Our Friends, The Enemy

Author: Alex Gwyther
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783196130
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
The Western Front, Christmas 1914: lights appear from the German trenches, ghosts rise behind the horizon, soldiers meet between the firing lines. The events which follow are the most astounding stories of the Great War told through the eyes of one soldier, Private James Boyce: 'We're fighting the same enemy, just on two different sides.' Boyce takes us on a magical, haunting journey through the events surrounding the Christmas truce. Our Friends, The Enemy is a debut solo show combining theatre and spoken word to tell the story of the Christmas truce from the First World War.

Maxwell History and Genealogy

Author: Florence Amelia Wilson Houston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Augusta County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 766

Book Description

Quietly

Author: Owen McCafferty
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057129944X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Do you want to know why I'm here? Northern Ireland are playing Poland on the TV. Jimmy and Ian, two middle-aged Belfast men, are meeting tonight for the first time. They have a shared past. They need to talk. A powerful story about violence and forgiveness, Quietly marked Owen McCafferty's Abbey Theatre debut, as part of the Great Irish Writers Season, November 2012.

Ruben Guthrie

Author: Brendan Cowell
Publisher: Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN: 9780868199238
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He's 29, he's the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he's engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney is his oyster. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly.

A Line in the Sand

Author: , Red Room Poetry
Publisher: Pantera Press
ISBN: 0645624594
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
A Line In The Sand draws together over 80 of Australia's leading poets and public figures commissioned by Red Room Poetry across the last 20 years. These poems illuminate space and time, giving us ways to speak and listen to loss, dream, connection, truths and traces. As a celebration of the groundbreaking work Red Room Poetry does, to read these pages is to enter the alchemic process – where poetry transforms us, reawakening wonder and ways of being. Featuring poems from Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Grace Tame, Jazz Money, Bruce Pascoe, Tony Birch, Maria Tumarkin, Sarah Holland-Blatt, Eloise Grills, Omar Musa and Uncle Archie Roach.

Bully for Them

Author: Fiona Scott-Norman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922213330
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
One of the most difficult things about being bullied is the feeling that nobody else knows what it’s like. Twenty-two of Australia’s most talented and successful people know exactly what it’s like. In candid and entertaining interviews, leading lights from across Australian life recount how they were bullied and shunned at school just for being different. Not only did they survive the ordeal but their experiences helped shape them into the remarkable individuals they are today. Contributors include: Missy Higgins (musician), Hazem El Masri (NRL), Christos Tsiolkas (writer), Tiffiny Hall (TV), Alice Pung (writer), Sam Bramham (paralympian), Stella Young (disability advocate), Eddie Perfect (actor), Megan Washington (musician), Brendan Cowell (actor), Marieke Hardy (writer), Adam Goodes (AFL), Adam Boland (TV), Bindi Cole (artist), Charlie Pickering (TV), Kate Miller-Heidke (musician), Tim Ferguson (comedian), Penny Wong (politician), Benjamin Law (writer), Judith Lucy (comedian), Paul Capsis (musician) and Wendy Harmer (TV).

The Artist Man and the Mother Woman

Author: Morna Pearson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408173735
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
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 checked under his mattress. Nut, nae contact wi anither female in the world. Oh. 'Cept his mammy o course. 'Cept his mammy. Geoffrey Buncher is an art teacher. Until now his only meaningful relationship has been with his mother, Edie, who doesn't want her 'wee man growing up too fast'. But when one day he reads in the newspaper that he's working in amongst the top ten sexiest professions, he decides to advertise in the local papers for a wife. Straying outside of his comfortable existence where his mother continues to buy her middle-aged son's Ribena, Geoffrey enters a frightening world of adulthood and female companionship that he struggles to adjust to. Attraction manifests itself in warped and disturbing ways and leads to a terrifying conclusion. Written in Morna Pearson's trademark 'lurid, post-modern Doric' (Scotsman), and with hints of Joe Orton and Harold Pinter, The Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, deceptively simple, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship. This world premiere was staged by the Traverse Theatre Company in the Traverse One space between 30 October and 17 November 2012, directed by Orla O'Loughlin.

The Fastest Clock in the Universe

Author: Philip Ridley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135841
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
It's Cougar's birthday. He's having a party. And the gift he'd kill for is youth... In a strange room in East London the party preparations are under way. Everything has been planned to the last detail. Surely nothing can go wrong? After all, there's the specially made birthday cake, the specially written cards, the specially chosen guest of honour... and a very, very sharp knife. Philip Ridley's edgy and provocative drama caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992, winning the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer to the Stage and the Meyer Whitworth Prize. It is now regarded as a contemporary classic. 'A bit like a ride on a ghost train... you find yourself shuddering with shock and laughing uproariously... horror has rarely been so much fun' Daily Telegraph 'Scorchingly nasty... fingers an age and its icons with terrifying accuracy' Guardian

Wingman and Skittles

Author: Richard Marsh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474222021
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Dad wasn't angry. As I started to cry. He hugged me. He calmed me. And he taught me to lie. Wingman is a new father-son comedy from Fringe-First winner Richard Marsh. Mum's dead. Annoyingly, dad's not. After twenty years apart, can father and son say goodbye to mum without saying hello to each other? This achingly funny story reminds us that no matter how bad life is, family can make it worse. Wingman received its world premiere at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh, on 30 July 2014, directed by Justin Audibert, before transferring to the Soho Theatre Upstairs from 2 - 20 September and then touring. The play is published alongside Richard Marsh's Skittles, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011 and then featured on Radio 4 as Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets, winning Best Scripted Comedy at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. 'For verse with heart and verve, see Richard Marsh's dazzling love-gone-wrong show Skittles' Telegraph 'Richard Marsh's Skittles came at high velocity, whizzing through the various stages of a romantic entanglement that began when two colleagues shared 'a noncommittal Skittle' during a work break, progressing quickly to proposal and marriage . . . Funny and wise.' Guardian

Collection # 6

Author:
Publisher: Australian Script Centre
ISBN: 9780957754461
Category : Australian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The Australian Script Centre promotes and distributes some of Australia's best performace writing to a variety of markets. This collection profiles the best scripts from the 2005-6 program. It includes major prize winners, critical and popular successes and yet to be produced gems.