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Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be
beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from
school. There's one big difference though - Susie is dead. Now she
can only observe while her family manage their grief in their
different ways. Her father, Jack is obsessed with identifying the
killer. Her mother, Abigail is desperate to create a different life
for herself. And her sister, Lindsay is discovering the opposite
sex with experiences that Susie will never know. Susie is desperate
to help them and there might be a way of reaching them... Alice
Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that
captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning
playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play
about life after loss.
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.
The Samarites by Petrus Papeus offers an effective blending of
gospel narrative and ancient Roman comedy, combining manner of
Plautus and Terence with the didacticism of medieval allegory and
morality plays and the poetic diction of Renaissance humanism. In
the Samarites they are the ingredients that present both moral and
doctrinal teachings related to the gospel parables of the Prodigal
Son and Good Samaritan. Papeus' work is an excellent example not
only of the early modern school play, but also of the shifting
conceptions of drama in Europe at that time. Daniel Nodes presents
a critical edition and translation of the play together with a
humanist commentary produced in Toledo by Alexius Vanegas three
years after the play's first printing in Antwerp.
TC's life is a busy one, filled with the physical demands of her
job as a mail carrier and her dreams to play basketball, not to
mention the demands of her convoluted love life. Her girlfriend,
Samantha, is one beautiful and powerful woman--and a cop. Jealousy
seems to be the unavoidable side effect of their open relationship,
and though they each have a lover on the side, each fears loss and
heartbreak. Are any of them meant to be together? Is Samantha "the
one" for TC--or is her true love still out there somewhere?Jay,
TC's best friend, supports her, but he has his own issues. A jock
and a player, Jay considers himself a real ladies' man, but on the
day he meets Carly, everything he thinks he knows about himself is
called into question. Carly has only recently started living her
life as a woman, and she's got to balance her natural attraction to
Jay with her fear that he will reject her when he learns the truth.
As Jay does his best to give TC advice on her own love life, he's
got some big decisions to make himself. Is Carly his destiny? Is he
hers?Things may not always go as planned, but that's the beauty of
life and relationships--and this is especially true in The Million
Dollar Story.
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Spike
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Ian Hislop, Nick Newman
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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It's 1950s austerity Britain, and out of the gloom comes Goon mania
as men, women and children across the country scramble to get their
ear to a wireless for another instalment of The Goon Show. While
Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers get down to the serious business of
becoming overnight celebrities, fellow Goon and chief writer Spike
nds himself pushing the boundaries of comedy, and testing the
patience of the BBC. Flanked by his fellow Goons and bolstered by
the e orts of irrepressible sound assistant Janet, Spike takes a
ourishing nosedive o the cli s of respectability, and mashes up his
haunted past to create the comedy of the future. His war with
Hitler may be over, but his war with Auntie Beeb - and ultimately
himself - has just begun. Will Spike's dogged obsession with nding
the funny elevate The Goons to soaring new heights, or will the
whole thing come crashing down with the stroke of a potato peeler?
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Proof
(Paperback)
David Auburn
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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Catherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable
father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with:
there's her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of
her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks
that Robert left behind. And a further problem: how much of her
father's madness - or genius - will Catherine inherit? Gwyneth
Paltrow starred in this Pultizer Prize-winning play which opened at
the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.
The love between a mother and daughter turns to jealousy and
bitterness in this intense and personal drama. Ann Prentice falls
in love with Richard Caulfield and hopes for a new life and
happiness. Only her daughter, Sarah, takes an instant, jealous
dislike to him. Resentment slowly corrodes their relationship as
each seeks comfort in the formidable and knowing Dame Laura
Whitstable who remarks, "The trouble with sacrifice is that once
it's made it's not over and done with." "Christie is beady-eyed and
brutally honest on the psychology of the motherdaughter
relationship." THE GUARDIAN "The play is a revelation and its
emotional intensity is at variance with most of her crime plays.
This is Christie writing with her heart rather than her head. She
is not concerned with clues and suspects and alibis but with human
dilemmas and life choices." THE GUARDIAN
Sir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned
womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a
serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one act thriller
that's contains one of Christie's most gruesome murders.
A small cast, short version of an intimate psychological thriller
taken from Philomel Cottage. Enid rejects her fiance for newcomer
Gerald and moves to a remote country cottage with him - where a
dark and terrible climax takes place.
In The Wasp's Nest, Hercule Poirot's come between a bitter triangle
of lovers to prevent a sinister murder before it takes place. In
Yellow Iris, a distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings
Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a man
commemorates the four-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death -
a death under very suspicious circumstances that Poirot himself
witnessed. Gathered is everyone present on that fateful night and
now Poirot must and a killer in the midst, before they strike
again.
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