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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its
tenth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book
by its cover - or, more accurately, by its title. This new series
aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous
calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or
elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering
anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites,
looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.
Featuring: Richard Lawrence Bennett, Luke Brown, David Constantine,
Tim Etchells, Nicola Freeman, Amanthi Harris, Andrew Hook, Sonia
Hope, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Mort, Jeff Noon, Irenosen Okojie, KJ
Orr, Bridget Penney, Diana Powell, David Rose, Sarah Schofield,
Adrian Slatcher, NJ Stallard, Robert Stone, Stephen Thompson and
Zakia Uddin.
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Endland (Paperback)
Tim Etchells; Introduction by Jarvis Cocker
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R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and
prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life
as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance
to all those what prefer to read about truly good, lucky and nice
people - you won't like this crap at all. A comical and brutal
weave of parables gone wrong, Endland holds a broken mirror to
England. In its garish but strangely familiar world of empty tower
blocks, 24-hour cyber cafes and bomb sites, a motley collection of
misfits, wanderers and charmed drunks do their best to survive.
Nothing is stable in Endland and what's more, the gods have started
drinking at lunchtime, which can only lead to trouble. Conjured in
a mix of slang, pub anecdote, folktale and science fiction, Endland
is the nightmare unfolding just outside the window - a glitchy
parade of aging bikers and ghost children, cut-price assassins and
witless wannabe celebs. The world fashioned by Thatcher, Google,
NATO, ICANN, Brexit, Big Brother, Bin Laden and Trump needs new
narratives to make sense of it. In Endland, with feverish wit and a
broken compass, Etchells unpicks the myths and strange realities
we're caught up in.
'Certain Fragments . . . illuminate[s] . . . the more interesting aspects of contemporary British theatre.' - David Pattie, New Theatre Quarterly
Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance,
Sheffield has always been a city of two halves. From elegant parks
and gardens to brutalist high-rise estates and the hinterland
nightclubs of 'Centertainment', it is a city caught between the
forges of the past and the melting pot of the present. Bringing
together new short stories from some of the city's most celebrated
writers, The Book of Sheffield traces the contours of this complex
landscape from both sides of the economic dividing line. From the
aspirations of young creatives, ultimately driven to leave, to the
more immediate demands of refugees, scrap metal collectors, and
student radicals, these stories offer ten different look-out points
from which to gaze down on the ever-changing face of the 'Steel
City'.
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National
Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most
exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered
together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers
between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of material to
perform, read or study. Each play has been specifically
commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with the
young performer in mind. The anthology contains 10 play scripts;
notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the
themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and
exercises for the drama groups. This year's anniversary anthology
includes plays by Suhayla El-Bushra, Anders Lustgarten, Robin
French, Tim Etchells, Patrick Marber, Kellie Smith, Lizzie Nunnery,
Harriet Braun and Alistair McDowall.
This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in
testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and
provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear
insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews,
introductions from the companies and performance images which
illustrate the process of creating each piece.""Bystander 9/11 by
Meron Langsner is an impressionistic but wholly authentic response
to the catastrophe as it unfolded and in the days following. "Big
Head" by Denise Uyehara is an interrogation of current perceptions
of "the enemy now" as seen through the lens of Japanese American
internment during World War II. Urban Theatre Projects' "The Fence"
is a tale of love, belonging and healing. It is a tender work that
looks at the adult lives of five family and friends who spent their
childhoods in orphanages, institutions and foster homes in
Australia. "Come Out Eli" Christmas 2002 in Hackney, London, saw
the longest siege in British history. Using interviews collected at
the time and further material gathered in the aftermath, Alecky
Blythe's play explores the impact of the siege on the lives of
individuals and the community."The Travels" members of Forced
Entertainment undertook a series of journeys during one summer,
each travelling alone to locations in the UK to complete tasks
determined only partially in advance. This began a mapping process
and the creation of a landscape of ideas, narratives and bad
dreams."On the Record" by Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen
circumnavigates the globe to bring true stories from six
independent journalists, all linked by their determination to shed
light on the truth.Created by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail
Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan
Yankowitz, "Seven "is based on personal interviews with seven women
who have triumphed over huge obstacles to catalyse major changes in
human rights in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria,
Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia."Pajarito
Nuevo la Lleva: The Sounds of the Coup "by Maria Jose Contreras
Lorenzini focuses upon sense memories of witnesses who were
children at the time of the 1974 military coup in Chile.
How can an understanding of theatre in the city help us make sense
of urban social experience? Theatre& the City explores how
relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect
social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity.
The book evaluates both material conditions (such as architecture)
and performative practices (such as urban activism) to argue that
both these categories contribute to the complex economies and
ecologies of theatre and performance in an increasingly urbanised
world. Foreword by Tim Etchells
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