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You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done
something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to
make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world.
Everything that's worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung Fu Movies
3. Burning Things 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose
5. Construction cranes 6. Me You leave it on her pillow. You know
she's read it because she's corrected your spelling. Soon, the list
will take on a life of its own. A new play about depression and the
lengths we will go to for those we love.
The Lammermuir Hills have been an important trade route between
Scotland and England for generations, as well as an effective
barrier when necessary. Drawn by the long history of south-eastern
Scotland and the many conflicting elements in play in its natural
environment - among them wind farms, pylons, forestry plantations,
grouse moors and sheep - the distinguished Scottish painter and
printmaker Barbara Rae CBE RA has made numerous studies of these
wild expanses. This handsome volume reproduces a wide selection of
her intensely colourful images with accompanying photographs and
maps, and texts by the art critic Duncan Macmillan, Emeritus
Professor of the History of Scottish Art at the University of
Edinburgh, and Maureen Barrie, who worked for many years at
National Museums Scotland.
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1984 (Paperback)
George Orwell; Adapted by Robert Icke, Duncan Macmillan
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and
falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to
Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have
become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be our
reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in
a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell's vision of the
future is as relevant as ever.
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Lungs (Paperback)
Duncan Macmillan
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and
still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten
thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd
be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.' In a time of global anxiety,
terrorism, erratic weather and political unrest, a young couple
want a child but are running out of time. If they over think it,
they'll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster.They
want to have a child for the right reasons. Except, what exactly
are the right reasons? And what will be the first to destruct - the
planet or the relationship?
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Rosmersholm (Paperback)
Henrik Ibsen; Adapted by Duncan Macmillan
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R315
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Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik
Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love,
politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good
measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop of a
looming election, an atmosphere of uncertainty and a bloodthirsty
press. In the grand house of an influential dynasty, John Rosmer
holds the future in his hands. As he wanders the line between
idealism and a painful past, he finds himself ever more torn.
Victoria Crowe is one of the world's most vital and original
figurative painters. Her instantly recognisable work is represented
in a large number of public and private collections. This
extensively illustrated new book looks in depth at some of her own
favourite portraiture. Looking at the psychology of her subjects
and of herself in painting them, this is a fascinating book.
Whether you are intrigued by the enigmatic stare of a psychiatrist,
struck by the haunted eyes of an Auschwitz survivor or curious
about the meaningful surroundings of her own self-portrait, this is
an absorbing and enthralling read. Victoria Crowe lives in Scotland
and Venice.
Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadder’s art in all
its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book
expands the account of an important artist and her significant body
of work. With her oeuvre ranging through still life,
landscapes and flower painting, Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021)
was one of the best known and respected artists in the British
painting tradition. The first woman to be elected to both the Royal
Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy, she exhibited widely from
the 1960s and her work has been reproduced extensively. Updated to
include new imagery, Duncan Macmillan's expert text is essential
reading for Blackadder's legion of fans.
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Works of Light (Hardcover)
Ettore Rocca, Duncan Macmillan, Pia Skogemann
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R1,161
R1,062
Discovery Miles 10 620
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The Vejlea Church in Ish is now considered a masterpiece of
contemporary Danish church art. It has been visited by more than
200,000 guests during the last decade. In collaboration with
Wohlert Architects, Peter Brandes designed the church's artworks:
stained glass mosaics, baptismal font, organ, silverware, altar,
globe, as well as sculptures and crucifix. The many hundreds of
reproductions in the book show the stages from the initial sketches
to the finished result. Through this unique documentation, together
with the essays of three authors, the book endeavors to identify
the church's expression and idea, and define why the "actions" of
light and reflections make the church a place of pilgrimage. The
three essays are written by Professor Emeritus of Art History at
the University of Edinburgh and art critic forThe Scotsman, Duncan
Macmillan; psychotherapist and author and member of the Vejlea
Church parish council, Pia Skogemann; and philosopher and visiting
researcher at the Sen Kierkegaard Research Centre, Ettore Rocca.
A discussion of sensibility, sensation, perception and painting,
Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art is an original work which
argues that the eighteenth-century Scottish philosophy of moral
sense played a central role in shaping ideas explored by figures
such as Cezanne and Monet over one hundred years later. Proposing
that sensibility not reason was the basis of morality, the
philosophy of moral sense gave birth to the idea of the supremacy
of the imagination. Allied to the belief that the imagination
flourished more freely in the primitive history of humanity, this
idea became a potent inspiration for artists. The author also
highlights Thomas Reid's method in his philosophy of common sense
of using art and artists to illustrate how perception and
expression are intuitive. To be truly expressive, artists should
unlearn what they have learned and record their raw sensations,
rather than the perceptions that derive from them. Exploring the
work of key philosophical and artistic protagonists, this
thought-provoking book unearths the fascinating exchanges between
art, philosophy and literature during Enlightenment in Scotland
that provided the blueprint for modernism.
This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright
Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every
Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.
Odon von Horvath's 1936 drama imagines the former voluptuary, older
and emotionally scarred by his experience of the Great War,
discovering unfamiliar thoughts of morality and responsibility that
clash confusingly with his habitual licentiousness. His internal
conflict is never resolved, but serves as an unforced metaphor for
Germany's postwar identity crisis.Duncan Macmillan's new version
streamlines the story and cuts several characters, but leaves the
Don in a world made up entirely of women, so that in Andrea
Ferran's production six actresses skilfully handle roles from nuns
to prostitutes. While the driving force of Juan's adventure is a
newly discovered guilt over abandoning one lover the night before
their wedding, the most significant scene shows him given the
opportunity for ordinary domesticity with another woman and blowing
it.
In Candidacy For The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy.
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In Candidacy For The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy.
In Candidacy For The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy.
"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and
start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this
conversation's over. He'd probably just sit there and finish eating
whatever you were choking on." An inexperienced teacher is given
the job of saving a disturbed and violent fourteen-year-old boy
from permanent exclusion. Alone in the classroom, an intense battle
of wills takes place. But what can be done when a child cares for
no one and is afraid of nothing? Monster won two awards at the
inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was first performed
in 2007 at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, where Duncan
MacMillan was Writer-in-Residence.
You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling
water it doesn't feel a thing. I suppose that this is how I've felt
recently. I've been in some deep freeze and suddenly I can feel
steam in my face, I'm falling headlong into scalding water.It's
2005, the sun is shining and Loretta is planning to make her
daughter's favourite meal. But when Sophie stops talking to her,
children start vanishing, and rooms begin to cry, Loretta can't
help feeling that something is up and that she might have something
to do with it.A play about one woman's journey back to her
childhood, to stop her past flooding into the present. Production
at Theatre 503 (London).
Artist Philip Reeves (b.1931, Cheltenham) has lived and worked in
Glasgow since the mid-1950s. Landscape and cityscape underpin his
artistic vision, which has explored varying degrees of
representation and realism, as well as an ever-evolving
abstraction. This long overdue book is the first to survey his
entire career, covering his printmaking, watercolour painting,
drawing, collage and reliefs. Reeves has brought his own fresh
subtlety and distinctiveness to the developing history and
expressive potential of abstraction. His printmaking experiments
have encompassed both innovative uses of the etching plate and the
deployment of found objects. Such work has led to his recognition
as an artist of note, particularly in Scotland where he has had
many exhibitions. Author Christopher Andreae charts this exhibition
history alongside Reeves' impact as a teacher at Glasgow School of
Art and as a founding member of print studios in Edinburgh and
Glasgow. The breadth of Reeves's work, illustrated extensively here
for the first time, may surprise even those who know and like his
art. Those who are yet to encounter the oeuvre will find in Philip
Reeves a fascinating introduction to a highly inventive artist.
How has the climate changed in the past? How is it changing now?
How do we know? And what kind of a future do we want to create?
A dazzlingly original stage adaptation based on the first novel of Paul Auster's seminal The New York Trilogy.
Reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious phone call from a man seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly he becomes the protagonist in a real-life thriller of his own when he falls under the spell of a strange and seductive woman, who engages him to protect her young husband from his sociopathic father.
As the familiar territory of the noir detective genre gives way to something altogether more disturbing and unpredictable, Quinn becomes consumed by his mission and soon begins to lose his grip on reality.
Will he be drawn deeper into the abyss? Or could the quest provide the purpose and meaning he needs to rebuild his shattered life?
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