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Book Synopsis Richard Bean: Plays Five by : Richard Bean
Download or read book Richard Bean: Plays Five written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new collection from multi-award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Contains the plays, Great Britain, The Nap, Pub Quiz is Life, Pitcairn and Kiss Me. Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner.
Book Synopsis Richard Bean Plays 6 by : Richard Bean
Download or read book Richard Bean Plays 6 written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx's life in London, which launched London's new Bridge Theatre and The Hypocrite, a historical-farcical romp that lit up Hull's year as City of Culture. One Man, Two Guvnors Based on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters, sex, food and money are high on the agenda. Winner of the both 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Best New Play & Critic's Circle Best New Play awards. Young Marx Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there's still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx. The Hypocrite April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry to King Charles I. If only it were that simple. With a Royalist siege outside the city walls and the rebellion of the mob within, Civil War seems inevitable and losing his head more than probable.
Book Synopsis Richard Bean: Plays One by : Richard Bean
Download or read book Richard Bean: Plays One written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the plays The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers "The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguilling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists "An instant modern classic" - Kate Bassett, The Guardian on Under the Whaleback "Richard Bean must have had a hell of a life" - Michael Billington, The Guardian on The God Botherers
Book Synopsis Richard Bean: Plays Two by : Richard Bean
Download or read book Richard Bean: Plays Two written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the plays Toast, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, and Honeymoon Suite 'Suddenly with four new plays opening within 12 months, Richard Bean has become the playwright of the moment and now, in Honeymoon Suite, his most prestigious premiere to date, he has written what seems like the perfect play' The Financial Times on Honeymoon Suite 'Toast is as funny, touching, and brilliant an account of men at work as any we have had since David Storey's The Changing Room' The Spectator on Toast 'Cunningly effective' The Times on Mr England 'A brilliant black satire that plays on an Ortonesque reversal of values. Bean distributes deftly crafted, razor-sharp lines among a cast of characters who would sooner snort them than deliver them.' The Guardian on Smack Family Robinson
Book Synopsis Richard Bean: Plays Four by : Richard Bean
Download or read book Richard Bean: Plays Four written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain’s leading playwrights and the fastest-selling playwright in the history of the West End. This volume features an introduction by Mark Lawson and includes the plays: The Heretic, The Big Fellah and England People Very Nice.
Download or read book The Hypocrite written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riotous new comedy from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, author of One Man, Two Guvnors. April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry to King Charles I. If only it were that simple. With a Royalist siege outside the city walls and the rebellion of the mob within, Civil War seems inevitable and losing his head more than probable.
Download or read book The Nap written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan isn't your typical snooker player. He's a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him – his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad. The Nap is a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered. It centres around Dylan Spokes, a professional snooker player, born and raised in Sheffield. Dylan is preparing for a big match, but not only are his friends and family getting in the way, but he is visited by police investigating match fixing. The Nap is a farce by award-winning playwright, Richard Bean, with plenty of sharp lines, jokes and an array of hilarious characters. The play includes a live snooker match, with comic commentary. It opened at the Sheffield Crucible in 2016 and later on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Download or read book The Heretic written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm a scientist. I don't 'believe' in anything." The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the orthodoxy over the causes of climate change, she finds herself increasingly vilified and is forced to ask if the issue is becoming political as well as personal. Could the belief in anthropogenic global warming be the most attractive religion of the 21st century. What evidence do we need before deciding on policy? Winner of the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Best New Play Award.
Book Synopsis England People Very Nice by : Richard Bean
Download or read book England People Very Nice written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fucking Frogs! My grandfather didn’t die in the English Civil War so’s half the population of France could come over here and live off the soup!’ A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration is anything but new. Written with scurrilous bravura, Richard Bean’s great sweep of a comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers amid cutters’mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists across four tempestuous centuries. England People Very Nice enjoyed a sell-out run at the National Theatre.
Download or read book The English Game written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore..." The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law... Richard Bean's comedy toured with Headlong Theatre throughout May 2008.
Book Synopsis The Hull Book of Days by : Susanna O'Neill
Download or read book The Hull Book of Days written by Susanna O'Neill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking you through the year day by day, The Hull Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the city. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Hull's archives and covering the social, criminal, political, religious, industrial, military and sporting history of the city, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
Book Synopsis One Man, Two Guvnors by : Richard Bean
Download or read book One Man, Two Guvnors written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers' Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Based on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters, in this new English version by prize winning playwright Richard Bean, sex, food and money are high on the agenda.
Book Synopsis New Theatre Quarterly 74: Volume 19, Part 2 by : Simon Trussler
Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 74: Volume 19, Part 2 written by Simon Trussler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 74 include: Joan Littlewood's Key to Creativity: 'Go on Stage to Fail'; Grandfathers and Orphans: the Family Saga of European Theatre; Decoding Myths in the Nepalese Festival of Indra Jatra; Theatre in Education in Britain: Current Practice and Future Potential; From Object to Subject: the Israeli Theatre of the Battered Women; 'The Spirits Wouldn't Let Me Be Anything Else': Shamanic Dimensions in Theatre Practice Today; The Contaminated Audience: Researching Amateur Theatre in Wales before 1939.
Book Synopsis Jack Absolute Flies Again by : Richard Bean
Download or read book Jack Absolute Flies Again written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "July 1940. After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. Back on British soil, Jack's advances soon turn to anarchy when the young heiress demands to be loved on her own, very particular, terms. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy of manners, The Rivals, is given an uproarious Battle of Britain update by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris. In 2011, Richard Bean became the first playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for two plays, The Heretic and One Man, Two Guvnors. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in July 2022."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Wonderland written by Beth Steel and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour. London, 1984. A conflicted Tory MP, a brash American CEO and an eccentric maverick are the face of a radical Conservative government preparing to do battle with the most powerful workforce, the miners. As the two sides clash, the miners fight for their livelihoods and families, and the government for its vision of a free Britain. Together they change the fabric of the nation forever. Wonderland by Beth Steel premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in June 2014.
Download or read book Toast written by Richard Bean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It’s just another Sunday. Nellie's so worn down from a lifetime making dough, he loses his vest in the mix. First, Owen Man's on a promise. The ovens are cranked up and running, and the wholemeal's pleasingly big going in. But there's a spanner in the works which threatens bread production in Hull for good, and life as they know it for the men on the shift. Toast is Bean’s second play, first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in February 1999.
Download or read book Love Actually written by Richard Curtis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious new screenplay from the writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"is coming to the big screen in November 2003.
