Iphigenia in Splott
Iphigenia in Splott

Author: Gary Owen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-01-27

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1783198923

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'What gets me through is knowing I took this pain, and saved all of you from suffering the same.' Stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contact with, silently passing judgement. We think we know her, but we don't know the half of it. Effie's life spirals through a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night,and a hangover worse than death the next day - till one night gives her the chance to be something more. This powerful new adaptation of the enduring Greek myth drives home the high price people pay for society's shortcomings. Winner of Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015

Iphigenia in Splott
Iphigenia in Splott

Author: Gary Owen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1350372633

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What is gonna happen, when we can't take it anymore? Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don't know half of it. Effie's life is a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night, and a hangover worse than death the next day – till one night gives her the chance to be something more. Gary Owen's critically acclaimed and powerful monodrama inspired by the Greek myth opens at the Lyric after a smash-hit season at the Sherman Theatre in Wales and later the National Theatre, winning the Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015. This edition was published to coincide with the production at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, in September 2022.

Killology
Killology

Author: Gary Owen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-24

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1786821699

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In Killology, players are rewarded for torturing victims, scoring points for “creativity”. But Killology isn’t sick. In fact it’s marketed by its millionaire creator as a deeply moral experience. Because yes, you can live out your darkest fantasies, but you don’t escape their consequences. Out on the streets, not everybody agrees with him. “There is an instinctive revulsion against taking a human life. And that revulsion can be conquered.”

Love Steals Us From Loneliness
Love Steals Us From Loneliness

Author: Gary Owen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1849439117

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A play about the stupid things you do when you're f cked. A night out. Friends, alcohol, a shit club, a strop - the usual. But tonight is different. Tonight will change things forever. With Love Steals us from Loneliness, Gary Owen, one of Wales's foremost playwrights, returns to his hometown of Bridgend. The media have told us their Bridgend story, but what will a writer who spent his own teenage years here have to say?

Further Than the Furthest Thing
Further Than the Furthest Thing

Author: Zinnie Harris

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780822218746

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THE STORY: On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well

Radiant Vermin
Radiant Vermin

Author: Philip Ridley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1474251536

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I feel this . . . thing inside me. Just here. Next to my heart. It's small. The size of sparrow. I don't know what it looks like. But I know it's got claws because it scratches. And I imagine it to be dark blue - mauve almost - like the veins on my mum's hands. I hear it talking. Its voice is high pitched and screeching. It's talking about all the things we've done. A wickedly comic satire about a young couple offered a way out of the housing crisis, and just how far they're prepared to go for it. Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the things they did to get it, you might find shocking. But they want you to know they did it all for their baby . . . A hilarious and outrageous black comedy from internationally acclaimed 'master of modern myth' (Guardian) Philip Ridley. Playful, provocative and viciously sharp, Radiant Vermin is a meditation on how far we will go to satisfy our materialistic greed. The play received its world premiere on 10 March 2015 at Soho Theatre, London.

Escaped Alone
Escaped Alone

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-05

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780573030307

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"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James MacDonald.

Burn this
Burn this

Author: Lanford Wilson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822216254

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THE STORY: The place is a Manhattan loft shared by Anna, a lithe young dancer-choreographer, and her two gay roommates--her collaborator, Robby, who has just been killed in a freak boating accident, and Larry, a world-weary, caustically funny young adverti

The Monster in the Hall
The Monster in the Hall

Author: David Greig

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0571282881

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Duck Macatarsney cares for her biker dad, Duke, whose MS is getting worse. Duke is a spliff-smoking (for medicinal reasons you understand), bike-riding, heavy-metal- and horror-movie-loving, pizza-eating widower who has brought up Duck since the death of her mum in a crash. The two of them are just about surviving when one morning the Duke wakes up blind and the Duck hears Social Services are coming to take her away.The Monster in the Hall follows Duck as she tries to protect her world from the terrifying prospect of change.David Greig's The Monster in the Hall premiered at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in autumn 2010, and was staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2011 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Queer exceptions
Queer exceptions

Author: Stephen Greer

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-11-23

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1526113724

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Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or ‘exceptional’ subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre’s attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.