Pomona
Pomona

Author: Alistair McDowall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-01-21

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1474236030

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I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow. Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city. Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born. A sinister and surreal thriller from Alistair McDowall, Pomona received its world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, on 12 November 2014.

The Glow
The Glow

Author: Alistair McDowall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 135032986X

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People find me. When it's dark. 1863. An asylum. A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect candidate. But as the woman's past begins to reveal itself, so do new powers neither are prepared for. Alistair McDowall's haunting new play The Glow was the 2018 Pinter Commission, an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser to support a new commission at the Royal Court Theatre. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre in January 2022.

X
X

Author: Alistair McDowall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-01-14

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1350088463

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“McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi – and theatre – at its best.” The Stage Billions of miles from home, the lone research base on Pluto has lost contact with Earth. Unable to leave or send for help, the skeleton crew sit waiting. Waiting. Waiting long enough for time to start eating away at them. To lose all sense of it. To start seeing things in the dark outside. X premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Dr Cristina Delgado-García.

Brilliant Adventures
Brilliant Adventures

Author: Alistair McDowall

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-07-03

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1472507045

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Nineteen-year-old science genius Luke finally has some peace to work on the extraordinary box in his living room, holed up in a dingy flat on a near-abandoned Middlesbrough housing estate. After his unbalanced brother Rob introduces him to a wealthy out-of-towner they're thrown into a dangerous world that threatens to tear the brothers apart and unleash the power inside his invention. Brilliant Adventures is a fast paced tale of brotherhood, addiction and breaking the laws of physics.

Mojo
Mojo

Author: Jez Butterworth

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780822216612

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THE STORY: Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to

Captain Amazing
Captain Amazing

Author: Alistair McDowall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-05-15

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1350513334

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What do you do as Captain Amazing? Fight... baddies and things. Save people... make people go to bed when they're supposed to go to bed... Join the world's most unassuming superhero in Alistair McDowall's (Pomona, The Glow, X, all of it) critically-acclaimed masterpiece. From battling his arch-nemesis, to getting his daughter to school on time, follow Captain Amazing on his incredible adventures and discover how even the invincible aren't immune to tragedy. A hilarious and heart-breaking adventure which reminds us that one day, even the bravest of superheroes will need to hang up their cape... forever. This edition was published to coincide with the 10th anniversary production at London's Southwark Playhouse in May 2024.

English Drama Since 1940
English Drama Since 1940

Author: David Ian Rabey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1317875389

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English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.

Incognito
Incognito

Author: Nick Payne

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0822236303

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Four actors play a combined 21 characters within INCOGNITO’s three interwoven stories. A pathologist steals the brain of Albert Einstein; a neuropsychologist embarks on her first romance with another woman; a seizure patient forgets everything but how much he loves his girlfriend. INCOGNITO braids these mysterious stories into one breathtaking whole that asks whether memory and identity are nothing but illusions.

Port
Port

Author: Simon Stephens

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1472520602

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I see you in the morning, on the first morning I stayed over at your house. Waking up. Watching you lying asleep next to me. You looked, you looked. It was like. I think about that more than you probably think I do. Stockport 1988-2002. Racheal Keats is growing up in a town she doesn't like with a family in tatters and a future she cannot picture. As those she loves begin to let her down or leave her behind, can Rachel find the strength to make her own way in the world? Port premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in November 2002. It was later staged in the Lyttelton at the National Theatre, opening in January 2013. Both productions were by Marianne Elliott.