Download or read book Lucky Sods And Passion Killers written by John Godber and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Godber is one of the best contemporary British playwrights"(Financial Times) Lucky Sods is a candid black comedy about a couple who have nothing on a Friday night and £4 million on Saturday. And now they just can't stop winning. Passionkillers is a beach play about Andy and Tom who find themselves amid the sun, sea, sex and sangria of the Mediterranean and tempted by the advances of Trish and Karen. Will they remember their commitments back home or outsmart the advances of their young rivals Scott and Ray?
Download or read book The Professions in Contemporary Drama written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent. The Professions in Contemporary British Drama fills this extraordinary gap with a series of nine papers discussing the educational professions (Bennett, Mangan), the medical profession (Shields, Buse, ), priests (Kurdi), archaeologists (Forsyth) and artists (Di Benedetto, Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Edwards). The book is of relevance to theatre academics and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is based on a conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 6 March 1998.
Download or read book Godber Plays 2 written by John Godber and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Teechers: "In a class of its own ... Godber takes a hard-hitting look at life in a modern comprehensive where class conflicts, teacher tantrums and cavorting chaos runs riot through the corridors" The Express Happy Jack: "Godber manages with an affectionate and unerringly accurate ear for the tongues of the pit village to turn these two into a Chaucerian kind of celebration of life. At the end of the line the play is a sad, bruised but richly comic love story" Guardian September in the Rain: "The work of a genuinely talented playwright" Evening Standard Salt of the Earth: "John Godber has a special gift for capturing the lives and inner turmoil of the working class ... In the most subtle and incisive ways, he suggests how the combination of innate personality and a changing society determines individual destiny" Chicago Times
Download or read book Godber Plays 1 written by John Godber and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains three plays by John Godber: "Bouncers", "Happy Families", and "Shakers".
Download or read book Godber Plays 3 written by John Godber and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third collection of plays by one of Britain's most popular and widely performed playwrights Up 'n' Under (winner of the Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year Award 1984): Five unfit lads strive for sporting glory against the local pub-rugby champions, Men Behaving Badly meets The Full Monty. Perfect Pitch: Ron & Yvonne are seasoned caravan holidaymakers. Every weekend they head for the coast to get away from it all. Snug in a prized four-berth, theirs is the perfect pitch, until Grant and Steph set up camp beside them... April in Paris (nominated for Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year 1994): Al is a builder - well he was until he got laid off. Bet sells trainers. Al spends hours in his shed painting while Beth is addicted to entering competitions in magazines. Neither has any faith in the other. Until one day, Beth win "a romantic break in Paris for two"... "John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian
Download or read book Passion Killers written by John Godber and published by Samuel French. This book was released on 1995 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite misgivings at leaving his wife Gail, Tom joins his friend Andy on a holiday in Spain. Andy enthusiastically joins the lager-louts and takes every opportunity available for illicit sex; Tom embarks on a wistful, platonic friendship with Trish. Back home, Andy keeps his infidelity secret and his marriage continues as before; Tom tells Gail of his innocent holiday friendship and the seeds of suspicion are instantly sown ...
Download or read book Godber Plays 4 written by John Godber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godber Plays: 4 brings together four recent plays by one of Britain's most prolific, popular playwrights. The author is the artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre and the publication is timed to coincide with the opening of Hull Truck's new theatre building in the heart of Hull. In Our House May, a widow, mother and grandmother, is packing up her home of 45 years and heads for a life in the sun. However, trading neighbourhood hell for the Costa del Calm is no easy task as memories are harder to let go than possessions. First produced in 2007, the play was revived and toured the UK in 2008. In Crown Prince (2007) Godber finds comedy in a bowls club, and against the backdrop of the advancing years of its members, issues of redundancy, bereavement and guilt emerge. Sold is the author's most politically charged play to date, exposing the misery of people-trafficking and women sold into the sex-trade in Britain. Christmas Crackers follows overworked A&E nurses Holly and Kath on a shopping and booze trip to Prague where things take an unexpected turn. 'John Godber's work is unique; he is able to speak to a very broad audience in a way that is thought-provoking, exciting and always very funny.' Hilary Strong, Executive Director of Greenwich Theatre
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 British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II written by John Stanley Bull and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.
Download or read book Passion Killers written by John Godber and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First produced in Hull in 1994, 'Passion Killers' is a scorching comedy about love and lust, holiday romance and getting thrown in the deep end of the pool. Amid the sun, sea, sex and sangria of the Mediterranean everyone on the package holiday to Benidorm seems to be looking for love - or something quicker - but home keeps getting in the way.
Download or read book Some Voices Pale Horse written by Joe Penhall and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Penhall belongs to the new wave of dramatists that has flooded British theatre with exciting work in recent years . . . I have a hunch that his might prove the more enduring talent" (Daily Telegraph) Some Voices: 'The most thrilling playwriting debut in years. . .The writing is razor-sharp, sensitive, quietly eloquent, full of the touchingly drab poetry of lost lives' (Sunday Times); Pale Horse: 'His second Court play is as compelling and extraordinary as his first . . .as taut, tight and atmospheric as Macbeth' (Observer)
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).
Download or read book Weldon Rising Disappeared written by Phyllis Nagy and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1996-03-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the world premiere of Phyllis Nagy's new play at the Hampstead Theatre, this book contains 2 of her previously written plays, Weldon Rising, her stunning debut, and Disappeared, which won the 1992 Mobil Playwriting competition.
Download or read book Bruises The Shore Watchers Hous written by Judy Upton and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1996-03-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together two plays of unbearable love and brutality by the winner of the 1994 George Devine and Verity Bargate awards Bruises: Beyond the windows of a South Coast boarding house lies a world of violence and pain, a world where a father is passing an inheritance of drunken cruelty onto his son. The Shorewatcher's House: A coastal village. A nuclear power station on the horizon. Three entangled lovers obsessed by fear of destruction play out their fantasies of breaking free.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departures written by John Godber and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Departure lounges of ten airports across Europe and America provide a backdrop of delays, dangers and frustration as two business executives, Jim and Steve, embark on a journey of self-discovery. While the easy-going Steve spends time on the mobile running a number of love interests, with the morals of a cat, Jim is determined to remain faithful to his wife Claire. The arrival of young Zoe' changes all that ... The anxiety of the departure lounge becomes all too personal for all involved, leading to a sad yet hopeful ending.6 women, 3 men
Download or read book Perfect Pitch written by John Godber and published by Samuel French , Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron, a prematurely retired headteacher, and his wife, Yvonne, a would-be marathoner, are on their first caravan holiday. Pitched on a cliff in Yorkshire, the slightly dull, slightly snobby couple grapple with this strange holiday. That evening an elderly caravan appears next to theirs and sounds of noisy love-making cause Ron and Yvonne to blush. Steph and Grant, a younger, more working-class pair of seasoned caravanners have arrived and Ron's and Yvonne's lives will never be the same.2 women, 2 men
