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Winner! The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020 For a long time I
didn't know how it'd work. Or what I'd be able to feel. People
would ask me if I could have sex and I'd feign shock and act wildly
offended whilst secretly wanting to grab them by the shoulders and
be like "I don't know, Janet!" Juno was born with spina bifida and
is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers,
love, loneliness - and the feeling of being an unfinished project.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020, Amy Trigg's
remarkable debut play Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me is a
hilarious, heart-warming tale about how shit our wonderful lives
can be.
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)
Sex isn't just about how big and how long. What is it about then?
All sorts of things. Joy is struggling to remain interested in sex.
Her husband thinks of little else. And their teenage son is ready
to burst. Nick Payne's frank and compassionate play explores sex
and intimacy - and asks whether the two are inevitably and
inextricably linked.
The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century
playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples
trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians,
and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre
traditions across the continent, a conclusion is eventually
reached. Like her predecessor Aphra Behn, Centlivre was immensely
successful in her day, drawing huge crowds to extended runs of her
numerous plays, but the stabbing male pens of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries decried her work as being louche and dangerous,
and her name slowly sunk into obscurity. This edition, published
with William Hazlitt's prefatory note and extra material on
Centlivre's life and writing, seeks to highlight the dexterity with
which she took on the stage.
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Five Pantos
(Hardcover)
John Nicholas Schweitzer
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R795
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Discovery Miles 7 110
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Irascible author Algy Waterbridge is hard at work on his
thirty-third crime novel. While Algy's wife is getting more
forgetful, and his PA frequently oversteps the mark, the constant
interruptions come to a head with an unfortunate newspaper
interview. As Algy's fictional characters take over, the lines
between fiction and reality become blurred. A comedy of confusion
about a grumpy old man who might not be so grumpy after all.
Hierdie drama handel oor tien tieners in ’n bos by ’n oorlewingskamp waar spoke, hormone, groepsdruk en goggas die senuwees behoorlik laat knyp. KAMP KOERSHOU is nie vir sissies nie. Want grootword is nie “lekker” nie. Grootword is pyn. En “verwonding".
Die tien jeugdiges vertrek op 'n oorlewingskamp, in 'n bos, onder toesig van 'n paramilitaire instrukteur. Dit is hulle rite of passage sodat hulle weerbaar ‒ paraat! ‒ die grens na volwassenheid kan oorsteek. Maar hoe hou jy koers as jy nie weet waarheen jy wil gaan nie?
Die toneelstuk is in 2012 by die KKNK opgevoer met regie deur Marthinus Basson en Stian Bam in die hoofrol.
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Yerma
(Paperback)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Adapted by Simon Stone
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R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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"Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a
children's bedroom. Room for two." London, the present day. A woman
is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a
child. Written and directed by Simon Stone, this radical new
version of Lorca's tragedy of yearning and loss won universal
critical acclaim when it premiered at the Young Vic in July 2016.
Yerma triumphed at the 2017 Olivier Awards, with the production
winning Best Revival, and Piper winning Best Actress. She also won
the Evening Standard Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress.
Maureen Beattie, Brendan Cowell, John MacMillan and Charlotte
Randle received unanimous praise for their performances.
"So there's a theory that we all have a fi nite number of
heartbeats. We all have a billion heartbeats to live. Humans, cats,
dogs, rats - all our hearts beat at different speeds but we all
have the same amount. A clock with a billion ticks." Inspired by
the incredible true story of the last greater mouse-eared bat
living in Britain, Vespertilio explores the tender romance between
introverted bat-enthusiast Alan and Josh, the charming young
runaway he meets in an abandoned railway tunnel. As their
relationship develops, these two damaged men might fix one another.
If only a little. Vespertilio is a story of love, loneliness and
bats, an exploration of the difference between merely surviving and
truly living.
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