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by Sonja Linden
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Inspired by the real life experiences of Rwandan refugees in the UK, the play tells the story of two people from entirely different worlds who meet at a Refugee Centre in London: Juliette is a young Rwandan asylum seeker, detemined to write a book on the genocide that killed her famiily; Simon is...
by Asa Palomera
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018

This comic romp through the lives of literary masters William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes charts their influence on the modern world. It contrasts the fortunes of two contemporaries whose native countries – England and Spain – went from alliance to enmity in a short space of time. 2016...

Votes for Women

and Other Plays

by Elizabeth Robins, Cicely Hamilton, Inez Bensusan
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

The best collection of suffrage plays on offer Introduced and set in historical context by Dr Susan Croft, formerly Curator at the Theatre Museum in London, with a chronology of suffrage drama from 1907-1914.  The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their...
by Sudha Bhuchar, Kristine Landon-Smith, Louise Wallinger
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy’s boys or blokes under their missus’ thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and fathers – these successful, soulful and spirited...
by Michael Harvey, Anne-Marie O'Connor, Peter Spafford
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

A series of short, single voice plays by writers based in the North West of England. These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conflicts and joys of different characters facing difficult decisions in their lives. Developed through consultation with young people, they offer...
by Kim Wiltshire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017

An interactive comedy play about the value of art in society. Entrepreneur Vince Fine and his small team are launching Artworks, a new initiative to help get unemployed people engaged in making Art. Unfortunately for Vince, the launch is dogged by infighting among his team, surprise guests...
by Jonathan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

Award-winning playwright Jonathan Moore has been described as a “singular voice for his generation: furious, nihilistic, poetic…” (Time Out). This anthology brings together three of his critically acclaimed plays, including: This Other Eden, Fall From Light, and Treatment.   The...
by David Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

BEST INDIE BOOK - KIRKUS REVIEWS - STARRED REVIEW A rollicking tale of one black woman's mission to stop an English plan to aid the Confederates in the American Civil War. Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, Trinity, an escaped American slave girl, is taken in by wealthy liberals...

Women Make Noise

Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern

by Victoria Yeulet, Elizabeth Keenan, Sini Timonen
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

‘When was the last time you heard an all-girl band on the radio? Why don’t all-girl bands get attention they deserve?’ In Women Make Noise musicians, journalists, promoters and fans excavate the hidden story of the all-girl band: from country belles of the 20s–40s and girl groups of...
by Beverley Naidoo, Sibusiso Mamba, Mike Van Graan
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

A collection of six plays dealing with the new South Africa, published in 2006 to celebrate 10 years of democracy post-apartheid. Plays about racial conflict, the impact of AIDS, power and corruption, the legacy of the past and female identity. Reprinted 2012, 2019.   The Plays The...
by Kate Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017

Awarded a Blue Star from Kirkus Reviews. When Colin discovers his son is on a murder charge in France, he trails his small boat, ‘The Dragonfly’, across the channel to stay in Paris to try and help him. There he meets his grand-daughter – the irrepressible Delphine – for the first time....

Celluloid Ceiling

Women Film Directors Breaking Through

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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

An extensive overview of female film directors worldwide, showing how they are breaking through the 'Celluloid Ceiling', and succeeding in a still very male-dominated industry. The book contains exclusive interviews with women film directors, explores the impact of digital technology, and reaches...

Lysistrata

The Sex Strike

by Germaine Greer, Phil Willmott
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

A new version of the Greek classic play adapted by world-famous feminist author, Germaine Greer. The ancient world is gripped by a long and futile war. While the men of Athens fight in a foreign land, the women of Athens can take no more. Lysistrata, the play’s heroine, persuades the women...
by Mark Sheerin, Coco Khan, Susan Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

What is counterculture? – It’s an alternative lifestyle… – The ideas that spread a revolution… – A movement that changes the world… This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British Art, film, theatre, dance, literature...
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