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"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the
living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"
Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime
life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the
perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots
and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to
communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an
unpredictable future. Laura Wade's beautifully poised family drama
was first performed at Soho Theatre, London.
What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is
nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and
dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry,
fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an
eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily
there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from
flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as
awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar. But there's a problem:
Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy
ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty
play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can
characters do when their author abandons them?
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Posh (Paperback)
Laura Wade
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R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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"I've got a new law for you mate, it's called survival of the
fittest, it's called fuck you we're the Riot Club." In an
oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels
and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to
rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are
bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody
good wine. But this isn't the last huzzah: they're planning a
takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club.
Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell
coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after
spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what
they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first performed at the Royal
Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in February 2005.
'If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation
that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade...proved
that you could radically change both form and content... Not every
writer delivers on their early promise. As this collection clearly
shows, Wade certainly has.' Aleks Sierz, from his Introduction
Colder Than Here: 'Laura Wade's play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a
jewel, dark bu ttranslucent. It is a play of love, death and grief:
the grief that is hardest to bear, because it begins before the
loved one dies.' Sunday Times Breathing Corpses: 'The tension, the
emotions and the sense of absurdity and fear are brilliantly
handled... A terrifying tour de force.' Sunday Times Other Hands:
'This is an extraordinary feat - a vicious satire with a heart of
gold -wrought with peculiar subtlety and intelligence.' The
Spectator
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Posh
Laura Wade; Edited by Henry Bell
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R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young
undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting,
intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally
"chatueaued". Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining
society, the fraternity starts to fray when they discover they're a
guinea-fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly
banished. An apparent spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club,
whose past members include Boris Johnson, George Osborne and David
Cameron, Posh is a satirical play about power, politics and
privilege, and how these elements interact within British
institutions. The play is published here as a Methuen Drama Student
Edition with commentary and notes by Henry Bell. Posh premiered at
the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2010 and two years later opened
in the West End. It was nominated for Best New Play at both the
Evening Standard Awards and for the Theatregoers' Choice Awards. It
was subsequently made into a film called The Riot Club (2014),
starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth.
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Alice (Paperback)
Lewis Carroll; Adapted by Laura Wade
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R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won't
stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it
all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family
life that's less than perfect. In this new adaptation by renowned
playwright and Sheffield native, Laura Wade, you can follow Alice
as she escapes her bedroom to find adventure in a topsy-turvy
world. Based on Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Wade's adaptation
breathes fresh life into a much-loved story about rabbit holes,
pocket watches and talking caterpillars.
It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music
hall: she doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will
change her life. Tonight is the night she'll fall in love... with
the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler, a girl who wears
trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy
follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await. Sarah
Waters' debut novel, Tipping the Velvet was highly acclaimed and
was chosen by The New York Times and The Library Journal as one of
the best books of 1998. Reviewers have offered the most praise for
Tipping the Velvet's use of humour, adventure, and sexual
explicitness. The novel was adapted into a somewhat controversial
three-part series of the same name produced and broadcast by the
BBC in 2002.
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