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Broken Glass (Paperback): Arthur Miller Broken Glass (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Ambika Singh, Nupur Tandon
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken Glass." - The New York Times When Sylvia Gellburg, a young Jewish woman living in Brooklyn, becomes partially paralyzed from the waist down, her husband Phillip is shocked: what could've caused this sudden condition? The answer is Kristallnacht, the horrific, anti-Semitic event occurring halfway around the world. As the Gellburgs reckon with this pogrom and with the breakdown of their own marriage, a terrifying thought emerges: will the Jewish people ever be able to avoid persecution? Broken Glass is one of Miller's most moving and personal works, touching on themes of Jewish identity and anti-Semitism, winning him the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1994. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Ambika Singh, and Nupur Tandon, with commentary and notes that explore the play's production history (including excerpts from an interview with director David Thacker,) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it.

The American Clock - A Vaudeville (Paperback): Arthur Miller The American Clock - A Vaudeville (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Series edited by Susan Abbotson; Volume editing by Jane K. Dominik
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'It is Mr. Miller's notion, potentially a great one, that the Baums' story can help tell the story of America itself during that traumatic era.' NEW YORK TIMES When the stock market crashes, the once-financially comfortable Baum family lose everything and are forced to leave their lofty home in Manhattan to live with relatives in Brooklyn: how can their pride, purpose and artistic endeavours survive such a sudden and shocking reversal of fortune? A sweeping, hard-hitting look at the Great Depression of the 1930s, The American Clock is a vaudevillian celebration of American resilience and optimism in the face of national crisis, and was performed on Broadway in 1980. This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Jane K. Dominik, with commentary and notes that explore the play's production history (including excerpts from interviews with designers of the 1980 Broadway production) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it.

Asylum (Paperback): Paul Kember Asylum (Paperback)
Paul Kember
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Die Dag Is Bros / Sandton City Grootdoop (Afrikaans, Paperback): Wessel Pretorius Die Dag Is Bros / Sandton City Grootdoop (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Wessel Pretorius
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Twee dramas oor familie, verhoudings, vergifnis en herinneringe. Wat bybly, is dat mense maar net mense is. Dat versoening deel van menswees is. Dat stukkende mense mekaar kan help heel word en dat familie tog familie bly – ondanks omstandighede, persoonlike keuses en uitdagings. Sandton City grootdoop: ‘n Drama oor ’n ma en haar twee dogters wat vir die eerste keer in ’n lang tyd bymekaarkom om die oudste, Danel, se verjaardag in Sandton City te vier. In die proses begin die trio mekaar se verlede, gevoelens en emosies oopkrap met eerlike, en snaakse, oomblikke. Kara, die ma, is die aktrise wat haar man en kinders op ’n jong ouderdom verlaat het om haar groot droom om wereldberoemd te word, na te volg. Sy erken dat sy nie bevoeg of beskore was vir moederskap nie, maar probeer tog om tot hulle deur te dring en hulle vertroueling te wees. Haar oudste dogter, Danel, is bipoler en bly na ‘n onlangse selfmoordpoging weer by haar ma. Sy is naief en emosioneel en val maklik vir haar ma se manipulasie. Haar suster, Lisa, is gay en verwyt haar ma dat sy nog niks met haar lewe gedoen het nie. Sy is kwaad en kras en wil graag haar ma skok met haar uitlatings oor seks, maar ’n mens kom agter dat sy eintlik baie kwesbaar is. Die dag is bros: Dis laatmiddag. Elsa, voorheen ’n lektor in Afrikaanse letterkunde, berei ’n driegangmaaltyd voor vir Brian se verjaarsdag. Hy was ’n jeugmisdadiger wat ’n tweede kans gegun is onder Elsa se vlerk. Sy stel hom bloot aan Sheila Cussons en hy vul ’n leemte in haar lewe. Tussendeur word daar speletjies gespeel met Tertius – die vreemde kind wat kersiebloeisels aandra uit Japan. Voor die kos koud kan word sal die dag ’n ingrypende wending neem. Die Dag is Bros is benoem vir ’n Fiesta as beste nuutgeskepte Afrikaanse produksie.

Burgerz (Paperback): Travis Alabanza Burgerz (Paperback)
Travis Alabanza
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the 'burger': the texture, and taste of being trans. Their experiences include verbal abuse, ostracisation and being thrown out of a Top Shop changing room. The piece also explores the black trans experience.

A Funny Thing Happened to Me on My Way Through the Bible - A Collection of Humorous Sketches and Monologues Based on Familiar... A Funny Thing Happened to Me on My Way Through the Bible - A Collection of Humorous Sketches and Monologues Based on Familiar Bible Stories (Paperback)
Martha Bolton
R516 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R97 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Watch the Bible come to life... with these delightfully funny sketches and monologues taken from familiar biblical narratives. Written with great humor and charm, these 16 scripts are always in good taste and contain pointed truths recognizable to everyone. Each piece will be appropriate for audiences inside the church and out. Martha Bolton's commitment is evident in each sketch's message.

Going Down to Morocco (Paperback): Jose Luis Alonso de de Santos Going Down to Morocco (Paperback)
Jose Luis Alonso de de Santos; Translated by Duncan Wheeler
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s. Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin Jaimito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour, creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film references. Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.

The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback): Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
Oscar Wilde 2
R78 Discovery Miles 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.

Amadeus (Paperback): Peter Shaffer Amadeus (Paperback)
Peter Shaffer
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God's instrument on earth. Peter Shaffer's award-winning play is a rich, exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals, and lives destroyed by envy.

Of Mice and Men - Playscript (Paperback): John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men - Playscript (Paperback)
John Steinbeck
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Journey's End (Paperback, New Ed): RC Sherriff Journey's End (Paperback, New Ed)
RC Sherriff
R215 R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Save R43 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed ...

Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the first performance of Journey's End in 1928; the play was an instant stage success and remains a great anti-war classic.

The Sugar House (Paperback): Alana Valentine The Sugar House (Paperback)
Alana Valentine
R502 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R141 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Beautiful Words (Paperback): Sean Riley Beautiful Words (Paperback)
Sean Riley
R499 R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Save R141 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An epic chronicle of the refugee experience, Beautiful Words weaves together three very different stories of survival, told through the eyes of three children in different times and places. The outcome is heart-rending, humorous, and surprising by turns. From the horrors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the final days of World War II, to Taliban-ruled Kabul, to present day Australia, this enthralling play presents a rich tapestry of human experience, overlapping lives, and the bonds that unite generations.

Shakers (Re-stirred) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): John Godber, Jane Thornton Shakers (Re-stirred) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
John Godber, Jane Thornton
R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Mating Game (Paperback): Robin Hawdon The Mating Game (Paperback)
Robin Hawdon
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lorca: Blood Wedding (Hardcover, Revised): Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres Lorca: Blood Wedding (Hardcover, Revised)
Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres; Edited by Paul Burns
R3,753 Discovery Miles 37 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Federico Garca Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artisitc group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more literary life eventually paid off. Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) was written in 1932, and was first performed in Madrid in March 1933. It proved to be the popular and critical success he'd been waiting for. When the play was staged in Buenos Aires he even found himself confronted with the prospect of wealth - a prospect that soon became a reality. This prosperous, happy spell was short-lived though, as the political situation in Spain altered under Franco, putting an end to this time, and ultimately, his life. Lorca was executed on August 18th 1936. Blood Wedding is based around the story of a young woman who, unable to wed her lover is made to marry a more suitable man. On the day of her wedding, however, La Novia (The Bride) runs away with her lover (Leonardo), who is married with children. A series of events ensues... Leonardo is the only character in the play to have a name, the others all being identified by their role: El Novio (The Groom), La Suegra (The Mother-in-Law). As with many of Lorca's plays, symbolism is key, with the moon and death personified. This is the first play in Lorca's trilogy of rural tragedies, with Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba being second and third.

J.M. Coetzee: two screenplays - Waiting for the barbarians and in the heart of the country (Paperback): J. M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee: two screenplays - Waiting for the barbarians and in the heart of the country (Paperback)
J. M. Coetzee
R305 R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Save R67 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

J.M. Coetzee's screenplay versions of In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians are original and as yet unproduced cinematic adaptations of his novels. Apart from a few early lyric experiments, Coetzee's literary career has almost exclusively been dedicated to prose forms such as the novel, the memoir and the essay, and it is mainly for his accomplishments in novelistic fiction that he has achieved world-wide recognition. For readers familiar with Coetzee's writing career spanning more than 40 years, the screenplays, published for the first time in this volume, are thus an unusual and unexpected addition to the oeuvre. They show his versatility as a writer able to cross over into the medium of script writing and film, and doing so in a technically proficient and highly accomplished manner. Academic Herman Wittenberg has written an introduction to this collection, examining the difference in treatment between the screenplays and the novels, as well as Coetzee's relationship with cinema and film-making. This work is the only one to be produced in 2014 by J. M. Coetzee and will be celebrated at a conference in Adelaide, Australia, to be held in December, focusing on Coetzee's life work.

Aristophanes: Peace (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Alan H. Sommerstein Aristophanes: Peace (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Alan H. Sommerstein
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Produced in 421 B.C., Peace is, in one respect, unique among Aristophanes' plays. The typical Aristophanic plot takes its start from something that is wrong with the current state of Athenian life and which, while it may be capable in principle of being corrected, stands next to no chance of ever being put right in practice except by the methods of comic fantasy. Peace likewise takes its start from something that is wrong with the current situation - namely, as in Acharnians and Lysistrata, the continuing war against the Peloponnesians; but on this occasion the wrong was one that was actually on the point of being set right in the hard world of reality. Aristophanes celebrates in anticipation of the conclusion of the great war with Sparta. Peace, we are made to see, is within the grasp of the Greek peoples; let them make one final effort, and all difficulties and dangers will evaporate in the joys of feasting and rustic leisure. This volume presents the Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes. The second edition has been substantially updated with extensive addenda to the Notes and Bibliography.

A View from the Bridge (Paperback): Arthur Miller A View from the Bridge (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Volume editing by Julie Vatain-Corfdir; Series edited by Susan Abbotson
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The law is nature. The law is only a word for what has a right to happen. When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now. Let her go. And bless her. Set among Italian-Americans on the Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge is the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone. When his wife's cousins arrive as illegal immigrants from Italy, he is honoured to take them into his house. But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them, Eddie grows increasingly suspicious, eventually precipitating his violation of the moral and cultural codes of his community and leading to the play's tragic finale. With its examination of the themes of sexuality, responsibility, betrayal and vengeance, A View from the Bridge is Miller at his best and a modern classic. This new edition includes an introduction by Julie Vatain-Corfdir 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 A View from the Bridge.

The Shadow Between (Paperback): Elizabeth Addyman The Shadow Between (Paperback)
Elizabeth Addyman
R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Das Drama (Paperback): Bruno Buffe Das Drama (Paperback)
Bruno Buffe
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
?akoontala - Or, The Lost Ring; an Indian Drama (Paperback): K?lid?sa Monier Monier-Williams Śakoontala - Or, The Lost Ring; an Indian Drama (Paperback)
Kālidāsa Monier Monier-Williams
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Account of the Harvard Greek Play (Hardcover): Henry Norman An Account of the Harvard Greek Play (Hardcover)
Henry Norman
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bloody Chamber (Paperback): Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber (Paperback)
Angela Carter; Adapted by Bryony Lavery
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that the single key fits. You must promise, if you love me, to leave it well alone." When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving her only her only his keys and a single instruction, her curiosity leads her to uncover a dark secret. Bryony Lavery's new stage adaptation of Angela Carter's story opened as a Northern Stage production in September 2008.

Euripides: The Children of Heracles (Paperback, First published in the United Kingdom in 2001. Reprinted in 2015 with updated... Euripides: The Children of Heracles (Paperback, First published in the United Kingdom in 2001. Reprinted in 2015 with updated General Bibliography.)
Euripides; Edited by William Allan
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Children of Heracles is a powerful and challenging tragedy of exile and supplication. Driven from their homeland by Eurystheus, king of Argos, the children of Heracles flee as fugitives throughout Greece until they are granted protection in Athens. However, their acceptance as political refugees threatens to cause civil revolt among the Athenians and hostile invasion from the Argives. The self-sacrifice of Heracles' daughter ensures a victory for Athens and the Heraclidae, but Heracles' mother Alcmene refuses to spare the life of Eurystheus, although he is a prisoner of war protected by Athenian law. The play shows the amorality of the powerful and the vulnerability of refugees in the most disturbing terms, making for a drama of continuing moral and political relevance to the modern world. Greek text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

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