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Posh (Paperback)
Laura Wade
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R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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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.
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Posh
Laura Wade; Edited by Henry Bell
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R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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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.
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?
"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.
How happily married are the happily married? Home, I'm Darling is a
dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s
housewife. Judy has Johnny's slippers waiting for him when he
arrives home from work, the kitchen's clean, the rooms are
aired...yet this is not the 1950s, but a 21st-century 'arrangement'
agreed between the two of them. With clothes, furniture and a
(faulty) fridge from the 1950s, Judy and Johnny try to 'live the
dream', with specific roles and a perfectly ordered life.
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Alice (Paperback)
Lewis Carroll; Adapted by Laura Wade
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R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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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.
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.
The latest information on bacterial and parasitic diseases in
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be covered include passerines, psittacines, anseriformes, birds of
prey, ferrets, rabbits, primates, fish, and more.
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