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Cover of Scrape off the Black
by Tunde Ikoli
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1998

London's East End 1973. Trevor organises a surprise party on the release of his brother Andy from Borstal. But Rose, his bingo-playing, pill-popping mother, has other plans.
Cover of Arctic Oil
by Clare Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018

We’re dirty. We’re messy. We die. That’s life. On a remote Scottish island, an estranged mother and daughter are at loggerheads over how best to save their children. While Ella fights for her son's future, her mother Karen is terrified that Ella’s environmental activism will her get...
Cover of DNA by Dennis Kelly: Routes to Revision
by Iona Towler-Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

This book provides a number of attractive and purposeful tasks and activities which engage students in active revision processes for the play DNA by Dennis Kelly, in order to help them to achieve specified AQA outcomes. It will incorporate creative and reflective tasks and devices, to help them make...
Cover of Mrs Orwell
by Tony Cox
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

"So what you want, in a nutshell, George, is a mistress, housekeeper, nurse, literary executor and mother for Richard?" University College hospital, London, 1949. George Orwell is in the last chapter of his life with a severe case of Tuberculosis. He still believes he has at least...
Cover of Primetime

Primetime

Young Writers Festival and Peckham Young Playwrights Project

by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

Pack your bags and hold on tight and you’re whisked away on a whirlwind of adventure. And get ready to meet a host of captivating characters, including a talking sausage roll, a troop of cocktail-loving monkeys and a long-nosed hippo called Gary, who will win you over with their charm whether you’re...
Cover of Barker: Plays Seven
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Und, a play for one woman and six trays, is a moving study of dignityand self-delusion. When a guest, perhaps a lover, fails to appear foran appointment, his hostess invents excuses for his neglect, evenwhen ill-manners degenerate into barbarity. The hostess is Jewish, theinvisible guest a Nazi officer. The...
Cover of Dead Hands
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

A young man rushes to reach the bedside of his dying father, but arrives too late. His younger brother was present at the death, but his attitude is strangely ambiguous, and the elder brother becomes suspicious. The intentions of the dead man's mistress are also unclear. The mourners become increasingly...
Cover of Barker: Plays Six
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Includes the plays Judith, (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction, Let Me and Lot and His God Barker’s radical rewriting of Chekhov’s classic (Uncle) Vanya brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov’s text as the use to which...
Cover of Barker: Plays Two
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The plays in this volume examine collisions of culture, gender and creed at...
Cover of Blok/Eko
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

Howard Barker’s theatre is characterized by its tragic scale and its distinctive way of exposing the unconscious resistances that underlie apparent social unanimity, both in the sexual and political spheres. Barker’s play, BLOK/EKO, is a large-scale drama about death and its status in the...
Cover of Barker: Plays Three
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Includes the plays Claw, Ursula, He Stumbled and The Love of a Good Man The plays in this volume range over twenty years, beginning with Barker's first major work for the stage, Claw, a study of urban discontent and political impotence, developed over three stylistically contrasting acts. Its...
Cover of Howard Barker: Plays Ten
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018

The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Plays Ten comprises the plays Ahno, Distance, Critique of Pure Feeling, Irrespective, Immense Kiss, Exquisite.
Cover of The Ecstatic Bible
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012

A New Testament informed by the turmoil of the twentieth century, The Ecstatic Bible is a series of interlocking narratives based around the 100-year courtship of a faithless priest and a woman whose decision to abandon free will and collude with every circumstance leads them into extraordinary situations...
Cover of Our Mother's Brief Affair
by Richard Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016

On the verge of death for the umpteenth time, Anna makes a shocking confession to her grown children: an affair from her past that just might have resonance beyond the family. But how much of what she says is true? While her children try to separate fact from fiction, Anna fights for a legacy she...
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