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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the
fortunes of two teenagers on the run. Silent Leila is an
introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag
Lee Macalinden is the deadest of dead-end kids in a dead-end town.
They never meant to get mixed up in a murder... but now they need a
place to hide. Yellow Moon explores what it means to live in a
celebrity-obsessed world and what it is that defines who you are
when you're 17 years old. The play premiered at the Circle Studio
of Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, in September 2006, and won the 2008
Brain Way Award for Best Play for Young People.
What happens when a Rangers fan and Celtic fan are locked in a
prison cell together on the day of an Old Firm Match? It is through
Billy and Tim that Des Dillon explores sectarianism, bigotry, how
it becomes part of one's identity and is inculcated by family and
society. However, the book is not limited to Scotland but refers to
every peace process in the world, where common ground and a shared
humanity is found through responding to the needs of others. Now it
is up to these two fans to start their personal peace process to
find some common ground to slowly let go of their bigotry.
Die drama speel af in die Karoodorpie Willowmore. Die rol van die kerk, verkragting, verlies en familie is van die temas wat aangeraak word.
Lekas kyk na 'n kind se weerloosheid en na die familie se verantwoordelikheid om na haar om te sien. Die watermeid (waternimf of meermin) is die mitiese figuur wat tot die dorpie se redding moet kom en drie kinders in die stuk hoop sy sal hulle kom red.
Dit raak egter gekompliseerd wanneer die skuldige persoon 'n belangrike figuur in die gemeenskap is - die dominee.
A sinister night. Evil and edge in the air. What are they
celebrating? Clytemnestra's world is torn apart when Agamemnon
sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war. Ten years later, the
couple are reunited. What follows is a dangerous battle fuelled by
love, grief and power. Marina Carr's adaptation of the infamous
Greek myth brings Clytemnestra's story to the fore and asks if it
is possible to forgive the unforgivable. He turns to me in hall one
evening, wine on him, sentimental. There is nothing I would not do
to have your good opinion again, he says. Girl on an Altar opened
at the Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2022.
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley’s ‘time’plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war.
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