Paul Sirett
Список книг автора Paul SirettRunning the Silk Road
Exhiliarating and refreshing, Running the Silk Road blends East and West, telling a modern story mixed with Chinese myths. In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge – to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an “alternative” Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflict test friendships and soon threaten their chances of success.Weaving in and out of the contemporary story are magical and timeless Chinese myths.Running the Silk Road was on tour until in June 2008 in a production by Yellow Earth Theatre Company featuring the spectacular Beijing Opera Theatre.
Bad Blood Blues
Are Africans being exploited as guinea pigs' to test new drugs for multi-national pharmaceutical companies? Why is HIV/AIDS treatment too expensive for countries where the virus is most rife? Is it okay to sacrifice lives to protect the integrity of medical studies? Bad Blood Blues is a powerfully intense new play that leads us deep into a personal and sexual moral maze while confronting the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa.
Paul Sirett: Plays Two
Worlds Apart is a devastating play about political asylum, even more relevant today than when it was written ten years ago. In Crusade a bus-load of very different individuals are stranded in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and its not long before the tensions overflow. This Other Eden examines a mismatched string quartet, riven by social and political differences, as it gradually falls apart.