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The BFG (DVD)
Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Bill Hader, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, …
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R55
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Steven Spielberg directs this adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel
starring Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant. The film follows
Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) as she is whisked away from her orphanage by
the BFG and taken to Giant Country where she is immediately at risk
of being eaten by the other, larger giants, including
Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement) and Bloodbottler (Bill Hader).
Together, Sophie and the BFG go on an adventure to Dream Country
where they capture dreams for the BFG to give to all of the human
world's sleeping children. After coming up with a cunning plan, the
pair head back to London to see if the Queen (Penelope Wilton) can
help them tackle the problem of the bullying, child-eating giants.
For nearly three centuries, actors have set down in print their
reflections on the experience of performing Shakespeare's plays,
resulting in a vast, heterogeneous and - remarkably - almost
entirely unexamined body of material. Merely Players? brings
together the diverse voices of actors writing about their
experiences of playing Shakespeare, exploring the ways in which
they discuss their embodiment with the performance and their own
particular negotiations with the authority and tradition of the
Shakespeare name. It should be useful for scholars of Shakespeare,
drama and theatre studies, practitioners and theatre-lovers alike.
Merely Players? marks a groundbreaking departure in Shakespeare
studies by giving direct voice to the Shakespearean performer. It
draws on three centuries worth of actors' written reflections on
playing Shakespeare and brings together the dual worlds of
performance and academia, providing a unique resource for the
student and theatre-lover alike.
Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and
freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic
conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual
climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable
isotope geochemistry of their shells. As methods of using ostracods
as Quaternary palaeoclimate proxies have developed, so too has a
critical awareness of their complexities, potential and
limitations. This book combines up-to-date reviews (covering
previous work and summarising the state of the art) with
presentations of new, cutting-edge science (data and
interpretations as well as methodological developments) to form a
major reference work that will constitute a durable bench-mark in
the science of Ostracoda and Quaternary climate change.
In-depth and focused treatment of palaeoclimate
applicationsProvides durable benchmark and guide for all future
work on ostracodsPresents new, cutting-edge science
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This volume of essays looks at Renaissance texts through the lens
of modern theories of mimesis, and also investigates traces of
Early Modern equivalents within those same works. With the
assimilation of critical theory into literary studies during the
late 1960s and the 1970s, many scholars challenged the idea that
mimesis was an unproblematic 'representation of reality'. Instead,
they found a much more complex mimetic art in operation on the
early modern stage. While the work of these earlier scholars is
seminal, this volume argues that it is time to re-figure the
question of mimesis. Contributors examine a wide variety of
Shakespearian and non-Shakespearian texts to come to an increased
historical understanding of the way mimesis operated 400 years ago,
but, more importantly, how they can be seen to be operating
differently today.
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On Aunty (Paperback)
Jonathan Holmes
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R358
R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
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Australia's public broadcaster, 'Aunty', is about to turn 90, yet
your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble: budget cuts,
ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership
chaos and hostile commercial rivals. Meanwhile audiences are
deserting broadcast TV and radio. What is the ABC's place in the
era of media disruption? Can it reach a younger audience on new
platforms while still satisfying its loyal fans?
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina narrowly missed New Orleans. The
resulting storms breached rotting levees and emptied neighbouring
lake Pontchartrain into the city. Marooned by floodwater that
swamped over 80% of their homes, the inhabitants had to wait a week
without food or clean water before their own government came to
their aid. Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich cultural
tradition of New Orleans to tell the story of the immediate
aftermath of the hurricane. Shedding light on some of the more
extraordinary and under-reported aspects of the tragedy, the play
portrays an odyssey through a drowned space and a series of
encounters with individuals displaced and abandoned within their
own city. The plot follows from the death of Virgil, a decadent old
New Orleanian, who has been killed by Hurricane Katrina. Trapped by
the rising floodwater his partner Beatrice determines to take his
body to safety at City Hall. During her journey she encounters a
number of other survivors and hears their tales. A Jericho House
production, Katrina premiered at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf,
on 1 September 2009.
Into Thy Hands is a play about faith, sex, and the translation of
the Bible. Set four hundred years ago, it is centred around John
Donne and his parallel roles as the first English translator of
Galileo, accomplice in the translation of the Song of Solomon, and
as the most popular songwriter of the English Court. Set in 1610-11
at the high watermark of the English Renaissance, the play charts
the beginning of an English project that would come to dominate the
next three centuries. John Donne stood at the nexus of these
developments. At various times politician, soldier, poet, musician,
lawyer, courtier, theologian and cleric, and as a man born into one
of the most distinguished English Catholic families only to die as
one of its most renowned Protestants, he lived lives as most shades
of English identity.He was also intimately involved with three
great English innovations that came to dominate the subsequent life
of the country: the Anglican church, epitomised by the King James
Bible (1611); the scientific enlightenment, prompted by the work of
Francis Bacon and the appearance of Galileo's work in English (also
1611); and the great artistic flourishing in theatre, poetry and
music. This play is about the collision of those worlds.
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