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Macbeth
(Paperback)
William Shakespeare
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my
black and deep desires.' One of Shakespeare's darkest and most
violent tragedies, Macbeth's struggle between his own ambition and
his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he
kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of
three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.
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.
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Five Pantos
(Hardcover)
John Nicholas Schweitzer
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R795
R711
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.
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Yerma
(Paperback)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Adapted by Simon Stone
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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.
Elspeth and Arthur are celebrating forty years of quiet, safe,
unspectacular, ordinary marriage. Or so most of the guests
attending their anniversary party are led to believe. But knowing
her and knowing him as they do, their son and daughter know
differently.
Clayton James, a 17-year-old Nottingham lad, dreams of becoming the
next Viv Anderson. With a prodigious talent, the offer of a
professional contract at a First Division club and a growing
romance with girlfriend Serena, he appears to have the world at his
feet. But life at the beginning of the 1980s isn't easy for Clayton
and his family, trying to make it in an era of racism and
hooliganism. And Clayton's steelworker dad Patterson faces an
uncertain future as the Thatcher government faces off against the
unions. When his charismatic and powerful former coach, Lafferty,
returns after four years away, Clayton is forced to confront
painful memories of the past. Can he protect his loved ones from
the truth of what he endured? A world premiere, inspired by the
recent football abuse scandals, First Touch is a gripping and
heartfelt drama about what it takes to fulfil your dreams, by
screenwriter Nathaniel Price (BBC's Noughts and Crosses and Sky's
Tin Star).
Melissa wants to get on with her life but never knows when her
father is going to turn up next. Over thirty years she struggles to
overcome her past while her family, torn apart by alcohol, try to
repair the damage. Nick Payne's play about history and hope is a
poignant, unflinching reflection on the ties that bind us.
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first
anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors
and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by
established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene,
including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina
Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas
Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for
children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay,
lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a
confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia;
from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for
adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important
anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the
year when the law on the prohibition of "propaganda of
non-traditional sexual relations among minors" was passed by the
Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity
that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make
clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a
tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show
that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love,
and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding
in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo,
Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.
I am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that
you won't be here. That you will have left. Leonard and Violet,
young, restless and in love, spend their first night together
knowing it may also be their last. It's 1942 and, in a hotel room
in Bath, they dream of their future while preparing for Leonard's
departure to the war. But the bombs begin to fall and their world
will never be the same again. In the year 2002, the couple look
back at what might have been. Examining the impact of the Second
World War on two ordinary lives and a love that spans more than
sixty years.
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