Download or read book Kissing Sid James written by Robert Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sparks written by Simon Longman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember you saying you could speak to anything if you wanted to. Right? Did you say that? Remember that. Said you could speak to the stars. Just had to know how to do it. It's raining in the Midlands. Again. It won't stop. Someone's standing in it. They're shivering. They're cold. They're waiting for someone they haven't seen in a very long time. They've got a rucksack full of alcohol. And a fish. A touching play about abandoned responsibilities, what we choose to remember and what we thought we'd forgotten. This programme text edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Old Red Lion theatre, London on 10 November 2015.
Download or read book Shouting in the Evenings written by James Hayes and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, a young man from Limerick took his £25 savings and journeyed to London to become an actor. To pay his way through drama school he worked as a security guard (once for The Beatles) and served drinks to Miss World contestants at the Lyceum Theatre, then a Mecca Ballroom. While still a student, he was picked to play a small role in Andorra in the inaugural season of the National Theatre at the Old Vic... Fifty years later, while appearing in his fifty-sixth NT production – Pirandello’s Liolà – he was invited by Director Nicholas Hytner to take part in 50 Years on Stage, the NT’s anniversary celebration. Four days on, he is on stage in New York for the Press Night of Trevor Nunn’s production of Beckett’s All That Fall with Michael Gambon. James Hayes has worked with most of the leading actors in the country from Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Anthony Hopkins and Paul Scofield to Michael Gambon, Ian McKellen, Penelope Wilton and Anne-Marie Duff. Touring the world, he has played in Greece, Poland, the USA, Japan, India, Hong Kong, South Korea and China. And, of course, Milton Keynes, Sunderland and Truro! Shouting in the Evenings covers many of the famous (Amadeus) and infamous (The Romans in Britain) productions Hayes has appeared in, and records with affection and humour the changes along the way. It will appeal to seasoned and amateur actors alike, as well as those with an interest in all things theatrical.
Download or read book The Fastest Clock in the Universe written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Cougar's birthday. He's having a party. And the gift he'd kill for is youth... In a strange room in East London the party preparations are under way. Everything has been planned to the last detail. Surely nothing can go wrong? After all, there's the specially made birthday cake, the specially written cards, the specially chosen guest of honour... and a very, very sharp knife. Philip Ridley's edgy and provocative drama caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992, winning the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer to the Stage and the Meyer Whitworth Prize. It is now regarded as a contemporary classic. 'A bit like a ride on a ghost train... you find yourself shuddering with shock and laughing uproariously... horror has rarely been so much fun' Daily Telegraph 'Scorchingly nasty... fingers an age and its icons with terrifying accuracy' Guardian
Download or read book The Nativity Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Humanitarian Reading Initiative for Spiritual Theatre (or C.H.R.I.S.T. for short) are putting on a production of The Nativity Story. It's opening night and nothing is going to plan. Despite a collapsing manger, a deranged donkey, and a director on the brink of hysteria, the show must go on. This hilarious tour-de-force is the second farce from Mischief, creators of the critically acclaimed The Play That Goes Wrong. Once again, we watch as order unravels itself and pandemonium ensues in a piece that will be loved both as a piece to perform and one to watch. The Nativity Goes Wrong received its world premiere at Reading Rep on 22 December.
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 Dyl written by Mark Weinman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Do you have to hold your breath? ... Can you do that? - Yeah. Anyone can. - Not me. Can't be doing without breath. I'd hate to drown. I'm a big fan of air ... 400 miles from home, James has started a new career as a rigger - two weeks onshore, two weeks offshore - existing between two very different spaces; and his daughter Dyl is with him in neither of them. Instead he has Ryan, his live-in landlord - sarcastic, free-spirited and liable to say what he thinks before he thinks what he says. As James focuses on finding the answers from within himself, he risks losing the very relationships that can keep him on track. Dyl is a sad comedy about isolation, the righting of wrongs and shouldering life's responsibilities. It received its world premiere on 9th May 2017 at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London
Download or read book Piranha Heights written by Philip Ridley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Look - they're fading. Those liars. Dissolving . . . It's the end of their world . . . The birth of a new one . . . Our one . . . Our world.' It's Mother's Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her home to argue about the truth of their childhood. But a storm is approaching . . . with a violent new truth all of its own. Piranha Heights is non-stop, filthily poetic and a searing insight into the disenchantment of young people today. This edition, featuring a revised script, published to coincide with play's revival at the Old Red Lion, London, in November 2014. Praise for Leaves of Glass: 'Like a shard of glass plunged straight to the heart . . . superb.' Guardian
Download or read book Street Trilogy written by Chris O'Connell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the plays Car, Raw, and Kid. Brutality. Fear. Self-loathing. A need to belong. The plays in O'Connell's Street Trilogy portray the vulnerable and the violent as they lash out against the world around them. From the adrenaline-fuelled anarchy of a car theft and the ritualised violence of teenage gangs, to the new beginning offered by a baby in the womb, life on the dirty side of the tracks is shown without compromise or sentimentality. The characters lurch between hope and despair, giving voice to the trials of change through verbal pyrotechnics and acts of sudden aggression. Street Trilogy was performed at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh in 2003.
Download or read book Mrs Orwell written by Tony Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘So what you want, in a nutshell, George, is a mistress, housekeeper, nurse, literary executor and mother for Richard?’ Based on actual events, Mrs Orwell is the story of the marriage and literary partnership of George Orwell and Sonia Brownell.
Download or read book Sea Fret written by Tallulah Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea took my house and not yours, everything's different for me. Rising sea levels are threatening the ground beneath her house, but Ruby is distracted. She wants one final blowout before her best friend, Lucy, leaves for University. With the local community in favour of letting nature take its course, Ruby must choose: follow Lucy inland or stay and help her father hold back the tide. Sea Fret is about erosion - the collapse of friendship, family and home. Tallulah Brown's play is a paean to her native Suffolk coastline. It received its world premiere at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, on 28 March 2017.
Download or read book Plays and Players written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sommer 14 A Dance of Death written by Rolf Hochhuth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Wars do not break out, they are not brokered or declared as is always written. They are brought about by those who desire them.’ In June 1914, Europe was enjoying unprecedented peace and prosperity. Little over a month later, the world was at war – and only a handful of people knew it was happening. Inspired by the medieval mystery plays Sommer 14 – A Dance of Death is an epic telling from a German and European perspective of the world's descent into war. Employing the character of Death as a guide, the play uses the classic Danse Macabre structure of a series of searing vignettes to illuminate the people and the events that led up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Download or read book Plays International written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loves Breath written by Ivy N. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family Tree: Samantha: No longer settling for the role of a (housewife/mother) She deeply feels that a change is needed in her life but a career is not what her husband believes is needed. After several years of marriage Jackson feels as if a career may not be the only change she wants. Kenneth: Once a devoted man of God, now a hateful and bitter ex husband. Kenneth finds himself on the other side of the coastline, far away from his family and his problems or so he thought. Having the battle of good and evil in his soul he looks to find a way out. Lindsay: A well connected P.R engaged to marry a wealthy attorney and start a life that many dream of but being the problem solver in ?her family, she is now faced with problems of her own that threaten to change her new life. Sidney: A hopeless romantic searching for love and coming up short each time. She now has a chance for a real romance if only she could trust her heart. Will this new love be Mr. Right or will his own secret keep him from loving her.
Download or read book Once We Were Mothers written by Lisa Evans and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and powerful play about the experiences of three very different mothers.
Download or read book The Kissing Sailor written by Lawrence Verria and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple's identity took on a dimension of its own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse. And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J DAY, 1945, TIMES SQUARE. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the sailor's identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt's most famous photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their findings propelled one claimant s case far ahead of the others and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when another candidate's claim proved more credible. With this book, the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt's photo. It is the first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple's and the photographer's brushes with death that nearly prevented their famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The sailor, part of Bull Halsey's famous task force, survived the deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors. The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States. Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at Flanders.
