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  • Blister

    by Laura Lomas ...
    Series series Multiplay Drama
    A tense relationship drama which examines how the effects of one moment can ripple through a galaxy of lives.An ordinary summer's day. Liam is about to make a decision he will spend a lifetime regretting. One day. One mistake. Seven futures sent spiralling.From service stations to sea fronts, Blister explores the limits of forgiveness and the tragic permanence of trauma.Laura Lomas's play Blister ... Read more

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  • Chaos

    by Laura Lomas ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy's heart falls out his chest. A butterfly has a broken wing.Laura Lomas's play Chaos is a symphony of dislocated and interconnected scenes. A series of characters search for meaning in a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bird and other monologues for young women

    by Laura Lomas ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain.It's four in the morning and Leah is waiting for her boyfriend to call. Over the course of a single night she tells us what it's like to be fourteen, fearless and full ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'We are here to make sense of it all.'From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid's stories of epic impossibilities explore the power of transformation, the resilience of humans, and the wonder of life.The myths of Metamorphoses have inspired generations of writers, including Shakespeare. Over two thousand years later, they are reimagined for our ... Read more

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  • Joanne

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Five characters share a common thread: Joanne. But it's not about her. It's about Stella, whose tomorrow is as far away as winter from summer. It's the way Grace finds her song on the footpath between two cars. It's about Alice's MBA wasted on plugging holes, Kath's patients crawling alongside her after the night shift and it's Becky caught in the crosshairs of what's best and what's right for her ... Read more

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  • National Theatre Connections 2019

    Series series Plays for Young People
    National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

    The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Translating Empire

    Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities

    Series series New Americanists
    In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary José Martí and other Latino migrants living in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women

    Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company

    Series series Audition Speeches
    Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre.Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Syncing the Americas

    José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity

    The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the modern nation impact his own concepts of race, capital punishment, poetics, and nation building for Cuba? ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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    by Phil McNulty ...
    'Darren and George' is a one act Play exploring the relevance of some of George Harrison's ideas. The scene is a south Liverpool railway station. Darren is a young delinquent. He is violent and disillusioned. George Harrison attempts to guide Darren away from his self destructive pattern of thought and behaviour. The result is an amusing clash of ideas and cultures and a challenging dialogue. The ... Read more

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  • After Life (NHB Modern Plays)

    If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be? A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever. Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and ... Read more

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