Ravenhill Plays 1

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472518683
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 1 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism." - Financial Times Shopping and Fucking: "is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ... a real coup de theatre" - Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard Faust: "...an intelligent and witty reappropriation of the legend ... alive, pertinent and disturbing" - Michael Coveney, Observer Handbag: "...combines urban grit with sly wit, and reveals Mark Ravenhill as a writer of real daring" - Daily Telegraph Some Explicit Polaroids: "laudably ambitious, pulsates with energy ... very funny" - Financial Times

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Ravenhill Plays: 1 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collected-colume of plays from the most important playwright of the last decade.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350108820
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cane written by Mark Ravenhill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration to mark his retirement. But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students have gathered. A brick has been thrown through the window, he and his wife haven't left the house for six days, and now his estranged daughter has arrived with her own questions. Why would they attack the most popular teacher in the school? The Cane explores power, control, identity and gender as well as considering the major failure of the echo-chamber of liberalism.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408110040
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life. The plays that make up Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat began life at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Ravenhill for Breakfast (produced by Paines Plough), winning a Fringe First award, and the Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe award. They form a collage of very different scenes, with each taking its title from a classic work. The plays were presented in April 2008 in various venues across London, from Notting Hill to a Victorian warehouse in Shoreditch, via Sloane Square and the South Bank. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat was originally developed in association with the National Theatre Studio and Paines Plough, and was first produced as Ravenhill for Breakfast at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August 2007 by Paines Plough, with the support of David Johnson.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472512995
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 3 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation' Time Out Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: 'A dramatic cycle that is, in its way, epic, but is splintered into many small shards... touches deftly on the impact of war on everyone involved' Financial Times Over There:'Ravenhill explores postwar Germany's division and unification through the power battles between twin brothers. The result is fantastically clever and ingenious' Guardian A Life in Three Acts: 'By turns charming, funny, informative and, in its final segment, lump-in-the-throat moving as Bourne charts the loss of friends and lovers to Aids, and contemplates old age' Guardian Ten Plagues: 'A remarkable song-cycle... it's the portrait of grief beyond measure that's so affecting and which this moving hour of solitudinous lamentation, confusion and defiance brings beautifully to the fore.' Telegraph Ghost Story: 'both a satire and a moving story about illness' Guardian The Experiment: 'Mark Ravenhill keeps things creepy in his monologue, The Experiment, in which he plays the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator... The story, and the narrator's level of complicity, keeps shifting. Ravenhill asks us to consider which version, if any, might be acceptable, and how much we might be willing to avert our eyes from for the greater good.' Independent

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472515471
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 2 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times. This second volume of plays brings together five plays from 2001-07. It includes Mother Clap's Molly House, a black comedy and celebration of human sexuality that premiered at the National Theatre in 2001; Citizenship, a bitter-sweet comedy about growing up that was developed by the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme in 2005; The Cut, a disturbing political fable that opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006; Product, Ravenhill's one man satire on the media industry that since its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005, has been produced around the world, and Pool (no water), a shocking examination of the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. The volume features an introduction by the author and a chronology of his work.

Author : Voltaire,
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472526813
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the world's an Xbox and you're a player Candide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. But that belief is about to be tested as Candide's comfortable life is overtaken by an endless barrage of misfortune. First published in 1759, the story traces the journey of a young man who leads a sheltered life, believing that mankind lives in the best of all possible worlds and that everything happens for the best. But Candide's happiness comes to a sharp end when he is unfairly evicted from his uncle's castle for kissing his cousin and true love, Lady Cunégonde. Cast out into the big wide world, Candide is forced to confront reality. As his world collapses around him, we are transported across the centuries to new locations and parallel universes. How will Candide's optimism fare when it collides with life in the twenty-first century?

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472537394
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Around written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan Sleeping Around is about love and sex in Britain as we approach the millennium. In a dozen scenes of likely and unlikely connections, two actors (Sophie Stanton and John Lloyd Fillingham) play a variety of couples whose ordinary lives erupt in extraordinary moments.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408148439
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Explicit Polaroids written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated and controversial writer of Shopping and Fucking Some Explicit Polaroids premiered at the New Ambassadors Theatre, London in October 1999 in a production directed by Max Stafford-Clark for Out of Joint, prior to a national tour. "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill . . . He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism" (Financial Times)

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 9781448109685
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation: The Play written by Mark Ravenhill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War Horse), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe's fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.