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40 produkter
40 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
216 kr
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"Godber is one of the best contemporary British playwrights"(Financial Times) Lucky Sods is a candid black comedy about a couple who have nothing on a Friday night and GBP4 million on Saturday. And now they just can't stop winning.Passionkillers is a beach play about Andy and Tom who find themselves amid the sun, sea, sex and sangria of the Mediterranean and tempted by the advances of Trish and Karen. Will they remember their commitments back home or outsmart the advances of their young rivals Scott and Ray?
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
354 kr
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"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Bouncers, a play about nightlife: "A show that's worth braving any front of house, however formidable ...simply spellbinding" Guardian; Happy Families: "The inseparable contradictions of family love and oppression are carefully held in this fine comedy ...superb characterisation ...the rhythms of Godber's dialogue are freshly funny, the pace precise" (Independent); Shakers, a play about party-goers: "This is one of those slices of life that everyone can recognise and laugh at" Liverpool Daily Post
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
375 kr
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"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - GuardianTeechers: "In a class of its own ...Godber takes a hard-hitting look at life in a modern comprehensive where class conflicts, teacher tantrums and cavorting chaos runs riot through the corridors" (The Express); Happy Jack: "Godber manages with an affectionate and unerringly accurate ear for the tongues of the pit village to turn these two into a Chaucerian kind of celebration of life. At the end of the line the play is a sad, bruised but richly comic love story" (Guardian); September in the Rain: "The work of a genuinely talented playwright" (Evening Standard); Salt of the Earth: "John Godber has a special gift for capturing the lives and inner turmoil of the working class ...In the most subtle and incisive ways, he suggests how the combination of innate personality and a changing society determines individual destiny" (Chicago Times)
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
375 kr
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A third collection of plays by one of Britain's most popular and widely performed playwrights UP'N'UNDER (winner of the Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year Award 1984): Five unfit lads strive for sporting glory against the local pub-rugby champions, Men Behaving Badly meets The Full Monty. PERFECT PITCH: Ron & Yvonne are seasoned caravan holidaymakers. Every weekend they head for the coast to get away from it all. Snug in a prized four-berth, theirs is the perfect pitch, until Grant and Steph set up camp beside them...APRIL IN PARIS (nominated for Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year 1994): Al is a builder - well he was until he got laid off. Bet sells trainers. Al spends hours in his shed painting while Beth is addicted to entering competitions in magazines. Neither has any faith in the other. Until one day, Beth win "a romantic break in Paris for two"..."John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
208 kr
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It's the end of year 2022, and Salty, Gail and Hobby are about to present a play which they have been working on for their B.Tech performance exam. It's the first time they have performed live; their other exams were held on Zoom. What follows is a funny, fast-moving, caustic and hard-hitting account of how Miss Nixon, a newly qualified drama teacher changed their lives. As Salty, Gail and Hobby prepare to leave state education, it appears that Miss Nixon is moving on too, to the local private school. "Joyously energetic and bitter about educational inequalities." - The Guardian
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
208 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1990
217 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1993
301 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1995
210 kr
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Louise Underwood's life revolves around "Pippins", the hamburger restaurant where she works, and "Peppermints" night club, where she spends most of her spare time. Then she discovers Judo. This play charts Louise's progress to Black Belt. Her personal journey involves numerous sacrifices, crises of confidence both major and minor, and battles with more experienced players who think she has no chance of success. we also meet Stuart, who keeps the club going despite the ever present threat of closure, Andy the dashing Humberside champion, Sarah - Andy's blunt, dangerous girlfiend, and Michele - Louise's best friend, who cannot understand the appeal of Judo and fights desperately to keep their friendship as it was, with disastrous results.
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
217 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2000
217 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1996
217 kr
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When Morris and Jean win the National Lottery their lives are irredemably changed - the question is, for better or worse? The cracks in their marriage widen, Jean keeps on winning and Morris takes off to Amsterdam with an old flame, but will his prophesy that bad luck always follows good turn out to be true? Can money buy happiness? Is enough ever enough? John Godber addresses these questions in his comic play, first presented by the Hull Truck Theatre Company at the Spring Street Theatre in Hull.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
217 kr
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In the late 70s, five students on a drama teaching course at a northern college discover sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Spanning a period of a few years, the play follows the relationships between the five as they fall in and out of love and start their careers.
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
217 kr
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Mixing comedy with melancholy reflections on mariage, age, class, and friendship, this play becomes a study of the English away from home. Journalist Tom, despite having misgivings about leaving his wife Gail, has joined his freind Andy on a golfing holiday in Spain. Andy, who is married to Gail's freind Lynne, enthusiatically joins the lager-lout brigade at their hotel and makes the most of the opportunities for illicit sex that are available. Tom, holding himself apart from the crowd, embarks on a platonic freindship with Trish. Back in England, Andy keeps his infidelity secret but Tom tells Gail of his innocent friendship with Trish and the seeds of suspicion are instantly sown.
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
217 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
217 kr
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When Dennis, a hen-pecked IT manager stuck in a boring marriage with Anabelle, goes on a rare business trip to Amsterdam with colleagues Bob and Gary his eyes are opened to a world in which every sexual fantasy is available. This is a comedy of sexual manners and an exploration of male desire.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
217 kr
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Martin Dawson, a 33-year old theatre studies teacher, separated from his wife and children after an affair, has invited his parents, Joan and Len, to visit him in the Lake District. This "enjoyable" weekend break evolves into an opportunity to release the pent-up frustrations of a lifetime.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
217 kr
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Ron, a retired headteacher and his wife Yvonne, a middle-aged would-be marathoner, have purchased their first caravan and are trying it out in Yorkshire. Then an elderly caravan appears next to theirs and the sounds of noisy love-making cause Ron and Yvonne to blush. Steph and Grant have arrived!
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
217 kr
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The departure lounges of ten airports across Europe and America provide a backdrop of delays, dangers and frustration as two business executives, Jim and Steve, embark on a journey of self-discovery. While the easy-going Steve spends time on the mobile running a number of love interests with the morals of a cat, Jim is determined to remain faithful to his wife Claire. The arrival of young Zoe changes all that...The anxiety of the departure lounge becomes all to personal for all involved, leading to a sad yet hopeful ending.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
217 kr
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Preparing for a mystery trip to Scarborough ("she wouldn't book till Dennis told her where we were going") three Northern coach drivers pass the time remembering more exciting trips from the past, such as the last one, down the Rhine Valley to Heidelberg. Stick hates his passengers and wishes he was doing the Spanish run instead of Johnny Mac. Larry is a Mario Lanza fan who's been making trips for as long as anyone can remember and Frank ("don't ask...it'll only shock you!") is their female counterpart. These three actors take turns playing an assortment of passengers, from the dotty old complainers to the retired miners seeking excitement too late and on too little money. Escape is on everyone's mind but no one knows quite what they're escaping from and how to go about it. As Sissy says, it is "better going somewhere when you're seventy-nine than going nowhere". A touching, often hilarious, bitter-sweet play, full of John Godber's usual clever, perceptive view of "men of the world".
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
217 kr
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Relief drama teacher, Mary faces an uphill struggle when she tries to interest sixteen-year-olds Stacey, Kelly and Maggie in dance. She isn't helped by the science-obsessed headmaster, nor by the girl's patent lack of commitment, nor by the lack of funds and resources, but she ploughs doggedly on. A trip to London to take part in a dance competition proves to be a turning point; the girls, though they don't win, gain confidence, and Mary nearly becomes romantically involved with Stacey's dad, Jimmy. With an energetic score by John Pattison and opportunities for dancing, singing and acting, "Thick as a Brick" is all-round entertainment laced with John Godber's characteristic insight and humour.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
217 kr
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Mark and Sally are travelling to Amsterdam to celebrate Mark's fiftieth birthday at a Bruce Springsteen concert. Mark is not the success he wants to be, Sally feels neglected and lonely - and the journey across the Channel makes their unhappiness worse. For one thing, their old friend Gill is travelling with them and arouses conflicting emotions in Mark, who always had a soft spot for her; for another, she has brought along Karl, her rough and all-too-ready new boyfriend who knows a little too much about Amsterdam's seedier side...From these beginnings John Godber has crafted another salty comedy of social angst and the clash of cultures in his inimitable style and with much near-the-knuckle language.
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
217 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
217 kr
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Häftad, 2002
153 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
172 kr
Skickas
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
158 kr
Skickas
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
158 kr
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Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
375 kr
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Godber Plays: 4 brings together four recent plays by one of Britain's most prolific, popular playwrights. The author is the artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre and the publication is timed to coincide with the opening of Hull Truck's new theatre building in the heart of Hull. In Our House May, a widow, mother and grandmother, is packing up her home of 45 years and heads for a life in the sun. However, trading neighbourhood hell for the Costa del Calm is no easy task as memories are harder to let go than possessions. First produced in 2007, the play was revived and toured the UK in 2008. In Crown Prince (2007) Godber finds comedy in a bowls club, and against the backdrop of the advancing years of its members, issues of redundancy, bereavement and guilt emerge. Sold is the author's most politically charged play to date, exposing the misery of people-trafficking and women sold into the sex-trade in Britain. Christmas Crackers follows overworked A&E nurses Holly and Kath on a shopping and booze trip to Prague where things take an unexpected turn.'John Godber's work is unique; he is able to speak to a very broad audience in a way that is thought-provoking, exciting and always very funny.' Hilary Strong, Executive Director of Greenwich Theatre