Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583420195
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Helen Edmundson's The Mill on the Floss
Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583420195
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583420195
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Clearing
Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854592811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Helen Edmundson's 'The Clearing' is an original play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in November 1993.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854592811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Helen Edmundson's 'The Clearing' is an original play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in November 1993.
The Heresy of Love
Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848424937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A powerful drama about a clash between organized religion and personal faith, full of intrigue, danger, ruthless ambitions and desire.
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848424937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A powerful drama about a clash between organized religion and personal faith, full of intrigue, danger, ruthless ambitions and desire.
Helen Edmundson's The Clearing
Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583420218
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583420218
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Small Island
Author: Andrea Levy
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781839040764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, in an acclaimed production directed by Rufus Norris. This revised edition of the play was published alongside the revival of the production in 2022.
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781839040764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, in an acclaimed production directed by Rufus Norris. This revised edition of the play was published alongside the revival of the production in 2022.
Coram Boy
Author: Jamila Gavin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vivid, compelling and harrowing tale from Whitbread award winning Jamila Gavin. The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron's new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vivid, compelling and harrowing tale from Whitbread award winning Jamila Gavin. The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron's new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man.
Coram Boy
Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781854598943
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their babies (and their money) to Thomas Coram's hospital for foundling children. Instead, he buries the babies and pockets the loot. But Otis's downfall is set in train when his half-witted son Meshak falls in love with a young girl, Melissa, and rescues the unwanted son she has had with a disgraced aristocrat. The child is brought up in Coram's hospital, and proves to have inherited the startling musical gifts of his father - gifts that ultimately bring about his father's redemption and a heartbreaking family reunion. Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning novel, Coram Boy, was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2005. It won the Time Out Live Award for Best Play. 'A rich and almost Gothic drama' - Philip Pullman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781854598943
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their babies (and their money) to Thomas Coram's hospital for foundling children. Instead, he buries the babies and pockets the loot. But Otis's downfall is set in train when his half-witted son Meshak falls in love with a young girl, Melissa, and rescues the unwanted son she has had with a disgraced aristocrat. The child is brought up in Coram's hospital, and proves to have inherited the startling musical gifts of his father - gifts that ultimately bring about his father's redemption and a heartbreaking family reunion. Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning novel, Coram Boy, was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2005. It won the Time Out Live Award for Best Play. 'A rich and almost Gothic drama' - Philip Pullman
Orestes
Author: Helen Edmundson
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
New take on the "Orestes" by award-winning playwright.
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
New take on the "Orestes" by award-winning playwright.
Feminist Stages
Author: Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000672980
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume is a collection of interviews that spans feminist views from 1968 to the 1990s. Including over eight years of research. Part of the Comtemporary Theatre Studies series, it will be of special interest to everyone involved in theatre and useful to students and those who oare interested in women's theatre.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000672980
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume is a collection of interviews that spans feminist views from 1968 to the 1990s. Including over eight years of research. Part of the Comtemporary Theatre Studies series, it will be of special interest to everyone involved in theatre and useful to students and those who oare interested in women's theatre.
A Breath of Fresh Eyre
Author: Margarete Rubik
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022124
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Contributions review a diverse range of works, from postcolonial revision to postmodern fantasy, from imaginary after-lives to science fiction, from plays and Hollywood movies to opera, from lithographs and illustrated editions to comics and graphic novels.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022124
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Contributions review a diverse range of works, from postcolonial revision to postmodern fantasy, from imaginary after-lives to science fiction, from plays and Hollywood movies to opera, from lithographs and illustrated editions to comics and graphic novels.