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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays
On a still, cool day in the east of a city by the sea, three sounds only: a bulldozer’s engine, a forgotten song, a canon that tells the time. Behind the bulldozer, a sign: Luxury Mall Coming Soon. As the vehicle moves in to the clear ground, it strikes at something unexpected…
What Remains is a fusion of text, dance and movement to tell a story about the unexpected uncovering of a slave burial ground in Cape Town, the archaeological dig that follows and a city haunted by the memory of slavery. When the bones emerge from the ground, everyone in the city – slave descendants, archaeologists, citizens, property developers – is forced to reckon with a history sometimes remembered, sometimes forgotten.
Loosely based on the events at Prestwich Place, What Remains is a path between memory and magic, the uncanny and the known, waking and dreaming. Four figures – The Archaeologist, The Healer, The Dancer and The Student – move between bones and books, archives and madness, paintings and protest, as they struggle to reconcile the past with the now.
Remembering the lessons of Jan Karski, who risked his life to share
the truth with the world Richly illustrated with stills from the
black-and-white film adaptation of the acclaimed stage play,
Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski tells the story of World
War II hero, Holocaust witness, and Georgetown University professor
Jan Karski. A messenger of truth, Karski risked his life to carry
his harrowing reports of the Holocaust from war-torn Poland to the
Allied nations and, ultimately, the Oval Office, only to be ignored
and disbelieved. Despite the West's unwillingness to act, Karski
continued to tell others about the atrocities he saw, and, after a
period of silence, would do so for the remainder of his life. This
play carries forward his legacy of bearing witness so that future
generations might be inspired to follow his example and "shake the
conscience of the world." Accompanying the text of the stage play
in this volume are essays and conversations from leading diplomats,
thinkers, artists, and writers who reckon with Karski's legacy,
including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Ambassador Stuart
Eizenstat, award-winning author Aminatta Forna, best-selling author
Azar Nafisi, President Emeritus of Georgetown Leo J. O'Donovan, SJ,
Ambassador Samantha Power, Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider,
historian Timothy Snyder, Academy Award (TM) nominated actor David
Strathairn, and best-selling author Deborah Tannen.
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Macbeth
(Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Oscar Grillo Von
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R267
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Othello
(Paperback, Annotated edition)
William Shakespeare; Introduction by Cedric Watts; Notes by Cedric Watts; Edited by Cedric Watts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R120
Discovery Miles 1 200
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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.,
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth
Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of
Venice as its inaugral volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of
William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of
recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of
Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love,
deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello,
the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago
conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of
racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking
within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and
accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist.
Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to
engross, impress and trouble the imagination.
Die drama speel af in die Karoodorpie Willowmore. Die rol van die kerk, verkragting, verlies en familie is van die temas wat aangeraak word.
Lekas kyk na 'n kind se weerloosheid en na die familie se verantwoordelikheid om na haar om te sien. Die watermeid (waternimf of meermin) is die mitiese figuur wat tot die dorpie se redding moet kom en drie kinders in die stuk hoop sy sal hulle kom red.
Dit raak egter gekompliseerd wanneer die skuldige persoon 'n belangrike figuur in die gemeenskap is - die dominee.
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The Tempest
(Paperback, New edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Cedric Watts; Introduction by Cedric Watts; Notes by Cedric Watts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R118
Discovery Miles 1 180
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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.,
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth
Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of
William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of
recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of
Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with
his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his
former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests
himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepares to return to the
mainland. The Tempest has often been regarded as Shakespeare's
'farewell to the stage' before his retirement. In the past, critics
emphasised the romantically beautiful features of The Tempest,
seeing it as an imaginative fantasia. In recent decades, however,
The Tempest has also been treated as a potently political drama
which offers controversial insights into colonialism and racism.
Frequently staged and diversely filmed, the play has influenced
numerous poets and novelists.
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