On March 24, 1895, Mrs. Robinson, a society palm-reader, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, -Bosie, - was urging him to sue the Marquis of Queensberry (Bosie's father) for libel. But Wilde's friends, wary of Queensberry's power, were warning him to leave town. A play about a man at the height of his fame asking a complete stranger about a potentially life-changing decision.
On March 24, 1895, Mrs. Robinson, a society palm-reader, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, -Bosie, - w...
In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The life is one of struggle--with love, with the body, with her country, and most of all, with her art.
In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahl...
Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsession is ignited--one that tears both their worlds apart. Set amidst the glittering splendors and miseries of 19th century Paris, Camille has scandalised and fascinated audiences and theatres, cinemas and opera houses for over a hundred and fifty years.
Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsess...
-A writer who can change the way people feel.---Observer
Collected for the first time in print, nine monologues produced over more than a decade by one of British Theatre's most fiercely individual voices. Taken together they document the extraordinary site-specific solo performances which have run parallel to Bartlett's acclaimed work as a mainstream director and translator.
-A writer who can change the way people feel.---Observer
Collected for the first time in print, nine monologues produced over more tha...
Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreak, climb out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot.
Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreak, climb out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about...
I read "Skin Lane" with one eye closed out of sheer animal terror. Then, unimaginably, it brought me to tears; what a work of art so unexpected and heartbreaking and lovely. Armistead Maupin
A powerful and complex story of sexual obsession. . . . A profoundly original meditation on thwarted desire. Patrick McGrath
"Skin Lane" welds itself to your hands from first to last. Textured, teeming with menace and deeply moving, it is an extremely fine piece of writing. The Times (London)
A fiendishly taut little psycho-shocker. Will Self
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Shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award
I read "Skin Lane" with one eye closed out of sheer animal terror. Then, unimaginably, it brought me ...
