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The Pitchfork Disney

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472508041
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Pitchfork Disney written by Philip Ridley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pitchfork Disney heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. Manifesting Ridley's vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook, the play resonates with his trademark themes: East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence, memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix of the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own. The Pitchfork Disney was Ridley's first play and is now seen as launching a new generation of playwrights who were unafraid to shock and court controversy. This unsettling, dreamlike piece has surreal undertones and thematically explores fear, dreams and story-telling. First produced in 1991, it has gone on to be recognised as the annunciation of Ridley's dark and seductive world.

Ridley Plays 1

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408142333
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Ridley Plays 1 written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. They are seminal works in the development of the 'in yer face' theatre that emerged in Britain during the mid-1990s.The three plays here all manifest Ridley's vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook. They resonate with his trademark themes: East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence, memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix of the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own. The Pitchfork Disney was Ridley's first play and is now seen as launching a new generation of playwrights who were unafraid to shock and court controversy. This unsettling, dreamlike piece has surreal undertones and thematically explores fear, dreams and story-telling. The Fastest Clock in the Universe is a multi-award-winning play which caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992. An edgy and provocative drama, it is now regarded as a contemporary classic. Ghost from a Perfect Place is a scorchingly nasty blend of comedy, spectacle and terror where a monster from the past meets the monsters of the present. The volume contains the definitive version of the plays, plus an extended and updated introduction and three monologues (Bloodshot, Angry and Voosh), published here for the first time.

Ridley Plays: 2

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517369
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Ridley Plays: 2 written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Ridley's stage plays confirms him as one of the most imaginative, daring and unique voices currently working in theatre. All four plays collected here resonant with Ridley's trademark themes - East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence, memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix of the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own. Vincent River: '... a grieving mother and a traumatized teenager meet as adversaries, rough each other up and eventually bond over a barbaric act of cruelty...Ridley asks questions, lots of them, about how people respond to the loss of innocence in their lives, how they hold onto their sanity in the face of savagery and how they fight to keep the bonds of humanity intact in a mad, mad world.' Variety Mercury Fur: '...depicts a scary, post-apocalyptic London where, in their struggle to survive, a group of youths are reduced to organising parties that cater for the most perverted tastes.' Independent Leaves of Glass: 'There is a different kind of murder going on here: the murder of truth that goes on in all families to a lesser or greater degree. As with nations, a family's history is written by the victors.' Guardian Piranha Heights: 'The extravagance of Ridley's dark vision suggests a dangerously confused society in which individuals seize on random gobbets of semi-digested information and use them to construct their own personal narrative.' The Times

Plays

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826407160
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Plays written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plays Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso. This volume will serve to illustrate the range of Goethe's long and unparalleled career.

Radiant Vermin

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350184829
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Radiant Vermin written by Philip Ridley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The hallmarks of a Ridley classic; a fast-paced modern fairy-tale that burrows into the dark wormholes of the imagination ... reveals how below all that glitters, there's rarely gold.” Exeunt Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the things they did to get it, you might find shocking. But they want you to know they did it all for their baby... A wickedly comic satire about a young couple offered a 'too good to be true' way onto the property ladder. Playful, provocative, and viciously sharp, this outrageous black comedy is a meditation on how far we will go to satisfy - and justify - materialistic greed. Radiant Vermin premiered in 2015 at Soho Theatre, London. This Modern Classics edition features a brand new introduction by Aleks Sierz.

Tender Napalm

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 0822228491
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Tender Napalm written by Philip Ridley and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tender Napalm' is a high-impact, high-concept two handed play which explores the landscape that is a relationship between a man and a woman. Explosive, poetic, brutal and ultimately redemptive, the play weaves a compelling theatrical tapestry to re-examine and re-define the language of love.

Mercury Fur

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408141523
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Mercury Fur written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging new play by the enfant terrible of dark, disturbing drama Elliot is panicking. The party that he and his brother Darren have been planning has been brought forward - to tonight. In a lawless, ravaged city, where memories of the past have been brutally erased, the boys and their team survive by realising their clients' darkest fantasies. But just how far are they prepared to go in trading humanity for information? As the light fades and events spiral out of control it becomes clear that on the success of the evening hangs not just their security, but their existence. The world is at its worst...let the party begin. Mercury Fur is a challenging new work containing some explicit scenes that may cause offence. Published to tie-in with the play's premier at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth and The Chololate Factory, London in February 2005, produced by Paines Plough. "Philip Ridley is a singular writer, a prolific polymath, probably a genius, and the creator of some of the most peculiar, grotesque and compelling British plays (and films) of the last several years" Time Out

Leaves of Glass

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350421839
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Leaves of Glass written by Philip Ridley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'That's the way it works in this family. Believe what you wanna believe. Twist this. Ignore the other. That's how we survive.' Steven has always tried to be a good person. He works hard. He looks after his family. But, suddenly, everyone starts accusing him of things. His wife accuses him of being unfaithful. His mother accuses him of being coercive. And his brother, Barry, accuses him of...what exactly? Barry won't say. Or can't. Or perhaps... Steven hasn't done anything at all. Following its critically acclaimed premiere at Soho Theatre in 2007, Philip Ridley's gripping narrative of memory, manipulation, and power – now regarded as a modern classic – returns in a new production by long-time collaborators, Lidless Theatre. This edition was published alongside the production at the Park Theatre, London, in May 2023.

The Fastest Clock in the Universe

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408135841
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Fastest Clock in the Universe written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Cougar's birthday. He's having a party. And the gift he'd kill for is youth... In a strange room in East London the party preparations are under way. Everything has been planned to the last detail. Surely nothing can go wrong? After all, there's the specially made birthday cake, the specially written cards, the specially chosen guest of honour... and a very, very sharp knife. Philip Ridley's edgy and provocative drama caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992, winning the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer to the Stage and the Meyer Whitworth Prize. It is now regarded as a contemporary classic. 'A bit like a ride on a ghost train... you find yourself shuddering with shock and laughing uproariously... horror has rarely been so much fun' Daily Telegraph 'Scorchingly nasty... fingers an age and its icons with terrifying accuracy' Guardian

Plays

Author : David Rabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays written by David Rabe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ash Ridley and the Phoenix

Author : Lisa Foiles
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1682619044
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Ash Ridley and the Phoenix written by Lisa Foiles and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Ash waves goodbye to her miserable life as a traveling circus stablehand when she and her feisty bird, Flynn, are whisked away to the Academy of Beasts and Magic: a school where wealthy children train unicorns, manticores, and scarf-wearing ice dragons. The downside to owning such a highly magical beast? Everyone wants him. When a mysterious sorcerer suggests the Academy may have dark intentions, Ash realizes her tiny bird might be the key to saving Cascadia…or destroying it.

The Evolution of Everything

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062296027
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Everything written by Matt Ridley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error—a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of human action but not of human design: it emerges from the interactions of millions, not from the plans of a few. Drawing on fascinating evidence from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. The Industrial Revolution, cell phones, the rise of Asia, and the Internet were never planned; they happened. Languages emerged and evolved by a form of natural selection, as did common law. Torture, racism, slavery, and pedophilia—all once widely regarded as acceptable—are now seen as immoral despite the decline of religion in recent decades. In this wide-ranging, erudite book, Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution, rather than design, as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our technology, our minds, and that even now is shaping our future.

Krindlekrax

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241326788
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Krindlekrax written by Philip Ridley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very funny school story with weird and wonderful characters by the award-winning author, Philip Ridley. Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with knock-knees, thick glasses and a squeaky voice, and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh. Big, strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero. So who is more likely to get the big part in the school play? But when the mysterious beast, Krindlekrax, threatens Lizard Street and everyone who lives there, it is Ruskin who saves the day and proves he is the stuff that heroes are made of after all.

Ghost From A Perfect Place

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474227635
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Ghost From A Perfect Place written by Philip Ridley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think I'm threatened by you, you're wrong. I'm Travis Flood. I was threatening people before you were born. Back in the sixties, Travis Flood and his gang terrorised Bethnal Green. Now, after an absence of 25 years, Travis returns and meets Rio, whose haunting beauty leads him to confront a story that bears no relation to his own distorted memory. And then there's the Cheerleaders . . . a present-day gang, more vicious and terrifying that anything Travis led in the past. This edition of Ghost from a Perfect Place was published to coincide with the first major revival of the play at the Arcola Theatre, London, in September 2014.

Vincent River

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408142112
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Vincent River written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davey has seen something he can't forget. Anita has been forced to flee her home. These two have never met. Tonight their paths cross with devastating consequences. Thrilling, heartbreaking and darkly humorous by turns, Vincent River explores the classic Ridley themes of loss, sexual identity, the family as a destructive force, East London and the redemptive power of storytelling. Vincent River premiered at Hampstead Theatre on 6 September 2000. It received its West End premiere at the Trafalgar Studios on 30 October 2007.

Cut and Run

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401382479
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Cut and Run written by Ridley Pearson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding thriller pitting a U.S. federal marshal against the mob's most resourceful killer--in a race to save the woman he loves Six years ago, witness protection marshal Roland Larson did the unthinkable: He fell in love with a protected witness, Hope Stevens, whose testimony was to put away prominent members of the Romero crime family. When Hope's plan to "cut and run" is interrupted by both the government and the mob, she disappears into a new identity, taking with her not only her testimony but also a secret never shared with Larson. Larson, who has been looking for her ever since, is put back on her trail when the Romeros intercept the master WITSEC list from the Justice Department and Hope is believed to be among the first protected witnesses targeted for execution. In a series of terrifying encounters, Larson matches wits with a brutally ingenious killer whose sole target is Hope Stevens. For Larson, the stakes couldn't be higher--he must find Hope in order to protect her and simultaneously prevent the mob from auctioning off the master witness protection list--an act that will put seven thousand innocent, and not-so-innocent, lives in jeopardy. Taut and edge-of-the-seat compelling, Cut and Run is a unique thriller that skillfully blends romance and suspense--Ridley Pearson at his heart-pounding best.

Shivered

Author : Philip Ridley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408172607
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shivered written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We can't all just be hurtling through nothing towards nowhere...can we?' A young couple are moving into their new home. A soldier is being held hostage. Two boys are searching for monsters. All these things are connected by both family and time but what story can be told when family and time are broken? Set over the course of twelve years, Shivered unpicks the story of two families and then re-weaves it into something new and startling. Seven people, one war, a derelict car plant and mysterious lights in the sky come together in the Essex new-town of Draylingstowe, where the view from green hills once offered hope and prosperity for all. An oblique and startlingly anachronistic piece, the timeframe is an emotional, rather than linear sequence, reflecting the characters' broken memories and shattered lives. Depicting a panorama of people and time, connecting links of friendship, family and encounters eddy around each other in a tantalising, surprising and intelligent way. Shivered is a state of the nation play meets a dreamlike memory play.