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Ulises Rodriquez Febles
A comedy about Beatlemania and a fascinating glimpse into the social and cultural complexities of Castro's Cuba.
Havana, 2000. Fidel Castro has just unveiled a lifesize statue of John Lennon. Former musician Johnny can remember a time, thirty years before, when the Beatles were not so celebrated in Cuba. He steals the statue and attempts to re-assemble his rock band. But dredging up the past only rubs salt into today's wounds.
Published in both the original Spanish and in English translation by William Gregory.
Winner of the 2004 Virgilio Piñero Prize for Best Cuban Play and the Royal Court/NHB Award for Best New Cuban Play by an author under 35.
Cast : 3f 6m, doubling
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-805-9 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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Gillian Plowman
Crooked Wood is a gentle comedy about ruthless property developers cashing in on the property demand around the London Olympic site, who then find themselves faced with an elderly lady who refuses to move out from the last remaining house on their prime site.
Andrew Veitch, the smooth-talking iron fist of Golden Future, cannot budge intrepid Miss Barwick whose conviction that Veitch has come to restore her rotting stairs and floorboards and mend the holes in the roof generates the soft-centered humour.
‘the dialogue sparkles with one-liners and non-sequiturs’ Derek Benfield, UK Theatre Web
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-879-9 | PB
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Alecky Blythe
A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.
Maureen
is a pensioner in search of passion. After 33 blind dates, 12 cruises
and one broken heart, she is still determined to find Mr Right.
But
when best friend Margaret beats her to the altar, Maureen has her
doubts - is Margaret just on the rebound and, more importantly, will
she lose her pension?
Cast : 3f, 2m
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-937-7 | PB
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Adapted by Alastair Cording
Charles Dickens (adapted by Alastair Cording)
' One of the cleverest adaptations you are likely to see'
Ipswich Evening Star
'All the drama, pathos and humour of David Copperfield's eventful young life are vividly realised in this enthralling adaptation.'
The Stage
Alastair Cording’s stage adaptation skilfully concentrates on the
essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama
of the book. Most notable is its fluidity, with each scene flowing into
the next without the need for cumbersome scene changes—or indeed very
much scenery.
Performable by a cast of ten, if necessary, but equally
offering good roles to thirty or more.
Cast : 8-30 Performance Rights : Nick Hern
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-022-9 | PB
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Nigel Planer
Based on the curious fact that the Scottish Presbyterian Robert Louis
Stevenson and the hedonistic Paul Gauguin both ended their days on the
South Sea Islands within a few years of each other, Nigel Planer’s play
compares and contrasts the very different, but oddly similar lives they
were living in their respective tropical paradises.
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Nick Hern | 978-1-84842-041-0 | PB
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Dennis Kelly
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where’s the incentive to put things right? DNA is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very dark heart.
PLEASE NOTE: This edition includes notes for teachers and students , written by Anthony Banks, theatre director and Associate Director of the National Theatre Discover Programme.
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84002-952-9 | Australia/NZ | PB
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Enda Walsh
The first eight astonishing plays by ‘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: Walsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control;
Disco Pigs: Walsh's award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed his place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists;
misterman: a strange and haunting monologue about a man whose confused mission is to bring God to his fellow townsfolk of Inishfree;
bedbound: a ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong;
The Small Things: a fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence; and
Chatroom: a chilling tale of teenage manipulation.
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Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-139-4 | Australia/NZ | PB
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Wallace Shawn
'How to describe Wallace Shawn's extraordinary new play? A
dystopian fairytale? A pseudo-pornographic parable? A modern morality
play? It is all these and more'
Guardian
Dogs eat dogs. Cats play with mice.
Grasses of a Thousand Colours
is a semi-mythological examination of nature, animals, men, and women.
Strange dinners, strange parties - sources of death and life.
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Nick Hern | 978-1-84842-048-9 | PB
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Richard Bean
The Great Game: Afghanistan is an extraordinary cycle of plays by some of Britain’s leading contemporary playwrights. 'The Great Game' was a term used for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia and was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his novel
Kim.
Afghanistan continues to be the most important focus of British, European and American foreign policy, and will do so for a long time to come no doubt and this cycle of plays attempts to broaden our understanding of the explosive history of western involvement in Afghanistan and its subsequent evolution as the centre-point of Western foreign policy today.
Features plays by: Richard Bean, Lee Blessing, David Edgar, David Greig, Amit Gupta, Ron Hutchinson, Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Ben Ockrent, Colin Teevan, Simon Stephens and Joy Wilkinson.
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Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84002-922-2 | Australia/NZ | PB
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Charles Dickens/Hugh Janes
A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens.
In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and terrifying secret that will change both of their lives.
When a young book dealer, David Filde, is employed by a former associate of his uncle to catalogue a private library, he finds an incredible array of rare and antiquated books. But as a series of strange and unexplained events conspires to keep Filde from his work, he realises that if he is to convince his sceptical employer that the mysterious phenomena he is experiencing are real, they must journey together to the very edge of terror, and beyond...
The play offers rich material for amateur theatre companies or student groups who want to introduce their audiences to another side of Dickens' work - and have them jump out of their seats at the same time.
'The Haunting
revels in the old-fashioned power of simple theatrical tricks, and basks in the shrieks and gasps of an audience that is clearly part of the event.'
The Scotsman
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-215-5 | Australia/NZ | PB
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