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Gary Owen: Collected Plays

Author : Gary Owen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783193328
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Gary Owen: Collected Plays written by Gary Owen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new collection of plays from multi-award-winning playwright Gary Owen. Includes the plays: Violence and Son, Iphigenia in Splott, Blackthorn, In the Pipeline, Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian, Love Steals Us From Loneliness and Mum & Dad Violence and Son: People know, you're my boy. And they know better than to lay a fucking finger on you. See? You are safer here with me, than you have ever been.' Liam's 17 years old, loves Dr Who and has lost his mum. He has had to move from London to Wales, to the valleys, to the middle of nowhere, to live with a dad he doesn't know. Whose nickname isn't Violence for nothing. Iphigenia in Splott: What gets me through is knowing I took this pain, and saved all of you from suffering the same.' Stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contact with, silently passing judgement. We think we know her, but we don't know the half of it. Effie's life spirals through a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night, and a hangover worse than death the next day - till one night gives her the chance to be something more. This powerful new adaptation of the enduring Greek myth drives home the high price people pay for society's shortcomings. Blackthorn: Kate and Tom with their troubled daughter Evie decide to leave the London rat race and start afresh in the peace of the countryside. They buy a farmhouse in Wales... Watch the drama unfold. Blackthorn is a darkly comic new play by Gary Owen about the clash between the newcomers with their expectations and the way of life a Welsh farmer holds dear . . . In the Pipeline: A massive liquid gas line tears through the countryside of west Wales. Gary Owen opens the doors to three of the residents in the port of Milford Haven, Andrew, Dai and Joan, who are caught in the path of this terrifying phenomenon. Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian: Friendships grow in the most unlikely of places. Mrs Reynolds is a little old lady. Jay is a troubled youth. When he vandalises her lovingly tended garden, the authorities send him back to help her fix it. It seems a recipe for disaster - but human beings are more complex than the headlines. Love Steals us from Loneliness: A play about the stupid things you do when you're f*cked. A night out. Friends, alcohol, a shit club, a strop - the usual. But tonight is different. Tonight will change things forever. Gary Owen, one of Wales's foremost playwrights, returns to his hometown of Bridgend. The media have told us their Bridgend story, but what will a writer who spent his own teenage years here have to say?

Brecht Collected Plays: 5

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472538552
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Brecht Collected Plays: 5 written by Bertolt Brecht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language. The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's best-known and most frequently performed and studied plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children. Galileo, which examines the conflict between free inquiry and official ideology, contains one of Brecht's most human and complex central characters. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's threat of torture, and forced to abjure his theories publicly, Galileo continues to work in private, eventually smuggling his work out of the country. As an examination of the problems that face not only the scientist but also the whole spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of government or official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals. Mother Courage is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot follows the resilient Mother Courage who survives by running a commissary business that profits from all sides. As the war claims all of her children in turn, the play poignantly demonstrates that no one can profit from the war without being subject to its terrible cost also. The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.

Brecht Collected Plays: 4

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472538544
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Brecht Collected Plays: 4 written by Bertolt Brecht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. The Trial of Lucullus, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. Señora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is Your Iron?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941. The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.

Killology

Author : Gary Owen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786821699
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Killology written by Gary Owen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Killology, players are rewarded for torturing victims, scoring points for “creativity”. But Killology isn’t sick. In fact it’s marketed by its millionaire creator as a deeply moral experience. Because yes, you can live out your darkest fantasies, but you don’t escape their consequences. Out on the streets, not everybody agrees with him. “There is an instinctive revulsion against taking a human life. And that revulsion can be conquered.”

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film

Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000956172
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film written by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The volume gathers 12 chapters penned by scholars from Japan, the USA, Canada, and Spain which look into the representation of vulnerability in human bodies and subjectivities. Not only is the array of genres covered in this volume significant— from narrative, drama, poetry, (auto)documentary, or film— in fiction and nonfiction, but also the varied cultural and linguistic coordinates of the literary and filmic texts scrutinized—from the USA, Canada, Spain, France, the Middle East, to Japan. Readers who decide to open the cover of this volume will benefit from becoming familiar with a relatively old topic— that of vulnerability— from a new perspective, so that they can consider the great potential of this critical concept anew.

Beyond Documentary Realism

Author : Cyrielle Garson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715767
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Documentary Realism written by Cyrielle Garson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ''real people'', has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. The central aim of the book is to critically explore and account for the relationship between contemporary British verbatim theatre and realism whilst questioning the much-debated mediation of the real in theses theatre practices.

Iphigenia in Splott

Author : Gary Owen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783198923
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Iphigenia in Splott written by Gary Owen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What gets me through is knowing I took this pain, and saved all of you from suffering the same.' Stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contact with, silently passing judgement. We think we know her, but we don't know the half of it. Effie's life spirals through a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night,and a hangover worse than death the next day - till one night gives her the chance to be something more. This powerful new adaptation of the enduring Greek myth drives home the high price people pay for society's shortcomings. Winner of Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015

Double Feature

Author : Owen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451676913
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Double Feature written by Owen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can’t stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster. Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead—and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.

Big Hopes

Author : Gary Owen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409295656
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Big Hopes written by Gary Owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two full length plays - IN THE PIPELINE and AN ENEMY FOR THE PEOPLE, plus four shorter pieces - LLANYBYDDER MART, FATHER FIGURES, A MARE AT CHRISTMAS and BIG HOPES.

Senior High Core Collection

Author : Raymond W. Barber
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
ISBN 13 : 9780824210861
Total Pages : 1496 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Senior High Core Collection written by Raymond W. Barber and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features annotations for more than 6,200 works in the main volume (2007), and more than 2,400 new titles in three annual supplements published 2008 through 2010. New coverage of biographies, art, sports, Islam, the Middle East, cultural diversity, and other contemporary topics keeps your library's collection as current as today's headlines.

Love Steals Us From Loneliness

Author : Gary Owen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439117
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Love Steals Us From Loneliness written by Gary Owen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play about the stupid things you do when you're f cked. A night out. Friends, alcohol, a shit club, a strop - the usual. But tonight is different. Tonight will change things forever. With Love Steals us from Loneliness, Gary Owen, one of Wales's foremost playwrights, returns to his hometown of Bridgend. The media have told us their Bridgend story, but what will a writer who spent his own teenage years here have to say?

Oklahoma Off the Beaten Path®

Author : Deborah Bouziden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493078151
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma Off the Beaten Path® written by Deborah Bouziden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, Oklahoma Off the Beaten Path shows you the Sooner State you never knew existed. Catch a reenactment of a historic Wild West show at Pawnee Bill Buffalo Ranch, stroll through the collection of bonsai trees and Japanese-style cascading pools at Lendonwood Gardens, or admire the rose-colored fossilized crystals at the Timberlake Rose Rock Museum. So, if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.

Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200905
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies written by Federico García Lorca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

Film, Drama and the Break-up of Britain

Author : Steven Blandford
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Film, Drama and the Break-up of Britain written by Steven Blandford and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films examined include: The full Monty, Trainspotting, Human traffic.

The Two-character Play

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811207294
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Two-character Play written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.

The Public and Play Without a Title

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811208819
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Public and Play Without a Title by : Federico García Lorca

Download or read book The Public and Play Without a Title written by Federico García Lorca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federico Garcia Lorca called The Public "the best thing I've written for the theater." Yet, he acknowledged, "this is for the theater years from now." Now, half a century later, The Public and another of Lorca's most daring works, Play without a Title, are available in English translation for the first time. Surrealism, folk theater, poetry, vivid costumes, black humor--in the The Public, dramatic traditions are ransacked to develop themes as timely in the 1980s as they were taboo when Lorca was writing: if Romeo were a man of thirty and Juliet a boy of fifteen, would their passion be any less authentic? No, says a young observer of the play within the play, "I who climb the mountain twice each day and, when I finish studying, tend an enormous herd of bulls that I've got to struggle with and overpower at every instant, I don't have time to think about whether Juliet's a man or a woman or a child, but only to observe that I like her with such a joyous desire." In both The Public and Play without a Title, the player himself is of as much consequence as the role he plays. The fierce, stark Play without a Title, with its cast of Author, Prompter, Stagehand in the wings, and hecklers in the gallery, clearly heralds developments in today's avant-garde theater. It also reflects the violence of the times in which it was written. As Carlos Bauer notes in his introduction, neither of the plays in this volume was complete in 1936, when Lorca was assassinated by Franco's forces. Still, both have here the unity and grace of finished tours de force.

Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225895
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983-06-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The late Tennessee Williams’s Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in 1980. Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding and then devouring the other. Set in Highland Hospital near Asheville, North Carolina, where Zelda spent her last confinement, this "ghost play" begins several years after Scott’s death of a heart attack in California. But the past is "still always present" in Zelda, and Williams’s constant shifting of chronology and mixing of remembrance with ghostly re-enactment suggest that our real intimacy is with the shadow characters of our own minds. As Williams said in the Author’s Note to the Broadway production: "Our reason for taking extraordinary license with time and place is that in an asylum and on its grounds liberties of this kind are quite prevalent: and also these liberties allow us to explore in more depth what we believe is truth of character." Williams poses the inevitable, unanswerable questions: Did Scott prevent Zelda from achieving an independent creativity? Did Zelda’s demands force Scott to squander his talents and turn to alcohol? Whose betrayal––emotional, creative, sexual––destroyed the other? But he poses these questions in a new way: in the act of creation, Zelda and Scott are now aware of their eventual destruction, and the creative fire that consumed two artists combines symbolically with the fire that ended Zelda’s life.