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‘The Ice-Floe Girl’ is a delightful, beautifully-written and
wonderfully observed true story about a nineteen-year-old boy who
meets an innocent, angelic Swedish au pair and then hitch-hikes
across Europe to join her in Sweden, where she lives at the top of
a forbidding villa. She proceeds to take him along with her as an
unwitting spectator to her mysterious life in Copenhagen, Stockholm
and Helsinki. If good writing is about capturing an inexpressible
paradox in words - here it is. This account of an ephemeral beauty
presents in precise photographic details a remarkable true tale of
people and places, retrieves eternall meaningful passing moments
that would otherwise have been lost forever and fixes them to the
banner of eternal love. The Ice-Floe Girl is an unforgettable,
enigmatic quest stretching from a north London suburb to a small
wooden town on the shores of the Baltic.
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Woyzeck (Paperback, New Ed)
Georg Buchner; Translated by Gregory Motton
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One
of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre,
Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains
frighteningly relevant today. Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier
stationed in a provincial German town, is bullied by his superiors
and starved by the regiment's doctor in the name of scientific
experiment. His only pleasures in life are his lover Marie and
their innocent young son. But when Woyzeck learns that Marie has
been unfaithful with the regiment's handsome Drum Major, he murders
his lover in a fit of rage and hopelessness. Based on a real-life
murder trial that took place in Germany in the 1820s, Woyzeck was
written in 1837 but not staged until 1913. This English translation
by Gregory Motton is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama
Classics series. The edition includes an introduction by Kenneth
McLeish, a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
"Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The
Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want
to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and
buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they
want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The
Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to
an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The
Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an
estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a pregnant
girl and the father of the child have nowhere to live, they move
into her parents' house. But the parents have never met the
father-to-be, and don't yet know about the pregnancy. In The Child
a man and a woman find each other in a bus stop on a rainy night.
They hold each other close. They rent an old house out of town. The
woman becomes pregnant. But the child is too small to survive. In
these four varied plays Jon Fosse's unique linguistic style, at
once poetic and naturalistic, magnifies the love and pain of
ordinary people seeking to live their lives."
After a relaxing holiday at the Forest-side Nature Hotel,
shopkeeper Gengis Kahn feels his personality has expanded so
substantially that he decides to write a self-help manual. If only
he could find a shop that will sell him a biro...But he soon
discovers that the road to publication and posterity is littered
with the potholes of the modern world. Gengis narrowly avoids being
replaced by a clone of himself after spending a year on a life
support machine, and is forced to fake his own death to escape life
imprisonment for calling a cheerleader 'Popsickle'. He encounters
an entrepreneur who seems literally to have crawled through
excrement to reach the top, and fights in vain against the
destruction of the rain forest to supply wood for the world's
toilet seats. This hilarious final part of Gregory Motton's comic
trilogy mixes swoops of imaginative absurdity with acutely observed
set pieces from everyday life, firing satirical arrows at the
overweight targets of consumerism, mediocrity and greed.
Cat and Mouse (Sheep) was premiered at Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris.
In Praise of Progress was commissioned by BBC Radio 3. A Little
Satire focuses on the general election of 1997, and was
commissioned for The Gate Theatre's History of European Satire
season.
Three stage plays and one play for BBC Radio from a unique and
comic playwright. Includes Looking at You (Revived) Again, A
Message for the Broken Hearted, The Terrible Voice of Satan and
Lazy Brien.
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