When Wendy has an epileptic fit in the kitchen and burns herself, her friends in their last term at a special school come up with a way to help. They set themselves a goal and spend their last days struggling to reach it.
Strugglers by Richard Cameron won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award in 1988 at the National Student Drama Festival.
A witty energetic piece of young people's theatre
When Wendy has an epileptic fit in the kitchen and burns herself, her friends in their last...
Richard Cameron's most popular and acclaimed work together in one volume introduced by the author
This volume includes Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Pond Life, Mortal Ash and All of You Mine. Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, written as interweaving monologues, is a contemporary coming-of-age play set in rural Yorkshire and centres around a death that may not be quite as accidental as it seems "Cameron's play is itself cumulatively and salutarily devastating...building up a picture from many partial perspectives, the monologues are beautifully arranged" (Independent); Pond Life is...
Richard Cameron's most popular and acclaimed work together in one volume introduced by the author
The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard-drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men. Nothing and no-one will ever be the same again.
The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard-drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. This is the summer of 1962; ...
For many people in the English-speaking world, Victor Hugo's name immediately brings up his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. Their enduring success has overshadowed his many other achievements: he was a playwright, poet, politician and philosopher. And above all, he was a constant campaigner for social justice, for prison reform, abolition of the death penalty and the rights of women. He also campaigned against the excessive power of established religion on people's lives, declaring himself a freethinker. As a philosopher and social commentator, he was ahead of his time...
For many people in the English-speaking world, Victor Hugo's name immediately brings up his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. The...
In3D Printing With MatterControl, Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, the team behindMastering 3D Printing, explain step-by-step how to use the MatterControl program, which allows you to control many common types of 3D printers (including both cartesian and delta style machines).3D Printing With MatterControlcan stand alone, or it can be a companion toMastering 3D Printingto show you how to install, configure, and use best practices with your printer and printing software. The book includes both step by step software walkthroughs and case studies with typical...
In3D Printing With MatterControl, Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, the team behindMastering 3D Printing, explain step-by-step how t...
From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more broadly inclusive view of sociolinguistics. Hence there is a need for a handbook that will survey the main areas of the field, point out the lacunae in...
From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist traditi...
The New Shop Class connects the worlds of the maker and hacker with that of the scientist and engineer. If you are a parent or educator or a budding maker yourself, and you feel overwhelmed with all of the possible technologies, this book will get you started with clear discussions of what open source technologies like 3D printers, Arduinos, robots and wearable tech can really do in the right hands. Written by real "rocket scientist" Joan Horvath, author of Mastering 3D Printing, and 3D printing expert Rich Cameron (AKA whosawhatsis), The New Shop Class is a...
The New Shop Class connects the worlds of the maker and hacker with that of the scientist and engineer. If you are a parent or educator or...
