Download or read book A Cream Cracker Under the Settee written by Alan Bennett and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Talking Heads written by Alan Bennett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two series of monologues written for BBC television and broadcast in 1988 and 1998, along with 'A woman of no importance', an earlier monologue first televised in 1982.
Download or read book Talking Heads written by Alan Bennett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, these modern-day classics invite us to explore 12 very different but very real characters and their lives.
Download or read book Ageing Narrative and Identity written by N. Hubble and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency.
Download or read book A Doll s House written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1972 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband, Torvald Helmer, and his wife, Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized home life collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self.
Download or read book It is No Desert written by Dan Stroeh and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-man play in two acts written by Dan Stroeh, exploring his diagnosis and treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Download or read book National 4 5 English Second Edition written by Jane Cooper and published by Hodder Gibson. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: English First teaching: August 2017 First exams: Summer 2018 Introduce, develop, test and reinforce the skills required for success in National 4 & 5 English. Fully updated in accordance with the revised N5 specification, this Second Edition covers both the N4 and N5 assessments. br” Gradually develops students' skills and knowledge across the four keys areas of English: reading, writing, listening and talkingbrbr” Engages students through regular active learning tasks, which also enable you and your students to check their understandingbrbr” Thoroughly prepares students for the N5 exam, with Practice Exercises, answers and mark schemes
Download or read book Stage Right written by John Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Right is a refreshingly abrasive account of the state of British theatre since 1979, offering an account of the development of a new mainstream formed in conscious opposition to the work of the politically committed dramatists of the 70s and an analysis of the plays of the most successful playwrights of the new mainstream: Nichols, Gray, Frayn, Bennett, Ayckbourn and Stoppard.
Download or read book Alan Bennett written by Joseph O'Mealy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Bennett is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV plays, while the rest of the world may recognize him for the film adaptation of his play, The Madness of King George. O'Mealy points out that Bennett is a social critic strongly influenced by Beckett and Swift, interested in depicting and analyzing the role playing of everyday life, a'la sociologist Ervin Goffman.
Download or read book Heaven Knows I m Miserable Now written by Andrew Collins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Higher education comes at exactly the right time: in the twilight of your teens, you're just starting to coagulate as a human being, to pull away from parental influence and find your own feet. What better than three years in which to explore the inner you, establish a feasible worldview, and maybe get on Blockbusters.' After an idyllic provincial 1970s childhood, the 1980s took Andrew Collins to London, art school and the classic student experience. Crimping his hair, casting aside his socks and sporting fingerless gloves, he became Andy Kollins: purveyor of awful poetry; disciple of moany music, and wannabe political activist. What follows is a universal tale of trainee hedonism, girl trouble, wasted grants and begging letters to parents. A synth-soundtracked rite of passage that's often painfully funny, it traces one teenager's metamorphosis from sheltered suburban innocent to semi-mature metropolitan male through the pretensions and confusions of trying to stand alone for the first time in your own kung fu pumps in a big bad city.
Download or read book Destroy Unopened written by Anabel Donald and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Alex, if you had a son who told you that he liked his new flat because it was built on the site of 10 Rillington Place, what would you think?' 'Hillary, I wish you'd get to the point,' I said as gently as I could manage. She was ruffled but not distracted. 'If a son of yours said that, would you think he was the Notting Hill killer . . . ?' Alex Tanner, part-time private eye, has given little thought to the serial killer stalking the streets of Notting Hill - except to the effect he may have on house prices. But then a wealthy widow hands her a parcel marked DESTROY UNOPENED . . . The parcel - given to Hilary Lucas following her husband's death - contains anonymous love letters, written over many years. Not surprisingly, Hilary wants Alex to reveal the mystery lover's identity . . . Especially when the letters suggest that the woman is the mother of the Notting Hill killer . . .
Download or read book Understanding Alan Bennett written by Peter Wolfe and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's Best Comedy in 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates and Daniel Day Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a nomination for an Academy Award. This book seeks to illuminate the writer whose instinct for artistic choices has helped him to succeed on his own terms.
Download or read book The BBC Puzzle Book written by Ian Haydn Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See how much you and your family know about the Beeb with this lively and fun official puzzle book on the BBC.
Download or read book Writing Home written by Alan Bennett and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material from the author, including more recent diaries and his introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George. A chronicle of one of the most important literary careers of the twentieth century, Writing Home is a classic history of a life in letters.
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Literary Communication written by Virginie Iché and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th-century English novels through to contemporary digital fiction. The book showcases a diverse range of contributions from scholars in stylistics, rhetoric, pragmatics, and literary studies to offer new ways of looking at the "author–reader channel," drawing on work from Roger Sell, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, and James Phelan. The volume traces the evolution of its form across historical periods, genres, and media, from its origins in the conversational mode of direct address in 18th-century English novels to the use of second-person narratives in the 20th century through to 21st-century digital fiction with its implicit requirement for reader participation. The book engages in questions of how the author–reader channel is shaped by different forms, and how this continues to evolve in emerging contemporary genres and of shifting ethics of author and reader involvement. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in the intersection of pragmatics, stylistics, and literary studies.
Download or read book Succession Season Four written by Jesse Armstrong and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** WINNER OF THIRTEEN EMMYS, FIVE GOLDEN GLOBES, THREE BAFTAS AND A GRAMMY ** 'For some of us it's a sad day, for others - it's coronation demolition derby.' 'An era-defining series.' Vogue 'The most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is.' Guardian 'Earned its place in the pantheon of the greatest dramas television has ever seen.' Rolling Stone As Logan Roy prepares to sell Waystar Royco, Kendall, Shiv and Roman unite to build their own rival media empire. But an urgent call from Tom reveals Logan's final curveball, throwing the siblings' plans into jeopardy. Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of SUCCESSION: Season Four feature unseen extra material, including deleted scenes, alternative dialogue and character directions, and an exclusive introduction from creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong. They reveal a unique insight into the writing, creation and development of a TV sensation and a screenwriting masterpiece.
Download or read book Stage by Stage written by Henry Arthur Jones and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all its wonderful achievements, both on stage and off, Market Harborough Drama Society had something else to be proud of when it reached its 75th anniversary this year. It was a milestone worthy of celebration – and some of the more pro-active members of the society got to work organising what form those celebrations should take. A number of events were planned. One aim was to update the book Stage By Stage, first published during the society’s diamond jubilee year in 1993. It was decided that, when the book was updated in the 75th anniversary year, the original Stage By Stage, conceived and written as a labour of love by the late Arthur Jones, who had long-standing links with the society, should remain intact. His efforts had produced a fascinating and valuable account of the society’s colourful past, and it was agreed his original text should not be altered. Updating the book, however, would take just as much time and effort, as the last 15 years had seen many changes, as well as a number of memorable plays and performances. It would be a collaborative process. Many members of the drama society would contribute memories and stories to help fill its pages. Though impossible to mention everyone who has contributed to the theatre and the drama society over the years, the aim of the new version of Stage By Stage is to promote and showcase what the society does, as well as capture and preserve, in writing, its important place within the town’s history.
