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What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the
survival of the fittest. Nothing more - nothing less. Imprisoned in
an abandoned warehouse, a desperate group of failing actors are
trapped in a dark experiment. After months of endlessly rehearsing
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with no director to guide them,
some of the ensemble have disappeared leaving the others paranoid
and subservient. Sleep-deprived and half-starved, their fragile
social bonds shatter and implode as a stranger breaks in and
incites them to rebel. This new dystopian thriller about a group of
aspiring actors trapped in a dark social experiment is a
collaboration from writers Martin Travers and Chloe Wyper. This
edition was published to coincide with the run presented by the
Citizens Theatre's WAC Ensemble in April 2022.
A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each
of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes
constitute their meaning. Rilke continues to be the most read and
discussed German poet of the modern period. The Duino Elegies,
together with the Sonnets to Orpheus, remain his greatest
achievement. The themes of the ten elegies - and the conceptual
world unique to Rilke from which they emerge - can best be
understood through their poetic form: their imagery and neologistic
formations, their angular syntax, their abrupt changes of tone and
linguistic register, their use of multiple personae and speaking
voices, and the often-ironic self-presentation of the author.
Commentators, however, have often treated these features as mere
formal devices that we can somehow see through to get to what
really matters, that is, to what Rilke has to say about the human
condition or the meaning of life, to his philosophy or worldview.
On the contrary, they are constitutive of meaning in the elegies,
and understanding them is crucial to our experience of reading
Rilke's work. The purpose of this book is to make such features
visible and to explain them to the reader as clearly as possible.
This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the
elegies in over thirty years. It offers an entirely new translation
of each elegy, paired with the original German text, and a close
reading of each.
Four Scottish teenagers. Two interlocking stories. One ideology
tears them apart. Talented kickboxers and A-grade pupils Fatma and
Britney have been best friends for ever. That is until now.
Britney's views about everything are changing dramatically. She's
getting drawn into the alt right online. When Fatma is sent
something sinister through the post it triggers a series of
decisions that will destroy their lives and their teacher's life
for ever. Britney's brother Jordan is pals with Quinn. Quinn is
proud to be right wing. That is until he falls deeply into its
darkness and finds he's in over his head with a blade in his
pocket. All four teenagers lives are changed forever - engulfed in
the fallout of when damaging influence leads to damaging actions.
This is an unflinching exploration of how young people today are
prey to a range of extreme ideologies and how helpless people in
their real lives are to stop them imploding. The Kids Are Alt Right
is a cautionary tale of how social media and YouTube content can
lead to actions and consequences that can never be undone.
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
You try your best. Mornin Your team were lucky last night sir. But;
it just disnay work. A modern parable set against the backdrop of
the first Old Firm clash of the season. Funny, tough and
thought-provoking, Scarfed for Life tells the story of two teenage
friends caught in the crossfire of polite suburban prejudice and
garden equipment. The play draws on what sectarianism and prejudice
actually mean to young Glaswegians, and how it affects them and
their peers. The Old Firm is the collective name for the Glasgow
association football clubs Celtic and Rangers. Scarfed for Life is
a hard-hitting play based on the experiences of discrimination and
prejudice among the young people of Glasgow.
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Divided City - The Play (Paperback)
Theresa Breslin, Paul Bunyan, Martin Travers, Ruth Moore; Series edited by Ruth Moore, …
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Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells
of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn
into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker in a city divided
by prejudice. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play
has already been produced to great acclaim at Glasgow's Citizens
Theatre. Graham and Joe just want to play football and be selected
for the new city team, but a violent attack on Kyoul, an asylum
seeker, changes everything when they find themselves drawn into a
secret pact to help the victim and his girlfriend Leanne. Set in
Glasgow at the time of the Orange Order walks, Divided City is a
gripping tale about two boys and how they must find their own way
forward in a world divided by difference. This educational edition
has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts
Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Published in Methuen Drama's Critical
Scripts series the book: - meets the curriculum requirements for
English at KS3, GCSE and Scottish CfE. - features detailed,
structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve
literary and language analysis - places pupils' understanding of
the learning process at the heart of the activities - will help
pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills
at KS3 - will save teachers considerable time devising their own
resources.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism provides for
the first time an anthology in which the major representatives of
the schools and movements of recent European literature explain the
assumptions and practices that characterise their writing. Each
chapter is devoted to one particular school or movement from within
that broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and
modernism through to the literature of political enagement of the
1920's and 1930's, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism.
The introductions to each chapter outline the key thematic and
stylistic features of these movements, as well as the historical
factors that helpes shape the broader direction of European
literature at this time. The extracts have been taken from the
major theoretical texts associated with these writers, from
manifestos, essays, letters and other sources (often translated
here for the first time). These texts are approached both on their
own terms as formulations of the goals and procedures (literary,
aesthetic and political) that characterised the work of individual
writers, and as key documents of the literary scholls and movements
to which they belonged.Martin Travers is Senior Lecturer in
Literary Studies in the School of Humanities at Griffith
University, Australia. He has published widely in the area of
European literature.
We're a punk band. A politically motivated Marxist punk band thit
waants tae bring doun the rich by any means necessary! It's 1978.
Unemployment and violence darken every Glasgow close; Scotland have
been knocked out of the World Cup; Grease is at the top of the
charts and seminal Scottish punk band The Jaggy Nettles are
imploding. The Jaggy Nettles will be reuniting on stage to perform
brand new punk-inspired songs, keeping the spirit of '78 alive.
Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles? redefines young punks of
the 1970s as naive, asexual, idealistic, poetic, wonderful and
doomed. It is a play about empowerment and feeling the future is
there to be changed; a story as relevant today as ever. This
edition was published to coincide with the February 2020 run at
Scottish Youth Theatre.
Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find words
- new words, both descriptive and analytical - for his radical form
of philosophy. This tendency can be traced from Being and Time,
where he elaborated an entirely new vocabulary for his ontological
enquiry; to Contributions to Philosophy, which saw him committed to
a transformation of language; to later essays on poets such as
Rilke and Trakl in On the Way to Language. The Writing of Aletheia
is the first study to appear in either English or German that
provides a full account of Heidegger's language and writing style.
Focusing not only on his major philsophical works but also on his
lectures, public talks and poetry, this book explores the complex
textuality of Heidegger's writing: the elaborate chains of wordplay
and neologistic formations; the often oblique, circuitous and
regressive exposition of his ideas; the infamous tautologies; the
startling modification of grammatical rules and syntax; the
idiosyncratic typography of his texts; the rhetorical devices,
imagery and symbolism; and the tone and voice of his writing. All
of these aspects betray not only his will to structure and his
assertiveness but also his ongoing self-questioning and
reflectiveness about the ultimate goal of his philosophical quest.
The Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to
appear in English. The author of this study charts in impressive
detail the complex paths of Benn's life, through the demands of his
medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his
brief political advocacy of Hitler and Nazism in 1933, to his final
"comeback" in post Second World War Germany. The author also
engages with Benn's extensive body of poetry which, inventive,
challenging and formally wrought, was the product of mind that was
both radical and conservative. The same propensity to invention and
transformation also informed Benn's personal and professional life,
giving rise to a practice of role-playing and dissimulation that
the poet termed a "double life". As Travers shows in this
well-written and informative biography, this was a strategy of
survival of which Benn, ultimately, was as much the victim as the
master. This biography also offers fresh translations of many of
Benn's poems, a number of which appear here in English for the
first time.
A modern parable set against the backdrop of the first Old Firm
clash of the season. Funny, hard-hitting and thought-provoking, the
second edition of Scarfed for Life tells the story of two teenage
friends caught in the crossfire of polite suburban prejudice and
garden equipment. Ideal for secondary school students, the play
draws on what sectarianism and prejudice actually mean to young
Glaswegians, and how it affects them and their peers. Scarfed for
Life is a hard-hitting play based on the experiences of
discrimination and prejudice among the young people of Glasgow. The
play toured secondary schools in Scotland in 2011 and Scottish
prisons in 2013. The language in this edition has been revised
specifically with school-age students in mind, and is an ideal,
issue-led play for students 14+.
This volume provides an incisive guide to the rich heritage of European literature. It gives a lively account of major figures and texts as well as previously marginalized writers, assessing their relevance to the broad European tradition and the social, political and intellectual issues which shaped it.
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