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South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid
democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust
together to reflect on a quarter-century of change. Jack Morris is a
celebrated classical actor who has just been given both a
career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Besides his age,
Jack has seemingly little in common with his at-home nurse Lunga
Kunene, but the two men soon discover their shared passion for
Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and shattering head-to-head’
(The Times).
Written by South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani, this
refreshingly funny and vital new play premiered in the Swan Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019, before transferring to the Ambassadors
Theatre in London. A co-production with the Fugard Theatre, it
was directed by Janice Honeyman with moving performances from Antony
Sher and John Kani.
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Athena
(Paperback)
Gracie Gardner
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R397
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Why Athena? I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and
all that. In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to
battle. Athena and Mary Wallace are training for the Junior
Olympics. They practice together. They compete against each other.
They spend their lives together. They wish they were friends. From
Award-winning playwright Gracie Gardner, following an acclaimed
extended run in New York, comes a fierce coming-of-age comedy where
two teenagers parry class, competition and power as they practice
fencing and life. But only one will win - en garde. This edition
was published to coincide with the UK premiere at The Yard in
London in October 2022.
The Editors of Irish Pages - Chris Agee, Cathal O Searcaigh,
Kathleen Jamie and Meg Bateman - have assembled a new issue of the
journal, entitled "The Anthropocene." It aims to evoke the
escalating global ecological crisis in the round, through many of
its key components, including climate change, deforestation, the
treatment of animals, oceanic pollution and over-fishing, the
melting of glaciers, extinctions, land-use, plastic pollution and
the waste crisis, the eco-vandalism of mining and the fashion
industry, the extermination of indigenous peoples and languages,
biodiversity and ecocide generally, and so on - and on. * A certain
amount of poetry and prose deals with humanity and human
consciousness more generally, in their historical, cultural,
psychological, artistic and religious dimensions. * There is also a
special section devoted to writing on the Pandemic. * As with other
issues, however, there is also work included that does not bear
explicitly on the theme of the issue.
The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections
and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American
Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The ninth edition
introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three
new-generation editors who have reenergised the volume across the
centuries. Fresh scholarship, new authors-with an emphasis on
contemporary writers-new topical clusters and a new ebook make the
Norton Anthology an even better teaching tool and an unmatched
value for students.
WORLD PREMIERE - October 5th 2011 at the Orange Tree Theatre,
RichmondGenre: Comedy. We all want to be happy. We all know what it
feels like. But what if it keeps slipping through our fingers? Paul
is a former happiness guru. As a young man he wrote self-help books
and appeared on the television as 'Mr Happy'. But now his marriage
has failed and his career as a serious novelist is faltering, while
his ex-wife has remarried a wealthy advertising executive to the
dismay of their troubled teenage daughter. Paul is now concerned
about the state of his health, the size of his mortgage and the
monthly payments on his iPhone. Mr Happy is not happy. But surely
if anyone can unlock the secret of perpetual happiness, he must be
the man?
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Pinocchio
(Paperback)
Colin Wakefield, Kate Edgar
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R296
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This brand new one-man comedy takes us on a journey to a stand-up
comedian's firstever public performance to fulfil a lifelong dream.
My Dog's Got No Nose is a thought-provoking insight into the world
of the comic.
In hierdie drama word die leser/gehoor gekonfronteer met die
gevolge van keuses waarmee bykans alle Suid-Afrikaners kan
identifiseer: kwessies soos emigrasie, die behoud van bande met die
geboorteland, nagevolge van die Angolese bosoorlog, moorde op
bejaardes en sosiale onsekerhede as gevolg van kriminele geweld.
Hiermee gee Opperman dramaties gestalte aan die gedagte dat die
persoonlike dikwels ’n politieke strekking het. Ook ander
verwysingsraamwerke tree na vore, waaronder die invloed van die
geskiedenis en die soeke na identiteit.
Die kortverhale in Maansiek verken 'n wye register: die Rooms-Katolieke geloof, charismatiese aanbidding, Afrika-mistiek, erotiek en moederskap, konflik tussen ras en geslag en sosiale status, spanning tussen die hede en die historiese, die sienlike en die onsienlike.
As basis vir sommige verhale dien 'n nugter koerantberig of tydskrifartikel uit vervloe dekades wat binne die verhaalkonteks tegelyk humoristies en ontstellend is.
Ander is gegrond op minder bekende aspekte van bekende figure of vertellings van onbekende vroue met uiteenlopende agtergronde.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the South African Council for
English Education, this collection brings together the work of
writers who either edited English Alive or were originally
published in English Alive. Now they are active writers - poets,
playwrights, novelists, print journalists, radio journalists, TV
scriptwriters. They have contributed from their work a variety of
pieces - truly a celebration of writing - that range from travel
writing in verse through eye-witness accounts and poems and
diary-entries and movie reviews to biographical and historical
investigation and writing for teens and for children. And each
writer offers a short reflection 'On Writing'. Some of South
Africa's foremost writers are joined here by new voices, and the
collection is graced by a gift contribution from South Africa's
first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer.
'Bracingly original' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian From Romney Marsh to
the Danube Delta, North Carolina to the Bay of Bengal, Tom Blass
explores swamps, marshes and wetlands - and the people who have
made these twilit worlds their homes. Oozing with bad airs,
boggarts and other spirits, the world's marshes and swamps are
often seen as sinister, permanently twilit - and only partly of
this earth. For centuries, they - and their inhabitants - have been
the object of our distrust. We have tried to drain away their
demons and tame them, destroying their fragile beauty, botany and
birdlife, along with the carefully calibrated lives of those who
have come to understand and thrive in them. In Swamp Songs, Tom
Blass journeys through a series of such watery landscapes, from
Romney Marsh to North Carolina, from Lapland to the Danube Delta
and on to the Bay of Bengal, encountering those whose very
existence has been shaped by wetlands, their myths and hidden
histories. Here are tales of shepherds, smugglers and
salt-gatherers; of mangroves and machismo, frogs and fishermen. And
of carp soup, tiger gods, flamingos and floods. A dazzling
exploration of lives lived on the fringes of civilisation, Swamp
Songs is a vital reappraisal and vibrant celebration of people and
environments closely intertwined.
Hypothermia is set in 1940, in a German hospital for hereditary and
incurable diseases. A doctor (Erich) and his assistant (Lisa)
discover their patients, who had been sent on to other doctors for
further treatment, had really been the victims of the testing of
various torture (and often death) methods. It poses the question
'now that you know, what will you do?'
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From
us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through
defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow Than fate would
have them bear.' Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The
Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It
takes its starting point ten years after the fall of the city of
Troy and follows its Greek warrior hero Odysseus as he tries to
journey to his home of Ithaca in northwest Greece after the Greek
victory over the Trojans. On his travels, Odysseus comes across
surreal islands and foreign lands where he is in turn challenged
and supported by those that he meets on his travels as he attempts
to find his way back home in order to vanquish those who threaten
his estate. In turn, his son Telemachus has to grow up quickly as
he attempts to find his father and protect his mother from her
suitors. Dealing with the universal themes of temptation and
courage, the epic journey that Odysseus undertakes is as meaningful
today as it was almost 3,000 years ago when the story was composed.
Jopie: Jurist, Mentor, Supervisor and Friend - Essays on the Law of
Banking, Companies and Suretyship is published in honour of
Professor Jopie Pretorius, who will be retiring from his chair in
banking law at UNISA at the end of 2017. The collection comprises
personal tributes by family members, friends and colleagues, and
academic essays that deal with banking law, company law and
suretyship.
Henry Normal's Collected Poems, Volume Two includes all of the
poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and
Swallowing the Entire Ocean. The poems in This Phantom Breath are
concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient
distractions. The Department of Lost Wishes contains more than one
hundred poems selected by the author from his early works. The
poems in Swallowing the Entire Ocean are concerned with the search
for meaning and identity, and other foolhardy adventures.
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Macbeth
(Paperback)
William Shakespeare
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R95
R76
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my
black and deep desires.' One of Shakespeare's darkest and most
violent tragedies, Macbeth's struggle between his own ambition and
his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he
kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of
three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.
A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and
are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales
in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of
Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on
the age-old subject of love in its many and varied forms. Featuring
twelve pieces dating from the fourteenth century to the present,
this absorbing collection deliberately veers far from cliched
verses with its poems of regret and of mourning; straight love and
gay love; bawdy verses of passion and desire, and gentle
meditations on motherhood and marriage. It features anonymous and
lesser-known writers as well as household names such as Gillian
Clarke and R. S. Thomas, and it includes a previously unpublished
poem by Emyr Humphreys. With original illustrations by Ruth Jen
Evans throughout, this short but powerful collection will appeal to
anyone interested in people and their complex relationships.
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