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Antigone
Av Sophocles, Anne Carson
Häftad, 2022
189 kr
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When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say ‘No’. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious …
History of Paper
Av Oliver Emanuel, Gareth Williams
Häftad, 2024
203 kr
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Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024What use is paper? To speak.To imagine. To remember.It starts when she puts a note through his letterbox.'Hello Number 4, this is Number 6. Please could you SHUT THE **** UP? Ta.' Not a promising beginning, but... they meet, they fall in love, they get …
History of Paper
Av Oliver Emanuel, Gareth Williams
E-bok, 2024
215 kr
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Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024 What use is paper? To speak. To imagine. To remember. It starts when she puts a note through his letterbox. ''Hello Number 4, this is Number 6. Please could you SHUT THE **** UP? Ta.'' Not a promising beginning, but... they meet, they fall in love, they get …
Damned United
Av David Peace
Häftad, 2016
219 kr
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When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We’d never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and …
Sea Wall
Häftad, 2019
154 kr
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There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful.Alex’s story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles, as …
Glengarry Glen Ross
Av David Mamet
E-bok, 2026
197 kr
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'But what should I tell them?'The truth, George. Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.' A fly-by-night office in Chicago. A brutal sales competition: Top dog wins a Cadillac. Second wins a set of steak knives. Third and fourth get fired. Four real estate agents cheat, fight and …
Every Brilliant Thing
2026 Broadway Edition
Häftad, 2026
189 kr
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If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once feeling crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You start a list of everything that’s …
Son of a Bitch
Av Anna Morris
Häftad, 2025
179 kr
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Winner: Fringe First Award 2024‘I loved being a Mum. Until he started to get a personality’Son of a Bitch is a brutally honest and darkly funny monologue about a woman who is caught on camera calling her 4 year old son a c*nt during an air-rage incident.When the video goes viral, Marnie’s life …
Lovely Bones
Av Alice Sebold
Häftad, 2022
203 kr
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Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's one big difference though – Susie is dead.Add: Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Susie is …
Spy Who Came In From The Cold
E-bok, 2025
191 kr
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All cats are alike in the dark.For the first time ever, a novel by John le Carr is brought to life in a thrilling stage adaptation by award-winning playwright David Eldridge (Beginning, Middle & End).Alec Leamas is ready to come in from the cold but when Control, the Head of the British Secret …
Kite Runner
Häftad, 2016
260 kr
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I became what I am today at the age of twelve. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a mud wall on a frigid winter day in 1975 . . . looking into a deserted alley. It’s wrong what they say about the past, about how you can bury it, because the past claws its way out. I realize I’ve been …
Punch
Av James Graham
Häftad, 2025
179 kr
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Winner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards 2026Winner of Best Play at the London Standard Theatre Awards 2026Winner of Best New Play at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2026"Another state-of-the-nation masterpiece from James Graham" - The TelegraphOne life has been wasted, because of this. …
Democracy
Av Michael Frayn, Michael Frayn
Häftad, 2003
219 kr
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Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else's face. All trying …
Phaedra's Love
Av Sarah Kane
Häftad, 2002
219 kr
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First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus …
Kite Runner
Häftad, 2018
149 kr
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘Devastating’ Daily Telegraph‘Heartbreaking’ The Times‘Unforgettable’ Isabel Allende‘Haunting’ IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys …
Every Brilliant Thing
Häftad, 2025
185 kr
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Nominated for Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play at the Olivier Awards 2026 If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once feeling crushingly depressed, then you probably weren’t paying attention.You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something …
Santi & Naz
Av Guleraana Mir, afshan d'souza-lodhi
Häftad, 2025
185 kr
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For as long as there is barsaat, you will be my friend. Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them.As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading …
God Of Hell
Av Sam Shepard
Häftad, 2005
219 kr
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A stunning new play by the great American dramatist Described by Sam Shepard as 'a take-off on Republican fascism', this uncompromising black comedy was written just before the 2004 US presidential election.Frank and Emma are American dairy farmers, alone in the Mid-West. Nothing ever happens. …
Woman Alone' & Other Plays
Av Dario Fo, Franca Rame
Häftad, 1991
219 kr
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Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh …
Cleansed
Av Sarah Kane
Häftad, 1998
219 kr
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This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with sexuality, social ostracism and the effects …
Kaspar
Av Peter Handke
Häftad, 1972
219 kr
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'Kaspar is based on the historical case of a 16-year-old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch . . . Handke's play is a downright attack on the way language is used by a corrupt society to depersonalise the individual'. - Michael …
Uncle Vanya
Häftad, 1998
219 kr
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David Lan's new version of one of Chekhov's greatest plays, was commissioned for a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic. Directed by Katie Mitchell, it premiered at the Young Vic, London, in March 1998, a century after its Uncle Vanya is the first of Chekhov's three …
Junk
Adapted for the Stage
Häftad, 1999, 12-15 år
219 kr
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Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and …
Lords and Ladies
Häftad, 2021
219 kr
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It’s Midsummer Night – no time for dreaming. Because sometimes, when there’s more than one reality at play, too much dreaming can make the walls between them come tumbling down.Unfortunately there’s usually a damned good reason for there being walls between them in the first place – to keep things …
Artist Man and the Mother Woman
Häftad, 2012
219 kr
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How my wee boy, as naive and pastey as he is, could get a grown woman tae go weak at the knees, screaming, as it appears you wis last night. When he's nae so much as accidently brushed up against a wifie afore, and there's nae internet or dirty magazines in the hoose tae speak o. And I ken, I've …
Uncle Vanya
Häftad, 1987
219 kr
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Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life. …
Line of Beauty
Av Alan Hollinghurst, Jack Holden
E-bok, 2025
169 kr
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I can't explain it. I can't explain any of it to you. The line of beauty which led me to him to here.London. Summer, 1983.Nick Guest moves into the grand Notting Hill home of his university friend Toby - and into the dazzling world of Toby's father Gerald, a newly elected Tory MP, his elegant wife …
Hamnet
Häftad, 2023
201 kr
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'She’s like no one I’ve ever met... She’s like fire and water all at once.'Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family.As William moves to London to …
Shirley Valentine
Häftad, 2023
201 kr
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Nominated for Best Revival at the Olivier Awards 2024I’d fallen in love with the idea of living... because we don’t do what we want to do, do we? We do what we have to do and pretend that it’s what we want to do.Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the woman who got lost in …
Our Lady Of Sligo
Häftad, 1998
219 kr
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"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek) Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended by a young nursing Sister and visited by the uneasy figures of her husband Jack, daughter Joanie and her dead father. Fuelled by alcohol, …
