Download or read book Robert Holman Plays One written by Robert Holman and published by NHB Collected Works. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of five plays by Robert Holman.
Download or read book Jonah and Otto written by Robert Holman and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonah and Otto meet on the South Coast near Beachy Head. Otto is a clergyman but also a serial adulterer. Jonah is an epileptic and an itinerant magician. Initially hostile to each other, Jonah and Otto begin to develop a strange, shy intimacy in the course of which each reveals more than they even know themselves.
Download or read book The Lodger written by Robert Holman and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother, Dolly comes to stay with Esther - now a successful novelist and living in Little Venice with her younger, inscrutable lodger, Jude. The three go to Norway to meet the rock-star grandfather Jude has only ever heard about. Instead, he meets Anila who changes his world. To make a new future, these four people will have to be honest, heal old wounds - and two sisters learn to laugh together again. The Lodger by Robert Holman is an enlightening, cathartic and acerbic play about identity, maturity and reconciliation. It premiered at The Coronet Theatre, London, in September 2021.
Download or read book The Two Minute Rule written by Robert Crais and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Last Detective and Hostage, comes a thriller featuring a father searching for vengeance in the City of Angels. But for an ex-con fresh on parole, finding answers in the corruption of the LAPD means asking for help from the person least expecting it: the FBI officer who put him away… Every seasoned criminal knows the two minute rule: the two minutes before the cops show up at the scene of a robbery. Keeping the rule means changing your life, breaking it means a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules… When a decisive four minutes put Max Holman in prison, he spent the next decade planning one thing: reconciliation with his estranged son. Determined to put the past behind him, Max sets out on the morning of his parole only to discover his son, a cop, was gunned down in cold blood hours earlier. When the hit is exposed as a revenge killing, Max is determined to track down the murderer—at any cost. From the author that sets the standard of gripping, edgy suspense, The Two Minute Rule delivers all the surprising plot twists and powerful characters that make Robert Crais one of the top crime writers today.
Download or read book Making Noise Quietly written by Robert Holman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary classic, with each chance meeting overshadowed by war.
Download or read book German Skerries written by Robert Holman and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the hot, humid, sticky summer of 1977. At a popular birdwatching spot jutting out into the North Sea at the mouth of the Tees, Martin, Jack, Michael and Carol are staring out into the future, their lives intertwined. A friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death - the gatherings and departures that make us human. Robert Holman's richly resonant play is an uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability. German Skerries was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, and won the George Devine Award in the year that it is set. It was revived in 2016 at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in a co-production with the award-winning Up in Arms Theatre Company, followed by a tour around the UK.
Download or read book Capital Punishment Second Edition written by Alan Marzilli and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Royal Court Plays 2000 2010 written by Ruth Little and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential anthology of five plays originally staged by what the New York Times described as "the most important theater in Europe"—The Royal Court.
Download or read book Other Worlds written by Robert Holman and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper Regan written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you go, I don't think you should come back. On a startlingly bright autumn night in 2006, Harper Regan walked away from her home, her husband and daughter, and kept walking. She told nobody that she was going. She told nobody where she was going. She put everything she ever built at risk. For two lost days and nights, until it looked as though her entire life might unravel, she didn't turn back. From Uxbridge to Stockport to Manchester and back again, Harper Regan navigates the UK, exploring family, love and delusion. It received its world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2008.
Download or read book A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky written by David Eldridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Three of the UK's leading playwrights come together to create an epic play about the very end of time.
Download or read book Downward to the Earth written by Robert Silverberg and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? –Ecclesiastes 3:21 Okay, they did resemble elephants, it can't be denied. That led many people to underestimate the Nildoror and their obviously more fearsome commensals, the Sulidoror. But aliens should never be judged by human standards, as the Company learned to its cost when Holman's World, now once again known as Belzagor, was given back to the natives and the Company sent packing. Now Edmund Gunderson, once head of the Company's operation on this world, has come back across the galaxy to settle old scores with the Nildoror. If he can even get them to acknowledge his existence. Downward to the Earth is a classic from the golden age of Robert Silverberg's career in the 1970s. His homage to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it remains as fresh and powerful today as the day it was written. Our Orb edition will have a map of Gunderson's journey across Belzagor and a new introduction by the author. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Beginning written by David Eldridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wry, funny and touching meditation on loneliness, that private shame of the singleton in the era of the dating app and of fraudulent boasting on social media ... written with a real depth of insight, humour, compassion and a keen sense of the ridiculous...” The Independent It's the early hours of the morning in the aftermath of Laura's housewarming party. Danny, 42, divorced and living with his mother, is the last remaining guest. The flat is in a mess and so are they. One more drink? This sharp and astute two-hander takes an intimate look in real-time at the first fragile moments of risking your heart and taking a chance. Both comedic and tender, it asks questions about mutual loneliness and human connections. Beginning premiered at the National Theatre, London in October 2017. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Sarah Grochala.
Download or read book Bad Weather written by Robert Holman and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Following a fight at a restaurant in Middlesbrough in which a man is badly injured, one man is sent to prison. The other man involved goes free, yet it is a freedom full of burden. Out of the blue, a figure from the family past arrives and another kind of escape is on offer.
Download or read book The Natural Cause written by Robert Holman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Holman's play The Natural Cause is a dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family. It was first performed at the Cockpit Theatre, London, on 27 May 1974. Although written after his earlier play Mud, The Natural Cause was Holman's first full-length play to be staged. A stage direction at the start of the play states that 'The play is an autopsy. It should take place in a mortuary on a white tiled floor.' The dead body of Barry Jackson is wheeled in and a pathologist begins his examination as Lyn Jackson, Barry's mother, recalls what Barry was like as a child. The action proceeds in flashback, with Barry and his pregnant wife Mary on Brighton beach. Barry is a bus conductor, but he'd like to drive the bus one day instead. Lyn keeps telling Mary that Barry's not right, and that she should leave him. But Mary chooses to stick with Barry, as his mental deterioration has frightening consequences. The premiere production was directed by Ron Daniels, and was performed by Natasha Pyne, Nicholas Ball, George Sweeney, Derek Thompson, Maureen Sweeney and Peter Maycock.
Download or read book Across Oka written by Robert Holman and published by Methuen Student Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play...is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Eileen and her grandson Matty, 16, travel to Russia to stay with scientist Pavel and his son Nikolai, 14, on the Oka reserve where they are to take part in an experiment to save the Siberian Crane from extinction. When the two boys, Matty and Nikolai are given the responsibility of travelling into the wilds, the clash of their personalities, education and experience provokes in Matty an appalling destructiveness. Across Oka was premiered at The Other Place (RSC) in 1988. "Robert Holman's Across Oka is about metamorphosis and manipulation in the lives of passionate, gentle people in north Yorkshire and eastern Russia, the first opent to all experience, the second constrained by the discipline of an enclosing state...The new play is alive with theatrical confrontation and generosity of spirit." (Michael Ratcliffe, Observer)
Download or read book Drug impaired Professionals written by Robert H. Coombs and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I started out snorting a couple of lines a night and ended up injecting and snorting about three grams a day."--That could be your dentist talking. "I worked a lot with hangovers and made lots of mistakes when coming down off acid."--That might be your nurse. "The patient was waking up and I was out cold."--And that was some unlucky patient's anesthesiologist. Professionals trusted with our well-being are the last people we suspect of drug addiction. And yet they are at least as likely as anyone else to abuse alcohol and other drugs--a well-kept secret finally aired and fully examined in this powerful book. Drawing on more than 120 personal interviews with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them, Robert Coombs gives us a startling picture of drug abuse among "pedestal professionals." He discusses addiction as an occupational hazard for those with the easiest access to drugs, the greatest sense of immunity to their perils, and the most extensive means (and reasons) for hiding their problems. Throughout, the interviewees' eloquent and often harrowing testimony reminds us of the human drama behind the exhaustive research and analysis presented here. Their bittersweet stories bear out Coombs's contention that recovering addicts, free of their magical elixirs, can become more complete people than they were before addiction. From the biological, psychosocial, and spiritual roots of addiction to the equally diverse approaches to recovery, to the merits and failures of government drug policy, Drug-Impaired Professionals offers a clear and complete overview of a complex problem that affects nearly every family in America.
