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Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors
need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when
auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author
of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book showcases selected
monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today's
leading contemporary playwrights. The monologues contain a diverse
range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and
historical boundaries, and comes in a brand new format, with a
notes page next to each speech, acting as an actor's workbook as
well as a monologue resource.
Die drama In glas handel oor ‘n kinderlose egpaar wat in
vitro-bevrugting ondergaan en die uitwerking van hul versugting na
‘n kind op hulle as individue, hul huwelik en hul verhoudings met
ander. Nicola Hanekom wys die vernedering van herhaalde besoeke aan
onsimpatieke dokters, die monotomie van seks wat gemonitor word,
die aftakeling van ‘n man en vrou wat gereduseer word tot hul
voortplantingsorgane. In glas wen beste regie, beste nuutgeskepte
Afrikaanse produksie en beste aanbieding. Stian Bam wen beste
akteur en Tinarie van Wyk Loots wen beste aktrise. is in 2015 op
die kortlys vir die toekenning van die ATKV-prys vir ’n dramateks.
In 2001 South Africa was devestated by the news of a brutal rape of
a nine-month-old child who came to be known as baby Tshepang. Once
the story of baby Tshepang hit the headlines, the scab was torn off
a festering wound. Weaving together 'twenty thousand stories' (the
number of reported child rapes in South Africa each year), Tshepang
is a play about love, forgiveness and the difficulties of coming to
terms with a violation of this magnitude.
In Basket Case, dependable Miranda and her ex-husband, the smoothly
charming and wholly unreliable Guy are thrown together when their
faithful old family pet takes a turn for the worse. Reunited over
the dog basket, Guy and Miranda find they haven't 'moved on' quite
as they'd imagined. When they are joined by family friend James,
who rarely sees a stick without getting the wrong end of it, and
Martin, the vet and a long time admirer of Miranda, the scene is
set for some startling home-truths as this rapid-fire foursome
mines laughter and touching observations in equal measure.
South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid
democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust
together to reflect on a quarter-century of change. Jack Morris is a
celebrated classical actor who has just been given both a
career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Besides his age,
Jack has seemingly little in common with his at-home nurse Lunga
Kunene, but the two men soon discover their shared passion for
Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and shattering head-to-head’
(The Times).
Written by South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani, this
refreshingly funny and vital new play premiered in the Swan Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019, before transferring to the Ambassadors
Theatre in London. A co-production with the Fugard Theatre, it
was directed by Janice Honeyman with moving performances from Antony
Sher and John Kani.
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Athena
(Paperback)
Gracie Gardner
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R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
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Why Athena? I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and
all that. In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to
battle. Athena and Mary Wallace are training for the Junior
Olympics. They practice together. They compete against each other.
They spend their lives together. They wish they were friends. From
Award-winning playwright Gracie Gardner, following an acclaimed
extended run in New York, comes a fierce coming-of-age comedy where
two teenagers parry class, competition and power as they practice
fencing and life. But only one will win - en garde. This edition
was published to coincide with the UK premiere at The Yard in
London in October 2022.
WORLD PREMIERE - October 5th 2011 at the Orange Tree Theatre,
RichmondGenre: Comedy. We all want to be happy. We all know what it
feels like. But what if it keeps slipping through our fingers? Paul
is a former happiness guru. As a young man he wrote self-help books
and appeared on the television as 'Mr Happy'. But now his marriage
has failed and his career as a serious novelist is faltering, while
his ex-wife has remarried a wealthy advertising executive to the
dismay of their troubled teenage daughter. Paul is now concerned
about the state of his health, the size of his mortgage and the
monthly payments on his iPhone. Mr Happy is not happy. But surely
if anyone can unlock the secret of perpetual happiness, he must be
the man?
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Pinocchio
(Paperback)
Colin Wakefield, Kate Edgar
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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This brand new one-man comedy takes us on a journey to a stand-up
comedian's firstever public performance to fulfil a lifelong dream.
My Dog's Got No Nose is a thought-provoking insight into the world
of the comic.
In hierdie drama word die leser/gehoor gekonfronteer met die
gevolge van keuses waarmee bykans alle Suid-Afrikaners kan
identifiseer: kwessies soos emigrasie, die behoud van bande met die
geboorteland, nagevolge van die Angolese bosoorlog, moorde op
bejaardes en sosiale onsekerhede as gevolg van kriminele geweld.
Hiermee gee Opperman dramaties gestalte aan die gedagte dat die
persoonlike dikwels ’n politieke strekking het. Ook ander
verwysingsraamwerke tree na vore, waaronder die invloed van die
geskiedenis en die soeke na identiteit.
Hypothermia is set in 1940, in a German hospital for hereditary and
incurable diseases. A doctor (Erich) and his assistant (Lisa)
discover their patients, who had been sent on to other doctors for
further treatment, had really been the victims of the testing of
various torture (and often death) methods. It poses the question
'now that you know, what will you do?'
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