Playwriting category: 893 books
by D. C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
It's Christmas Day in Stewarton and Irene Gordon's struggling to get in the festive spirit. Her eighteen-year-old daughter has just had a baby, her ex-husband's had a stroke and her eldest is having a breakdown. Even the Dr Who special is disappointing. To compensate, she gets Rab McGuire, a gift-wrapped...
by Kevin Kling
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
From 21A, the one-man show that launched a career and a whole new perspective on riding the bus, to a sneak peek at the new Minnesota Public Radio–sponsored Gulliver Unraveled, On Stage with Kevin Kling gives readers a behind-the-curtain view of one of Minnesota’s most popular storytellers. This...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
I have to believe in the institutions we trust to be fair, and functional. Whether that be the judiciary, the police, the media … That they should all be able to resist the temptations of a more entertaining lie, over a less extraordinary truth.
April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. Meanwhile, the monitoring and evaluation team have to present The Audit – a measurement of the impact 'the culture' has had on the city. Can their logic models,...
by Lucy Gough, Mr Dylan Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Here we are nibbling away all day and night, Mrs Dacey. Nibble nibble. No sense, no order, no nothing, we're all mad and nasty.
Samuel Bennett leaves his home in South Wales to pursue a career in London. Setting out with an attitude of reckless, nihilistic purpose, he encounters a nightmarish...
Butler Plays 2
Airbag; I'll Be the Devil; Faces in the Crowd; Juicy Fruits; 69; Do It!
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style and tone, and brings together some of his best-loved works alongside some of his lesser known pieces.
*Airbag...
by Mr Terry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
These two plays - by acclaimed playwright Terry Johnson - tell the inspiring, endearing and sometimes alarming stories of an Oscar-winning cinematographer and an aspiring playwright who receives a chance phone call.
In Prism we see Legendary cinematic master Jack Cardiff retire to the sleepy...
by Prof. Martin Middeke, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer, Dr. Greg Homann
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy. This volume considers the variety of theatre forms, and the work of the major playwrights...
by Zoe Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Meet Jess and Joe. They want to tell you their story. Joe is Norfolk born and bred and wears wellies. Jess holidays there with her au pair and is slightly too tubby for her summer dresses. They are miles apart even when they stand next to each other. This is a story of growing up, fitting in (or not),...
by Mr Leo Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A boy. At a bus stop. Easily missed.
Liam wanders through the city, repeatedly encountering people, but continually feeling disconnected and alienated.
In this vivid and troubled story of an isolated young man, playwright Leo Butler casts a sharp eye over the city and picks someone for...
by A. F. Garvie
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. The seven extant plays, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
I just remember, even as a, as a young . . . man, not even man, just a boy . . . when nothing makes sense, and you're not sure who you are . . . the idea of – the strength of the person that stands alone, carves their own path . . . of it not being who you are or where you're from but what you do.
Sam,...
National Theatre Connections 2017
Three; #YOLO; Fomo; Status Update; Musical Differences; Extremism; The School Film; Zero for the Young Dudes!; The Snow Dragons; The Monstrum
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging...
Lustgarten Plays: 1
A Day At the Racists; If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep; Black Jesus; Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre; Kingmakers; The Insurgents
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015with the most recent play in the collection, Shrapnel, and one previously unpublished play.The...