Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435233044
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this play, the whole Crompton family becomes entangled in a row in which a good many uncomfortable truths are told.
Spring and Port Wine
Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435233044
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this play, the whole Crompton family becomes entangled in a row in which a good many uncomfortable truths are told.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435233044
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this play, the whole Crompton family becomes entangled in a row in which a good many uncomfortable truths are told.
Good Nights Out
Author: Aleks Sierz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135004623X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows that were enormous commercial successes over the past 75 years. He argues that these outstanding hits have a lot to say about the collective cultural, social and political attitudes and aspirations of the country, and about how our national identity - and theatre's role in creating it - has evolved over the decades. The book spans a range of work from almost forgotten plays, such as R. F. Delderfield's Worm's Eye View and Hugh Hastings's Seagulls Over Sorrento, to well-known mega-hits, such as The Mousetrap and The Phantom of the Opera. Such popular work has tended to be undervalued by some critics and commentators mainly because it has not been thought to be a suitable subject for inclusion in the canon of English Literature. By contrast, Sierz demonstrates that genres such as the British musical, light comedy, sex farce or murder mystery are worth appreciating not only for their intrinsic theatrical qualities, but also as examples of the dream life of the British people. The book challenges the idea that mega-hits are merely escapist entertainments and instead shows how they contribute to the creation of powerful myths about our national life. The analysis of such shows also points towards the possibility of creating an alternative history of postwar British theatre.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135004623X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows that were enormous commercial successes over the past 75 years. He argues that these outstanding hits have a lot to say about the collective cultural, social and political attitudes and aspirations of the country, and about how our national identity - and theatre's role in creating it - has evolved over the decades. The book spans a range of work from almost forgotten plays, such as R. F. Delderfield's Worm's Eye View and Hugh Hastings's Seagulls Over Sorrento, to well-known mega-hits, such as The Mousetrap and The Phantom of the Opera. Such popular work has tended to be undervalued by some critics and commentators mainly because it has not been thought to be a suitable subject for inclusion in the canon of English Literature. By contrast, Sierz demonstrates that genres such as the British musical, light comedy, sex farce or murder mystery are worth appreciating not only for their intrinsic theatrical qualities, but also as examples of the dream life of the British people. The book challenges the idea that mega-hits are merely escapist entertainments and instead shows how they contribute to the creation of powerful myths about our national life. The analysis of such shows also points towards the possibility of creating an alternative history of postwar British theatre.
The Common Place
Author: Peter King
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351147382
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly seeking transformations in housing, what we seek from our own housing is stability and lack of change. We seek secure roots to our lives rather than step-changes and radical reform. This book considers this ordinary experience of housing and how we come to depend upon it. The notion of the ordinary is used to argue against the conceits of policymaking and the fetish for domestic design. Using a variety of methods such as critical analysis and film criticism (looking at the work of film-makers as diverse as Bergman, Dreyer, Shyamalan, Tarkovsky, Tati and the Wachowski Brothers), it provides an original, impressionistic view of the role housing plays in our lives.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351147382
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly seeking transformations in housing, what we seek from our own housing is stability and lack of change. We seek secure roots to our lives rather than step-changes and radical reform. This book considers this ordinary experience of housing and how we come to depend upon it. The notion of the ordinary is used to argue against the conceits of policymaking and the fetish for domestic design. Using a variety of methods such as critical analysis and film criticism (looking at the work of film-makers as diverse as Bergman, Dreyer, Shyamalan, Tarkovsky, Tati and the Wachowski Brothers), it provides an original, impressionistic view of the role housing plays in our lives.
Port and the Douro
Author: Richard Mayson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908984173
Category : Port wine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written in an authoritative but entertaining manner by port expert Richard Mayson, this completely updated edition offers unparalleled insight into the world of port and Douro wines.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908984173
Category : Port wine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written in an authoritative but entertaining manner by port expert Richard Mayson, this completely updated edition offers unparalleled insight into the world of port and Douro wines.
Notices of Judgment Under the Food and Drugs Act
Author: United States. Food and Drug Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Wine-dark Sea
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
Late Night on Watling Street
Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448203724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In this collection of stories, Bill Naughton portrays a selection of characters, including truck drivers, Irish itinerants and lamp lighters, in his inimitable pithy style. While each tale can be enjoyed on its own, together they provide a wonderful picture of post-war and a bygone era. With descriptions so graphic the characters could be based on real people, the lives, loves, hopes and disappointments of Naughton's characters will keep you gripped till the last.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448203724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In this collection of stories, Bill Naughton portrays a selection of characters, including truck drivers, Irish itinerants and lamp lighters, in his inimitable pithy style. While each tale can be enjoyed on its own, together they provide a wonderful picture of post-war and a bygone era. With descriptions so graphic the characters could be based on real people, the lives, loves, hopes and disappointments of Naughton's characters will keep you gripped till the last.
Alfie Darling
Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
When Alfie meets a strange girls at a wedding party, they have little in common, yet each feels a need for the other and they embark on a curious love affair.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
When Alfie meets a strange girls at a wedding party, they have little in common, yet each feels a need for the other and they embark on a curious love affair.
Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine
Author: Mark Oldman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110166469X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
For the thousands of people who know nothing about wine and want to rectify that swiftly and painlessly, Mark Oldman?the ?Naked Chef? of wine?is here to help with the kind of information readers can use right now: ? Australian Shiraz is the most instantly likable red under $15 ? Drink slightly sweet wine with spicy food ? Judge a wine shop by whether it has homemade shelf signs ? Don?t store unopened wine in the refrigerator for more than a week Loaded with his personal recommendations?including the top 100 wines less than $15?Oldman?s Guide also includes the wine picks of an eclectic mix of collectors, from Le Cirque owner Sirio Maccioni to Morley Safer of 60 Minutes. This is a wine guide like no other and is sure to be savored by anyone who wants their wine without the attitude.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110166469X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
For the thousands of people who know nothing about wine and want to rectify that swiftly and painlessly, Mark Oldman?the ?Naked Chef? of wine?is here to help with the kind of information readers can use right now: ? Australian Shiraz is the most instantly likable red under $15 ? Drink slightly sweet wine with spicy food ? Judge a wine shop by whether it has homemade shelf signs ? Don?t store unopened wine in the refrigerator for more than a week Loaded with his personal recommendations?including the top 100 wines less than $15?Oldman?s Guide also includes the wine picks of an eclectic mix of collectors, from Le Cirque owner Sirio Maccioni to Morley Safer of 60 Minutes. This is a wine guide like no other and is sure to be savored by anyone who wants their wine without the attitude.
The Trip to Echo Spring
Author: Olivia Laing
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250039568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Originally published: Great Britain: Canongate Books, 2013.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250039568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Originally published: Great Britain: Canongate Books, 2013.