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The Two Worlds of Charlie F. moves through the stages of service,
from the war in Afghanistan to dream-like states of
morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley
Court. All through the view of soldier Charlie Fowler's service,
injury and recovery. The play explores themes of physical and
psychological injury and its effects on soldiers as they fight for
survival. Drawn from the personal experience of the wounded,
injured and sick service personnel involved, The Two Worlds of
Charlie F. premiered at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, in
January 2012 and toured nationally that summer. It was revived for
an international tour in 2014. "Powerfully affecting - Gripping.
The authenticity of verbatim drama and the saltiness of
barracks-room humour with the finesse of something more lyrical." -
Telegraph "An evening of rare, raw power." - Independent
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Zameen
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Satinder Kaur Chohan
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In dusty, time-warped Indian villages, the last camels plough the
land, last charkhas spin and last handlooms weave. The global
'outside' pushes in via Western culture, technology, huge land and
agro-chemical contracts and the desire for a 'number 2' illegal
route abroad. Zameen (Land) is set in the cotton fields of Punjab,
India. Baba, an ageing Sikh cotton farmer, toils away in his
fields, struggling against the vagaries of nature and the modern
world. His dutiful daughter Chandni dreams of escaping her fate.
Her wastrel brother Dhani dreams of 'Amrika'. When the moneylender
Lal's son Suraj returns from the outside world, Chandni and Dhani
reflect on faded lives and aspirations and reach for 'phoren'
dreams. A final reckoning on Baba's land draws out truths, forcing
the family to the brink of collapse, in a world changing fast and
losing its values. Rooted in Punjabi farming and folk culture,
ancestral land and soil, Zameen was written before mass Indian
farmer protests against the increasing corporatisation of
agriculture, rising farmer suicides and decimation of small
farmers. Facing a climate change catastrophe, Zameen captures a
world in transition, as nature, tradition and globalisation
violently collide around small village lives - lives steeped in a
history of toil, struggle - and resilience.
Lotus Beauty follows the intertwined lives of five
multigenerational women, inviting us into Reita's salon where
clients can wax lyrical about their day's tiny successes or have
their struggles massaged, plucked or tweezed away. But with honest
truths and sharp-witted barbs high among the treatments on offer,
will the power of community be enough to raise the spirits of
everyone who passes through the salon doors?
After fifteen years of marriage, Daniel and Sylvia find themselves
drifting further apart with each passing day. Until one morning,
they find themselves abruptly united by every parent's worst
nightmare... The shoes have been polished, the vases are full and
the phone is ringing off the hook, but there's one thing they're
still missing...answers. Forced into a confrontation, years of
resentment and things long left unsaid rise to the surface as they
question the circumstances that brought them to this point, and
what happens to your relationship when the only thing holding you
together, threatens to tear you apart. A timely spotlight on love
and loss, Til Death Do Us Part is the debut play of Safaa
Benson-Effiom, and was a finalist in the 2020 Theatre503
International Playwriting Award and Soho Theatre's 2019 Tony Craze
award. Originally presented as a Theatre503 and Darcy Dobson
Productions co-production.
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a
conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life
and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Originally premiered in
Britain at the National Theatre, London, where it won the Evening
Standard Best Play Award, Tony Kushner's Angels in America went on
to win two Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This
volume contains both Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two:
Perestroika, plus 45 pages of bonus material including a new
introduction by the playwright, a full production history, deleted
scenes, and notes on staging. It was published alongside a new
production in 2017 at the National Theatre, London, directed by
Marianne Elliott and starring Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan
Lane, James McArdle and Russell Tovey.
Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter
to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge
and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his
wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the mantle of
avenging his father, continuing the bloodshed until peace is
ultimately found in the rule of law. Zinnie Harris reimagines this
ancient drama, using a contemporary sensibility to rework the
stories, placing the women in the centre. Orestes' leading role is
replaced by his sister Electra, who as a young child witnesses her
father's murder and is compelled to take justice into her own hands
until she too must flee the Furies.
Winner! The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020 For a long time I
didn't know how it'd work. Or what I'd be able to feel. People
would ask me if I could have sex and I'd feign shock and act wildly
offended whilst secretly wanting to grab them by the shoulders and
be like "I don't know, Janet!" Juno was born with spina bifida and
is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers,
love, loneliness - and the feeling of being an unfinished project.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020, Amy Trigg's
remarkable debut play Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me is a
hilarious, heart-warming tale about how shit our wonderful lives
can be.
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