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Uma obra-prima da fantasia epica. O seu nome e murmurado com temor e respeito. A sua figura move-se nas sombras da noite e das politicas. Acaba de salvar o herdeiro do reino. Mas sera suficiente? Depois de salvar o principe das garras dos pigarcos e de sofrer a mais devastadora perda possivel ao faze-lo, o lendario assassino regressa ao lugar a que em tempos chamou lar. Ai, esperam-no dias dificeis de adaptaço, mas tambem o esperam oportunidades, velhos e novos amigos e ate um filho adolescente. E espera-o tambem um principe, do seu sangue sem que o saiba, dotado com as magias desse sangue mas sem conhecimentos para lidar com elas, e prometido a uma princesa estrangeira. Como ira Fitz lidar com todos os desafios que o aguardam em Torre do Cervo? Que soluçes encontrara para os seus dilemas?

O regresso de Robin Hobb! Tome Texugo tem levado uma vida pacifica ha anos, retirado no campo na companhia da sua amada Moli, numa vasta propriedade que lhe foi agraciada por servicos leais a coroa. Mas por detras da sua respeitavel fachada de homem de meia-idade, esconde-se um passado turbulento e de violencia. Na verdade, ele e FitzCavalaria Visionario, um bastardo real, utilizador de estranhas magias e assassino. Um homem que tudo arriscou pelo seu rei, com grandes perdas pessoais. Ate que, numa noite fatidica, um mensageiro chega com uma mensagem que ira transformar o seu mundo. O passado arranja sempre forma de se intrometer no presente, e os acontecimentos prodigiosos de que foi protagonista na companhia do seu grande amigo, o Bobo, v?o voltar a enreda-lo. Se conseguirem, nada na sua vida ficara igual...

You cant pick your family but if you could Id still pick you.Sisters Connie and Ursula were once everything to each other. Years on, theyre almost strangers.When a family bombshell is dropped, Connie is forced to retrace forty years of sisterhood and confront a web of secrets and conflicting loyalties.Spanning four decades, Chloe Mosss play Run Sister Run is a witty and heartfelt story of family, class and dependence. It was first produced in 2020 by Paines Plough, Sheffield Theatres and Soho Theatre, directed by Charlotte Bennett, Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough.The play received its London premiere at the Arcola Theatre in 2025, in a production by Double Telling, directed by Marlie Haco.

The end-of-the-world quiz waits for no man, literally. Onwards, ever onwards, to our fiery decline. Round threeIts the end of the world. The last night on Earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us and theres nothing we can do about it.Except for maybe host a pub quiz which is exactly what landlady Kathy and her quizmaster Rav are doing. But, with time ticking, some unexpected guests explode on the scene Bobby wants to settle old scores, and Fran wants one last shot at love.Alison Carrs play The Last Quiz Night on Earth is an innovative comedy-drama featuring a fully interactive pub quiz for the audience to participate in, complete with real teams, real questions and real swapping each others answers for marking. It was premiered by Box of Tricks in 2020 on a UK tour, taking in a host of theatres, community venues and pubs.Ideal for performance by amateurs either in theatres or more unconventional spaces (such as theatre bars and local pubs) this play offers rich opportunities for audience participation. Quizzing compulsory, alcohol optional.

Oh, if you knew the lives we women lead Youd understand the Devil is a catch.In this radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, Johanna Faustus makes the ultimate sacrifice and sells her soul to wrestle control of her own destiny. She travels through time and changes the course of human history, but can she escape eternal damnation?Chris Bushs devilishly provocative play Faustus: That Damned Woman is inspired by the works of Marlowe, Goethe and other versions of the Faust myth and explores what women must sacrifice to achieve greatness, and the legacies that are left behind.Faustus: That Damned Woman was co-produced by Headlong and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, in association with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in January 2020 before touring the UK.

A sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking journey into the world of autism.Sandra is looking for love. Gordon is seeking acceptance. Simon just wants these parents to stop talking for two minutes so he can get on with teaching their kids.And Casper? Casper is not here.Jody ONeills play What I (Dont) Know About Autism mixes narrative, song, dance and direct address to explore this contentious and often misunderstood subject matter.Inspired by the writers own experiences with autism, the play celebrates autistic identity whilst offering deeper insight and understanding to non-autistic audiences.What I (Dont) Know About Autism was co-produced by Jody ONeill and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in association with The Everyman, Cork, and Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre, Bray. It was first performed, with all relaxed performances and a cast of autistic and non-autistic actors, on the Abbeys Peacock Stage, in February 2020, before touring.The play won the Best Theatre Script Award at the 2021 Writers Guild of Irelands Zebbie Awards.

Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queens circles. Today is the eve of her having to return to Africa, but will she go?The Present. A day in the life of Sarah, a black middle-class woman living in a Cheshire village with her husband and small child. They are paid a visit by well-meaning neighbours who have something to confess.The two Sarahs meet Queen Victoria for tea. This wont be your regular tea partyAn outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation and tea Janice Okohs The Gift premiered at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry in January 2020, followed by a UK tour, including a run at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. It was a co-production between Eclipse Theatre Company and the Belgrade Theatre, and directed by Dawn Walton.

Laura testemunhou a morte da família, mas o choque apagou-lhe da memória tudo o que aconteceu nessa fatídica noite. O assassino pode ser qualquer pessoa. Enquanto a polícia procura que ela se recorde do que sucedeu, o homicida vai tentar matar a unica testemunha viva do crime: ela.Por puro instinto de sobrevivencia, a menina de cinco anos escondeu- se ate que os gritos acabassem. A seguir, um silencio mortal invadiu a casa. Isto foi ha quinze anos. Durante esse tempo, Laura Watson acreditou que o assassino da familia se encontrava preso, aguardando a execuço no corredor da morte. Mas, enquanto tenta seguir com a vida junto da familia adotiva, no consegue libertar-se do medo e da incerteza de um dia se lembrar do que ocorreu. Quando uma aclamada psicologa prope a Laura ajuda-la a recuperar as lembranças, ela aceita, ansiosa por lançar alguma luz sobre o seu passado adormecido.O que no sabe e que, quanto mais mergulha nas memorias, mais se torna um alvo para o assassino, que esta a solta e no pode permitir que a verdade seja desvendada.CriticasUm thriller brilhante.Amazon

But deep down, we all know the only thing I did wrong was be a girl who spoke up. A girl who refused to stay silent. And Im still not gonna stay silent, because this stuff is too important to keep ignoring.When social media goes into a frenzy over pictures of a girl at a party, Louises teacher lectures all the schoolgirls on taking more responsibility for their actions. Enraged that its them getting reprimanded and not the boys who took the pictures Louise wages war on the schools systemic misogyny.But when she threatens popular boy Scott, risking his claim to the School Captain title, things escalate horribly; a website appears, objectifying the girls and shaming them for their actions.Natalie Mitchells play When They Go Low explores everyday feminism, consent and the changing face of teenage sexuality in an online world. Is it always true that when they go low, we should go high?Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It offers rich opportunities for a large cast of all genders, with particularly strong roles for young women.

My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country.Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for forty-four years. Mastermind. Seductress. Survivor.Created by award-winning writer Ella Hickson and director Natalie Abrahami, Swive [Elizabeth] shines a light on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.It premiered in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeares Globe, London, in December 2019.

An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come.A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world, Frankensteins creature desperately seeks out his true identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push him into darkness. Dangerous and vengeful, the creature threatens to obliterate Frankenstein and everyone he loves, in a ferocious and bloodthirsty hunt for his maker.Rona Munros inventive feminist adaptation (The Stage) of Mary Shelleys Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now. It premiered on a tour of the UK in 2019.

Kate Marshall era uma jovem e promissora detetive da polícia londrina quando apanhou o famoso assassino em série que operava na região de Nine Elms. Mas a sua maior vitória transformou-se de súbito n

i think im falling in love with youElla is from Yorkshire. Haseeb is from London. They order a pizza. House red for Ella. Hot chocolate for Haseeb.People and playlists. Christmas and Eid. Travelcards and Megabuses. London to Leeds.Love is more than just a game for two. Especially when theres an elephant in the room.Zia Ahmeds I Wanna Be Yours is a tender, funny, lyrical debut play about finding love and holding onto it with everything youve got.It premiered on tour of the UK in 2019, in a co-production between Paines Plough and Tamasha, including a run at the Bush Theatre, London.

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Keep your enemies close, and your wives closer.As their husbands clash over an international crisis, the first ladies of France and America find themselves alone together in a side room.Friends, or enemies? When the stakes are so high, can they trust each other? Can they trust their husbands?Nancy Harriss play Two Ladies premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in 2019, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and featuring Zoe Wanamaker and Zrinka Cvitei.

Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humour and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as gurlesque), Hare Soup stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. The book rightly won accolades and admirers, and was followed by a further, posthumous collection, Gethsemane Day (2006) that was prepared from typescript. The Poems of Dorothy Molloy gathers these two collections alongside her manuscript work, which appeared as Long-Distance Swimmer (Salmon, 2009), and the remaining body of unpublished material to present a complete edition of poems to meet the growing readership of this startling talent.

Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. Its 1595 or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing fuck-all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up.A kaleidoscopic exploration of cultural progress, Marek Horns play Wild Swimming is an interrogation of gender and privilege, and a wilfully ignorant history of English Literature.The play premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by FullRogue in association with Pleasance Futures and Bristol Old Vic Ferment, and directed by Julia Head. It subsequently transferred to the Bristol Old Vic, and toured the UK in 2020.

Everyone knows, all of them that when alls said and done, she is no more than a fig leaf hiding the thing everyone else would be much happier never having to look at.An Israeli violinist. Living in her trendy canal-side Amsterdam apartment. Nine months pregnant.One day a mysterious unpaid gas bill from 1944 arrives. It awakens unsettling feelings of collective identity, foreignness and alienation. Stories of a devastating past are compellingly reconstructed to try and make sense of the present.First seen at the Haifa Theater, Israel, in 2018, Amsterdam is a strikingly original, audacious thriller by Maya Arad Yasur. It received its UK premiere, in this English translation by Eran Edry, at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2019, directed by Matthew Xia, in a co-production between the Orange Tree, Actors Touring Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Numa pequena aldeia francesa, o pacato François Seurel, de 15 anos, narra a história da sua amizade com o alto e exuberante Augustin Meaulnes, dois anos mais velho. Mesmo com temperamentos muito diferentes, os rapazes desenvolvem um forte laço de lealdade.Impulsivo, imprudente e heroico, Meaulnes incorpora o ideal romantico da juventude, a busca do inatingivel. Todos ficam cativos da sua aparencia, ousadia e carisma.Certa manh, Meaulnes perde-se a caminho da estaço onde fora buscar os tios de François. Nas suas tentativas frustradas de encontrar o caminho, chega a uma propriedade com uma casa misteriosa. Exausto, adormece. Quando desperta, ve-se envolto numa atmosfera de sonho, plena de gente e de musica. E ha uma bela rapariga e uma alegria que se espalha pela grande casa e que domina o patio e os bosques em redor. Quando tudo acaba, ve na noite aquela terra desaparecer no po que as carruagens levantam na estrada. De regresso a aldeia, conta tudo a François, e o reencontro com aquele mundo perdido passa a ser a obsesso comum.E a vida de ambos jamais sera como antes.CriticasUm dos livros que mais me influenciaram. Adoro o heroi deste romance.Henry MillerUm dos maiores romances da literatura europeia.John FowlesCriticas de imprensaUma das 100 melhores obras do seculo XX.Le Monde

Debaixo de água, o corpo afundou-se rapidamente. Ali permaneceu, imóvel e imperturbável durante muitos anos, mas, lá em cima, fora de água, o pesadelo estava apenas a começar.Quando a detetive Erika Foster recebe uma denuncia anonima informando que uma prova fundamental relacionada com um caso de narcoticos estava escondida numa pedreira abandonada nos arredores de Londres, ela manda investigar a pista. No espesso lodo das aguas encontram as drogas que procuravam, mas tambem os restos mortais de uma criança pequena. O esqueleto e rapidamente identificado como Jessica Collins, a menina de sete anos que fizera as manchetes das noticias vinte e seis anos antes.Ao mesmo tempo que tenta juntar provas novas a investigaço, Erika depara-se com uma familia que guarda muitos segredos, uma detetive atormentada pelo fracasso e a morte misteriosa de um homem que vivia junto a pedreira.Sera o assassino alguem dos elementos mais proximos da menina? Ha quem no deseje ver o caso resolvido. E tudo fara para impedir Erika de descobrir a verdade.