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Download or read book Blue Stockings written by Jessica Swale and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Love or knowledge: which would you choose?' A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a 'blue stocking' - an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable. In Jessica Swale's debut play, Blue Stockings, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them. The play follows them over one tumultuous academic year, in their fight to change the future of education. Blue Stockings received its professional premiere at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in August 2013, directed by John Dove.
Book Synopsis Jessica Swale's Blue Stockings by : Jessica Swale
Download or read book Jessica Swale's Blue Stockings written by Jessica Swale and published by Page to Stage study guides. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly accessible and uniquely authoritative, this is the indispensable guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Jessica Swale's hit play Blue Stockings .
Download or read book Nell Gwynn written by Jessica Swale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second-class citizens, can her charm and spirit protect her from the dangers of the Court? Jessica Swale's exhilarating take on the heady world of Restoration theatre premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in September 2015, before transferring to the West End in February 2016, starring Gemma Arterton. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016.
Download or read book Thark written by Ben Travers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Hector Benbow invites Cherry, a pretty shop assistant, to dine. Arriving home, he finds not only Cherry but Mrs Frush, to whom he has rented Thark, his niece’s Norfolk house. Mrs Frush complains Thark is haunted. To distract Lady Benbow's attention from Cherry, he suggests everyone go to Thark, which lives up to its spine-chilling reputation. A wild night, sinister butler and plethora of romantic mix-ups add to the lively proceedings.
Book Synopsis Drama Games for Rehearsals by : Jessica Swale
Download or read book Drama Games for Rehearsals written by Jessica Swale and published by Drama Games. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new title in the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series, from bestselling author Jessica Swale.
Book Synopsis 100 Plays to Save the World by : Elizabeth Freestone
Download or read book 100 Plays to Save the World written by Elizabeth Freestone and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to One Hundred Plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis 100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire—to start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions. Above all, it is a call to arms—to step up, think big, and unleash theatre’s power to imagine a better future into being. Each play is explored with an essay illuminating key themes in climate issues: Resources, Energy, Migration, Responsibility, Fightback, and Hope. 100 Plays to Save the World is an empowering resource for theatre directors, producers, teachers, youth leaders, and writers looking for plays that speak to our present moment.
Download or read book Mojo written by Jez Butterworth and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to
Book Synopsis The Sweet Science of Bruising by : Joy Wilkinson
Download or read book The Sweet Science of Bruising written by Joy Wilkinson and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets, each finds an unexpected freedom in the boxing ring. As their lives begin to intertwine, their journey takes us through grand drawing rooms, bustling theatres and rowdy Southwark pubs, where the women fight inequality as well as each other. But with the final showdown approaching, only one can become the Lady Boxing Champion of the World... Joy Wilkinson's play The Sweet Science of Bruising is an epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism. It premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in October 2018, in a production by Troupe.
Book Synopsis Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops by : Jessica Swale
Download or read book Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops written by Jessica Swale and published by Drama Games. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.
Download or read book After the End written by Dennis Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city under attack from a nuclear blast. As the dust settles, Louise wakes to find herself in a fallout shelter with Mark, the colleague who has saved her life. They have enough water and food to last two weeks. Now they just need to find a way of surviving each other. A chilling post-nuclear play that examines what it takes to endure catastrophe. After the End was originally published in 2005. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the London production at Theatre Royal Stratford East in February 2022.
Download or read book Bystander 27 written by Rik Hoskin and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his pregnant wife is senselessly killed in a clash between the mysterious super-powered 'costumes', ex-Navy SEAL Jon Hayes fights to discover the truth about their identity and origins. For Jon Hayes, the super-powered 'costumes' are just part of ordinary life in New York City, until the day his pregnant wife Melanie is senselessly killed in a clash between Captain Light and The Jade Shade. But as Hayes struggles to come to terms with his loss, and questions for the first time who the costumes are and where they come from, the once sharp lines of his reality begin to blur... If Hayes wants to uncover the shocking truth about the figures behind the costumes, and get justice for his fallen family, he'll have to step out of the background, and stop being a bystander. File Under: Superhero Fantasy [ It’s Clobberin’ Time | Hayes One | Panel Beater | No Capes ]
Book Synopsis The Sugar Bean Sisters by : Nathan Sanders
Download or read book The Sugar Bean Sisters written by Nathan Sanders and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cast: 1m., 4w. In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood--Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the "space people" return for another visit. We meet Faye and Willie Mae as they return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling in Sugar Bean, Florida, after a disastrous daytrip to Disney World, where Willie lost her prized Eva Gabor wig on Space Mountain. Having witnessed the landing of an alien space craft some 25 years ago in her daddy's sugarcane field, Faye prepares for the return of her celestial visitors on this night, the very anniversary of that fateful day. A disturbance in the sugarcane field lures the sisters outside to investigate, and Faye recalls how their infamous daddy claimed to have witnessed dead folk walking through Sugar Bean on a similar night many years before. A strange bird-like woman suddenly appears out of the darkness of Buster Swamp, setting in motion a chain of extraordinary events. Lies begin to unravel and the truth is revealed as the Sugar Bean Sisters hatch a diabolical plot to ensure the space people's return. Unit set. Approximate running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes."--Publisher's website.
Book Synopsis Drama Games for Devising by : Jessica Swale
Download or read book Drama Games for Devising written by Jessica Swale and published by Drama Games. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use, handy pocket-sized format, this is a rich resource for hard-pressed drama teachers, workshop leaders, directors and theatre companies.
Book Synopsis The Secret in the Wings by : Mary Zimmerman
Download or read book The Secret in the Wings written by Mary Zimmerman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humor. The framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialize, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption, after which each previous tale is successively resumed, with each looming disaster averted. As in Zimmerman’s other productions, here she uses costumes, props, sets, and lighting to brilliant effect, creating images and feelings that render the fairy tales in all their elemental and enduring power.
Download or read book Thomas Tallis written by Jessica Swale and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Tallis is a portrait of the life of one of Britain's most successful composers set against the tumultuous political backdrop of the renaissance. Living under four monarchs, Tallis was forced to adapt his compositions to suit their religious demands, but at what cost? In Swale's vividly imagined play, we follow the contrasting fates of Tallis and a young priest, from the dissolution of the monasteries through Mary's bloody reign, via encounters with a young Elizabeth and the mysterious Dr Dee, to their dramatic conclusion.
Download or read book Pressure written by K. D. Harris and published by Butter Fly Collection. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Christoph Schlingensief by : Anna Teresa Scheer
Download or read book Christoph Schlingensief written by Anna Teresa Scheer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. Scheer traces Schlingensief's artistic lineage as a filmmaker with no formal training in theatre, whose work does not correspond to theoretical frameworks such as postdramatic theatre, Regietheater, or established categories of political theatre such as Brechtian, community, and agit-prop theatre. She explores how his work instead draws upon the highly performative gestures of the historical and post-Cold War avant-gardes as well the happenings and event-based practices of the sixties. Comprehensive case studies of six diverse theatrical and activist events are offered to demonstrate both the immediacy of Schlingensief's response to contemporary social and political events and his use of a range of artistic influences and different genres: Rocky Dutschke '68 (1996), Save Capitalism: Throw the Money Away! (1999) The Berlin Republic – or the Ring in Africa (1999) Hamlet (2001), Atta Atta – Art Has Broken Out! (2003) and the Church of Fear (2003). Key questions such as how his theatre functions as a provocation, and how an artist can insert themselves into the powerful flows of imagery produced by the perpetual global news cycle, form a coherent line of enquiry throughout each of the chapters. The significance of Schlingensief's artistic legacy of politicized theatre-making that pioneers new modes of active, aesthetic and public engagement in the political realm remains pertinent to topical socio-political debates and is of relevance to an international audience across a diversity of disciplines.
