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2401 Objects
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2401 Objects

Analogue Performance Company

In 2009 Patient H.M.’s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved slices: manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book.

In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the ability to form new memories.

In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike, leaving him unconscious for five minutes. Following Analogue's critically acclaimed Mile End and Beachy Head and inspired by the world’s most important neuroscientific case-study, 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to forget.

Cast : CAST: 4M, 3F
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-195-8 | Australia/NZ | PB
27
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27

Abi Morgan
Dr Richard Garfield has given Ursula a difficult choice. She is the Mother Superior in waiting of a convent that has been given the opportunity to take part in his revolutionary scientific study. This American study would require that the nuns donate their brains after death to potentially unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Ursula must weigh up the value of preserving her faith, versus embracing science.The study is agreed and Richard and his team come to the convent every year to test the nuns who are willing to take part. This union will change their lives forever. For Ursula, with the impending pressure of taking over the ailing convent, the study brings more challenges than she could ever have imagined and rocks her faith and her hitherto cloistered existence to its core. Drawing on research contained within the book and study  Aging with Grace , 27 is an extraordinary examination of a lifestyle in decline, but it could hold the key to the issues of our times – our ageing population and the decline of our minds.
Cast : Cast: 3M, 5F
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-177-4 | Australia/NZ | PB
A Few Man Fridays
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A Few Man Fridays

Adrian Jackson
A Few Man Fridays unearths an inglorious episode of British history. Between 1967 and 1973, the population of the Chagos Islands was evicted to make way for a US military base. For forty years they have fought for justice in an epic struggle that is unlikely to end even when the European Court of Justice delivers a ruling later this year. A Few Man Fridays traces the displacement of these 'unpeople' and the successive denial of their right to nationhood.
Cast : Cast: 4M, 3F (doubling required)
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-83943-218-4 | Australia/NZ | PB
A Walk in the Woods
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A Walk in the Woods

Lee Blessing

Set in the midst of the Cold War, Lee Blessing’s powerful and startling play dramatises a stand-off between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators as they battle for supremacy. Full of tension and humour  A Walk in the Woodsshows how the relationship between the two experts evolves as they stroll in the woods above Geneva, away from the glare of the negotiating table. But will this escape lead to a true breakthrough or just more posturing?

In this revised version of the play, originally performed at Northern Stage, Vermont, and directed by Nicholas Kent, a woman plays the role of the U.S. negotiator.

Cast : Cast: 1M, 1F
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-181-1 | Australia/NZ | PB
A Woman Killed with Kindness (DC)
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A Woman Killed with Kindness (DC)

Thomas Heywood (edited by Trevor Griffiths)
Heywood's startling domestic thriller written in 1603,  A Woman Killed with Kindness  strips bare two women's lives - with forensic realism - in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people.
Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-186-8 | PB
After Troy
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After Troy

Glyn Maxwell

Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes prepared to sail home.

An epic tale of love, loss, song and sarcasm in the smoking ruins of Troy. Award-winning poet and playwright, Glyn Maxwell rips up two Greek tragedies and makes a witty, passionate play from the fragments. A contemporary retelling of Euripides' Women Of Troy and Hecuba , After Troy exposes the cruelties of war both then and now.

Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-026-5 | Australia/NZ | PB
Ambivalences
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Ambivalences

A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W

Chiara Montenero
Ambivalences: A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W is a document of Arnold Wesker in conversation with the Italian academic Chiara Montenero. In their wide-ranging discussions, Wesker and Montenero address his ideas on art and drama with a particular focus on some of his most enduring characters. Betraying his reputation as theatre’s ‘perennial outsider’,  Ambivalences finds Wesker in generous and engaging form, offering a rich and unique insight into the mind of one of the key figures in 20th-century drama.
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-132-3 | Australia/NZ | PB
An Attitude for Acting
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An Attitude for Acting

Andrew Tidmarsh & Tara Swart
At any point in their career, actors can be overwhelmed with a sense of not being good enough, and of resentment at watching others succeed. The resulting feeling of worthlessness is, if unchecked, likely to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

An Attitude for Acting provides strategies for escaping this self-destructive cycle. This intensely ‘hands on’ book enables actors to view themselves as autonomous individuals who are valuable and employable - and infused with a self-confident, ‘can do’ mentality.
Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-112-7 | Australia/NZ | PB
An Enemy of the People (DC)
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An Enemy of the People (DC)

Henrik Ibsen (translated by Stephen Mulrine)
It’s boom time in the spa town. Investment in the public baths is paying off handsomely.  Visitor numbers have never been higher. But one man knows the toxic secret underlying the town’s newfound wealth. His concern is for the health of the people. So how can he be their enemy?

Written in response to the moral outcry against his play Ghosts, the power of Ibsen’s great drama lies in the determination of its central character, Dr Stockmann, to stand up for what he believes to be right - in the face of mounting political and social pressure to conform.  Full of moral questions about a man’s responsibility to himself and his family, and debate about the individual’s place in society, An Enemy of the People is a play that speaks as loudly to today’s audience as it did to those who first saw it in 1882.

Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-159-2 | Australia/NZ | PB
Anna Christie
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Anna Christie

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman’s longing to forget the dark secrets of her past and hope for salvation.

Exiled from her home by the Old Devil Sea to the inland plains, Anna Christie’s life changed for ever at just five years of age. Fifteen years later, she is reunited with the father who sent her away, and sets sail in search of a new beginning.
Cast : Cast: 7M, 2F
Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-189-9 | Australia/NZ | PB
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