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Timing
(Paperback)
Alistair McGowan
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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Impressionist Alistair McGowan debuts his first play Timing at the
Kings Head Theatre starting from the 30th September, starring Dean
Gaffney (Robbie from Eastenders) and regular theatre star Edward
Baker-Duly. It seems that McGowan, famed by his sketch show Big
Impression on the BBC has decided to return to the theatre after
his work in Cabaret (Lyric Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (New
Ambassadors Theatre) and The Mikado (Gielgud Theatre) but this time
as a playwright. Teaming up with director Tamara Harvey, Timing is
all about a young guy called Julian Mann (Baker-Duly) who sets off
to work one morning only to find his ex-girlfriend of 5 years is at
his workplace, but the complication arises in that they have not
spoken since the break-up in which she broke his heart. It is set
to go on until 8th November, and if McGowan's previous work is
anything to go by it should be a comic hit. It should also be
interesting to see how the comedian tackles more serious topics as
well. --Review from spoonfed.co.uk
The Frank Daniels Trio were a singing, dancing, comedy sensation. A
Wow Top of the Bill Socko Frank, the manager, was always on the
left. Tony, the comedy man, was always on the right. Both men
adored the girl in the middle - the beautiful Sarah. The perfect
recipe for an entangled triangle. Sarah yearned for the more
exciting Tony to declare his love, but it was the stable Frank who
made the first move. She accepted. And so they married and lived
happily - well, almost - ever after. That was in the 60's. Music
changed. Styles changed. The trio disbanded. Sarah often thought
about Tony. Tony wondered about Sarah. And when, years later, the
three friends re-unite, memories and yearnings return - this time
offering a second chance for true happiness. Will they dare to take
it? With stand-up comedy and 'grumpy old men', this emotional
roller coaster of a play will confirm the old adage that 'truth
will out'.
The play examines the idea that Winston Churchill had advance
warning of the attack on Coventry. Was Coventry sacrificed for the
greater good? Or to provoke and hasten America's entry into the
war?
In her early twenties, university-educated Bex took over her
mother's hairdressing salon rather than begin a teaching career.
Now Bex is approaching 40 and her salon is under fierce competition
from a newcomer across the road, precipitating a crisis with Heidi,
her friend who works for her. Her husband Max has planned a
surprise 40th birthday party for her, though it's not much of a
surprise and in fact rather unwelcome. As the two women attend to
their clients, I Want That Hair looks without flinching at what
turning 40 can mean to someone who has never really been anywhere
in their life, and is just beginning to realise that they probably
never will.
These seven short plays by various authors, originally commissioned
and produced by the Tricycle Theatre London, explore the nature of
the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Coram Boy
(Paperback)
Jamila Gavin
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R220
R176
Discovery Miles 1 760
Save R44 (20%)
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The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating
work of historical fiction for children. The Coram man takes babies
and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely
to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and
buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally
ill son, Mish. Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware
of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron's
new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish
makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby
back into the hands of the Coram man. It tells the story of a dark
time in English history. Fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and
Goodnight Mr Tom will love this. A great read for children aged
10+. Look out for Jamilla's other titles: The Eye of the Horse The
Robber Baron's Daughter The Track of the Wind Wheel of Surya Coram
Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, was
shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has been adapted into a
highly acclaimed stage play. Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie,
India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and
an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side
by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she
belonged to both countries. The family finally settled in England
where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked
for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that
she began writing children's books, and felt a need to reflect the
multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.
This provocative new comedy is about a group of desperate souls who
come together in pursuit of a shared dream. It's set in the
'wannabe culture', where everything is possible as long as you want
it hard enough, and are willing to pay the price. Natasha is an
actress but her latest role is going way too far for her boyfriend
Ben. Guru theatre director Gavin is pushing the limits - but
despite his reputation as an enfant terrible, he isn't at all what
he seems. Fellow actor Danny has a sexual appetite liable to land
him in big trouble, while the producer Danielle is worried about
the outrage Gavin's production is sure to cause. And Writer Hannah
has a story to tell, but does it still ring true? Bad Jazz is a
gratuitous farce that exploits and satirises modern theatre, asking
the question, 'how far are you prepared to go?'
Charles J. Fourie se Vrededorp handel oor die geboorte van die Nuwe
Suid-Afrika in 1990 en 1994. Dit is egter nie net 'n poltieke drama
nie. Die oortuigende en diepgaande karakteruitbeelding sorg dat dit
'n algemeen menslike trefkrag het. Die drama bestaan onder meer uit
'n toneelstuk binne 'n toneelstuk. Samuel Beckett se Waiting for
Godot word deur drie van die karakters opgevoer. Die absurde
situasie van Beckett se stuk kry 'n besondere sinvolheid in Fourie
se verwerking daarvan. Die stuk eindig met 'n fiktiewe, gespeelde
vooruitflits na 2004. Dit plaas die voorafgaande gebeure in 'n
nuwe, skrynende perspektief. Vrededorp is bekroon met die 2005 KKNK
/ Nagtegaal toekenning vir Beste Nuwe Drama. Kobus Burger, Beeld se
teaterresensent, het van die stuk gese: "Fourie vermeng die
persoonlike, sosiale, politieke en maatskaplike meesterlik in 'n
verhoogwerk wat 'n mens diep raak."
Heard the one about the Englishman, the Scotsman and the Irishman?
This biting topical comedy pokes a finger at ideas of national
identity, class and Britain's role in the modern world. Set in a
once-grand country manor house now converted into a language school
teaching English to foreign students, Queens English looks at the
peculiarities and the stereotypes of the English, Welsh, Irish,
Scottish and American cultures. The American, a brash New Yorker
named Ruby, has recently won the school in a poker game, and now
has big plans - including a surprise visit from a Royal guest. But
first she has to try and gain control over the four teachers and
their different backgrounds as tempers flare while personal and
national grudges are brought out into the open, threatening to
upstage HRH's imminent visit.
Drie hopies grond van drie grafte en die drie mense aan wie die
grafte behoort: Vytjie, Basjan en Gulu. Elkeen moet vertel hoe hy
of sy aan sy dood gekom het. Trien is die sameroeper van hierdie
byeenkoms na die dood. Sy behartig die post mortem. Hoe het dit
gebeur dat haar man, haar huiswerker en plaaswerker dood is? In
hierdie drama deur Pieter Fourie moet Basjan, Vytjie en Gulu aan
Trien vertel en demonstreer wat gelei het tot hul dood. Dit word
duidelik dat Trien se pienk pilletjies haar blind gemaak het vir
die dinge wat rondom haar gebeur ...
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Unprotected
(Paperback)
Esther Wilson, John Fay, Tony Green, Lizzie Nunnery
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Liverpool Playhouse and Everyman theatres present Unprotected, the
world premiere of a new play tackling the contentious issue of
Liverpool's plans for a managed zone for street sex workers. This
hard-hitting docu-drama, written by four Liverpool playwrights,
Esther Wilson, John Fay, Tony Green and Lizzie Nunnery, who spent
many months researching all viewpoints in what has now become a
national debate for inner cities, allows the real people involved
to speak for themselves. Directed by Nina Raine with a cast
including Pauline Daniels, and Neil Caple, Unprotected is on at the
Everyman from 10 March-1 April 2006."
It was a brave man who would cross the Devon moorlands in darkness.
For the ancient legend of the hound of the Baskervilles had
persisted in family history for generations. It was Sir Charles's
mysterious death in the grounds of Baskerville Hall that brought
Sherlock Holmes to the scene.
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