Chatroom

Author: Enda Walsh
Publisher: Samuel French , Limited
ISBN: 9780573052569
Category : Online chat groups
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
Characters: 3 males, 3 females. Scenery: A bare stage The six teenage characters communicate only via the internet. Conversations range in subject from Britney Spears to Willy Wonka to - suicide: Jim is depressed and talks of ending his life and Eva and William decide to do their utmost to persuade him to carry out his threat. From this chilling premise is forged a funny, compelling and uplifting play that tackles the issues of teenage life head-on and with great understanding.

Superhoe

Author: Nicôle Lecky
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848428386
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Lecky's play premiered by Talawa Theatre and the Royal Court at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2019.

Small Hours

Author: Lucy Kirkwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Since her debut in 2008, Lucy Kirkwood has firmly established herself as a leading playwright of her generation, the writer of a series of savagely funny, highly intelligent and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times. This collection, with an introduction by the author, brings together five of her plays.

Plays Four

Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Author: Lynn Nottage
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822215721
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
THE STORY: Recently widowed Godfrey, and his daughters Ernestine and Ermina, move from Florida to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, Godfrey turns to religion, and especially to Father Divine, for answers. The girls absorb their

Nine Night

Author: Natasha Gordon
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573710100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Gloria passes away, it falls to her British-born children to host the traditional Jamaican Nine Night celebration. Family and friends, familiar and unfamiliar, arrive to celebrate the life of the woman who connects them all and deal with unfinished business along the way. Nine Night is at once moving and raucously funny. Gordon paints the rituals of grief, the tensions of family and the complexities of identity with an acute eye and razor-sharp wit.

Boys

Author: Ella Hickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422629
Category : College graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Five bedrooms, five chairs and four boys. The class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn't want them, these boys start to wonder whether there's any point in getting older. How will they find the fight to make it as adults? Before all that they're going to have one hell of a party. It's hot and there'll be girls. Predict a riot."--Back cover.

The Seafarer

Author: Conor McPherson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822222842
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
THE STORY: THE SEAFARER is a chilling new play about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth. It's Christmas Eve, and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and

Moth

Author: Declan Greene
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848423374
Category : Australian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.

Hungry

Author: Chris Bush
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781839040115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
'I'd watch you eat. I'd eat you up. Look at you. You get it, don't you? You're real.' Lori is a professional chef. Bex waits on tables to make ends meet. One night together in a walk-in fridge and it's the beginning of something beautiful. Lori has big plans, while Bex is struggling. If we are what we eat, then Bex is in real trouble. It's not her fault - the system is rigged. No one on minimum wage and zero hours has the headspace to make their own yoghurt. Chris Bush's Hungry is a play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour. It was premiered in July 2021 in Paines Plough's the Roundabout, directed by Katie Posner, as a co-production between Paines Plough and Belgrade Theatre as part of Coventry City of Culture 2021, before touring the UK. 'One of the UK's most exciting young playwrights' The Stage 'A writer of great wit and empathy' The Times