Зарубежная драматургия
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежная драматургияFood For Ravens
Winner of a Royal Television Society Award, this is the text of the television drama broadcast by the BBC starring Brian Cox and Sinead Cusack. Food for Ravens is a powerful political drama about one of the great politicians of the Twentieth Century, Aneurin (Nye) Bevan.
Everyday Maps for Everyday Use
‘I don’t think we’ll get to Mars … not really … not normalpeople. Scientists might … it’ll end up a scientific outpost likeAntarctica … but it won’t be for people like you and me.’Maggie has found a warm patch of ground on HorsellCommon. She believes something is buried in the dirt. Thisis the site of the Martian invasion in HG Wells’ The War ofthe Worlds and she sneaks out of the house in the dead ofnight and dances on the warm spot. Here she meets Behrooz,an amateur astronomer who spends his nights mapping thesurface of Mars.A stunning new play about fantasy and sexuality, and aboutthe blurry and indistinct lines between reality and desire.‘The writing has energy and breadth, and Morton-Smithjuggles ideas and emotions as he places political and personalnarratives side by side.’ Guardian on Salt Meets Wound ‘The dialogue crackles with vicious insight and humour.’ Time Out on Salt Meets Wound
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is regarded by many as ‘a great play marred’ by dated satire and suspect third and fourth acts. A play with a long history of ‘additions’, Colin Teevan’s contemporary scenes link the thrilling danger of Marlowe’s opening acts with the profound terror and tragedy of his finale in a radical and darkly comic new take on a classic of the English stage. This revival is presented by The Jamie Lloyd Company at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London from April 2016.
Winnie the Witch
Winnie the Witch uses her magic to solve some very practical problems. But the results are never quite as she imagined…One day after turning everything in her house black to hide the mess, she discovers she can no longer see her black cat Wilbur. So she decides to use a bit of magic, and that's when the trouble really starts…This wonderful new play for children brings together all three books in the award-winning Winnie the Witch series which have delighted children all over the world. This is the perfect opportunity to introduce children aged 3 to 6 to the excitement of live theatre.
On Trial
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.Sanctuary was part of the National Theatre's 'Transformations' season in 2002.
Iya-Ile : The First Wife
It's 1989 in Lagos. Political hysteria and social change are sweeping Nigeria. Chief Adeyemi's wife Toyin is turning 40 and, behind the mansion walls, the household is preparing for her party. But there are other distractions. Their troublesome sons, returning from college, are more interested in seduction and starting revolutions than their parents' disintegrating marriage. Meanwhile Helen, the ambitious house girl, is waiting for her chance…Iya-Ile was in production at the Soho Theatre, London in Spring 2009.
Three Farces and a Comedy
Contains the plays Rookery Nook, Thark, Plunder and The Bed Before Yesterday. ‘Travers should be regarded as an important figure post-Pinero and pre-Orton, and certainly one of the most skilled of British farceurs’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ‘The single-track dirty mind, the double entendre, the treble think, the quadruple bluff: funny names, funny local yokels, domineering women, pretty girls and the ever-swinging bedroom door… Explosively funny’ Richard Usborne, The Times Literary Supplement
Dream of the Dog
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium. Patricia and Richard Wiley, an elderly white couple, are packing up to leave the farm they’ve sold to developers. Their preparations are interrupted by the arrival of a young man – ‘Look Smart’ – who used to be one of the black workers on their estate until he disappeared fifteen years ago. The day before Look Smart left, something terrible happened on the Wileys’ farm. But everyone has a different memory of the dreadful event and their own role in it. As the different accounts of their shared past are unravelled, they are all forced to confront their own versions of the truth – with shocking ramifications for their lives today. Dream of the Dog is a richly textured and complex story of South Africa’s emerging democracy, and its continued negotiation with its past in order to find a workable identity for its future. Critically acclaimed in South Africa, this new play takes an unflinching look at the twin mantras of the post-Mandela age – reconciliation and forgiveness – as it asks whether black and white can ever live together peacefully.
Fragile Land
The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners. Suitable for ages 14+Fragile Land was performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London, from 25th March – 12th April 2003.
Baghdad Wedding
In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's the way it goes.'From cosmopolitan London to the chaos of war-ravaged Baghdad, this is the comic tale of three friends, torn between two worlds, and a wedding that goes horribly wrong.Baghdad Wedding premiered at the Soho Theatre in June 2007.