death of a national sweetheart. A friendship tested by a bloody act. An infamous production of Shakespeare''s Henry V. A tell-all dark comedy that peels back the skin of English cultural identity to reveal the steaming battlefields that lie beneath. Would you die for your country?From rehearsal room microaggressions, to the battlefields of France, into the bureaucracy of applying for citizenship, join Shakespeare''s Globe Ensemble veterans Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti in English Kings Killing Foreigners as they explore their histories alongside England''s own as unwilling actors in a national story.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere of RealFake Theatre and Camden People's Theatre co-production at Camden People's Theatre in April 2024.
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Methuen Drama Theatre and Race
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lie Low
Book SynopsisI was broken into a year ago and I was struggling for a bit afterwards. I'm fine now though.In the wake of a home invasion, Faye can't sleep. She's fine though. All she's had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. She's fine though, really she isDesperate to shake her insomnia, Faye enlists the help of her brother, Naoise, to try a form of exposure therapy. But Naoise has a devastating secret that's about to come to light.Lie Low is a dark new play from writer Ciara Elizabeth Smyth about fear, trauma and family, offering a theatrical exploration into the human brain and its response to sexual assault. This edition was published to coincide with the London premiere at the Royal Court, in May 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Accents
Book SynopsisEmmet Kirwan is an Irish Actor, Playwright and poet. His play Dublin Oldschool won the Stewart Parker award and has been performed at The National Theatre London it has recently been made into a feature film . He is also known for writing and performing the IFTA award winning poetry short film Heartbreak (2017) and being the writer and star of the Irish television comedy series Sarah and Steve (2010).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC So Young
Book SynopsisWinner of a Fringe First Award 2024Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024Look, there are two ways to go. Do you freeze in place, looking backwards all the time or do you move on?Summer 2021. Lockdown is over. Just.Three months ago Milo lost his wife to Covid. She was only forty five. So young.Tonight he has invited his two oldest pals, Davie and Liane, to come round and drink some wine, listen to some tunes and reminisce about the olden days.And there's something else He wants them to meet the new love of his life. Her name is Greta. They met online. And she's twenty years old.From the celebrated writer of Decky Does a Bronco and I Can Go Anywhere, Douglas Maxwell's So Young sees an innocuous evening slide towards ruin as old friends face the challenges of middle age the pull of the past and the promise of the future.This edition was published to coincide with the Tra
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Hot Wing King
Book SynopsisEvery kang deserves a crownThings are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, Cordell, his partner Dwayne and friends Isom and Big Charles team up again as the New Wing Order, with a new attitude and a mouth-watering new wing recipe.But after an unexpected family emergency, their plans get derailed as the men navigate the meaning of love, family and staying true to yourself.Full of laughter, song and healing, Katori Hall's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy makes its London debut in a fiery new production at the National Theatre.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Toto Kerblammo
Book SynopsisSee with your Ears. Poor Effy. Sent to live with her aunt and uncle in a block that won't allow dogs. What's a girl to do? She smuggles her furry friend in, of course. Keeps him under a blanket. Feeds him biscuits. Ssh Toto, quiet. But it can't last forever. Effy needs saving. And Toto is up to the task. Experienced through headphones, Toto Kerblammo! mixes live and recorded performance to deliver a tender and powerful story about listening, friendship and finding hope in the darkest of places. Tim Crouch is one of the most important writers and theatre-makers in the UK' (The Stage). His award-winning plays include An mOak Tree, The Author, Beginners, I, Malvolio and Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Unicorn Theatre, London, in October 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) On Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisHannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK.Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Latin American Plays in Translation
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Not Beckett The Plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Tim Price Plays 2
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Smoke
Book SynopsisIn this stripped back, 'anti-theatre' solo show, Alex starts receiving Instagram messages from his deceased ex-boyfriend Ben, causing his perception of reality and his own past to be challenged.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Present
Book SynopsisAli Pritchard is a writer, actor, director, and producer. In 2012 Ali founded Alphabetti Theatre at the age of 22, making him one of the UK's youngest artistic directors running a venue. He has a BA honours in Drama & Scripting from Northumbria University, and a Higher Diploma in Contemporary Vocals from The Academy of Contemporary Music. Ali is a visiting lecturer at a number of higher educational organisations across the North East, and in 2013 following a yearlong graduate fellowship at Northumbria University, he won the Best Postgraduate Lecturer award. Under Ali's leadership, Alphabetti have become a crucial part of the arts ecology in the region. Alphabetti is now a fully registered charity and has just secured a 10 year lease for their current premise a 75 seater venue with its own bar, rehearsal room, studios and workshop. With their bold Pay What You Feel ticketing scheme, which is unique for the city - they have been able to engage with a new and diverse audience. The majority of their yearlong programme of 280 300 performances are part of this scheme. Following the first full year in the venue Alphabetti welcomed 10,000 audience members and worked with 1,100 artists.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Positive Stories for Negative Times Season Four
Book SynopsisElla Hickson is an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed throughout the UK and abroad. Her recent play Anna', a sonic collaboration with Ben and Max Ringham, opened at the National Theatre in Spring, 2019. Other theatre includes, 'Swive' (2019) at The Globe, The Writer' (2018) and Oil' (2016) at The Almeida Theatre, and Wendy and Peter Pan' (2015) at The Royal Shakespeare Company. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a MacDowell Fellow and recipient of The Catherine Johnson Award. She is developing new work with The Old Vic, Tim Minchin and The National Theatre, and television projects with Kudos Productions and Warp Films.Hannah Low is a Chinese-Scottish writer, actor and youth theatre practitioner based in Edinburgh Scotland who graduated in 2019 with a First Class BA(Hons) degree in Musical Theatre. Most recently, Hannah was selected as a mentee for Playwright's Studio Scotland's 2024 programme, working with Douglas Maxwell to develop a new play. Hannah makes vibrant, narrative-led, interdisciplinary work for stage. Her projects are currently supported by Vanishing Point and Imaginate, and funded by Creative Scotland and the Edinburgh City Council Diversity and Inclusion fund.Travis Alabanza is a performer, writer and theatre-maker. In 2016/17 they became the youngest recipient of the artist-in-residence at the Tate workshop programme, starred in Scottee's theatre production Putting Words in your Mouth at the Roundhouse and the Royal Exchange adaptation of Derek Jarman's Jubilee, performed in venues such as V&A, Tate, ICA, the Roundhouse and Barbican and had their work featured in The Guardian, BBC, Huck Magazine and more. Known for increasingly paving much of the UK conversation around trans politics, Alabanza has become a staple of the London queer scene and further afield. Their debut poetry book Before I step Outside (you love me) released in 2017 has been shipped to over 19 countries worldwide and listed as one of the top trans literary books of 2017. Alabanza's unique mixture of performance, poetry, style, political views and risk-taking performances has taken them across the country, Europe and internationally working regularly with artists such as Alok Vaid-Menon, Duckie, David Hoyle, Scottee and others.Mammalian Diving Reflex creates performances by looking for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences. They create site and social-specific performance events, theatre productions, participatory gallery installations, videos, art objects and theoretical texts to foster dialogue and dismantle barriers between individuals of all backgrounds by bringing people together in new and unusual ways.James Ley is an Edinburgh-based writer who has written plays for A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Glasgay! and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His work has been performed at Òran Mór, The Citizens Theatre, The Tron Theatre and The CCA. Mentored through the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland and a finalist in Glasgay!'s Playfest 2010 competition, he was awarded an Arts Council Literature Residency at CovePark in 2010 and has recently been awarded a grant from The Tom McGrath Trust.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Looking for Giants
Book SynopsisCesca Echlin is a writer and director based in London. Her past roles include working as Executive Assistant on series 2 of the TV show I Hate Suzie, where she assisted the screenwriter/playwright Lucy Prebble as part of her role and gained experience in television production from prep to post, particularly the development of scripts throughout the process. She has also worked as an editorial assistant to writer Xandra Bingley and as part-time assistant to screenwriter Sam Lansky. Cesca has volunteered part time at the theatre company Clean Break since 2019. Recent projects include the staging of her debut play Looking for Giants at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, which was met with critical acclaim. Her second, in-development play Short Pleasures Long Woes was selected as part of Omnibus Theatre's Engine Room: Next Page series in January 2024.
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