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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Wedding and Bedding or John Bull and his
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Ballads and sonnets
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers. Illustrated
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub etc
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Female Prelate being the history and the life
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Works of Alexander Pope Esq in nine volumes
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck at last A comedy
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The slave a musical drama in three acts in prose
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Symphonie symbolique Poems Illustrated by Stella
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Political Works in verse of C E S consisting
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Lulu.com Journey in the Mosaic
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Lulu.com Walk of Faith
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Lulu.com Poetry by Carla Corina Hayes
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Cambridge University Press The Taming of the Shrew
Book SynopsisThis third edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, includes a new introductory section which pays lively attention to twenty-first-century stage performances, textual and critical studies. Ann Thompson describes the 'deeply problematic' nature of debates about the play and its reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendices; Reading list.
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Blurb Poems from the Depths of a Gay Heart hardcover
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W. W. Norton & Company How to Communicate
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece” (Kaveh Akbar).Trade Review"How to Communicate brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic. And what a talent! Take, for instance, Slateku, a form John Lee Clark has created based on Braille: it is both inimitable and available to anyone. Or take his brilliant prose poems that are completely unlike any other prose poems I have read.… There is simply no one else like John Lee Clark and I envy the readers who discover him for the first time." -- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic"The poems in John Lee Clark’s revolutionary How to Communicate work together as a manifesto that lays bare the ways in which a society that assumes seeing and hearing as the norm views touch as suspicious, enough so to try to outlaw touch. And yet, if manifesto, also invitation: what might it mean to write ‘forward in a different direction and from a different spatial perspective,’ Clark asks, and goes on to show us, in poems of formal virtuosity, of fierce tenderness, of triumphant community.… How to Communicate is the steadily revelatory gift I didn’t know I’d been waiting for." -- Carl Phillips, author of Then the War"A rare and gorgeous collection powered by human touch. John Lee Clark’s poems approach, feel, and detail what we thought we recognized—a tree, an airplane, and even Goldilocks—on their way to challenging and enlarging our understanding of agency, community, and, most of all, language itself. How to Communicate is a vital and precious bridge made of language—and once crossed, it will transform readers’ sense of the world." -- Aviya Kushner, author of Wolf Lamb Bomb
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WW Norton & Co Life on Earth
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.
£12.34
W. W. Norton & Company Hindsight
£22.80
W. W. Norton & Company The Invention of the Darling
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Lulu.com Solo
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Lulu.com Amore Dove Sei
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Lulu.com Serendipity
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Forgotten Books A Woman Killed With Kindness Classic Reprint
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Contemporary Plays by African Women
Book SynopsisThis volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from across the continent, offering a rich and diverse portrait of identity, politics, culture, gender issues and society in contemporary Africa.Niqabi Ninja by Sara Shaarawi (Egypt) is set in Cairo during the chaotic time of the Egyptian uprising. Not That Woman by Tosin Jobi-Tume (Nigeria) addresses issues of violence against women in Nigeria and its attendant conspiracy of silence. The play advocates zero-tolerance for violence against women and urges women to bury shame and speak out rather than suffer in silence.I Want To Fly by Thembelihle Moyo (Zimbabwe) tells the story of an African girl who wants to be a pilot. It looks at how patriarchal society shapes the thinking of men regarding lobola (bride price), how women endure abusive men and the role society at large plays in these issues.Silent Voices Trade ReviewA rare treasure chest of dynamic and challenging new plays. For theatre practitioners, this book offers diverse works with opportunities for interesting staging and sharp direction. For female actors, there is a selection of strong, unique and complex lead roles … For scholars these works are a rich source of material for critical reflection and debate. * South African Theatre Journal *This volume is an important one for the voices of African women playwrights. The theatrical information it contains should be invaluable to directors, companies and festivals interested in producing the work it features. * Critical Stages *Table of ContentsNiqabi Ninja by Sara Shaarawi Bonganyi by Sophie Kwachuh Mempuh Unsettled by JC Niala Silent Voices by Adong Judith I Want To Fly by Thembelihle Moyo Mbuzemi by Koleka Putuma Not That Woman by Tosin Jobi-Tume
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Labour of Love
Book SynopsisLabour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and electability... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party''s traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop of the Labour Party over 25 years, as it moves from Kinnock through Blair into Corbyn... and beyond?This razor-sharp political comedy from James Graham was produced by Michael Grandage Company and Headlong and received its world Premiere at the Noël Coward Theatre in September 2017.Trade ReviewIt is in fact startlingly funny, peppered with one-liners and jokes... -- What's On StageIn the last five years James Graham has established himself as British playwriting's prolific new wunderkind, and here he once again probes the thorny relationships that are the essence of political life. **** -- The Evening Standard...diligently researched and informative...in its brightest moments this nearly three-hour show is an inventive hybrid of Much Ado About Nothing, Yes Minister and Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. -- The Evening Standard...unexpectedly proven to be box office gold. -- Time OutAt the age of 35, James Graham is currently Britain's busiest playwright. With his new play Labour of Love, he continues to stake his claim to be one of its very best. -- What's On StageAnd what makes this such a good and gripping piece of theatre is that it doesn’t preach us sermons about press ethics but leaves us to draw our own conclusions ...It strikes me as a first-rate play...**** * Ink review, Guardian *Graham is so good at this kind of thing, mining recent political and social history to create compelling theatre...**** * Ink review, The Stage *What's striking is just how coherent this up-to-the-minute response is. **** -- The Telegraph
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Midsummer Nights Dream Language and Writing
Book SynopsisThis lively and informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play''s performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each cTable of ContentsPart One: Backgrounds And Contexts Part Two: The Play Part Three: The Play’s Afterlife
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC As You Like It Arden Performance Editions
Book SynopsisI wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt that a copy from this series will be in my hand.' ADRIAN LESTER, Actor, Director and Writer 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. Each edition offers: -Facing-page notes -Short, clear definitions of words -Easily accessible information about key textual variants -Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words -An easy to read layout -SpaTrade ReviewThese editions are likely to help not only actors and drama students but also all amateur Shakespeareans including schools and colleges which stage the plays … What genius to have Simon Russell Beale as a series editor along with two Shakespeare Institute academics, Michael Dobson and Abigail Rokison-Woodall. * Ink Pellet *Table of ContentsSeries Introduction; Introduction; As You Like It
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime
Book SynopsisThis abridged edition is designed for schools and has been adapted for 10 actors playing all of the roles. With a running time of just 90 minutes it is suitable for performance in non-theatre spaces, with minimal technical requirements.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time brings Mark Haddon''s best-selling novel to life on stage, adapted by two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. Winner of seven Olivier Awards including Best Play, along with the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Tony Awards for Best Play, this remarkable and exhilarating theatrical masterpiece originated at London''s Royal National Theatre in 2012 before going on to transfer to the West End for multiple seasons, followed by its acclaimed Broadway run. The play has now been seen on five continents around the world with major productions ranging from Mexico, Australia, Canada, Seoul and Japan. This brand new edition of the play has been abridged specifically with schTrade ReviewPlaywright Simon Stephens . . . not only frames the action, but also sets up a rich tension between fiction's invention and the obsession with facts, forensics and systemised data that is a symptom of Christopher's autism . . . this is a highly skilful adaptation -- Michael Billington * Guardian *A curiously successful case of a hit novel turned into a play . . . This is a profoundly moving play about adolescence, fractured families, mathematics, colours and lights -- Michael Coveney * Independent *This adaptation by the acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens is intensely, innately theatrical; it is also funny and extremely moving -- Laura Thompson * Daily Telegraph *Seeing an adaptation of a book that you have loved can inspire a certain nervousness but fans of A Curious Incident should have no such worry when going to see the National’s faithful and imaginative adaptation. It is a triumph, capturing the depth and touching nature of the original text and adding theatrical sensibilities to great effect. Highly recommended. * Londonist *As adaptations of much-loved fiction go, Simon Stephens' perky and imaginative version . . . is an instant classic * What's On Stage *Simon Stephens' clever adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling novel about a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome is like a cute dog that leaps up and wants to lick you all over. There's no point in resisting – and there's no need ... The novel gets you inside Christopher's head, but the stage version does more, giving Christopher's internal response to the world an external manifestation -- Lyn Gardner * Guardian *This is a really superior stage adaptation. Instead of just transposing the book. Stephens has recreated it for the stage. . . It doesn't shirk the discomfort of being a child with special needs, but –as Christopher learns to believe in himself- it also quietly illustrates some of the excitement of living in your own world -- Aleks Sierz * Tribune *A bittersweet story told with verve and passion -- Siobhan Murphy * Metro *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Vespers
Book SynopsisHave you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue?Do you want to lose yourself in an unforgettable story?Do you want to betransported?Philip Ridley's The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original, self-contained monologues for actors (and readers) of all genders, all ages, and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure from the surreally comic to the heartbreakingly tragic this is an essential toolkit for any actor (or anyone who enjoys a good story) with an introduction by Cath Badham, Lecturer in Performance at the University of Derby, UK.Trade ReviewThe Vespers is utterly amazing. Ridley’s writing is marvelously precise and constantly surprising in its twists and turns. At every point he manages to evoke ideas and feelings that are both thrilling and true. It’s a supreme achievement by the most innovative and exciting contemporary British writer, whose words dazzle, make you think of the unthinkable, and tune you into wild and wonderful emotions that seem to echo from beyond the text. Read and be transported. * Aleks Sierz *Ridley is delving into a sulphurous imagination for some of the most potent and indelible images you’re likely to find this side of sleep * Scotland on Sunday *Philip Ridley doesn’t write plays so much as dark hallucinations in which the world is skewed through his penetrating vision, so we look at it through new eyes * Guardian *Table of ContentsThe Vespers 1-100 Production Notes
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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 Mirror of Obedience
Book SynopsisSimone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Obedience collects together Weil''s poetry and autobiographical writings translated into English for the first time. It offers a rare glimpse into a more personal and introspective Weil than we usually encounter. She was writing and re-working her poems until the end of her life and in a letter from London to her parents, dated 22 January 1943, she expressed the wish for her verses to appear together in print in chronological order, a wish which this volume honours.Weil was a thinker who wrote with discipline and spareness and cherished the poetic form for its power to compress language and distill meaning. In these poems and literary writings, we see her own efforts to craft poems as essential expressions of thought, bringing into view another aspect of Weil's quest for beauty and truth.Trade ReviewWeil cherished the poetic form for the way it compresses language, distills thought, and conveys ultimate paradoxes of existence. This bilingual French-English edition of Weil’s original poetry opens new access to her lifelong quest for beauty and truth. Expert commentary situates the nuanced translations within her lifework – an illuminating volume that makes a nice gift! * Lissa McCullough, Professor, California State University, USA, and Author of The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil (2014) *In accessible, reliable, and learned ways, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson continue to enrich the bounty of our knowledge of Weil’s literary side and its role in her overall philosophy. Their trustworthy translations and discerning commentaries reveal new vistas in Weil’s thought. A perceptive and engaging advance in Weil scholarship — bravo! * Ronald K. L. Collins, Editor of Attention, USA *Table of ContentsTranslators’ Biographies Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Simone Weil as Poet Chapter 2: Simone Weil and Literature List of Abbreviations Further Reading Poems À une jeune fille riche / To a Rich Girl Vers lus au Goûter de la Saint Charlemagne / Verses Read at the Feast of Saint Charlemagne Éclair / Lightning Promethée / Prometheus À un jour / To a Day La mer / The Sea Nécessité / Necessity Les astres / The Stars La porte / The Gate Four Excerpts from Venice Saved Jaffier 1-3 Violetta Selected Prose Conte: Les Lutins du feu / Tale: The Fairies of the Fire Le conte des six cygnes dans Grimm / The Tale of the Six Swans in Grimm On the Translation Translators’ Notes Bibliography Index
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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 (UK) The Glow
Book SynopsisAlistair McDowall grew up in the North East of England. Plays include: The Glow (Royal Court Theatre 2022); all of it (Royal Court Theatre 2020); Zero for the Young Dudes! (National Theatre Connections 2017); X (Royal Court Theatre 2016); Pomona (RWCMD/Gate 2014; Orange Tree Theatre/Royal Exchange/National Theatre 2014/5); Talk Show (Royal Court Theatre 2013); Brilliant Adventures (Royal Court Young Writers' Festival 2012; Royal Exchange, Manchester and Live Theatre, Newcastle 2013) and Captain Amazing (Live Theatre, Newcastle and Edinburgh Fringe 2013; UK tour 2014). He is a MacDowell fellow, and a recipient of the Harold Pinter Commission. His work has been translated and produced internationally.Trade ReviewMyth and history collide in a sci-fi spine-tingler ... Sci-fi is too rarely done on stage but here McDowall has chosen the perfect medium. How better to tell a story about the perils of immortality and the fear of carrying on alone than through an art form built for impermanence, with stories that can live longer than we do? * Guardian *
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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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