Зарубежная драматургия
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежная драматургияOur Friends, The Enemy
‘The soldiers gently sway on a cool breeze. Neither side moves, or speaks. They examine one another, like long lost brothers, trying to identify these strange faces in front of them.’ Private James Boyce The Western Front, Christmas 1914: lights appear from the German trenches, ghosts rise from behind the horizon, soldiers meet between the firing lines. The events which follow are some of the most astounding stories of the Great War told through the eyes of one soldier, Private James Boyce: ‘We’re fighting the same enemy, just on two different sides.’ Boyce takes us on a magical, haunting journey through the events surrounding the Christmas truce. Our Friends, The Enemy is an acclaimed one-man show combining theatre and spoken word to capture the story of the Christmas truce from the First World War.
The Husbands
‘In my world women marry only once.’ ‘Not here, brother, not here.’ An explosive new play about love, jealousy and one woman’s choices. It’s Aya’s wedding day. Her third. In a society in which there are few women, that’s just what happens. But as her two husbands prepare for the wedding feast, a stranger arrives who threatens to challenge everything they believe in. Against a backdrop of modern rural India, Sharmila Chauhan weaves an extraordinary tale of love and wonder. Exploring matriarchy, ritual, female genocide, sexuality and power, this is a sensual, joyful and provocative piece of theatre.
Pitcairn
‘It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time…’ It’s 1789. Ideas of revolution and democracy are in the air. In the South Pacific, Fletcher Christian overthrows Captain Bligh in the famous mutiny on The Bounty. With the ship’s crew and their Tahitian lovers and followers, Christian sails to the fertile and remote island of Pitcairn. But his dream of creating a society of equals is blown off course: by the greed and suspicions of the sailors, and by the Tahitian’s adherence to their hierarchy and traditions. With salty humour and growing horror, and inspired by littleknown events, Richard Bean charts a colony’s descent from a new Eden to a brutal dystopia.
Only Our Own
How do you survive in a land that no longer has a place for you? In the Irish war of independence in the 1920s, hundreds of stately homes were burnt to the ground and the owners' ancestral lands seized. Many of these dispossessed aristocratic Anglo-Irish families left their home country for a brand new beginning elsewhere, drawing a thick veil over the past. Others stayed on in Ireland, doing their best to assimilate into a society that no longer had a place for them. International playwright Ann Henning Jocelyn follows the story of three generations of such a family up until the present day, examining their struggle for identity against an ever evolving cultural, political and social landscape. Implicit in between the lines is also the story of Ireland. Reflecting an imposed social system that turned everyone into a victim, Only Our Own follows one nation's journey from a highly polarised society to a modern integrated one, ready at last to rise above age-old bitter divisions. On a personal level, the play explores the dilemma of living with or without a traumatic past; the inter-generational gap between people emotionally linked but faced with different life options; and, ultimately, the need to develop and adjust to a world rapidly changing around you.
Khandan (Family)
What happens when the legacy of a father collides with the dreams of his son? Widow Jeeto Gill has spent her life working hard and making sacrifices for her children. Now she looks forward to going back to her land in the Punjab, eating saag and roti on a verandah and letting her tired eyes rest on green fields. Her son Pal seems to have it all but he’s restless. He’s got big plans for his Daddy’s business and a taste for Johnny Walker Black Label. However his kind-hearted wife Liz has her own ideas about what’s best. Meanwhile Pal’s sharp-tongued sister Cookie runs the tackiest beauty salon in town and harbours a dark secret. When their cousin’s destitute wife, Reema, arrives from back home, the Gills propose to take care of her. Little do they know that her arrival will change the course of their family’s destiny forever.
fiji land
‘we do what we’re supposed to and the world’s a better place, right?’ Welcome to Fiji Land. Things are very simple here. Listen for the alarm. Smile for the camera. Follow orders. Grainer, Tanc and Wolstead are here to keep watch, guard the prisoners, and try to stay cool. Or possibly warm. fiji land is a surreal and incisive play about the very real things that happen when cell doors shut and the world looks away. ‘as long as we’re safe, we don’t want to know what’s going on to keep it that way, do we?’
The Keepers of Infinite Space
46 years. 750,000 prisoners. Since the Israeli occupation in 1967, Palestine has become a nation of prisons. Up to 40% of the male population has been detained under military orders. Virtually every family has seen relatives put behind bars and generations have grown up in the shadow of the cell. The team behind the international hit The Fear of Breathing (4 Stars Telegraph, Metro, Independent, Time Out Critics’ Choice) chronicle a hidden world of incarceration where imaginative resistance, strange escapades and unexpected betrayals have become the norm.
Children of Fate (Hechos Consumados)
‘Anyone who wants to live has got to change the world.’ Children of Fate exposes with tenderness, humour and infinite love the devastating effects of Thatcherite ideology on the forgotten lives of millions dispossessed and brutalised by years of the Pinochet dictatorship. Much like Las Brutas, Radrigan’s powerful play that received critical acclaim at Theatre503 in September 2011, Children of Fate speaks not only for the marginalise and oppressed in Chile but represents communities all over the world who are struggling against the odds to survive.
Crowning Glory
‘In a world saturated with images of unrealistic and unobtainable beauty, how do women see themselves?’Crowning Glory is a new play that explores some of the ways in which mainstream Western definitions of beauty in today’s world affects the way women see themselves. It challenges us to question our own personal perceptions of beauty and ask who exactly sets these ideals?
A Boy and His Soul
Where do you get SOUL? From watching your parents sell the house you grew up in? From discovering the family secret about your crazy cousin? Or from the childhood records found in your parents’ basement? From Stevie, Aretha, Marvin, Chaka, Barry, Gladys…and Colman. Propelled by the beat of classic soul, smooth R&B and disco, this is the soundtrack of a boy’s coming of age in 70s and 80s Philadelphia. A Boy and His Soul was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award Best Solo Show, GLAAD Media Award Best Play On or Off Broadway and the ITBA Best Solo Show awards.