Di and Viv and Rose
Di and Viv and Rose

Author: Amelia Bullmore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-01-14

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1350146153

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“It connects emotionally with the audience, and is wittily written ... Bullmore makes you like, and believe in, her three characters ... The play also has a careering energy ... impossible not to like.” The Guardian Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Di and Viv and Rose charts the steady but sometimes chaotic progression of these three women's lives, from the highs to the lows, the problems that force them apart and their ultimately enduring bonds. A humorous and thoughtful exploration of friendship's impact on life and life's impact on friendship, this bittersweet comedy premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2013. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Professor Elizabeth Kuti.

Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi

Author: Pam Gems

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 1783195428

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'My loves, what are we to do? We don't do as they want any more, and they hate it. What are we to do?' Four determinedly 'liberated' – and very different – women ricochet around a tiny shared flat, while trying to pull together the shattered strands of their lives: Dusa is struggling to regain her children from their father, Fish is losing her lover to another woman, Stas is on the game to finance the course she wants to study at university, while Vi steadfastly refuses to eat.... A bitingly sardonic modern classic, widely regarded as an historic icon of early feminism, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1976 under the title Dead Fish, Michael Codron transferred the play to the West End under its new title where it enjoyed a huge success and established Pam Gems as a major new voice in British theatre.

Hero
Hero

Author: E. V. Crowe

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-12-13

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 057130057X

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We can only do this, if we go by the book. Announcing you're gay to minors is not in the book. That's in the other book. Danny's gay, a primary school teacher, and he's not afraid of anything. His colleague Jamie's straight, and thinks he should be. Hero by E. V. Crowe premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2012.

Girls and Dolls
Girls and Dolls

Author: Lisa McGee

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Promising young female Northern Irish writer.

Mammals
Mammals

Author: Amelia Bullmore

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780413775221

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Published to tie-in with the premiere at the Bush Theatre in April 2006 Amelia studied Drama at Manchester University. She started out as an actress, began writing in 1995 and continues to do both. She wrote two episodes of the second series of This Life for World/BBC2.

The Judas Kiss
The Judas Kiss

Author: David Hare

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780802135728

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Portraying the two critical moments in Oscar Wilde's late life -- when he decides to stay in England and face imprisonment and the night after his release, two years later -- David Hare's The Judas Kiss presents the consequences of taking an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear, expedience, and conformity.

Too Much Sun
Too Much Sun

Author: Nicky Silver

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0822232111

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Audrey Langham, an actress of some repute but greater temperament, reaches her breaking point while rehearsing Medea in Chicago. She walks off the stage and out of the production. With no place else to go, she heads to her daughter's summer house on Cape Cod. Kitty and her husband, Dennis, however, hardly greet Audrey with champagne and confetti. Audrey gets a warmer reception from the star-struck widower next door and his troubled son. A summer by the sea full of hilariously calculated romance and clandestine trysts leads to an inevitable tragedy. But from that tragedy emerge new beginnings and new bonds. Secrets are unearthed as each of these characters finds a way to shed the role they've been playing in life, a way to be who they really are when they stop "acting."

Present Laughter
Present Laughter

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1350354031

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"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs - his line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered... and all hell breaks loose. Noël Coward's Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change, and remains one of the playwright's most enduring hits. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Russell Jackson.