Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Performance

A London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir. When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds. Tanika Gupta is the author of Waiting Room.

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.

Teenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent family life, they move from dreams to betrayal --with devastating results. Inside Out is commissioned by Clean Break, a women's theatre company working with women in prison, women ex-offenders and women who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Tanika Gupta's critically acclaimed play, Fragile Land, is about what nationhood means for second-generation immigrants. The pressure to stick to their own kind proves a tough call for two teenage Asian schoolgirls in this fresh, engaging portrayal of a London very different from the one first encountered by their parents.

Hobson's Choice is one of the most popular and enduring of British comedies. With enormous wit and charm, rising star Tanika Gupta has transposed the Hobson family to a modern Bengal-Asian community in London.

-A bold and unusual revival.---The London Times

-Confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguiling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart.---The Daily Telegraph

Three acclaimed plays from a gifted playwright. Includes The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers.

New writing based on the fables of Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of the Council for Kings--literally, a -mirror- for princes--these subtle and philosophical animal fables to this day carry immense significance to all sections of Arab and Persian society.

In this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by the 'Summer' play A Yard of Sun, written in the mid-1930's.
Celebrated for the sensuousness and joyous wit of its language, The Lady's Not for Burning is a key play in the revival of verse drama in the 1940's, and the scale of its success made Fry one of the most famous playwrights of his day.
A Yard of Sun, Fry's last full-length stage play, is set in Siena just after the end of World War Two....

Against a backdrop of London and war-torn Baghdad, three friends grapple with their sexual, cultural, and political identities. This is a surprising first play from Iraqi writer Hassan Abdulrazzak.