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Book Synopsis Further than the Furthest Thing by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book Further than the Furthest Thing written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond. Further Than The Furthest Thing is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis.Further Than The Furthest Thing premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August, 2000.
Book Synopsis Further Than the Furthest Thing by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book Further Than the Furthest Thing written by Zinnie Harris and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well
Book Synopsis Zinnie Harris: Plays 1 by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book Zinnie Harris: Plays 1 written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first collection by Zinnie Harris, Further than the Furthest Thing evokes the fragility of an island community as their way of life is threatened and they must determine their future, while Midwinter opens as a woman steals a dead horse to feed to a child. How To Hold Your Breath tells the story of a woman who sleeps with the devil and defends her belief in love, even as her world collapses around her, and Meet Me at Dawn offers a compelling, allegorical love story that explores the desolating effects of grief. With an introduction by director Dominic Hill. Further than the Furthest Thing 'Already has the status of a modern classic.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian 'Arguably the greatest tragedy in the Scottish theatrical canon' Mark Brown, Telegraph Midwinter 'There is no mistaking her talent' Observer 'A stunning metaphor for our time' Herald How to Hold Your Breath 'Harris's writing is not only wonderfully imaginative, but also beautifully light.' Tribune 'Dizzyingly bold . . . pressingly topical and admirably ambitious' Financial Times Meet Me at Dawn 'A twenty-first-century classic' Scotsman 'Lyrical, raw and hazy' Sunday Times
Book Synopsis Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland by : Trish Reid
Download or read book Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland written by Trish Reid and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 by : Mark Brown
Download or read book Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 written by Mark Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre director Giles Havergal at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow in 1969 through to the advent of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2006. Finally, the book contemplates the future of Scotland’s theatrical renaissance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary theatre and/or the modern history of live drama in Scotland.
Book Synopsis The Scent of Roses by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book The Scent of Roses written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'd be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something. Of being alive. The Scent of Roses begins with a wife who takes her husband hostage in order to have an honest conversation. This simple, transgressive act, and her demand for a straight answer, sparks a chain of conversations, interrogations, obfuscations and revelations, as they and those around them try to discover what is real and who they can trust in a post-truth world. Zinnie Harris's The Scent of Roses premieres at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2022.
Book Synopsis How to Hold Your Breath by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book How to Hold Your Breath written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenience. Perhaps not such a good mini break. But really in the grand scheme of life, not so bad. Starting with a seemingly innocent one night stand, this dark, witty and magical play by Zinnie Harris dives into our recent European history. An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now, How to Hold Your Breath premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2015.
Book Synopsis Macbeth (an undoing) by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book Macbeth (an undoing) written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story will be told, the way it has always been told. What else use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woman who went mad. The man who became a tyrant. When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he will become king of Scotland, Lady Macbeth vows to make their darkest ambitions a reality. So far, so familiar. But then the story fragments. Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth is ruthless and driven, unstoppable in her pursuit of power, yet she quickly descends into madness and despair. Zinnie Harris's thrilling new version undoes the narrative we know, and remakes it, examining Lady Macbeth's trajectory and asking if we have really heard the whole story. This edition includes an afterword by Dan Rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Macbeth (an undoing) premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2023.
Book Synopsis The Duchess (of Malfi) by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book The Duchess (of Malfi) written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won't wear my hair up because you say I should, or do this because you prefer it, in fact I might do the other just to be contrary, but I am utterly and always myself. The Duchess is a young widow. Her husband is dead, she is free. But her financial position, sexual freedom and youth mean that she could be dangerous, she could get to determine her own life. That is if she isn't stopped first. Terrified by her sudden power and its implications, her brothers Ferdinand and The Cardinal seek to block The Duchess' desire to re-marry, repress her agency, and dismantle both her authority and spirit through any means necessary, with horrifying results and bloody vengeance from the most unexpected of sources . . . The Duchess (of Malfi) premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in May 2019
Download or read book Solstice written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family is riven by intergenerational conflict when forced to resettle in an oppressive state. Solstice explores themes of faith and terror in a world slipping out of control. Zinnie Harris' Solstice is her second RSC commission and marks the first in a trilogy of plays, Solstice, Midwinter (New Work Festival 2004) and Fall. Solstice premiered at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in March 2005.
Book Synopsis (the fall of) The Master Builder by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book (the fall of) The Master Builder written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open his new building tomorrow. Then a knock at the door propels Solness' past into everyone's future. The only way is down.Zinnie Harris's contemporary take on Henrik Ibsen's classic, The Master Builder, premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2017.
Book Synopsis Nightingale and Chase by : Zinnie Harris
Download or read book Nightingale and Chase written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Played this game. Inside, with the other girls. The 'he is going to meet you' game. The 'he is going to meet you with flowers' game. The 'he is going to turn up in a limo' game. The 'he is going to bring champagne' game. The 'he is going to cover you in kisses, or cum, or love bites or bloody Belgian chocolate' game, doesn't matter but when you walk out of those gates. He is going to be there, that is the game.Chase is waiting to be released from prison. And Nightingale is there to meet her. Everything is under control and they're both going to get it right. This time.Nightingale and Chase premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2001.
Download or read book Meet Me at Dawn written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems - and that, though they may be together, they have never been further apart.Unflinchingly honest and tenderly lyrical, Meet Me at Dawn is a modern fable exploring the triumph of everyday love, the mystery of grief, and the temptation to become lost in a fantasy future that will never be.Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2017.
Download or read book Fall written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the settling of scores a necessary step towards restoring peace after a bloody conflict? Set against a war-crimes trial at the end of a civil war, Fall explores the thin line between justice and revenge. Fall is the last play in a trilogy by Zinnie Harris that examines the transforming effects of war. Solstice and Midwinter were performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004/05, and are also published by Faber.
Download or read book The Wheel written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man is banished in a soldier's hearing. His daughter is left to wander. In a rash moment, Beatriz offers to take the child back to her father, and so starts an unimaginable journey across continents and in and out of war zones. But in their need to survive, the woman and the child transform in ways that become irreversible. The Wheel by Zinnie Harris premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2011 in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland. Zinnie Harris is a playwright and screenwriter, her work includes the multi-award-winning play Further than the Furthest Thing, and Spooks. 'A glorious luminosity of spirit...really rather special.' Financial Times on Further than the Furthest Thing
Book Synopsis This Thing of Darkness by : Craig Lucas
Download or read book This Thing of Darkness written by Craig Lucas and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Abbey and Donald, best friends, have just graduated college. Sharing a birth date, Donald travels to visit Abbey and his parents at a remote country house to celebrate their twenty-second birthdays together as an uncertain future looms a
Book Synopsis A Smell of Burning, and Then ... by : David Campton
Download or read book A Smell of Burning, and Then ... written by David Campton and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1969 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: A SMELL OF BURNING. A married couple sit at the breakfast table, clucking over bits of gossip in the newspaper and bickering about whether the eggs are properly done. In the distance, explosions are heard, and then a rather mysterious
