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Orações, Magias, Feitiços, Rituais e Talismãs de São Cipriano para Dinheiro, Riqueza e Fortuna é um livro, escrito por Élida Alexandre, com orações, magias, feitiços, rituais e talismãs para conquist

The short play very traditional to Irish theatre is a little jewel of a structure, a lightning flash on a different world, the illumination made all the more acute by brevity Deirdre KinahanDeirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright and member of Aosdana, Irelands elected organisation of outstanding artists. This volume brings together five of her short plays, taken from the full span of her writing career, each of them shining a light into a forgotten corner of our humanity, giving voice to irrepressible characters that the world has done its best to overlook.In Be Carna (Tall Tales, 1999), five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin, a dark tale inspired by true-life stories, reverberating with humanity, warmth and comic humour.In Hue & Cry(Tall Tales/Bewleys Cafe Theatre, 2007), two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.In Bogboy(Tall Tales/Solstice Arts Centre, 2010), originally written as a radio play for RTE, two lost souls a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath, until a terrible secret comes to light.Wild Notes (Solas Nua, Washington D.C., 2018) explores the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country hes running from.An Old Song, Half Forgotten (Abbey Theatre, 2023) opens a window into the life and soul of an older actor who is living in care with Alzheimers disease, rebuilding a man just as he begins to crack and fade. Winner of the inaugural Pratchett Prize for challenging the stigma of Alzheimers Disease.

In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction by the author, this volume contains:Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2009): a short play about seven families wondering how to protect their children, written at the time of the bombing of Gaza by Israel in 20089.Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012): a fast-moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012): two families on opposite sides of a war, locked in identical hatred.Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015): a play about dying and being dead.Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016): three old friends and an unexpected neighbour have tea in a sunny back yard, and face catastrophes.Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016): a look at how colonialism crushed the fluidity of sexuality in Africa and brought a new intolerance, as shown in the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014.Also included are three previously unpublished short plays, each written in response to political events: War and Peace Gaza Piece (2014), Tickets are Now On Sale (2015) and Beautiful Eyes (2017).The wit, invention and structural ingenuity of Churchills work are remarkable she never does anything twiceTelegraphThe most dazzlingly inventive living dramatist in the English languageNew York Times

Two plays by David Edgar, written thirty-five years apart, both exploring the theme of youth and revolution.Maydays tells the story of the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics; of defection from East to West as well as from Left to Right. It is told through a number of interlocking stories, across three continents and twenty-five years of tumultuous history.First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican, London, in 1983, Maydays was revived in this new version, also by the RSC, in 2018.Trying It On is an autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by Edgar, in which the author at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self. Does he still share the beliefs which once defined him as a person and as an artist? If not, is it he that has changed, or the world itself?Presented by Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate, Trying It On toured the UK in 2018, including performances at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Midlands Arts Centre and at the Royal Court Theatre, London as well as at the Royal Shakespeare Company, alongside the revival of Maydays.This edition also includes a new introduction by the author.

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Companys premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhovs short life and work. Phaedra Backwards retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. The Map of Argentina offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down. Hecuba was written in reaction to the bad press this Trojan queen receives, and reimagines how she may have suffered and reacted. Indigo is a dark and passionate romance amongst fairies, demons, ghouls and every sort of fantastic creature out of folklore and myth.

Four plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London - ideal for performance by schools and youth groups.Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East Londons young women.In The Urban Girls Guide to Camping, four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.Mehndi Nightis a touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the night before a wedding, exploring the pleasures and pains of a cross-cultural identity in twenty-first century Britain.From the heart of Londons East End, Stolen Secretsare urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.In The Unravelling, a dying mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale, using nothing more than pieces of cloth. A Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.These plays are the result of a unique four-year partnership between award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy and Mulberry School in East London. Originally performed by the school at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at Southwark Playhouse, London, they are written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger performance groups around the country, especially those looking for predominantly female roles.

N. F. Simpson was one of the leading exponents of the theatre of the absurd, and is best known for his play A Resounding Tinkle, made famous by its premiere at the Royal Court in 1957, and later to star Peter Cook. But beyond that he was a major force in the satire boom of the sixties, and wrote much exceptional comedy for film and TV for the likes of John Cleese, Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes, as well as a number of brilliantly funny plays for theatre, which starred big names such as Harold Pinter and Kenneth Williams. His influence on everyone from Peter Cooks much-loved character E. L. Wisty to Monty Pythons Flying Circus helped spawn a generation of incredible comic talent. Plays included in the collection are A Resounding Tinkle, The Hole, Gladly Otherwise, One Way Pendulum, The Cresta Run, Was He Anyone? and his final work, If So, Then Yes, first performed in 2010. This collection celebrates the work of this lost comic genius, and seeks to put his reputation back at the heart of British - and world - comedy.

Hipocresía, coqueteos, muertes e infidelidades son algunos escenarios por los que transita la obra dramatúrgica de Jorge Ibargüengoitia, género con el que inició de manera contundente su carrera como

«Teatro» (1912) recoge la mayor parte de la producción teatral de Víctor Pérez Petit, como, por ejemplo: «Cobarde», «Claro de luna» y «Yorick», en el primer tomo de la recopilación; y «El esclavo-rey

Orações, Magias, Rituais e Feitiços de São Cipriano Contra Inimigos e Rivais é um livro criado por Élida Alexandre com orações à Deus e à São Cipriano para o inimigo ser humilhado, desmascarado e afa

An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2023, Londons leading festival of live performance.Fanboyby Joe Sellman-Leava is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia. A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, its the story of a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo asking why his generation cant let go of their childhoods.Five Years with the White Man by Eloka Obi and Saul Boyer is a startling account of satirist ABC Merriman-Labor the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten whose dreams of becoming the greatest writer of his generation lead him on a defiant journey from Sierra Leone to Edwardian London.Honour-Bound by Zahra Jassi is a powerful solo show about family, anti-Blackness, and what were willing to sacrifice for love. After Simran loses her friend to honour-based violence, she has to answer some life-changing questions: will she and her boyfriend be able to live safely ever after?How We Begin by Elisabeth Lewerenz is a tender exploration of love, queerness and identity. Helen and Diana are perfect for each other: theyve both got good degrees, busy jobs and nice flats. Theres just one small problem Dianas got a boyfriend.I Fucked You in My Spaceship by Louis Emmitt-Stern is a razor-sharp comedy-drama about sex and relationships. Two couples each invite a stranger into their homes with the hope of sparking new life. Instead, they find themselves threatened by alienation, abduction and invasion...A major London festival... showcasing new and rising talentIndependent on VAULT Festival

Um dos maiores escritores de língua inglesa — quiçá o maior de todos —, William Shakespeare brinda o público com uma obra diversa e monumental. Suas primeiras criações datam do final do século XVI, n

Polly Stenhams explosive That Face, written at the age of nineteen, was staged at the Royal Court before transferring to Londons West End. Tusk Tusk and No Quarter followed, also for the Royal Court. Her fourth play, Hotel, opened at the National Theatre. All four are contained in Plays 1, together with an introduction from the author.That FaceOne of the most astonishing debuts I have seen in more than 30 years.. In every respect this is a remarkable and unforgettable piece of theatre.Daily TelegraphTusk TuskA cracking confirmation of Stenhams talent... [A] gripping, witty, sad play.Financial TimesNo QuarterStenham is that rare thing, a truly exciting writer... It is hard to envisage anything providing this kind of mainlining thrill.Evening StandardHotelAt its core, Hotel is about civilisation peeled down to savagery. And that is where Stenham is at her brutal, universal best.Independent

In this first collection by Zinnie Harris, Further than the Furthest Thing evokes the fragility of an island community as their way of life is threatened and they must determine their future, while Midwinter opens as a woman steals a dead horse to feed to a child. How To Hold Your Breath tells the story of a woman who sleeps with the devil and defends her belief in love, even as her world collapses around her, and Meet Me at Dawn offers a compelling, allegorical love story that explores the desolating effects of grief. With an introduction by director Dominic Hill.Further than the Furthest ThingAlready has the status of a modern classic. Lyn Gardner, GuardianArguably the greatest tragedy in the Scottish theatrical canon Mark Brown, TelegraphMidwinterThere is no mistaking her talentObserverA stunning metaphor for our timeHeraldHow to Hold Your BreathHarriss writing is not only wonderfully imaginative, but also beautifully light.TribuneDizzyingly bold . . . pressingly topical and admirably ambitiousFinancial TimesMeet Me at DawnA twenty-first-century classicScotsmanLyrical, raw and hazySunday Times

An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, Londons biggest and most exciting arts festival.3 Billion Seconds by Maud Dromgoole is a hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn babys life.Alcatrazby Nathan Lucky Wood is a thrilling play about family and social care that follows Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.Collapsibleby Margaret Perry is a funny, furious monologue about navigating a world that cares so much about you keeping it together, it doesnt notice you falling apart.Inside Voices by Nabilah Said blends dark comedy and magic realism in its subversive portrayal of three Singaporean Muslim women challenging the bounds of freedom, feminism and faith in a place that isnt home.Openby Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop is a frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors real-life open marriage.JERICHOby MALAPROP Theatre is an off-kilter, high-energy, form-pushing play about what pro-wrestling and politics have in common. It asks big questions in weird ways, like what can a pop-culture journalist do to stop the world burning down?Thrownby Jodi Gray sees a child-psychologist attempting to record what shes spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.A major London festival showcasing new and rising talentIndependent on VAULT Festival

LaBute takes us to shadowy places we dont like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.Newsday Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaButes work. The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern-day relationships to ask how far someone might change themselves for love, or for art. In Fat Pig, a man confronts his friends - and his own - fixation with Hollywood ideals of beauty when he falls for a plus size young woman. In a Dark Dark House and In a Forest, Dark and Deep are twin tales of sibling conflict. In the first, estranged brothers must reconcile conflicting memories, after one asks for corroboration of childhood abuse. In the second, a mans offer to help his sister clear out her cottage brings a terrible confession into the light.The Shape of ThingsWhat initially seems a touching study of student romance develops instead into a passionate discussion about the way art feeds on life.Daily TelegraphFat PigAs large as Helen is, the tender heart of the play is easily twice as big. VarietyIn a Dark Dark HouseLaBute toys with expectations and takes pleasure in our discomfort... The play does lead to a pretty dark place - but the ending is not without hope.Daily MailIn a Forest, Dark and Deep It is billed as being about sibling rivalry, but in fact majors on far deeper, dangerous things: the yearning to be understood, female manipulation, and fascinated male disgust at a sisters lurid sexuality.The Times

Absence of WomenA fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.Evening StandardTitanicOwen McCaffertys rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue... Two months of hearings from 97 witnesses are whittled down to nine... What remains, even after a century, is a disturbing sense of moral ambiguity: 1, 517 dead and no one to blame.GuardianQuietlyVibrates with a violent tension so taut that if you were a bystander... youd hardly dare to breathe.New York TimesRemarkable. inspired. The piece packs sweeping questions about forgiveness and accountability into a tightly plotted encounter.Daily TelegraphThe most powerful theatrical production I have had the privilege of seeing... McCaffertys script is perfectly taut... This play is extraordinary and completely unmissable.Metro HeraldUnfaithfulMcCafferty excels with tight plotting and pithy, painful dialogue.The TimesMcCafferty writes with empathy and a wry humour that makes for an absorbing - if painful - hour.Financial TimesOwen McCafferty is a sly observer of the human heart.GuardianDeath of a ComedianDespite the humour, McCaffertys play is a tragedy. his most accomplished work to date.Belfast Telegraph

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethes unstageable masterpiece.God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust. Signing a pact with the nihilistic spirit, Faust is privy to knowledge unbound and sensual delights of which most men can only dream. But before long, the Doctor comes to realise that you should always be very careful what you wish for.Goethe began working on Faust in about 1772-5. He published a first fragment of it in 1790, then the whole of Part One in 1808. He saw the first performance of Part One in Brunswick in 1829, and was still making minor revisions to Part Two shortly before his death in March 1832.This two-part English version by John Clifford, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, was first performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2006.

Filthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of LaButes earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy Seat examines a couple who, on the day after a world-changing atrocity, toy with exploiting it to start a new life. Some Girl(s) follows a young writers panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds, while in This Is How It Goes the breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry. The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling. Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes - sometimes warring, sometimes loving, but never fully at peace.

This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friels exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsens Hedda Gabler and of Turgenevs A Month in the Country.PerformancesA minor work the way Thomas Manns Death in Venice or Becketts Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.Sunday TimesThe Home PlaceA rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friels masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.GuardianHedda GablerAcross the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a new version, but something altogether larger.The Irish Times