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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays
Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist
father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them
with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers
his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.
Wenner van die Woordveertjie vir beste dramateks in 2021.
Die stuk oor drie geslagte is gebaseer op die 17de eeuse slavin in Karel Schoeman se Armosyn van die Kaap, senaatsdebatte van Piet Odendaal in die 1970's, en die geskiedenis van die Odendaal-familie in Suid-Afrika.
Dit ondersoek onder andere die gevolge van intergenerasie-trauma en die spanning tussen Westerse psigiatrie en Afrika-spiritualiteit.
A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama.
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The Crucible
(Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Volume editing by Soyica Diggs Colbert; Series edited by Susan Abbotson
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R190
Discovery Miles 1 900
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the
dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name?
I have given you my soul; leave me my name! In a small tight-knit
community, gossip and rumour spread like wildfire, inflaming
personal grievances until no-one is safe from accusation and
vengeance. The Crucible is Arthur Miller's classic dramatisation of
the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of
Salem in 1692. Seen as a chilling parallel to the McCarthyism and
repressive culture of fear that gripped America in the 1950s, the
play's timeless relevance and appeal remains as strong as when the
play opened on Broadway in 1953. This new edition includes an
introduction by Soyica Diggs Colbert, that explores the play's
production history as well as the dramatic, thematic, and academic
debates that surround it; a must-have resource for any student
exploring The Crucible.
A collection of the world's best monologues for women actors
featuring well-known playwrights and emerging new writers.
What is home? The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of
Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about
women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil,
India, UK, and the US, complicates the answer. The "answer"
includes stories as far-ranging as: enslaved women trying to create
a home, one by any means necessary, and one in the ocean; siblings
wrestling with their differing devotion to home after their
mother's death; a family wrestling with the government's refusal to
allow the burial of their soldier-son in their hometown; a young
scholar attempting to feel at home after studying abroad; a young
man fleeing home due to his sexual orientation only to discover the
difficulty of creating home elsewhere, and Siddis (Indians of
African descent) continuing to struggle for acceptance despite
having lived in India for over 600 years. These are voices seldom
represented to a larger audience. The plays and performance pieces
range from 20 to 90-minute pieces and include a mix of monologue,
duologue, and ensemble plays. Short yet powerful, they allow
fantastic performance opportunities particularly in an age of
social-distancing with flexible casts that together invite the
theme of home to be performed and studied on the page. The plays
include: The House by Arze Khodr (Lebanon), Happy by Kia Corthron
(US), The Blue of the Island by Evelyne Trouillot (Haiti), Nine
Lives by Zodwa Nyoni (UK), Leaving, but Can't Let Go by Lupe
Gehrenbeck (Venezuela), Questions of Home by Doreen Baingana
(Uganda), On the Last Day of Spring by Fidaa Zidan (Palestine)
Letting Go and Moving On by Louella Dizon San Juan (US),
Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciacao (Brazil),
So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (US), and Those Who Live Here,
Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi (India)
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