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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2019
179 kr
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2026Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A thrilling …
Novecento
Häftad, 2023
203 kr
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At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento – 1900. The child is destined to a strange fate. …
Describe the Night
Av Rajiv Joseph
Häftad, 2022
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
199 kr
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WINNER - Best American Play, Obie Awards 2018In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. In 1990, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city …
Chekhov's First Play
Av Dead Centre
Häftad, 2016
187 kr
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‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell.’ – Anton ChekhovDuring the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton’s sister, placed many of her late brother’s manuscripts and papers in a safety deposit box in Moscow.In 1921 …
Summit
Av Andy Smith
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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"We need to use our imagination. We need to imagine that change might be possible. That change is possible, however hard or impossible it might seem.” In a blend of English, Farsi and fully integrated BSL, three performers tell a story from three perspectives. It is the story of an international …
Room
Häftad, 2017
219 kr
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Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor’s garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma’s games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and …
Arabian Night
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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A tale for today set in a magical tower block where the water has gone missing and five extraordinary individuals from the east and from the west cross paths on a hot and enchanted evening ending with a moonlit kiss and a homicide. Arabian Night is a sleek and sensual urban thriller from one of the …
Our Class
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
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"I want to be a fireman." "I want to be a teacher." "I want to be a movie star." Poland, 1925. As these Polish classmates - five Catholic, five Jewish - grow up, their lives take dramatically unexpected turns as their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then German. Friend …
Boss of It All
Häftad, 2014
187 kr
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A critically acclaimed, smart and fast-paced comedy about faked identities and explosive office politics, adapted from Lars von Trier’s cult classic film.The boss of an IT company is secretly selling up. To save face he hires Kristoffer, an actor, to take the blame. Thrown in at the deep end, the …
Ghosts
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2013
219 kr
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Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be set free...
Monsters
A play about the killing of James Bulger
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
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"""None of this should ever have happened. Somebody should have given us a different life."" Two ten year olds are brought in for questioning. A third boy has gone missing. The investigator is gentle. The boys begin to talk. 1993. A play about the killing of James Bulger. Stripped to the bone, …
Doonreagan
Häftad, 2013
219 kr
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Doonreagan House in Cashel, Connemara, for many years home to the author of this play, was where future Poet Laureate Ted Hughes took refuge in the late 1960s, after the death of his wife Sylvia Plath. With him were his two young children by Sylvia, as well as his lover Assia Wevill and baby …
Innocent Screams
E-bok, 2009
193 kr
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Dawn, Coronation Day 1953. The artist Francis Bacon works on his portrait of Pope Innocent X, inspired by Velazquez' masterpiece and his own deep absorption in human carnality. The chaotic studio is populated by characters possessing the power of change, who come to life in a satirical interplay of …
Cutting of the Cloth
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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The work-room of a Savile Row tailors, 1953. Two master craftsmen at daggers drawn: Polish-born Spijak insists that nothing can beat the excellence of a hand-sewn suit, while Eric uses his machine to work at twice the speed and earn twice the money. Sparks fly as each fights his own corner with …
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
Av Tim Crouch
E-bok, 2019
211 kr
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Jesus didn't die so we could be reborn, lady, the stars did.The writer leads his followers towards the end of this world and the start of a new one. The book he's written predicts it all – the equations, the black hole, all the words we'll speak till then.On this last day, at this last hour, a …
Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin’s bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptation by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde.“Men are like yam, you cut them how …
Dispute
Av Pierre Carlet de Chamblain Marivaux
Häftad, 1999
219 kr
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What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth? What if, tonight, they were to be released? How would bodies and minds reared in darkness respond to the first words, the first lies, the first kisses? What if you got to watch? Cruel, erotic and elegant …
Island of Slaves
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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" What will become of us? Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot. Marivaux's potent mix of laughter, emotion and …
Suprise of Love
Häftad, 2011
187 kr
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The beautiful Marquise has been left a widow tragically young... The handsome Chevalier has been deserted by the love of his life who has decided to take holy orders... Both have sworn never to lose their hearts again... Neither had reckoned with the surprise of love.
Hamnet
Av Dead Centre
Häftad, 2017
187 kr
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Dead Centre’s new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself.A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heights of Hamlet. Unlike the Prince, he cannot ask ‘to be or not to be’. Condemned not to be, he now …
Loyalty
Av Sarah Helm
Häftad, 2011
187 kr
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‘I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn’t find the words...There were suddenly three of us in our relationship.’In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating. And in …
seven methods of killing kylie jenner
E-bok, 2020
177 kr
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In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter to voice her frustration with white women profiting off Black culture and stereotypes. When The Discourse turns on her, the line between internet personas and IRL relationships blurs, and the …
Riots
Häftad, 2021
219 kr
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The Government has so far refused a Public Inquiry into the riots that shook our cities this Summer, so the Tricycle is mounting its own.This verbatim play builds a real-time picture of the riots as they unfolded. And then, from interviews with politicians, police, teachers, lawyers, community …
Violence and Son
Av Gary Owen
Häftad, 2022
201 kr
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‘People know, you’re my boy. And they know better than to lay a fucking finger on you. See? You are safer here with me, than you have ever been.’Liam’s 17 years old, loves Dr Who and has lost his mum. He has had to move from London to Wales, to the valleys, to the middle of nowhere, to live with a …
Karen Zacarías: Plays One
Native Gardens; The Book Club Play; Destiny of Desire
Häftad, 2022
316 kr
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The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacarías, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA.Contains the plays Native Gardens / The Book Club Play / Destiny of DesireThe Book Club PlayA hit comedy about books and the people who love them. When the members of a …
Ladies in Lavender
Häftad, 2022
203 kr
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An evocative, heart-warming story of unfulfi lled dreams and unrequited love.Based on the hit film screenplay by Charles Dance starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and on the original short story by William J. Locke, Ladies In Lavender tells the tale of two sisters Ursula and Janet who live in a …
Twilight Zone
Av Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
187 kr
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Between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge is a dimension of imagination. An area we call the Twilight Zone.Adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr Burns) and directed by Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, this world premiere production of the acclaimed CBS Television Series The …
i will still be whole (when you rip me in half)
Häftad, 2023
185 kr
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"A tender little green shoot of a piece" Lyn Gardner1996. A young mother walks out of a small house in Shepherd’s Bush and doesn’t look back.2019. A daughter lies in a bath and stares at a crack in the ceiling.Joy and EJ prepare for their first meeting in twenty-two years. They run, they bathe, …
Hansel and Gretel
Av Carl Grose
Häftad, 2023, 6-9 år
185 kr
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Times are tough for the family in the wood. They'd eat like kings if only they could.But hunger gnaws - famine stalks the land. Something quite wicked has the upper hand!Poor mother and father must do "what is best"... And Hansel and Gretel will be put to the test! Armed with their very last slice …
Fosse: Plays One
Someone is Going to Come Home; The Name; The Guitar Man; The Child
Av Jon Fosse
Häftad, 2024
346 kr
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Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The ChildIn Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they want to do? Won't somebody come? …
