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Incident at Vichy (Paperback): Arthur Miller Incident at Vichy (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Volume editing by Joshua Polster; Series edited by Susan Abbotson
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Jew is only the name we give to that stranger. Each man has his Jew; it is the other. And the Jews have their Jews. Arthur Miller's largely forgotten masterpiece, Incident at Vichy is a prescient examination of the evil that exists in us all, inspired by a real-life incident in France in which a Gentile gave a Jew his identity pass during a check, which would have resulted in the Jew otherwise being sent to a concentration camp. This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Joshua Polster, Emerson College, US, which investigate the politics of the play in the context of the African-American civil rights movement happening at the time; the Vietnam War; The House Committee on Un-American Activities; and the murder of Kitty Genovese, as well as exploring Miller's own relationships that were central to the play including with psychoanalyst Dr Rudolf Loewenstein, his wife Inge Morath and his friend Elia Kazan.

A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Paperback): Miranda Rose Hall A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Paperback)
Miranda Rose Hall
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An innovative one-woman show exploring what it means to be human in an era of ecological disaster.

August: Osage County (Paperback): Tracy Letts August: Osage County (Paperback)
Tracy Letts
R300 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R42 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people."--"Time Out New York"

"Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original."--"New York" magazine

One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent Broadway history, "August: Osage County" is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed. After its sold-out Chicago premiere, the play has electrified audiences in New York since its opening in November 2007.

Tracy Letts is the author of "Killer Joe," "Bug," and "Man from Nebraska," which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally. A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where "August: Osage County" premiered.

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital - The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in... Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital - The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in Midsummer; The King of Hell's Palace (Paperback)
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; Edited by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Christine Mok
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader) Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday people in contemporary China. This volume collects together the three plays in the series, including Cowhig's exploration of the human cost of development in China's socialist market economy (The World of Extreme Happiness), of justice and revenge amidst ecological and economic catastrophe (Snow in Midsummer), and the tale of the trade in blood that brought the AIDS crisis to rural China (The King of Hell's Palace). In addition to Cowhig's plays, the volume includes a host of supplemental materials including an editorial preface and three (previously published) brief essays responding to each play by the editor, Joshua Chambers-Letson; a new introduction by theatre/performance scholar and dramaturg Christine Mok that explores the key themes in Cowhig's body of work; a summary discussion between Cowhig, Chambers-Letson, and Mok, on Cowhig's process and the political and aesthetic currents animating her work. The World of Extreme Happiness: "Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical . . . Cowhig forces us down the long hard look path" (Independent) Snow in Midsummer: "Gripping and affecting... graceful and impassioned" (Times) The King of Hell's Palace: "A medical-scandal drama that we can't afford to ignore" (Telegraph)

Antigone and other Tragedies - Antigone, Deianeira, Electra (Paperback): Sophocles Antigone and other Tragedies - Antigone, Deianeira, Electra (Paperback)
Sophocles; Edited by Oliver Taplin
R160 R132 Discovery Miles 1 320 Save R28 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men or women. These three tragedies portray the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths into supreme works of poetry and dramatic action. Antigone's obsession with the dead, Creon's crushing inflexibility, Deianeira's jealous desperation, the injustice of the gods witnessed by Hyllus, Electra's obsessive vindictiveness, the threatening of insoluble dynastic contamination... Such are the pains and distortions and instabilities of Sophoclean tragedy. And yet they do not deteriorate into cacophony or disgust or incoherence or silence: they face the music, and through that the suffering is itself turned into the coherence of music and poetry. These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. Each play is accompanied by an introduction and substantial notes on topographical and mythical references and interpretation.

The Pitmen Painters (Paperback, Main): Lee Hall The Pitmen Painters (Paperback, Main)
Lee Hall
R298 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R38 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learned to become painters. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends, their work was taken for prestigious collections and they were celebrated throughout the British art world; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. The Pitmen Painters premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in September 2007, before transferring to the National Theatre in 2008.

Nothing But the Truth (Paperback, 2nd printing): John Kani Nothing But the Truth (Paperback, 2nd printing)
John Kani
R132 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R29 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"Nothing But the Truth" tells the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, of the perplexities of freedom.
"The past will always be a powerful presence in the present. We must never forget, but this does not mean that we must cling to the past, and wrap it around us, and live for it. We only look back in the past in order to have a better understanding of our present. This is one of the greatest lessons of "Nothing But the Truth.""--Zakes Mda
John Kani joined the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth in 1965, and helped create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception. These were followed by the more famous "Sizwe Bansi is Dead" and "The Island," co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s. "Nothing But the Truth" marks his debut as sole playwright.

Award Monologues for Men (Paperback, New edition): Patrick Tucker, Christine Ozanne Award Monologues for Men (Paperback, New edition)
Patrick Tucker, Christine Ozanne
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Award Monologues for Men is a collection of fifty monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. The book provides an excellent range of up-to-date audition pieces, usefully arranged in age groups, and is supplemented with audition tips to improve your acting, and to ensure you give your best possible performance.

Hymn (Paperback): Lolita Chakrabarti Hymn (Paperback)
Lolita Chakrabarti
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself (Miles Davis) Two men meet at a funeral. Gil knew the deceased. Benny did not. Before long their families are close. Soon they'll be singing the same tune. Benny is a loner anchored by his wife and children. Gil longs to fulfill his potential. They develop a deep bond but as cracks appear in their fragile lives they start to realise that true courage comes in different forms. Featuring music from Gil and Benny's lives, Lolita Chakrabarti's searching, soulful new play asks what it takes to be a good father, brother or son. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Almeida Theatre in February 2021.

Black Theatre USA - Plays by African Americans (Paperback, Enlarged edition): James Vernon Hatch, Ted Shine Black Theatre USA - Plays by African Americans (Paperback, Enlarged edition)
James Vernon Hatch, Ted Shine; Edited by James Vernon Hatch, Ted Shine, James V. Hatch
R883 R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Save R133 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996. This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selections

Prodigality in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover): Ezra Horbury Prodigality in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover)
Ezra Horbury
R2,276 Discovery Miles 22 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher. Why is it bad to spend too much money? In early modern England, the concept of prodigality governed all forms of financial excess and misuse, from gambling away your family estate to buying too much food. To be prodigal was not only to lack self-discipline but to be immorally excessive. Prodigals were foolish, reckless, and sinful, but their lives were also ones of excitement, lust, luxury, and intrigue. Ambivalently positioned between conservative financial ideals and increasingly popular economic indulgences, prodigals embodied a nation's anxieties about the advent of early capitalism. This book analyses the prodigal youth archetype in early modern drama, examining plays byShakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Randolph, Chapman, Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher, Davenport, Gascoigne, Heywood, as well as anonymous works and morality plays. The theatres, which were so often criticised for financial excess, became the perfect setting for the rebellious exploits of prodigal youths, and their rises and falls were dramatised with increasing glamorisation between 1500 and 1642. By discussing humanist education practices, Aristotelian ethics, urban change, cuckoldry, usury, and sex work, the author offers the first examination of prodigality and the ways in which England at first condemned, then tolerated, and then eventually came to celebrate excessive spending. EZRA HORBURY is Lecturer in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature at the University of York.

Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (German, Paperback): Bertolt Brecht Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (German, Paperback)
Bertolt Brecht
R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Labour of Love (Paperback): James Graham Labour of Love (Paperback)
James Graham
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop of the Labour Party over 25 years, as it moves from Kinnock through Blair into Corbyn... and beyond? This razor-sharp political comedy from James Graham was produced by Michael Grandage Company and Headlong and received its world Premiere at the Noel Coward Theatre in September 2017.

Tartuffe, By Molio?re (Paperback): Richard Wilbur Tartuffe, By Molio?re (Paperback)
Richard Wilbur
R361 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R70 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character, a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and gains complete ascendancy over Ogron, who not only attemps to turn over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to his "spiritual" guide. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Wilbur.

2:22 - A Ghost Story (Paperback): Danny Robins 2:22 - A Ghost Story (Paperback)
Danny Robins
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, ready to grab your feet.' Jenny and Sam - and their baby Phoebe - have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter's cot. Could the house be haunted? When their friends Lauren and Ben come round for a housewarming dinner, they drink wine, relive their pasts, and argue about the existence of ghosts. They decide to stay up until 2:22, to discover the truth. Over one adrenaline-filled night - as the foxes scream outside - secrets will emerge and ghosts may appear... Spine-chilling, funny and scary, Danny Robins' play 2:22 was premiered at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End in August 2021, directed by Matthew Dunster, and starring Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood. It went on to win Best New Play at the 2022 WhatsOnStage Awards, and was nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards. 2:22 provides rich opportunities for any drama group wanting to make things go bump in the night - and their audiences scream.

Driving Miss Daisy (Paperback): Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy (Paperback)
Alfred Uhry
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Critical Edition of Ferdinando Parkhurst's Ignoramus, The Academical-Lawyer (Hardcover): Fernando Parkhurst A Critical Edition of Ferdinando Parkhurst's Ignoramus, The Academical-Lawyer (Hardcover)
Fernando Parkhurst; Edited by E.F.J. Tucker
R5,300 R3,687 Discovery Miles 36 870 Save R1,613 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Published in 1987: The author translated the Ignoramous which is a Latin play into English.

Into the Woods (Paperback, 1st ed): Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine Into the Woods (Paperback, 1st ed)
Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
R420 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure."--William A. Henry III, "Time"

David Ireland Plays 1 - Half a Glass of Water; The End of Hope; Ulster American; Cyprus Avenue; Sadie (Paperback): David Ireland David Ireland Plays 1 - Half a Glass of Water; The End of Hope; Ulster American; Cyprus Avenue; Sadie (Paperback)
David Ireland
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Playwright David Ireland challenges people to draw lines between what they find funny and what they find outrageous' (Sydney Morning Herald) This first collection of plays by David Ireland brings together three of his most successful hits that have enjoyed numerous productions around the world alongside two previously unpublished plays: Half a Glass of Water: 'The dialogue is brutal and tender, horrific and humorous ... this is a tough, challenging work, undercut by Ireland's trademark black humour, which asks questions of what a successful post-conflict society looks like.' (Independent) The End of Hope: 'A freewheeling, majestically entertaining, all-too-brief hour that touches on everything from religion and identity to body dysmorphia' (Times) Cyprus Avenue: 'The most shocking play on the London stage ... a blackly comic examination of sectarian hatred - and a subversive drama that has never been more relevant' (Guardian) Ulster American: 'What a brave, savage writer David Ireland is! There are moments in this play that are so shockingly provocative, so laugh-out-loud funny while simultaneously curl-into-a-ball-and cringe-worrying that I found my mouth was actually open. He can't go there, I thought. And then he did.' (WhatsOnStage) Sadie: 'A fascinating account of one woman, her troubles and the Troubles.' (Irish News) David Ireland was Playwright-in-Residence at the Lyric Theatre Belfast 2011-12. He won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2016. He won the James Tait Black Prize Award for Cyprus Avenue.

Bent (Paperback): Martin Sherman Bent (Paperback)
Martin Sherman
R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Merthyr Stigmatist (NHB Modern Plays) (Paperback): Lisa Parry The Merthyr Stigmatist (NHB Modern Plays) (Paperback)
Lisa Parry
R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'I have caused what might soon be a global situation because you've stopped thinking people like me are worth hearing.' Is something incredible happening in Merthyr? Sixteen-year-old Carys claims to have received the stigmata: Christ's wounds from the Cross. Are her wounds a sign from God? Carys thinks so - she wants to tell the world and demands to be heard. Sian, her teacher, is not so sure, and believes silencing Carys will keep her safe. But can she make sense of what is happening to her student? Lisa Parry's play The Merthyr Stigmatist is a fierce and exhilarating exploration of faith and truth, a hymn to community, and a testament to the power of young people. The play was shortlisted for the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award, and first presented online in 2021, as a co-production between Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, and Theatre Uncut.

Routledge Revivals: Some Phases in the Life of Buddha (1915) - Taken from 'The Light of Asia' (Paperback): Edwin... Routledge Revivals: Some Phases in the Life of Buddha (1915) - Taken from 'The Light of Asia' (Paperback)
Edwin Arnold
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1915, this book presents a dramatization of part ofthe author's The Light of Asia. The original text represents one of the first successful attempts to popularise Buddhism and its founder Gautama Buddha - presenting his life, teachings and philosophy in verse poetry. This adaptation dramatizes part of the The Light of Asia and includes staging instructions, properties required, illustrative drawings of suggested costumes, and incidental music composed specifically for the piece. This book will be of interest to students of Indian and Buddhist literature - and how this has interacted with the West - as well as students of drama.

It's True, It's True, It's True (Paperback): Breach Theatre It's True, It's True, It's True (Paperback)
Breach Theatre
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this new play dramatises the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. It's True, It's True, It's True blends myth, history and contemporary commentary to tell the the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.

The Year of Magical Thinking - A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir (Paperback): Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking - A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir (Paperback)
Joan Didion; Introduction by David Hare
R296 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R17 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. The first production of 'The Year of Magical Thinking', starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare, was a runaway hit on Broadway in 2007. The same production is transferring to the National Theatre from April to July 2008.

Our Day Out (Paperback, Revised - Revised Edition): Willy Russell Our Day Out (Paperback, Revised - Revised Edition)
Willy Russell
R322 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. 'The skill and zest of the show ...derive from its success in following the adult argument through while preserving all the fun of a story mainly played by children ...I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.' The Times This edition contains the music to the play.

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