Зарубежная драматургия
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежная драматургияLie of the Land
Set in the future, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a city couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and the rising anarchy of city life. But will a desolate house by the sea provide them with The Answer?Lie of the Land premiered at the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008.
The Magic Tree
Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home and tentatively discover what it is that they have in common. But just when it seems something beautiful might emerge, the opposite appears.The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us.The Magic Tree opened at the The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh in August 2008.
Topless Mum
There's a photo and he says he's on it even though he isn't on it but he says he is and Barry took it and it's summat to do wi' me only it were Barry that took it, only he didn't, is that it?'Ron Hutchinson's powerful new satire on the media's manipulation of the images of war. When a soldier returns home after serving in Afghanistan he tempts a newspaper editor with personal photos that seem to expose outrageous acts of brutality. But when their authenticity is questioned, how far can the story be spun to stop the real truth leaking out…
Running 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.
Stockholm
Meet the couple every couple wants to be. Attractive and immaculately turned out, they are the perfect team. Tomorrow they will be in Stockholm, a city where, in summer, the sun shines 24/7 and sometimes it’s dark all day long. Today it’s his birthday and she’s going to give him all his presents and treats and surprises.Treading a fine line between tenderness and cruelty, Stockholm reveals a relationship unravelling. It’s beautiful, but it’s not pretty.Stockholm unites leading physical theatre company Frantic Assembly with award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery and designer Laura Hopkins (Black Watch, Mercury Fur) to deliver an extraordinary perspective on the nature of modern love.Stockholm opened at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in September 2007.
Betts: Plays Three
Includes the plays The Optimist, The Swing of Things and The Company ManIn this third volume of his collected plays Torben Betts portrays a world of floundering, sub-alpha males and suicidally miserable women, of bullying parents, torturous childhoods and failing relationships, characters all baffled by the most basic question: how do we live good lives and be happy in the modern world?Set on Guy Fawke's Night The Optimist (2002) concerns a Government Defence Minister who must face up to the consequences of the choices he has made, both professionally and personally. The Swing of Things (2005) hilariously examines a world where status anxiety and affluenza seem to have corrupted the soul of a whole generation. In The Company Man (2006) a dying woman's last night is marred by the conflict between her accomplished yet emotionally damaged husband and their deeply troubled son.
The Enchanted Pig
King Hildebrand is off to war – again. He commands his three daughters not to enter a locked room in the palace. Naturally they do, and in it find the Book of Fate, which announces that two of them will marry handsome Kings, while the third, Flora, must wed a fat pig from the North.Drawing on Romanian and Norwegian folk tales with their origins in the myth of Cupid and Psyche, Alasdair Middleton weaves a fantastic musical story from traditional materials and takes us from palace to pigsty via the darkest corners of the universe in search of Flora's destiny.Funny and tender, miraculous and ridiculous, The Enchanted Pig moves heaven and earth for the sake of love and proves that even the best of men can be pigs. Some of the time. The Enchanted Pig opened at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in December 2006, with music by Jonathan Dove.
Women Laughing
There are many fleeting moments when either Colin or Tony want to smother the laughs of their wives. The two couples fight for every inch of their lives, from the garden of a house in Ealing to the grounds of a mental asylum. Women Laughing has been performed at the Royal Exchange Manchester, the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, the Palace Theatre Watford and was toured in 2000 by Not The National Theatre.
Karoo Moose
In a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, South Africa, a young girl, Thomaza, struggles to survive. A violent and terrifying incident and a chance encounter with an escaped moose changes her life forever. A story of pain, redemption and hope, combining traditional African storytelling and magical realism the multi-award-winning Karoo Moose was first produced by the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town.
Berlin Hanover Express
Berlin, in the Autumn of 1942.Inside the Irish consulate, officials and diplomats try to carry on their routine business. Outside, RAF bombing of the capital of the Third Reich intensifies. As the security services start to uncover the true origins of the consulate’s German cook, should the staff step into protect her or will their neutrality render them powerless in preventing the crimes unfolding around them?As the secrets of the Nazi regime are uncovered, can a country remain neutral in a time of war?Berlin Hanover Express premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in March 2009