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A play based around youthful hopes and dreams squashed by the
necessary grind of life. Chekhov offers a closely observed study of
a family falling apart. Everything is taken from the three sisters
- Olga, Masha and Irina - the security of their comfortable home
life, their ambitious plans for a bright future, love and lovers. A
complex process of stripping away from them everything they hold
dear is played out over four increasingly tense acts, bringing
reward to some and despair to others.5 women, 9 men
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Ghosts (Paperback)
Henrik Ibsen; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his
mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around
her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness
than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both
be set free.
For Madame Ranevskaya, her cherry orchard is more than just land;
it is her childhood, her memories and her life. Returning for the
first time since her young son drowned there, she must come to
terms with the fact that in order to free her family of debt the
cherry orchard must be sold, the trees must be cleared and she and
her family must prepare for life beyond the orchard. This touching
and often hillarious play exercises the perfect balance of comedy
and tragedy, through the characters, relationships and observations
of society.
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The Seagull (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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Konstantin writes an avant-garde play for his beloved Nina to
perform. His mother, Arkadina, a successful actress of the
traditional school, and her novelist lover Trigorin, attend the
first performance - and the meeting of Trigorin and Nina sets in
train a series of tragi-comic events which leave no-one unaffected.
Mike Poulton's adaptation of the Chekhov classic is fast-moving and
funny; his ear for the rhythms, non sequiturs and tangential nature
of real speech make it accessible, actable and indisputably
modern.-6 women, 7 men
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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Mike Poulton's revised translation of Uncle Vanya was presented at
The Print Room, London, in March 2012. In his introduction to the
text he writes, "It's a measure of the greatness of this play that
while translations lose their power, the original never does. It
grows more moving, more gripping, and funnier on each reading. The
more one works closely with it, the more secrets it reveals."4
women, 6 men
Cicero, the greatest orator of his age, devotes all his energy and
cunning to preserve the rule of law, and defend Rome’s Republic
against the predatory attacks of political rivals, discontented
aristocrats, and would-be military dictators. Imperium is a
backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, told
through the eyes of Tiro, Cicero’s loyal secretary. Adapted by
Mike Poulton from Robert Harris’s bestselling The Cicero Trilogy,
it was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in
Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2017 in an epic event comprising
six plays presented in two performances. Mike Poulton is an
award-winning dramatist whose many adaptations include Hilary
Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, The Canterbury Tales
and Morte d’Arthur (all for the Royal Shakespeare Company), A
Tale of Two Cities (Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Luise
Miller (Donmar Warehouse), Don Carlos (Sheffield Crucible/West End)
and Wallenstein (Chichester Festival Theatre).
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Bacchae (Paperback)
Euripides; Adapted by Mike Poulton
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R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A new god has risen...When a new god - the god of the life force,
the god of sensuality, wine and the dance, the god that other
religions fear - arrives in a buttoned-down world, he finds a
leader who no longer believes in a power higher than himself, who
will do whatever it takes to preserve the status quo. But this
society is a ticking time bomb, revolution is in the air and the
people are desperate for change. A band of sisters are ready to
explode and destroy everyone and everything that gets in their way
in Mike Poulton's all-new version of this dark and liberating play,
co-conceived with choreographer Mark Bruce and director Braham
Murray.
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The Syndicate (Paperback)
Eduardo De Filippo; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
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"The Syndicate," or "Il Sindaco Del Rione Sanita," is a witty dark
comedy set in 1960s Naples. This new translation by Mike Poulton
portrays De Filippo's classic combination of pathos with farce in a
newly accessible and contemporary version.
Honest young Antonio Barracano stabs a brutal night-watchman to
death. With the help of a 'Godfather' he is smuggled out of Naples
to hide in New York. Convicted of the murder in his absence but
safe overseas, he quickly acquires wealth and a reputation for
ruthlessness.
Returning to Naples, he uses his new status to quash his conviction
and is soon feared but respected throughout the city, making it his
life's work to provide a form of rough justice for the criminals of
Naples who have no other access to law.
He rules the Naples underbelly with a rod of iron but when a
respectable but poor young man decides to murder his father and
comes to Don Antonio for advice, the Neapolitan 'Godfather' emerges
from the shadows to make the young man's father an offer he can't
refuse
The comedy grows blacker as 'respectable' Naples collides with its
criminal underworld.
Oxford Reading Tree Jackdaws Anthologies offer a challenge for
competent and mature readers. Each of the titles is made up of
different text types with a shared thematic topic. Each combines
fiction and non-fiction in the form of a fast-moving adventure
tale, information text in a fact file, and a traditional tale or
myth drawn from a variety of cultures. Jackdaws Anthologies Pack 1
is available as a mixed pack of six books or a class pack of 36
books. Packs 2 and 3 of Oxford Reading Tree: Jackdaws and
Cross-curricular Jackdaws are also available. All Jackdaws are
book-banded for ease of use.
A thrilling, fast-paced adaptation of the classic novel, considered
by Dickens 'the best story I have ever written'. An epic story of
love, sacrifice and redemption, interweaving one family's intensely
personal drama with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution.
This version of A Tale of Two Cities premiered at Royal &
Derngate, Northampton, in February 2014, featuring a large
community ensemble alongside the main cast. Mike Poulton's
adaptation is ideal for any amateur theatre companies, schools or
youth theatres looking to stage a bold and dramatic version of
Dickens' classic.
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Luise Miller (Paperback, New)
Friedrich Schiller; Adapted by Mike Poulton
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R289
R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
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A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle
between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal. Born
into ancient nobility and son of the most powerful statesman in the
land, Ferdinand is willing to forsake his fortune for the love of
Luise, daughter of a humble musician. But in a world governed by
deception and greed, where power is everything, their future
happiness and liberty are beyond their control. Adapted from
Friedrich Schiller's 1784 play Kabale und Liebe, Mike Poulton's
Luise Miller was first staged at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in
2011.
The RSC's alternative Christmas show this year: a new two-part
dramatisation of one of the greatest books in the English language
Befell that in that season on that day/ In Southwark at The Tabard
- as I lay/ Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage/ To Canterb'ry with
full devout courage -/ At night was come into that hostelry/ Well
nine-and-twenty in a company/ Of sundry folk, by aventure yfall/ In
fellowship...And pilgrims were they all/ That toward Canterb'ry
would ride... So says Chaucer as he strides on stage to set the
scene for Mike Poulton's spring-heeled dramatisation of The
Canterbury Tales. The much-lauded RSC director, Gregory Doran, will
stage this two-part adaptation of all 23 of the tales in the
beautiful and atmospheric Swan Theatre, Stratford. All the famous
characters are here - as well as many less well-known but equally
full of life.
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Mary Stuart (Paperback)
Friedrich Schiller; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R389
Discovery Miles 3 890
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'Scotland may be a savage nation, Lady, but the English wash their
hands in blood.' Mary Stuart tells the story of the personal
struggle between two extraordinary women - one French, one English
- both captive to the demands of sovereignty and both caught in a
tumult of political and religious intrigue. Which of them is the
rightful Queen of England - Mary Stuart or Elizabeth Tudor? Mary
Stuart, written in 1800 by Friedrich Schiller, is presented in this
new version by Mike Poulton following his Don Carlos for
Sheffield/West End. The play was produced at Clwyd Theatr Cymru
7-30 May 2009. 'Magnificent ...Mike Poulton's fleet and vivid
translation ...all the deftly plotted twists and turns of a
thriller. You lean forward in your seat, desperate to discover what
happens next ...a masterpiece' Daily Telegraph on Mike Poulton's
version of Schiller's Don Carlos.
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