It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now

Author : Alice Birch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350097527
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women written by Alice Birch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre. Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from this canon. Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women celebrates the opportunities inherent when women represent themselves. Offering female performers a diverse set of monologues reflecting a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works. This book is for any performer who does not see themselves represented in mainstream plays, for lovers of radical women's theatre and for rebels everywhere who believe that the act of speaking and being heard can create change.

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137484039
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Drama written by Siân Adiseshiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope, Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights – such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare – alongside a new generation of writers – including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.

Author : Barrie Keeffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408198673
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sus written by Barrie Keeffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''You see, what this country needs is a strong government to sort out the laws, bring order" Election night 1979: the sus laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win. A black man is picked up, accused of his wife's murder. He is incensed, believing that he'll be fodder for an incoming government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles. A powerful, politicised cry against the still-current threat of institutional racism, Keeffe uncompromisingly depicts a corrupt world which looks all too familiar today. Set on the eve of the Thatcher victory, this new edition of Keeffe's classic, harrowing play coincides with the general election of 2010, and asks what's changed. Sus is a shocking and disturbing drama which protests against the rise of the right-wing, the infringement of civil liberties and the casual humiliation which the police inflict on their prisoners. Exploring the abuse of power and racism, Sus is a resonant, socially charged and powerful play, as relevant today as it was in 1979.

Author : Katie Hims
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472568745
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billy the Girl written by Katie Hims and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wish you could just like consider – consider the chance of it being an accident. 'Cos you're so sure. You're so sure that I did this awful thing. Billy is out waiting for love where she last saw it. Her mum is certain love has walked into her life again. Her sister thinks love could still be found somewhere in the house . . . but Billy herself isn't even allowed through the door. In Katie Hims's sweet, stark family elegy, love never dies, but sometimes – like Billy – it has to sleep in the caravan with Frank's ashes and a bear costume. Billy the Girl is a sharp, yet gentle, look at a fractured family dealing with a lifetime of mistrust.

Author : Elisabeth Angel-Perez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110796325
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Wave of British Women Playwrights written by Elisabeth Angel-Perez and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by exploring the vitality, inventiveness and particularly strong relevance of these poetics. These women playwrights sometimes invent radically new forms and sometimes experiment with conventional ones in fresh and unexpected ways, as for example when they re-energize naturalism and provide it with new missions. The plays that are addressed are all concerned with the necessity to grasp the complexity of the contemporary world and to further investigate what it means to be human. Intimate or epic, and sometimes both at once, visionary or closer to everyday life, these plays approach the contemporary world through a multitude of prisms – historical, scientific, political and poetic – and open different and visionary perspectives.

Author : Fraser Grace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472526678
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playwriting written by Fraser Grace and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage. PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and spaces and a brief history of playwriting itself. PART 2 contains inspiring advice and reflections from leading playwrights:April De Angelis, Bryony Lavery, David Greig, Christina Reid, Dennis Kelly, Frank McGuinness, Lynn Nottage, Howard Brenton, Roy Williams, Tanika Gupta, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Polly Stenham, Tom Stoppard, Jack Thorne, Steve Waters, E.V. Crowe, David Henry Hwang, Lin Coghlan, Zinnie Harris and Anne Washburn. PART 3 offers practical exercises and advice on planning and conducting research, working out plots and characters, mastering authentic but accessible dialogue, navigating the industry and the rehearsal and production process.

Author : Lucy Kirkwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848420816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Felt Empty when the Heart Went at First But it is Alright Now written by Lucy Kirkwood and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play centres on the lives of two women: young Croatian mother Dijana, who has been brought to England by a man called Babac, promising the world but eventually forcing her into prostitution; and Gloria, an opinionated West African migrant. Babac has told Dijana that once she has earned £20,000 she will be released from her duties and free to find the child she was forced to give up. Today she is only one client away from making the total she believes will earn her freedom.

Author : Alice Birch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783197641
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. written by Alice Birch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are expected to behave... Use the right words Act appropriately Don't break the rules Just behave. This play is not well behaved. Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them. Winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright 2014.

Author : Abigail Ward
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137526432
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Traumas written by Abigail Ward and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists.

Author : Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786824388
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant written by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vira hasn't seen her sister Deesh for years. Deesh's kids, Amy and Bill, want to know why but nobody's telling them anything. When Deesh invites her sister to Amy's flashy party, Vira reckons it's time to come home and move on. Time to stop watching the telly, get out of her council flat, stick on a glitzy sari and embrace her nearest and dearest. But is it possible to forgive and forget? And when a family is built on lies, will it be destroyed by the truth?