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Dance Nation (Paperback): Clare Barron Dance Nation (Paperback)
Clare Barron
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Stuart Academic Drama - An Edition of Three University Plays (Paperback): David L. Russell Stuart Academic Drama - An Edition of Three University Plays (Paperback)
David L. Russell
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Playwrights Before the Fall - Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution (Paperback): Daniel Gerould Playwrights Before the Fall - Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution (Paperback)
Daniel Gerould
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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).

Paradise (Paperback): Kae Tempest Paradise (Paperback)
Kae Tempest
R250 R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Save R52 (21%) Ships in 3 - 5 working days

'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.

Bouncers (1990's Remix) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): John Godber, Jane Thornton Bouncers (1990's Remix) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
John Godber, Jane Thornton
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Paperback): Andrea Dunbar Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Paperback)
Andrea Dunbar
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Life and Times of Young Bob Scallion (Paperback): Mick Martin The Life and Times of Young Bob Scallion (Paperback)
Mick Martin
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Staging Violence Against Women and Girls - Plays and Interviews (Paperback): Isley Lynn, Raul Quiros Molina, Bahar Brunton,... Staging Violence Against Women and Girls - Plays and Interviews (Paperback)
Isley Lynn, Raul Quiros Molina, Bahar Brunton, Karis E. Halsall, Dacia Maraini, …
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Forsaken (Paperback): Jerry Angelo, Kate Angelo Forsaken (Paperback)
Jerry Angelo, Kate Angelo
R323 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R52 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Revenge (Paperback): Robin Hawdon Revenge (Paperback)
Robin Hawdon
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lucy Prebble Plays 1 - The Sugar Syndrome; Enron; The Effect; A Very Expensive Poison (Paperback): Lucy Prebble Lucy Prebble Plays 1 - The Sugar Syndrome; Enron; The Effect; A Very Expensive Poison (Paperback)
Lucy Prebble
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Cyprus Avenue (Paperback): David Ireland Cyprus Avenue (Paperback)
David Ireland
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"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.

The Whale (Paperback): Samuel D Hunter The Whale (Paperback)
Samuel D Hunter
R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - Rsc Stage Adaptation - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed): Hilary Mantel, Mike Poulton Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - Rsc Stage Adaptation - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Hilary Mantel, Mike Poulton
R341 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R71 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Dreamers (Paperback): Jack Davis The Dreamers (Paperback)
Jack Davis
R498 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R142 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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).

Penny Blue (Paperback): Vanessa Brooks Penny Blue (Paperback)
Vanessa Brooks
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Pig's Ear (Paperback): Andrew Cullen Pig's Ear (Paperback)
Andrew Cullen
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Clouds (Paperback, New Ed): Aristophanes Clouds (Paperback, New Ed)
Aristophanes
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Sweeney Todd (Paperback, New edition): Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler Sweeney Todd (Paperback, New edition)
Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler
R392 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R84 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour (Paperback): Titilola Dawudu Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour (Paperback)
Titilola Dawudu; Foreword by Noma Dumezweni
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

desert, 6:29pm (Paperback): Morgan Rose desert, 6:29pm (Paperback)
Morgan Rose
R396 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R46 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Poppie - Die drama (Afrikaans, Paperback): Elsa Joubert, Sandra Kotze Poppie - Die drama (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Elsa Joubert, Sandra Kotze
R286 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

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.

Jack and the Beanstalk - Pantomime (Paperback): Chris Harris, Chris Denys Jack and the Beanstalk - Pantomime (Paperback)
Chris Harris, Chris Denys
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ten-Minute Plays for Middle School Performers - Plays for a Variety of Cast Sizes (Paperback): Rebecca Young Ten-Minute Plays for Middle School Performers - Plays for a Variety of Cast Sizes (Paperback)
Rebecca Young
R479 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R87 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Let's Pretend (Paperback): Vanessa Brooks Let's Pretend (Paperback)
Vanessa Brooks
R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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