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Paris in the 1880s. Louise Strandberg has fallen ill visiting her
bohemian artist friends. An almost-famous French painter calls
round and, somehow inevitably, she falls heavily under his spell. A
year later, having run herself deep into debt on his account
despite his coolness towards her, she - somehow also inevitably -
kills herself. author's own life. Victoria Benedictsson killed
herself at the end of a long, unrequited affair. She is said to be
the model for two of the most famous suicides in drama: in Miss
Julie (published the year of her death) and Hedda Gabler, published
two years later. remarkably fresh and fascinating take on the
19th-century obsession with the doomed love affair, which includes
La Dame aux Camelias and Therese Raquin.
A harrowing, intense drama about people-trafficking, set inside a
container lorry. A freight container, somewhere in Europe. Inside
are five people with one common aim: to reach England and start a
new life. Can they trust the agent to get them there? Can they rely
on each other? And how far will each of them go to get what they
want? Clare Bayley's play The Container was first performed (inside
an actual container lorry) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in
2007. It won a Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing on
the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and an Amnesty Freedom of Expression
Award.
Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers'
& Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing
for the stage. PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft
of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and
spaces and a brief history of playwriting itself. PART 2 contains
inspiring advice and reflections from leading playwrights:April De
Angelis, Bryony Lavery, David Greig, Christina Reid, Dennis Kelly,
Frank McGuinness, Lynn Nottage, Howard Brenton, Roy Williams,
Tanika Gupta, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Polly Stenham, Tom Stoppard,
Jack Thorne, Steve Waters, E.V. Crowe, David Henry Hwang, Lin
Coghlan, Zinnie Harris and Anne Washburn. PART 3 offers practical
exercises and advice on planning and conducting research, working
out plots and characters, mastering authentic but accessible
dialogue, navigating the industry and the rehearsal and production
process.
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