Download or read book King of England Bastard Angel written by Barrie Keeffe and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sus written by Barrie Keeffe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''You see, what this country needs is a strong government to sort out the laws, bring order" Election night 1979: the sus laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win. A black man is picked up, accused of his wife's murder. He is incensed, believing that he'll be fodder for an incoming government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles. A powerful, politicised cry against the still-current threat of institutional racism, Keeffe uncompromisingly depicts a corrupt world which looks all too familiar today. Set on the eve of the Thatcher victory, this new edition of Keeffe's classic, harrowing play coincides with the general election of 2010, and asks what's changed. Sus is a shocking and disturbing drama which protests against the rise of the right-wing, the infringement of civil liberties and the casual humiliation which the police inflict on their prisoners. Exploring the abuse of power and racism, Sus is a resonant, socially charged and powerful play, as relevant today as it was in 1979.
Download or read book An Army of Angels written by Pamela Marcantel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan of Arc, a French peasant maid, led an army against England and was burned at the stake before she was 20. Here, in this hypnotic blend of history and storytelling, the world of Joan comes alive, a world where an illiterate girl, chosen by God, can lead an army and never turn back.
Download or read book Adapting King Lear for the Stage written by Lynne Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares Nahum Tate's History of King Lear (1681), adaptations by David Garrick in the mid-eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques to twentieth-century theatrical rewritings of King Lear, and suggests latter-day adaptations should be viewed as a unique genre that allows playwrights to express modern subject positions with regard to their literary heritage while also participating in broader debates about art and society. In identifying and relocating different adaptive gestures within this historical framework, Bradley explores the link between the critical and the creative in the history of Shakespearean adaptation. Focusing on works such as Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife (1913), Edward Bond's Lear (1971), Howard Barker's Seven Lears (1989), and the Women's Theatre Group's Lear's Daughters (1987), Bradley theorizes that modern rewritings of Shakespeare constitute a new type of textual interaction based on a simultaneous double-gesture of collaboration and rejection. She suggests that this new interaction provides constituent groups, such as the feminist collective who wrote Lear's Daughters, a strategy to acknowledge their debt to Shakespeare while writing against the traditional and negative representations of femininity they see reflected in his plays.
Download or read book The Theatre Guide written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
Download or read book My Girl 2 written by Barrie Keeffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: –I want things to get better, not worse. –There's hundreds of thousands worse off than us. Ideals are worthless if you can't pay the bills. Anita and Sam live in East London. Burdened by debt and on the eve of giving birth to their second child, Anita begins to wonder whether it was a good idea for Sam to become a social worker. Can they survive in David Cameron's London on Sam's wage with two children? Anywhere else it would be fine, but where he's needed most, can Sam make ends meet? Will their marriage take the strain as the needs of family are pitted against the greater good? Bitingly funny, challenging, angry and deeply humane, My Girl 2 is Barrie Keeffe's reworking of his iconic 1989 play. This edition published to coincide with the premiere of the updated version at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in 2014.
Download or read book Barbarians written by Barrie Keeffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they've been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How will they cope? Cut off from society with no-where to turn, the play resonates with a modern audience who will no doubt recognize the disaffected youth of 1970s Britain. Barrie Keeffe's tragically dark play crackles with tension throughout, building to a twisted and dramatic end. This programme text edition was published to coincide with the revival of the play by Tooting Arts Club on 3rd October 2015, staged at the former Central St Martins School of Art on the Charing Cross Road, London.
Download or read book Angels and Belief in England 1480 1700 written by Laura Sangha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the way the Church utilized the belief in angels to enforce new and evolving doctrine.Angels were used by clergymen of all denominations to support their particular dogma. Sangha examines these various stances and applies the role of angel-belief further, to issues of wider cultural and political significance.
Download or read book The Ivan R Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the most useful and comprehensive reference book for contemporary theatre now available.
Download or read book Contemporary British Dramatists written by Kathryn Ann Berney and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of contemporary British playwrights, written by subject experts.
Download or read book Keeffe Plays 1 written by Barrie Keeffe and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of plays by the author of the screenplay of The Long Good Friday. Gimme Shelter is a set of three interlinked plays about violence. Barbarians is set in Lewisham and looks at the effects of umemployment on young men.
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Download or read book My Girl Frozen Assets written by Barrie Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Justice Not Fade Away Gimme Shelter Gem Gotcha Getaway written by Barrie Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare King John written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Court in Five Tomes The Angel of Peace to All Christian Princes Translated Into English by Sr T H Thomas Hawkins and Others written by Nicolas CAUSSIN and published by . This book was released on 1650 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare King John King Richard II King Henry IV pts 1 2 King Henry V written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
