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The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh, one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre (Guardian).Bursting onto the theatre scene in 1996 with Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh has delivered a sustained fusillade of strikingly original plays ever since. This volume, with a Foreword by the author, contains:The Ginger Ale Boy (1995), Walshs very first, previously unpublished play, a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control.Disco Pigs (1996), his breakthrough play, winner of the 1997 George Devine and Stewart Parker Awards, a play that does for Irish kids what Irvine Welshs Trainspotting did for young Scots (Daily Telegraph).Misterman(1999, revised in 2012), in which we meet Thomas Magill on his obsessive mission to bring God to the townsfolk of Inishfree.bedbound (2000), his Fringe First Award-winning play, in which a father and daughter are trapped in their own compulsive and claustrophobic story.The Small Things (2005), a harrowingly precise and poetic (Guardian) exploration of language and our need for words to survive.Chatroom(2005), a chilling tale of teenage manipulation that was written for the National Theatres 2005 Connections season.Also included are two previously unpublished short plays, How These Desperate Men Talk (2004) and Lynndies Gotta Gun (2005), written during Walshs time working with European theatremakers.

This volume of Conor McPhersons collected plays, covering a decade of writing, celebrates a fascination with the uncanny which has led him to be described as quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation (New York Times).In Shining City, a man seeks help from a counsellor, claiming to have seen the ghost of his dead wife. The play, premiered at the Royal Court, London, is up there with The Weir, moving, compassionate, ingenious and absolutely gripping (Daily Telegraph).The Seafarer, premiered at the National Theatre before going on to become a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit, tells the story of an extended Christmas Eve card game, but one played for the highest stakes possible. McPherson proves yet again he is both a born yarn-spinner and an acute analyst of the melancholy Irish manhood (Guardian)Set in the big house in 1820s rural Ireland, The Veil is McPhersons first period play. Seventeen-year-old Hannah is to be married off in order to settle the debts of the crumbling estate. But when Reverend Berkeley arrives, determined to orchestrate a seance, chaos is unleased. A cracking fireside tale of haunting and decay (The Times)The Birds, hauntingly adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier, is deliciously chilling, claustrophobic, questioning, frightening; and with a twist (Irish Independent). It is published here for the first time, as is TheDance of Death, a new version of Strindbergs classic, which premiered at the Trafalgar Studios in London. A spectacularly bleak yet curiously bracing drama that often makes you laugh out loud (Daily Telegraph).Completing the volume is a Foreword by the author.

April de Angeliss second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze! JumpyThe funniest new play the West End has seen in ages. Its not only funny, its painfully acute; and its wit is of a piece with its insight. - Daily TelegraphThe VillageA great piece of storytelling . . . flat-out wonderful. - The TimesA Laughing MatterDe Angeliss writing is even funnier than it is stimulating. . Comedy neednt be soft and comforting. It can be mischievous and subversive. You see the bind in which Garrick finds himself, trapped as he is by the economic, social and moral pressures. Its a bind his descendants know even today. I havent seen it dramatised before with such infectious brio. - The TimesRuneA gorgeous little nugget of a show in which a bored teenager on a school trip to see the hoard at the Potteries Museum suddenly discovers a power within her when she gets to hold a piece of it. - GuardianExtinctBuilds its drama with its own gripping truth ... Necessary and urgent. - GuardianGin Craze!Its terrifically vivid and exciting. . A Brechtian message delivered with the most glorious, full-throated ebullience: an intoxicating show that leaves your head spinning, your spirit soaring and a fire in your belly. - The Times

When her first play, Eight, transferred from student theatre in Edinburgh to the West End and then New York, Ella Hickson was still in her early twenties. She has since built on that promise with a series of engaged and engaging dramas that pit romanticism and optimism against the realities of life as a young person in Britain.Eight (Edinburgh Fringe, 2008), that astonishing first success, is included here: a state-of-the-nation group portrait in monologues, an interactive Talking Heads for 21st-century teens and twentysomethings (Independent).Also included is Hot Mess (Edinburgh Fringe, 2010), a dark and lyrical tale about twins born with just a single heart between them, and Precious Little Talent (Edinburgh Fringe, 2009; West End, 2011), about two young adults graduating into a world thats sold them down the river.In Boys (HighTide Festival, Nuffield Theatre Southampton and Soho Theatre, 2012), the Class of 2011 faces a tricky transition to adulthood in a play that powerfully captures the mood of a generation (Independent).The volume also contains an introduction by the author and two short plays: the previously unpublished PMQ, part of the Coalition season at Theatre503, London, in 2010; and Gift, first seen as part of Headlongs immersive theatre production Decade in 2011.On the cusp of greatnessIndependent

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa.In Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), Ahmad and Nour rent a flat so that they can spend time together away from their families, but is having a space to themselves going to solve all their problems? In 603by Imad Farajin (Palestine), four Palestinian men share a cramped prison cell listening to the buses come and go outside. Will the next bus be the one to take them home?In Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco), three weeks after Youssef and Sanaas wedding, Youssef accepts a military peacekeeping expedition in the Congo. Will either of them be the same people when he returns?In The Houseby Arze Khodr (Lebanon), Nadia wants to remain in the house she grew up in. For her sister, Reem, it is filled with painful memories. Are their differences over the future of the house irreconcilable?In Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt), Hadia is an independent woman in Cairo. Gasir is a painfully awkward lab assistant with attachment issues over his dead mother. Is he really her knight in shining armour?In 2007 the Royal Court Theatres International Department and the British Council embarked on an ambitious project working with twenty-one writers from across the Near East and North Africa. Seven of the resultant plays received rehearsed readings at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2008.This volume, introduced by Laila Hourani of the British Council, collects five of these unique new voices, each posing different but equally urgent questions.

Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author.The plays in this volume three monologues and a three-hander were all written while Conor McPherson was in his twenties.In This Lime Tree Bower (Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, 1995; Bush Theatre, London, 1996), three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell us in overlapping monologues of their inextricably linked lives and the eventful week which was to change things for good.St Nicholas (Bush Theatre, London, 1997) is an eccentric, teasing yarn in which a cynical and jaded drama critic falls for a beautiful young actress. In pursuing her, he meets a group of modern-day vampires who offer him eternal life his part of the bargain is to feed their bloodlust.Rum and Vodka (University College Dublin, 1992; City Arts Centre, Dublin, 1994) is a short monologue play in which a young Irishman with a drink problem tells of three momentous days in his life when his drab nine-to-five existence is obliterated in an escapist binge which threatens to engulf him.The Good Thief (City Arts Centre, Dublin, 1994) is a monologue play about a petty criminal who is punished by his conscience when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.

En el segundo volumen de Teatro completo de Vicente Leñero se reúnen 11 piezas teatrales, abarcando igual número de años de producción literaria, de 1986 a 1997. Los temas presentes en los escritos tratan la realidad y el devenir de una nacion generosa en historias que merecen ser contadas y recuperadas para evitar la desmemoria, y tocan concepciones como la libertad, el poder y la imaginacion. Incluye las obras ¿Te acuerdas de Rulfo, Juan Jose Arreola?; Señora; Jesucristo Gomez; Nadie sabe nada; El infierno; Hace ya tanto tiempo; La noche de Hernan Cortes; Todos somos Marcos; Los perdedores; Que pronto se hace tarde; y Don Juan en Chapultepec.

Dealers ChoiceI feel its my duty to proclaim it from the rooftops: this is it, this is the play that will remind you, at the end of a year that has contained too few stand-out new-writing hits and far too many musicals, why we go to the theatre - and just how good it can get.TelegraphCloserPatrick Marbers searing follow-up to Dealers Choice establishes him as the leading playwright of his generation.Independent on SundayOne of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williamss Streetcar, Mamets Oleanna, Albees Virginia Woolf, Pinters Old Times and Hares Skylight.Sunday TimesHoward KatzAfter Dealers Choice (1995), his gripping study of self-destructive gamblers, and Closer (1997), a thrilling account of love, sex and betrayal, this third instalment of his trilogy set in contemporary London tackles the biggest themes of all - life, death, God and the human soul. Its great to see a contemporary dramatist wrestling with such material.TelegraphDon Juan in SohoOne of the foremost dramatic chroniclers of modern British life. Line by line, this is the best written of all Marbers plays. You want to hang around its phrases (how often does that happen in the theatre?): hardly a minute passes without a satirical swipe, a gutsy joke.ObserverThe Red LionMarber, in this riveting new piece, uses the world of non-league, semi-pro football to explore issues of trust and loyalty and the larger division between individual ambition and the collective ethic. If big issues emerge naturally from the action, it is because Marber is writing about a world he knows intimately. Everything feels right. Guardian

iGirlStylishly, mysteriously, and with a soaring imagination, Marina Carr has upended the definition of feminism.Independent on SundayGirl on an AltarMesmerisingly compelling . . . Carrs words are a delight to hear, even at their most bleak. Bracingly good.Evening StandardAudrey or SorrowAll facets of Marina Carrs precious mineral are on display in this startling play.Irish TimesTo the LighthouseGloriously ambitious and inventive . . . Woolf and Carr are an inspired match, the Irish playwright detecting the absolute truths of Woolfs work with laser-sharp focus and mining them to their fullest effect. Irish ExaminerThis collection also includes Gilgamesh, Carrs adaptation of the ancient Sumerian epic, a bold exploration of its enduring themes of power, love, mortality and our ruinous relationship to the natural world.

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Welcome. Welcome to Bristol in 1963. Welcome to Waterloo Bridge in 2016. Welcome to a house in May 2017. Welcome to three couples and what might be, what once was and what could have been in 2017. Welcome to a West Indian household in 2018. Welcome to London in 2018. Welcome to the past, present and crucially the future.This anthology brings together six plays, all written or performed since 2017, by six brilliant Black British writers Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, Arinze Kene, Chinonyerem Odimba and debbie tucker green.The plays demonstrate a rich range of settings, forms, styles, locations, scales, contents and concerns and explore themes including politics and protest, grief and colonisation, relationships and gender.They have been seen on stages including the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Bush and Bristol Old Vic, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in the West End, and on tour of the UK.Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu, Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers celebrates a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade.

This anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprises five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, Londons biggest and most exciting arts festival.Something Awful by Tatty Hennessy is a thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman. Soph and her best friend Jel love scary stories and hunt for the best online. But then new girl Ellie turns up at school with one of her own.Second Home by Charlotte Chimuanya explores the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland. Naomi is trying to mend her broken heart. But will tackling grief and racism in a place she calls home prove to be the final betrayal?Madame Ovary by Rosa Hesmondhalgh tells the heartbreaking and hilarious true story of Rosas own ovarian cancer. This five-star sell-out Edinburgh hit is a life-affirming monologue exploring the typical struggles of staying relevant, with the less typical struggles of staying alive. Take Care by Zoe Templeman-Young and Sam McLaughlin follows the real-life story of Pam, a woman struggling to move her mother into a care home thats closer to her. An award-winning Edinburgh smash, it is an astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.Heroes by Isabel Dixon is a poignant exploration of fallen idols, family secrets and the human price of forgiveness. Set across two timelines, it is the tense and sensitive story of a family torn apart by an unforgiveable act.A major London festival showcasing new and rising talentIndependent on VAULT Festival.

Described as Americas greatest living playwright (Wall Street Journal), Kenneth Lonergan is internationally acclaimed for his trademark humour and his genius for capturing the real heart and soul of human interactions. This volume gathers together three of his landmark plays.This Is Our Youth (1996) is a wildly funny, bittersweet and lacerating look at three days in the lives of three affluent young Manhattanites in the 1980s. Its West End premiere in 2002 was notable for its successive casts of young Hollywood stars, including Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Paquin and Summer Phoenix. A rambunctious and witty play caustic, cruel, compassionateThe New York Times.The Waverly Gallery (1999) is a poignant, generous and frequently hilarious play about a feisty grandmothers last battle against Alzheimers disease. More than a memory play, it captures the humour and strength of a family in the face of crisis. It was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and revived on Broadway in 2018 to widespread acclaim. Both one of the most beautiful things youll ever see in a Broadway theatre and one of the most profoundly sadChicago Tribune.Lobby Hero (2001) tells the story of a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown out of the navy. But working in a lobby proves to be no sanctuary from the world, as he is unwittingly drawn into a murder investigation. The play received its British premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2002, and was also revived on Broadway in 2018. Artfully intertwines private and public issues [Lonergan] has the lightest of touches and writes with deft humourGuardian.Kenneth Lonergan is an American film director, playwright and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the films You Can Count On Me, Margaret and Manchester by the Sea, for which he won the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. This collection, published alongside the UK premiere of Lonergans The Starry Messenger in 2019, also features an exclusive introduction by the author.Lonergans ear for the crosscurrents of love and recrimination, of accusation and confession, is as fine as that of any American dramatistWashington Post

A collection of five plays by Alexi Kaye Campbell.The premiere of The Prideat the Royal Court Theatre in 2008 marked the emergence of Alexi Kaye Campbell as a distinctive new talent. With its bold and ingenious structure and its daring take on sexual politics in the 1950s and today, the play combined thrilling dramaturgy with profound insight into the affairs of the human heart. It went on to win an Olivier Award, the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the John Whiting Award for Best New Play, and was revived in the West End in 2013.Published here alongside that remarkable debut are Alexis four subsequent plays, which together demonstrate his rare ability to harness theatricality in pursuit of emotional truth.Apologia(Bush Theatre, London, 2009; revived in the West End in 2017), a perceptive look at what has happened to 1960s idealists and their children. Sharp, funny, wise and humane, Alexi Kaye Campbell is a writer to cherishTelegraphThe Faith Machine (Royal Court, 2011), an exploration of the relationship between faith and capitalism that asks fundamental questions about the true meaning of love. An urgent play of expansive ambition and largeness of spiritGuardianBracken Moor (Tricycle Theatre and Shared Experience, 2013), a haunting tale of grief and denial, set against the economic crisis of the 1930s. A superior kind of ghost story intellectually as well as emotionally hauntingThe StageSunset at the Villa Thalia (National Theatre, 2016), a passionate and deeply personal play about the impact of foreign influence, planned and unintentional, on a nation and its people. This play is a winner, a thought-provoking slow-burn story that works on many levelsThe TimesAlso included is an introduction by the author.

This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today. They provide ideal material for teenagers to read, study and perform.Girls Like That explores the pressures caused by technology when a schoolgirls naked photograph goes viral. Commissioned in 2013 by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, it has subsequently been performed by school and youth-theatre groups across the UK, at the Unicorn Theatre, London, and in the Houses of Parliament. It won the Writers Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences. Banana Boys, published here for the first time, is about the challenges of being on the school football team and secretly gay. It was commissioned and produced by Hampstead Theatres heat&light company in 2010.In Holloway Jones, Holloway dreams of being a world-class BMXer, but she is held back by the tough reality of a parent in prison. Also making its debut in print here, the play was commissioned by Synergy Theatre Project, toured schools and the Unicorn Theatre in 2011, and won the 2012 Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People. Finally, Pronoun is a love story about two childhood sweethearts dealing with the fact that one of them, Isabella, has now become a boy. As one of the plays in the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival it proved enormously popular with youth theatres and college companies.Maybe change starts with plays like thisLyn Gardner, Guardian, on Girls Like That

Entre batalhas e intrigas, surge a história de Ardian, um príncipe chamado não apenas a governar um reino, mas a descobrir o verdadeiro significado do poder e da fé. Em um mundo onde espadas definem