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Young Will Shakespeare has writer's block... the deadline for his
new play is fast approaching but he's in desperate need of
inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse - Viola. This
beautiful young woman is Will's greatest admirer and will stop at
nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play.
Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless
scheming and backstage theatrics, Will's love for Viola quickly
blossoms and insp
Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of
love, passion and mistaken identity. Young Venetian Clarice can't
marry her lover, Silvio. She had been betrothed to Rasponi, who
appears to have returned from the dead to claim her. But the
Rasponi who appears is actually Beatrice, Rasponi's sister who is
in disguise as her brother and has come to Venice to find her
suitor, Florinda. Complications arise when a servant greedily seeks
employment with both the disguised Beatrice and Florinda and spends
the rest of the play trying to serve two masters while keeping the
two unaware of the other's presence.
The play is based on the Italian Renaissance theatre style,
"Commedia dell'arte," and reinvigorated the genre, which is so
heavily based on carnival, while bringing to it an element of
realism, mishaps, mix-ups, confusions, disguises and mistaken
identity that come with the style.
In this new, rapid fire adaptation by award winning dramatist
Lee Hall, the language has been updated to now in order to give the
action the fast-paced feeling of a Christmas pantomime.
Young Will Shakespeare has writer's block... the deadline for his
new play is fast approaching but he's in desperate need of
inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse - Viola. This
beautiful young woman is Will's greatest admirer and will stop at
nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play.
Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless
scheming and backstage theatrics, Will's love for Viola quickly
blossoms and inspires him to write his greatest masterpiece.
Racist abuse may at one time have been hurled across the sports
stadium or scrawled on a wall. But in today's social media world it
can be published to millions, from almost anywhere, in an instant.
Sport, Racism and Social Media provides the first significant,
academic account of how social media is shaping the nature of
racisms in sport. Among the questions it addresses are: How, and
why, is racism being expressed across different social media
platforms and sporting contexts? To what extent is social media
providing new platforms for traditional prejudices or actually
creating new forms of racism? How can campaigners, authorities and
individuals best challenge and counter these forms of racism?
Combining analysis of social media content with in-depth interviews
with athletes, fans, campaigners and officials, and including
extensive case studies of soccer, boxing, the NHL, the NBA, and
cricket, the book provides important new insights on a familiar but
ever changing story. It is essential reading for any student,
researcher, media professional, administrator or policy-maker with
an interest in sport, new media or the issue of racism in wider
society.
I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above
all. Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by
writer's block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate
noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many
others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will
to write the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
Based on Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning screenplay,
Lee Hall's stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love premiered in
July 2014 at the Noel Coward Theatre, London, in a co-production by
Disney and Sonia Friedman Productions.
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a
professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation
evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on
one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen
learned to become painters. Within a few years the most avant-garde
artists became their friends, their work was taken for prestigious
collections and they were celebrated throughout the British art
world; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. The
Pitmen Painters premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in
September 2007, before transferring to the National Theatre in
2008.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore. Howard
Beale, news anchorman, isn't pulling in the viewers. In his final
broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar,
the network seize on their newfound populist prophet, and Howard
becomes the biggest thing on TV. Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
from the Paddy Chayefsky film, Network premiered at the National
Theatre, London, in November 2017.
Listen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get
to the second round... Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of
Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing
competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex, sambuca and a night
back home with the submarine crew in Mantrap. Funny, sad and
raucously rude, Lee Hall's musical play Our Ladies of Perpetual
Succour, adapted from Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos, premiered
at the Traverse Theatre in August 2015, in a production by the
National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre and transferred to
the National Theatre, London, in August 2016. The play won the
Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 2017 and transferred to the Duke
of York's, London, in May 2017 in a co-production with Sonia
Friedman Productions.
In the second case recorded by Benjamin Franklin's young charge and
assistant Nick Handy, the great Doctor Franklin is confronted with
a shocking event. While attending a mummers' play at the home of a
popular merchant Roddy Fairbrass on Christmas Eve 1757, their host
suddenly collapses and dies. Although the bereaved family denies
it, Franklin is convinced that he has witnessed a murder. Franklin
had been to the Fairbrass home one time before to investigate the
report of a ghost and now believes that there must be some sinister
connection between the two events. Determined to uncover the truth,
the intrepid inventor and statesman, accompanied by Nick, unravels
a tangled plot of intrigue and scandal while matching wits with
some of London's most notorious criminal minds.
More than ten years ago, Robert Lee Hall made a startling
discovery. Within a secret compartment of an old armoire once owned
by his great aunt, he found a yellowing manuscript describing a
series of mysterious criminal cases. What made these stories so
unusual was that they were solved by the renowned scientist and
statesman, Benjamin Franklin, while he was a resident of London to
plead the case of the American colonies before the British crown.
Written by Hall's ancestor, Nick Handy, who happened to be
Franklin's assistant throughout these adventures, Hall transcribed
the tales and presented them in the order of their occurrence. In
Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case, the first mystery in Hall's
series, the great Doctor Franklin meets the young orphan Nick Handy
in the print shop of an old friend. When his friend is suddenly
murdered, it is up to Franklin and Nick to prove who was
responsible for the grisly deed. Turning detective, Franklin
pursues the strange case along the dark byways of London and into
its grand houses, uncovering a theft ring, a profitable trade in
slaves and prostitutes, and strong reasons to believe that Nick is
in grave danger. Employing his keen sense of scientific observation
and his inventor's creative mind, the doctor is able to solve a
case that the constables had thought would be impossible to break.
Racist abuse may at one time have been hurled across the sports
stadium or scrawled on a wall. But in today's social media world it
can be published to millions, from almost anywhere, in an instant.
Sport, Racism and Social Media provides the first significant,
academic account of how social media is shaping the nature of
racisms in sport. Among the questions it addresses are: How, and
why, is racism being expressed across different social media
platforms and sporting contexts? To what extent is social media
providing new platforms for traditional prejudices or actually
creating new forms of racism? How can campaigners, authorities and
individuals best challenge and counter these forms of racism?
Combining analysis of social media content with in-depth interviews
with athletes, fans, campaigners and officials, and including
extensive case studies of soccer, boxing, the NHL, the NBA, and
cricket, the book provides important new insights on a familiar but
ever changing story. It is essential reading for any student,
researcher, media professional, administrator or policy-maker with
an interest in sport, new media or the issue of racism in wider
society.
This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, "A
Servant to Two Masters," features expert and helpful annotation,
ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph
Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a
commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on
the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well
a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a
review of performance history.
The play revolves around the wily, greedy servant Truffaldino,
who in trying to fill both his purse and his stomach, attempts to
serve two masters simultaneously. Meanwhile, his mistress disguises
herself as her dead brother to claim the dowry from his bewildered,
bereft fiancee. The plot is full of mishaps and mix-ups,
confusions, disguises and mistaken identity, before the murder and
entangled romances can be resolved.
Lee Hall's contemporary, faithful version is fast-paced, funny and
idiomatic. Updating the comedy for the reader and audience, this
version is thoroughly accessible, whilst also portraying the plot's
tricks and absurdities with comic flair.
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