Author: LISA. PARRY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839040054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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'I have caused what might soon be a global situation because you've stopped thinking people like me are worth hearing.' Is something incredible happening in Merthyr? Sixteen-year-old Carys claims to have received the stigmata: Christ's wounds from the Cross. Are her wounds a sign from God? Carys thinks so - she wants to tell the world and demands to be heard. Siân, her teacher, is not so sure, and believes silencing Carys will keep her safe. But can she make sense of what is happening to her student? Lisa Parry's play The Merthyr Stigmatist is a fierce and exhilarating exploration of faith and truth, a hymn to community, and a testament to the power of young people. The play was shortlisted for the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award, and first presented online in 2021, as a co-production between Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, and Theatre Uncut.

Author: Brad Birch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350181900
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Do you know what I believe in? I believe in us. Me and you, right here. This town was once an incredible place. We have to have courage to fight for it again. Hero or enemy? Who can actually tell the difference? Everything is going to be fine, better than fine, in fact there's nothing that can't be achieved if everyone just believes a little. That's what the town's MP, Mick, thinks. He's optimistic, positively boosterish about his plan for the town. He just wants the naysayers to pipe down. But there's a problem. His sister, Dr Rhiannon Powell, has discovered that the project appears to be polluting the town's water supply. Mick sold the town a story about the future, but what will happen when reality looks to tear that story apart? Is Mick a hero of the people, or is he in fact their enemy? Brad Birch's bold new reimagining of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People pits the personal against the political and facts against emotion. A Hero of the People is a gripping contemporary drama for our times.

Author: Matthew Trevannion
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350424013
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Today's the day, right? That's what you said. What you prophesized. Today's the day we finish the job? We're all in the business of telling stories. Building narratives. Constructing meaning. To keep ourselves safe, to make sense of the senseless, to explain the unexplainable, or simply just to pass the time. But what happens when the stories we inhabit begin to crumble? How can we still manufacture hope in a world that's falling apart? Idle, They Yammer is an ode to hard graft, a metaphysical conversation between people trapped by the very thing they've spent their entire lives building. This edition was published to coincide with the premiere at The Other Room, Cardiff, in May 2023.

Author: Jon Brittain
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350058637
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn't always on their side. Sally's a happy person. She doesn't let little things get her down and almost never cries. But she's got an illness. It makes her feel like she isn't the person she wants to be....But she doesn't want anyone to know about it. Written by Olivier Award-winner Jon Brittain with original music by Matthew Floyd Jones this new musical comedy mixes storytelling, live music and sketch comedy.

Author: Dennis Kelly
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781849430630
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII – cuts which are the turning point of a generation, undermining the welfare state, higher education and the arts in one fell swoop. Theatre Uncut is a national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK’s leading dramatists. Drama groups, universities, youth clubs and theatre companies nationwide joined the event, staging their own versions of the shorts in a national theatrical uprising. Now published in this new collection, Theatre Uncut contains these short plays, addressing audiences who want to think about what the budget cuts really mean, and who they are really hitting. A debate is underway. Protest might begin, minds might be changed, views challenged, ideas formed. Theatre Uncut is a response to a situation that we cannot control, and over which we had no say. Click below to hear an interview with Libby Brodie and Hannah Price of Theatre Uncut:

Author: Cliff Cardinal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369102904
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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A vigilante single mom on the run is determined to give her two kids--a pregnant teenage daughter and excitable preteen son--a last supper before the cops separate them.

Author: Tim Foley
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848429376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award - 2017 Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing. Behold 'Mary', a council-funded robot. Practical and surprisingly funny, for some a blessing, for others a curse - could she be the revelation they have all been praying for? Electric Rosary is a sharp, timely and gloriously funny play by Tim Foley, asking what faith really means in the age of artificial intelligence and what it is to be human in tomorrow's world. It was a Judges' Award winner in the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in April 2022.

Author: Brook Tate
Publisher: Silverwood Books
ISBN: 9781800420700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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When Pen finds a rather unexpected visitor in her garden, it doesn't take long for her new long-necked friend to draw the attention of the town. But with the grown-ups all thinking about the money they can make, no one but Pen seems to be asking the most important question... Why is there a giraffe in the garden?

Author: Brad Birch
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN: 9781350087828
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This is the person I am now. It's the person I want to be, should have been for a long time. We got dark, Sophie. Things got dark, and I...I'm better now. I'm in a better place... Once our lives are touched by tragedy, can we ever truly move on? Sophie and Tom's relationship fell apart in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Four years on and as they come face to face once again, the aftershocks of that fateful day can still be felt. Tremor is a play about now. It's about how we choose to see things and live our lives in a world riven with tension, anxiety and division. This thrilling new play by Brad Birch, recipient of the Harold Pinter Commission, offers a taut, intense and thrilling two-hander.

Author: Cliff Cardinal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770917460
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"In Stitch, Kylie Grandview is a single mom struggling to make a living as a pornstar while dreaming of being on the big screen. She's painfully aware that she is among the many nameless faces on the internet, the ones that blip across cyberspace, and her yeast infection, Itchia, is there to remind at every turn. But when Kylie is offered the chance at a big break, a series of twisted events lead her down a destructive path, revealing and a face no one will forget. In Huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father's abusive whims and their mother's recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by the Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him to his mother's shadow."--