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Jabala and the Jinn (Paperback): Asif Khan Jabala and the Jinn (Paperback)
Asif Khan
R298 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

We're in Bradford. It's been a few months since Jabala's beloved Mum died. Dad is a brilliant father, but it's an effort to get to school on time every day.One morning, when she says goodbye to her house as usual, Jabala hears a voice replying to her in Arabic. But no one's there. Could it be Mum? Has she imagined it?With the help of a 'Refugee Boy' at school, a Shakespeare enthusiast called Munir, she summons... a Jinn. But this is no ordinary 'Jinn', as told in grandma's stories and Jabala is in for a surprise.As the day of Eid approaches, events take a drastic turn and Jabala is forced to make some difficult decisions. Will things come together in time for the big celebration? Combining physical theatre, original music and vivid design, this new play by award-winning writer Asif Khan is a funny and endearing story for the whole family.

Bubble (Paperback): Kieran Hurley Bubble (Paperback)
Kieran Hurley
R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

I was there you know. when we shut your places down. gender studies. social studies. the strongholds of your politically correct bullshit worldview. we shut them down. and I was there. and the news cameras were there. and the whole world was watching. What happens when a male lecturer calls a female student a slut? A provocative, dynamic and original play by award-winning writer Kieran Hurley. Set entirely on Facebook and written in both text and emjois, it explores the disconnect between online persona and true personality, the fractured nature of online debate and how events can snowball in expected ways. Bubble was originally commissioned and developed as a stage play as part of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's MA Classical and Contemporary Text Programme with support from the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland. It was later developed as a digital theatre production by Theatre Uncut and streamed by 195,000 people online and watched in 32 countries.

Sheila's Island (Paperback): Tim Firth Sheila's Island (Paperback)
Tim Firth
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Bonfire night 2019, Sheila, Denise, Julie, and Fay are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd.'s annual outward bound team-building weekend. Somehow, Sheila has been nominated team leader, and, using her cryptic crossword solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District. Our intrepid heroines fi nd themselves manufacturing weapons from cable ties and spatulas, and create a rescue fl ag with plastic plates and a toasting fork. Questions are asked; truths are told; dirty washing is aired.Is it possible to build an adequate night shelter with a prom dress and a sleeveless jumper? What is Julie's husband really up to in Aldi? And why are they on this bloody team building exercise when they could be at a spa?

seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Paperback): Jasmine Lee-Jones seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Paperback)
Jasmine Lee-Jones
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Look it's two-two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It's really not that deep... Holed up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent though - she's got a lot to say. On the internet, actions don't always speak louder than words... seven methods of killing kylie jenner explores cultural appropriation, queerness, friendship and the ownership of black bodies online and IRL. Jasmine Lee-Jones's award-winning play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2019 and transferred to the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in June 2021.

19 Years of Skin - Poems and monologues (Paperback): Kenya Sterling 19 Years of Skin - Poems and monologues (Paperback)
Kenya Sterling
R152 Discovery Miles 1 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Constellations (Paperback, Main): Nick Payne Constellations (Paperback, Main)
Nick Payne
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.' A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet. They hit it off, or perhaps they don't. They might go home together, they might not. Constellations explores love, free will, and friendship through quantum multiverse theory and honey. Constellations premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in 2012, and transferred to the Duke of York's. It opened on Broadway in 2015; and at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in 2021. 'Nick Payne's gorgeous two-character drama, may be the most sophisticated date play Broadway has seen.' New York Times

Phaedra (Paperback): Seneca Phaedra (Paperback)
Seneca; Translated by Frederick Ahl
R394 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R70 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies.

Here is a moving and accomplished translation of this complex play dealing the the violent passions stirred by innocence and beauty and the terrible power of ideology, hatred, and misunderstanding.

A Streetcar Named Desire (Hardcover Library Edition) (Hardcover): Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (Hardcover Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Tennessee Williams
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wild Woman & Other Plays (Paperback): Felix Mitterer Wild Woman & Other Plays (Paperback)
Felix Mitterer
R827 R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Save R48 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second volume of Felix Mitterer's plays in English trans-lation offers further evidence of this dramatist's powerful artistry. A mythological Wild Woman changes the lives of five wood-cutters, exposing their loneliness and desperation. Home reiterates the dictum that "you can't go home again", especially where prej-udice, brutality, and hatred reside. An historical drama based on actual court records, Children of the Devil depicts institutional superstition and cruelty as perpetuated upon the most vulnerable members of society, its children. One Everyman is a modern ver-sion of the traditional medieval morality play, complete with a Devil from Wall Street, while the Biblical analogy, Abraham, concerns the scourge of AIDS -- but even more, the love between a father and his son. The Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer, born in 1948 in the Tyrol, is one of today's leading European dramatists. His two four-part television series, "Piefke-Saga" and "Verkaufte Heimat" were seen by millions of viewers in the German-speaking coun-tries.

One Night in Miami... (Paperback): Kemp Powers One Night in Miami... (Paperback)
Kemp Powers
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

25 February 1964: 22-year-old Cassius Clay, soon to be Muhammad Ali, has just won the world heavyweight boxing title. Instead of hitting the town, he chooses to celebrate in a Miami hotel room with three close friends - activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and American football star Jim Brown. This fictional account of a real night imagines what might have happened in that tiny hotel room. As the Civil Rights movement stirs outside, and the melody of 'A Change is Gonna Come' hangs in the air, four men will emerge from that one night ready to define a new world. Kemp Powers' award-winning debut play One Night in Miami... deftly combines the personal and the political at a pivotal moment in history; it received the Ted Schmitt Award 2013 for its world premiere, and went on to be adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Regina King in 2020. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series with a brand new introduction by Matthew Xia.

X'ntigone - after Sophocles (Paperback): Darren Murphy X'ntigone - after Sophocles (Paperback)
Darren Murphy
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken. The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Things are finally about to change. The countdown is on but leader Creon and his quarantined niece, the self-identifying X'ntigone, have unfinished business before the celebrations can commence. What happens when old-world order meets a radical new world vision? In this thrilling meditation on Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy, political expediency meets the voice of a generation who want to tear down the power structures that have ill-served a crumbling state. Darren Murphy's X'ntigone is a fresh and vital discourse for our times, when even truth has been sacrificed at the altar of political gain and avarice.

Not Now (Paperback): David Ireland Not Now (Paperback)
David Ireland
R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Matthew, I don't give a f*** who's Irish and who's not. I'm just thinking about what's best for your career. And that's how themmuns in London'll see you. Calling yourself British just embarrasses them. The morning after his father's funeral, an unsure and still grief-stricken Matthew prepares to fly to London to audition for the prestigious drama school, RADA. When his painter-decorator Uncle Ray interrupts his private rendition of Richard III's opening monologue to offer some unwanted direction and dubious career advice, Matthew starts to doubt whether he should really be leaving Belfast in the first place. First presented by A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor in May 2022. Not Now received its English premiere at the Finborough Theatre, London, in November 2022. Playwright David Ireland is the multi award-winning author of Cyprus Avenue.

If These Wigs Could Talk & Haunted (Paperback): Tara Flynn, Panti Bliss If These Wigs Could Talk & Haunted (Paperback)
Tara Flynn, Panti Bliss
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

THISISPOPBABY & The Abbey Theatre present If These Wigs Could Talk by Panti Bliss If These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and making a show of herself, taking this moment to question what her purpose and place in the world is now. Via salacious stories, impassioned polemics, some seriously funny soul searching and a few unvarnished truths, Panti takes us from rural Mayo to London's glittering West End ,to the Ambassador's residence in Vienna where, along the way, the answer to the question presents itself when she least expects it. Panti warmly invites you to learn from her mistakes, laugh at her failures and revel in her triumphs. Haunted by Tara Flynn What happens when you hit the floor and lose all of your marbles? Ask Tara Flynn: a fame-adjacent actor turned advocate for the campaign to Repeal Ireland's Eighth Amendment. The country voted Yes and the whirlwind of publicity and abuse came to an end, and crashing to the floor is where Tara found herself. Down there, she realised the whirlwind had conveniently kept her from dealing with the death of her dad. This is one woman's journey back from the floor. A funny, moving tale of grief, campaigning for civil rights, the offline impact of online abuse, crashing to the ground and fighting to tell your own story.

Anatomy of a Suicide (Paperback): Alice Birch Anatomy of a Suicide (Paperback)
Alice Birch
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner that borders on the choral ... Birch has provided a text that explores these ideas in a formally invigorating way." The Stage Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. A powerful, unflinching look at a family afflicted with severe depression and mental illness. Presented as a triptych of plays performed side by side, this groundbreaking play reverberates with audiences and readers. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features a brand new introduction by Ava Davies.

Orton Complete Plays - Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...... Orton Complete Plays - Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ... (Paperback, Reissue)
Joe Orton
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It includes his major successes: Entertaining Mr Sloane, which 'made more blood boil that any other British play in the last ten years' (The Times); Loot, 'a Freudian nightmare', which sports with superstitions about death - as well as life; his farce masterpiece, What the Butler Saw; The Erpingham Camp, his version of The Bacchae, set in a Butlin's holiday resort; together with his television plays, Funeral Games and The Good and Faithful Servant. The volume includes a revealing introduction by John Lahr, Orton's official biographer."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)

Hedda Gabler (Paperback, New edition): Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler (Paperback, New edition)
Henrik Ibsen
R118 R97 Discovery Miles 970 Save R21 (18%) In Stock

One of the most widely studied and performed works in the theatrical repertoire, this dark psychological drama, first produced in Norway in 1890, depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine. Readers will discover in the shocking events Hedda Gabler precipitates, a masterly exploration of the nature of evil and the potential for tragedy that lies in human frailty.

A Day in May (Paperback): Colin Murphy A Day in May (Paperback)
Colin Murphy
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

There's a million in the middle - and they might go either way. On May 22nd, 2015, the people of Ireland voted resoundingly for marriage equality - making Ireland the first country in the world to introduce gay marriage by popular vote. Little about Ireland's 20th-century history suggested that the country would find itself at the vanguard of LGBT+ rights. "Homosexual conduct may lead a mildly homosexually-orientated person into a way of life from which he may never recover," warned the Irish Supreme Court in 1982. Homosexuality remained criminalised till 1993. But a long, hard fight by determined activists, as well as the individual efforts and sacrifices of thousands of ordinary people, gradually made the case for gay rights and, eventually, marriage equality. Colin Murphy's documentary drama, based on interviews by the journalist Charlie Bird, charts the arc of that fight - culminating in the fervour of the final campaign weeks - interwoven with the personal stories of some of those who were touched by it. This edition was published to coincide with the presentation of A Day in May at Dublin's Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, in October 2022.

The Cripple of Inishmaan (Paperback): Martin McDonagh The Cripple of Inishmaan (Paperback)
Martin McDonagh; Volume editing by P.J. Matthews
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. As news of his audacity ripples through his rumour-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order. With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh fulfilled the promise of his award-winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan. This Student Edition, complete with plot summary and scholarly notes, is edited by Dr. P.J. Mathews of University College Dublin.

Small Change (Paperback): Peter Gill Small Change (Paperback)
Peter Gill
R208 R185 Discovery Miles 1 850 Save R23 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dreams of May (Paperback): Sue Guiney Dreams of May (Paperback)
Sue Guiney
R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback): Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
Carson McCullers
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless 12 year-old girl.

Dmitry (Paperback): Peter Oswald Dmitry (Paperback)
Peter Oswald
R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

My son is dead and sitting on the throne. 1605. Orthodox Russia stands alone, defiant against the Roman Catholic and Protestant West. The Kremlin has suppressed all opposition and keeps a ruthless grip on power with the support of the church and an appeal to nationalist sentiment. In Poland, a formidable young opponent appears: Dmitry. At his back a Polish army fuelled by fear of the Russian threat marches on Moscow. But is he who he thinks he is? An explosive new version of the great German writer Schiller's last, unfinished play - resurrected in the unique, pulsating dramatic verse of Peter Oswald, which premiered in the original production directed by Tim Supple. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Marylebone Theatre in London, in September 2022.

Cost of Living (Tcg Edition) (Paperback): Martyna Majok Cost of Living (Tcg Edition) (Paperback)
Martyna Majok
R414 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Plays of Isaac Bickerstaff - Volume III (Paperback): Peter Tasch The Plays of Isaac Bickerstaff - Volume III (Paperback)
Peter Tasch
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This compilation of Isaac Bickerstaff's plays was originally compiled and published in 1981, and the plays written in the 1760s-70s. Edited and with an introduction by Peter A. Tasch, the volume contains seven plays: The Captive; He Wou'd if He Cou'd; or, An Old Fool worse than Any; The Recruiting Serjeant; 'Tis Well it's no Worse; The Brickdust-Man and Milk-Maid; The Sultan, or A Peep into the Seraglio; and The Spoil'd Child.

A Critical Edition of I SIr John Oldcastle - The Renaissance Imagination (Paperback): Jonathan Rittenhouse A Critical Edition of I SIr John Oldcastle - The Renaissance Imagination (Paperback)
Jonathan Rittenhouse
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1984, this book contains the full text of I, Sir John Oldcastle, alongside critical and textual notes, including an examination of the authors and the theatrical background and assessment. For such an obscure play, I Sir John Oldcastle has had a varied printing history and has been printed eighteen times since its original 1600 publication date. The text here is a modern-spelling version and archaic forms are only presered where rhyme or metre requires them, or when modernization obscres rather than clarifies the required sense of the word.

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