Immaculate

Author: Oliver Lansley
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854599445
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth in which a young woman finds her life spiralling into confusion when she wakes up one morning, unaccountably pregnant. You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage... Oliver Lansley's play Immaculate was first performed by Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company as part of the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Bull

Author: Mike Bartlett
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822229765
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
This vicious comedy is an allegorical deathmatch between business colleagues—full of bizarre power plays and one-upmanship—wherein one of three employees is allegedly going to be fired. The odds against our protagonist are stacked from the outset: rumple-faced sad-sack Thomas never quite gets his footing against opponents Tony, a shark in wolf's clothing, and Isobel, a snaky number with a talent for undermining. In savvy fashion, Mike Bartlett's BULL caters to our baser instincts.

Eight

Author: Ella Hickson
Publisher: Original Works Publishing
ISBN: 1934962406
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
A collection of eight monologues that offer a group portrait of diverse characters, from high-class hookers to 7/7 survivors.

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

Author: Jack Thorne
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848425132
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt and rediscovery. It previewed at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a co-production between Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Apologia (2017 Edition)

Author: Alexi Kaye Campbell
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848426931
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A witty, topical and passionate play about generations, secrets, and the stories we tell about our lives. Kristin Miller is a firebrand matriarch and eminent art historian. Her birthday gathering should be a cause for celebration, but the recent publication of her memoir has exposed cracks in her family relationships. As the evening progresses, questions arise about the sacrifices she has made and about the price paid by those nearest to her. Alexi Kaye Campbell's play Apologia was originally produced at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2009. This edition was published alongside the play's revival at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in 2017, directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Stockard Channing as Kristin.

The Normal Heart

Author: Larry Kramer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619939
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Dramatizes the onset of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, the agonizing fight to get political and social recognition of it's problems, and the toll exacted on private lives. 2 acts, 16 scenes, 13 men, 1 woman, 1 setting.

Enough

Author: Stef Smith
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848428454
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'When I walk into a room, in my uniform. There is a look that gets thrown my way. When I walk into a room, in my uniform. It's as if for second everything stops.' Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants. They're here for your safety, your comfort and your pleasure. Or so you think. But 30,000 feet below them their seemingly perfect lives are rapidly unravelling. In the sky, over the sea and in cheap hotel rooms around the world, they can feel the ground shake beneath them. Something is rising up, something which cannot be ignored. And it's calling out for them. If they're going to survive what's coming, something needs to change. Poetic, unpredictable and explosive, Stef Smith's play Enough is a fragmentary and intense journey into female friendship, and unearths what happens when you can no longer be the woman people want. Enough premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning a Fringe First Award.

Joseph K

Author: Tom Basden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848421547
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new play from Bafta nominee and award-winning British playwright and comedian Tom Basden.

Life After Life

Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552779687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

The Enchantment

Author: Victoria Benedictsson
Publisher: NHB Classic Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler. One sunny day in Paris, Gustave Alland, famous artist and philanderer, visits Louise Strandberg - convalescing in her brother's studio - and casts her effortlessly under his spell. In a vain attempt to escape, she exiles herself to her provincial hometown in Sweden. But a letter propels her back to Paris and into his arms. And for a brief moment, ecstasy is hers. Victoria Benedictsson's play The Enchantment was written shortly before her suicide in 1888. This English version by Clare Bayley was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in July 2007.