Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0822235641

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You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.

Lungs
Lungs

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0822236141

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The world is getting hotter, there’s unrest overseas—the seas themselves aren’t very calm—and one couple is thinking about having a child. Lungs is a smart and funny drama that follows a couple through the surprising lifecycle of their relationship, as they grapple with questions of family and change, hope, betrayal, happenstance, and the terrible pain that you can only cause the people you love.

Duncan Macmillan: Plays One
Duncan Macmillan: Plays One

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1783193387

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This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.

Monster
Monster

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Oberon Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Duncan Macmillan takes on some of the most pressing issues of our time.

People, Places and Things
People, Places and Things

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1350519871

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"Macmillan doesn't shy away from difficult questions about addiction and recovery and, rightly, doesn't answer them ... this is a bold, timely and searching play" - Financial Times Emma was having the time of her life. Now she's in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emma, it's with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she's smart enough to know that there's no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up? People, Places & Things premiered at the National Theatre in 2015 before transferring to London's West End and St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. This edition is published to coincide with the return to the West End in June, 2024

The Most Humane Way to Kill A Lobster
The Most Humane Way to Kill A Lobster

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-08-14

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1849437203

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"You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling water it doesn't feel a thing. I suppose that this is how I've felt recently. I've been in some deep freeze and suddenly I can feel steam in my face, I'm falling headlong into scalding water." It's 2005, the sun is shining and Loretta is planning to make her daughter's favourite meal. But when Sophie stops talking to her, children start vanishing, and rooms begin to cry, Loretta can't help feeling that something is up and that she might have something to do with it. A play about one woman's journey back to her childhood, to stop her past flooding into the present.

1984
1984

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0547249640

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Fowling Piece
Fowling Piece

Author: Heidy Steidlmayer

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0810152223

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Winner, 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner, 2012 John C. Zacharias First Book Award for best debut book by a Ploughshares writer A remarkably mature first collection of poems, Heidy Steidlmayer’s Fowling Piece is the debut of a highly original voice. As they search for meaning in both the extraordinary and the everyday, these poems, in exquisitely compressed language, display a fierce attention to the history of individual words and a surprising wit. In Steidlmayer's poetic landscape, words strike the reader as at once familiar and exotic, becoming instruments through which she is able to access and make sense of the most profound, irreducible aspects of human experience. Her mastery of and experiments in form are exceptional for a poet of any age. Fowling Piece offers the rare gift of a new poet whose work is truly new.

Constellations
Constellations

Author: Nick Payne

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-12-16

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0374711119

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"A singular astonishment." —John Lahr, The New Yorker One relationship. Infinite possibilities. In the beginning Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink, or perhaps they don't. They fall madly in love and start dating, but eventually they break up. After a chance encounter in a supermarket they get back together, or maybe they run into each other and Marianne reveals that she's now engaged to someone else and that's that. Or perhaps Roland is engaged. Maybe they get married, or maybe their time together will be tragically short. Nick Payne's Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it's also about quantum multiverse theory, love, and honey.

Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)
Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Peggy Knapp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1136810951

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First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer’s earliest audiences and for us.