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Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots
to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough,
they'll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play
about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat
of it all.
Although not much is known about the three Stuart plays in this
edition, which was first published in 1987, we can ascribe them to
one of the English universities, and each is indicative of a
distinctly different influence on the Renaissance academic drama.
Heteroclitanomalonomia is part of a minor subgenre referred to as
the academic play. It demonstrates the predominance of language or
rhetoric studies in the period and its very subject is of purely
academic interest. Gigantomachia displays the continuing interest
of the Renaissance in classical mythology. And A Christmas Messe
follows a more homely tradition, a farcical personification of the
mundane. This title will be of interest to students of English
Literature, Drama and Performance.
The first multi-author international anthology of Eastern
European plays to deal with the fall of Communism. Includes:
"Portrait" by Slawomir Mrozek (Poland); "Chickenhead" by Gyorgy
Spiro (Hungary); "Military Secret" by Dusan Jovanovic (Slovenia);
"Horses at the Window" by Matei Visniec (Romania); and "Sorrow,
Sorrow, Fear, the Rope, and the Pit "by Karel Steigerwald
(Czechoslovakia).
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Paradise
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'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.'
New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island:
the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years,
he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears with tales
of Philoctetes' past glories. But with hope comes suspicion - and,
as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an even greater
temptation: revenge. Kae Tempest is now widely acknowledged as a
revolutionary force in contemporary British poetry, music and
drama; they continue to expand the range of their work with a new
version of Sophocles' Philoctetes in a bold new translation. Like
Brand New Ancients before it, Paradise shows Tempest's gift for
lending the old tales an immediate contemporary relevance - and
will find this timeless story a wide new audience.
Do you think it would be better if you and me got ourselves steady
boyfriends? Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married
Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and
offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling each of them
think they control. Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical play,
written for the Royal Court Theatre in 1982 when she was just 19,
is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an
unpromising future, both hungry for adult adventure. Told with
wicked humour, startling insight and a great ear for dialogue, this
new edition of Rita Sue and Bob Too was published to coincide with
director Max Stafford-Clark's major new production produced by Out
of Joint, Bolton Octagon and the Royal Court Theatre.
This collection brings together three international and
contemporary plays that each denounce violence against women,
alongside interviews with the creators and practitioners who
brought them to life. With interviews with writers, directors and
producers, who discuss the conception and staging of their plays,
their hope is to de-glamourize the staging of violence, to give
voice to the survivors of gendered violence, and to create
awareness and empathy within the audiences. Little Stitches
(London, 2014): four short pieces by Isley Lynn, Raul Quiros Molina
, Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall on the issue of Female Genital
Mutilation as seen from the point of view of by-standers, health
professionals, women who support the practice and, finally,
survivors. 'Kubra' (Sydney, 2016) by Dacia Maraini, features a
young female protagonist who was subjected to FGM/C as a child, and
now brings her case to court. Rape Trial (Rome, 2018), adapted for
theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award-winning
documentary of the same title made for Italian state television in
1979, shows how attitudes toward sexual violence, and judicial
procedures, tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused,
in court and in everyday discourse.
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Jerry Angelo, Kate Angelo
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Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and
screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together
her landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from
2003 to 2019. Beginning with her George Devine Award-winning play
The Sugar Syndrome it continues through her explosive look at the
biggest financial scandal in history, concluding with her pointed
dramatization of the one of the most shocking news stories of the
2010s. The Sugar Syndrome (2003) Dani is on a mission. She's just
17, hates her parents, skives college and prefers life in the
chatrooms. What she's looking for is someone honest and direct.
Instead she finds Tim, a man twice her age, who thinks she is 11
and a boy. What seems at first to be a case of crossed wires, ends
up as an unlikely, and unsettling friendship between the two, which
culminates in a shocking, and morally challenging revelation. Enron
(2009) One of the most infamous scandals in financial history
became a theatrical epic in Enron, a dazzling exposition of the
shadowy mechanisms of economic deceit. Mixing classical tragedy
with savage comedy and surreal metaphor, Enron follows a group of
flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews
the tumultuous 1990s, and the financial chaos which has spilled
over into the new century. The Effect (2012) a clinical romance.
Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a
clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of
attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw
the trial off course, much to the frustration of the clinicians
involved. A Very Expensive Poison (2019) A shocking assassination
in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global
politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At
this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very
Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of
international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.
"Ireland's play slyly makes the case that it is not discrimination
that ensures survival ... but rather the ability to be two opposing
things at once: Irish and British, politician and terrorist, even
comedy and tragedy. If tragicomedy is the natural Irish form,
Ireland makes his own inversion here, beginning with amused
splutters, ending in hard gulps" The Irish Times Eric Miller is a
Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is
Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past
and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore, but his
cultural heritage is under siege. He must act. David Ireland's
black comedy takes one man's identity crisis to the limits as he
uncovers the modern day complexity of Ulster Loyalism. Cyprus
Avenue premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 2016, before
transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, The MAC in Belfast and The
Public Theater in New York. It won Best New Play at the Irish Times
Theatre Awards and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama, 2017. This
edition features a new introduction by Professor Ondrej Pilny.
Winner! 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play Winner! 2013 Drama
Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre Winner!
2013 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding New York Theatre Nominee! 2013
Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee! 2013
Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Nominee! 2013 John Gassner Award, Oustanding New American Play On
the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six hundred pound recluse
hides aw
A new, revised edition for the London transfer of Mike Poulton's
expertly adapted two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's hugely
acclaimed novels, featuring a substantial set of character notes by
Hilary Mantel. Mike Poulton's 'expertly adapted' (Evening Standard)
two-part ad adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf
Hall and Bring Up the Bodies is a 'gripping piece of narrative
theatre ... history made manifest' (Guardian). The plays were
premiered to great acclaim by the Royal Shakespeare Company in
Stratford-upon-Avon in 2013, before transferring to the Aldwych
Theatre in London's West End in May 2014. Wolf Hall begins in
England in 1527. Henry has been King for almost twenty years and is
desperate for a male heir; but Cardinal Wolsey is unable to deliver
the divorce he craves. Yet for a man with the right talents this
crisis could be an opportunity. Thomas Cromwell is a commoner who
has risen in Wolsey's household - and he will stop at nothing to
secure the King's desires and advance his own ambitions. In Bring
Up the Bodies, the volatile Anne Boleyn is now Queen, her career
seemingly entwined with that of Cromwell. But when the King begins
to fall in love with self-effacing Jane Seymour, the ever-pragmatic
Cromwell must negotiate within an increasingly perilous Court to
satisfy Henry, defend the nation and, above all, to secure his own
rise in the world. Hilary Mantel's novels are the most formidable
literary achievements of recent times, both recipients of the Man
Booker Prize. This volume contains both plays and a substantial set
of notes by Hilary Mantel on each of the principal characters,
offering a unique insight into the adaptations and an invaluable
resource to any theatre companies wishing to stage them.
This is a story of a country town family and old Uncle Worru, who,
in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and
language of the Nyoongah spirit which in him has survived
'civilisation' (2 acts, 5 men, 2 boys, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 male
dancer).
This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy
features an Introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and
Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes
further distinguish this edition of a play famous for its
caricature of Socrates and of the "new learning."
The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet
Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits. From the writing
partnership behind A Little Night Music. Victim of a gross
injustice that robbed him of his wife and child, Sweeney Todd sets
about exacting a terrible revenge on society: slitting the throats
of the customers who visit his barbershop. But things are getting
complicated - a romance has developed with Mrs Lovett, the lady who
runs the pie shop next door, and the disappearances are starting to
cause concern. With the bodies piling up, Sweeney Todd hits upon a
novel idea, and starts passing on his 'patrons' to his homely
neighbour... Meat pie, anyone? Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's
musical Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End
in 1980. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award
for Best New Musical. It has since had numerous revivals as well as
a film adaptation.
A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and
for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and
edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear
Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty original audition
monologues, expressly created by a range of award-winning writers
brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre
Company. They're ideal for actors of colour searching for speeches
for auditions or training, writers, teachers, and theatre-makers
who are passionate about improving diversity. The book provides
varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing
material available - from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black
Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a
country music star, or the young Black boy who loves baking as much
as football - Hear Me Now is an essential tool for actors of colour
to showcase their range, and seeks to inspire, empower, and create
a legacy for generations to come.
Poppie is based in the ground-breaking 1978 novel by Elsa Joubert,
Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, and was adapted for stage by
Sandra Kotze. This story follows the trials and tribulations of
Poppie, a black woman living in apartheid South Africa and her
search for a better future for her children. Poppie is die storie
van 'n swart vrou wat in die jare van apartheid met 'n man van die
land getroud was. Soos met Joubert se reisbeskrywings, is hierdie
drama 'n reis in vele opsigte - enersyds Poppie se lang swerftog op
soek na standvastigheid en 'n veilige toekoms vir haar kinders,
andersyds 'n reis van twee verwyderde kulture na mekaar toe, maar
uiteindelik die reis na die hart van 'n medemens.
The plays in this theater book give teenage performers the chance
to reveal the unique identities and motivations of students their
own age. These brief plays may be used for speech and drama
classrooms, forensic competitions or variety shows. They are easily
staged with no sets or costumes. Topics include: how to be popular,
jealousy, shoplifting, pranks and more. Included are scripts for
girls only, scripts for boys only and scripts for mixed casts. The
dialog in all the plays is believable and easy to perform.
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