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Red Skies Over the Severn is a full-length stage play for a cast of seven (5M, 2F) plus a young boy. It was commissioned and professionally produced by the Worcester Theatre Company in 2001. It was positively reviewed by Michael Billington in The Guardian and by Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph. The action is set on a Worcestershire farm during the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001. As the farm is isolated in quarantine the pressures begin to build on the family.
'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' 'This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. For nineteen years this was the limit of my world, then one midsummer morning I left home and walked to London and down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties. Never had I felt so fat with time, so free to go where I would. Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War . . .' - Laurie Lee
In recent years British theatre has seen a renaissance in playwriting that has been accompanied by a proliferation of writing awards, new writing groups and a ceaseless quest for fresh, authentic voices that will ensure the vitality and relevance of theatre in the twenty-first century. Rewriting the Nation is a perfect companion to Britain's burgeoning theatre writing scene that will prove invaluable to anyone wanting a better appreciation of why British theatre - at its best - remains one of the most celebrated and vigorous throughout the world. The books opens by defining what is meant by 'new writing' and providing a study of the system in which it is produced. It considers the work of the leading 'new writing' theatres, such as the Royal Court, the Traverse, the Bush, the Hampstead and the National theatres, together with the London fringe and the work of touring companies. In the second part, Sierz provides a fascinating survey of the main preoccupations and issues that have characterised new plays in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It argues that while under New Labour economic, political and social change continued apace, generating anxiety and uncertainty in the population, theatre has been able to articulate not only those anxieties and uncertainties but also to offer powerful images of the nation. At a time when the idea of a national identity is hotly debated, British theatre has made its own contribution to the debate by offering highly individual and distinctive visions of who we are and what we might want to become. In examining the work of many of the acclaimed and emerging British playwrights the book serves to provide a narrative of contemporary British playwriting. Just as their work has at times reflected disturbing truths about our national identity, Sierz shows how British playwrights are deeply involved in the project of rewriting the nation.
The Glory of the Garden examines concepts and contexts of 'regional' theatre in an age of globalisation and cosmopolitanism. It outlines the key debates and trends in the development of regional theatre since 1984 when public subsidy became a part of a package of 'plural funding' and examines regional theatre's role in the theatrical ecology. Variously perceived as a training ground for practitioners or a career dead-end; purveyor of stale product or innovative powerhouse; a transformer of urban environments and community hub, regional theatre has been a constant source of anxiety and pride for the Arts Council, the theatre community and arts journalists. The Glory of the Garden moves the debate about the role and importance of regional theatre beyond the cliché of crisis to examine the politics and policy of making performance outside London. This study combines contextual essays with practitioners' accounts and case studies including: Birmingham Rep; Bristol Old Vic; Liverpool Everyman; Liverpool Playhouse; Lyric Hammersmith; New Victoria Theatre Stoke; Nottingham Playhouse; Salisbury Playhouse and key touring companies: Cheek by Jowl; Complicité; and Kneehigh Theatre.
This is the second book in the Dalton Family Trilogy, set in the Second World War. Adam and Juliette Dalton who own the old Somerville Estate (Revenge is Wild Justice - the first book)have become wealthy. Phil, their son joins the RAF as a Mosquito pilot while their daughter Jennifer is trained as an SIS intelligence agent sent to France. A serial killer has abused and murdered several young women near RAF stations, but the police fail to track him down. The Daltons and other RAF airmen take over the investigation. To protect children from the Blitz London school children are evacuated to safety in the country. The Porter family is sent to the Cotswolds where Derek (Del Boy)is billeted with the Daltons. There is a battle of wills between the 'giant' Adam and the 'Artful Dodger' Del Boy. Several threads of the story involving the main characters interweave against an accurate historical background, finally coming together. This crime thriller involves romance, hatred, murder, revenge and aviation.
STRANGE LOVE is the debut short story collection from acclaimed 4D superhero, Omni-Eros - AKA Michael C. Thompson, the one true leader of The Order (TM) and the most powerful reptilian being of all time. Hands down. While these stories appear to traverse the realms of Satanic debt collectors, self-aware plot devices, immortal beings with short-lived memories in more, they are in fact each part of an intricate and years-running black magick spell which is almost on the verge of fruition. Upon reading each of these stories, a sequence in your DNA shall be unlocked which will grant you, cherished reader, a superpower of random choosing. I really hope you get a cool one unless you didn't pay to read this book, in which case have fun talking to birds. That's what you deserve!