Sex, political violence in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris. Political murder in suburban London. Death, love and homicide in New York. War in the belly of a whale. These are the themes in Julia Pascal's latest collection which takes place in London in 1946, Europe in 1982, Manhattan today and in a whale at anytime. Honeypot Ten years after the massacres at the Munich Olympics, Susanne joins Mossad as a secret agent. This beautiful Swedish woman is at the heart of a struggle between desire and destruction, between love and infidelity, between motherhood and...
Sex, political violence in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris. Political murder in suburban London. Death, love and homicide in New York. War in t...
Dennis Kelly (Tony Award-winner for Matilda the Musical) is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work collects together: Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep. Also features a foreword by journalist, author and critic, Aleks Sierz. -Without doubt, Kelly is one of the most multi-talented British playwrights to emerge in the last decade- - Aleks Sierz (from the foreword)
Dennis Kelly (Tony Award-winner for Matilda the Musical) is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work coll...
Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays, translated into English. Olga's Room Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario's story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s, Dea Loher's gripping first play spans Brazilian revolution and Nazi dictatorship. Innocence A city by the sea. 14 people on the edge. Illegal immigrants...
Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays, translated into E...
Jon Fosse has been called -the Beckett of the 21st century- (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed -Waiting for Godot without the gags.- Just as Beckett's plays -- and those of all great playwrights -- grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, and were part of what brought their times forward, so do Fosse's plays now. Fosse: Plays Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright's body of work for the stage to be published in the English language. The volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom,...
Jon Fosse has been called -the Beckett of the 21st century- (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed -Wait...
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records when it was produced in 2001. Her second play Behzti (Dishonour) won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2005. Behzti rocked the world of theatre when it was cancelled after protestsin Birmingham, forcing the playwright into hiding. The play's closure sparked an international debate about offence and freedom of expression. In 2014, Khandan (Family) was co-produced by the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. This is her first...
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records when it...
The first collection of plays from award-winning South African playwright Yael Farber, featuring three fresh adaptations of classical theater texts. Molora - Based on The Oresteia by Aeschylus In this reworking of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation. Attempts to come to terms with their violent past echo testimonies delivered in Apartheid's wake throughout South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. RAM: The Abduction of Sita into Darkness - Based on The...
The first collection of plays from award-winning South African playwright Yael Farber, featuring three fresh adaptations of classical theater texts. <...
Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing. The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre. Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God has been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned from Africa reveal the true cost of their failure to combat a terrible and frightening disease. Idomeneus is a narrative play written...
Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his wri...
The first collection of plays from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose film credits include the screenplays for The Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and the upcoming Sufragette. This book includes six of Morgan's acclaimed early plays: Skinned, Tiny Dynamite, Splendour, Tender, Lovesong, and 27.
The first collection of plays from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose film credits include the screenplays for Th...
Ernst Toller was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism. These stage-worthy new translations of Toller's plays (The Machine Breakers, The German Hinkemann, The Revenge of the Lover Scorned, Wotan Unbound, Day of the Proletariat and German Revolution) capture the spirit of artistic and political combustion amidst war, revolution, imprisonment, Nazi persecution, exile and the Holocaust.
Ernst Toller was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism. These stage-worthy new translations of Toller's plays (The Machine ...
