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Caryl Churchill - Plays 2 - Softcops/Top Girls/Fen/Serious Money by Caryl Churchill
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Methuen Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" —The London Standard"Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness an ...Show more
Churchill Plays: 1 by Caryl Churchill
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of and ...Show more
Clare Barron Plays 1 - Dirty Crusty; You Got Older; I'll Never Love Again; Dance Nation by Clare Barron
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
In recent years Clare Barron has emerged as one of the most acclaimed and exciting new voices in American drama.The first ever collection of her work, this volume contains I'll Never Love Again, You Got Older, Dance Nation and Dirty Crusty. I'll Never Love AgainA theatrical chamber piece about first lov ...Show more
Dario Fo - Plays One - Mistero Buffo/Accidental Death of an Anarchist/Trumpets and Raspberries/The Virtuous Burglar/One Was Nude/ One More Tails by Dario Fo
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and Raspberries is ...Show more
Deborah Levy Plays 1 by Levy Deborah
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
The first collection of plays by one of Britain's leading writers Pax: 'Pioneering writing which unlocks the colours of the imagination and subverts the structure, style and content of our new drama' City Limits; Clam: 'A budding genius' City Limits; The B File: 'An ironic, funny, lonely and challenging ...Show more
Fo Plays: v. 2: "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!"," Elizabeth", "The Open Couple" "An Ordinary Day" by Dario Fo
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar...Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed" (Michael Coveney, Fin ...Show more
Frayn Plays: v.1: "Alphabetical Order", "Donkeys' Years", "Clouds", "Make and Break", "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Contemporary Dramatists
"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity, and unusual in the way that the two types of women do not become stereotypes" (Daily Telegraph); Donkeys' Years, a s ...Show more
Jean Genet by BRADBY DAVID
Category: Fiction | Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Jean Genet's significance within twentieth-century theatre has long been understated. This timely book, the only introductory text in English to Genet's plays in production, presents an overview of an influential and controversial writer whose work prefigured many recent postmodern and post-colonial dev ...Show more
Kane: Complete Plays: "Blasted", "Phaedra's Love", "Cleansed", "Crave", "4.48 Psychosis", "Skin" by Sarah Kane
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary Dramatists
This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including "Blasted"; "Phaedra's Love"; "Cleansed"; "Crave"; "4.48 Psychosis"; and "Skin".
Stephens Plays: 2 - One Minute; Country Music; Motortown; Pornography; Sea Wall by Simon Stephens
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The range of plays in this volume displays a tough sen ...Show more
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