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Clark, Sadie

Dramas & Plays

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Peter Arnott: Two Plays: Tay Bridge / The Signalman

ARNOTT, PETER

<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> Award-winning artist, writer and broadcaster Scottee grew up around mould, mice and second-hand clothes. After a chance meeting with some posh kids, his mum teaching him to talk proper and him successfully persuading his parents to take him off free school meals Scottee knew he didn't want to be common. In Class, Scottee uncovers what it is to be embarrassed about where you're from, how you can pretend to be richer than you are and explores why we all get a thrill from watching how the other half live. This is a book for the middle class, those who didn't grow up in poverty. <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> 'This work is essential. For you and the world.' Sofie Hagen 'Class is hard to watch, it's gruelling, it sticks to you, you can feel it after it is gone. But, so is growing up poor and the experience of poverty. Scottee has made something that doesn't let you off the hook, and nor should it.' Travis Alabanza </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Class

Scottee

Hope and Joy Hope's labour is unusual and uneggspected. Happily, nothing fazes Joy, the hospital cleaner who helps her to escape. Then Joy is sacked from her job and she moves in with Hope and her swan-boy son, Magnus. Their lives collide in chaos - can they survive this shifting world? A deeply original play that explores love and loss in a changing environment, imagining Scotland in a time much like ours, but not quite. The Return France, 1560. In the foothills of the Pyrenees, Bertrande tends to her livestock and raises her young son, seven years after her husband disappeared. One day, a stranger, Arnaud, walks into her life and before long they decide to present him to the world as her long-lost husband.&nbsp; But is it possible that he really is her husband? Inspired by the true story of Martin Guerre, The Return is a gripping play about the mystery of identity, and asks whether we can ever truly know even those we love best. ' ... the story is told in a glorious, beautifully-balanced combination of strong, spare dialogue, eloquent movement, and haunting Languedoc song ...' Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 2018

Hope and Joy & The Return: Two Plays

Stewart, Ellie

A three-part accidental trilogy of performances about high art and celebrity and our increasingly tenuous grip on reality in the 21st century. Kourtney / Kim / Khloe Kardashian

Kardashian Trilogy: Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney

Collective, Sleepwalk

Language is personal. Nothing gets closer to our hearts. And yet, by its own nature, it's always social. Who owns it? Who appoints it? Who governs it? And why? In this one-woman show about the Scots language, Ishbel McFarlane presents collected fragments - stories, interviews, memories, characters and attitudes - to challenge and disrupt our expectations and prejudices about language. By interrogating the history of Scots, and the ways in which it is taught and subdued, the audience is invited to question the way forward for minority languages. Winner of The Arches Platform 18: New Directions Award 2014. 'A witty, intelligent, and interesting discussion on the subject of language'&nbsp;Darrow 'A passionate call to arms for the study and preservation of minority languages.' The Times 'An engaging, heart-warming piece which is a lovingly made look at language as a living, pulsating, external thing as natural as breathing.' The List

O is for Hoolet

McFarlane, Ishbel

With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle, Playwright and Dramaturg of the National Theatre of Great Britain. Winner of the&nbsp;1997 Theatre Book Prize Peggy Ramsay was the most admired British play agent of the twentieth century.&nbsp; With a matchless ability to visualise a play just by reading it on the page, she set up in business in 1953, and over the years nurtured and developed the most dazzling client list which included Eugene Ionesco, Joe Orton, Robert Bolt, David Mercer, John McGrath, Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer, James Saunders, Peter Nichols, Charles Wood, Ann Jellicoe, Edward Bond, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn, Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton and Willy Russell. Her role in the development of modern British drama was central. One of the most remarkable things about her was her instinctive generosity.&nbsp; Peggy believed that the living playwright belonged at the centre of the theatre.&nbsp; A theatre without new writing talent to refresh it was worthless. &nbsp;

Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

CHAMBERS, Colin

Humor & Entertainment

'a bedrock of the Scottish theatre industry'Â&nbsp;The Guardian 'a major part of Scotland's new playwriting landscape'Â&nbsp;The Scotsman After running for fifteen years, the founding principles of A Play, a Pie and a Pint remain steadfast - a new play at lunchtime every week that lasts no more than an hour, accompanied by a pie and a pint. As well as producing thirty-three new plays per year, Ã'ran MÃ³r also biannually hosts its much-adored pantomimes for grown up kids - both Summer and Winter - which have become a staple of the Glasgow theatrical calendar. This first volume collects some of the most popular and critically acclaimed plays from the phenomenal back catalogue. Includes the plays:Â&nbsp; A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (Douglas Maxwell) Toy Plastic ChickenÂ&nbsp;(Uma Nada-Rajah) Chic Murray: A Funny Place for A Window (Stuart Hepburn) Ida Tamson (Denise Mina) Jocky Wilson Said (Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney) Do Not Press This Button (Alan Bissett)

A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Volume One: Toy Plastic Chicken; A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity; Chic Murray: A Funny Place for A Window; Ida Tamson; Jocky Wilson Said; Do Not Press This Button

Mina, Denise

Bissett, Alan

Maxwell, Douglas

Nada-Rajah, Uma

Hepburn, Stuart

Livingstone, Jane

Cairney, Jonathan

2020 Edition Set text for Eduqas GCSE 9-1Â&nbsp;DramaÂ&nbsp;examÂ&nbsp; Based on Maureen Dunbar's award-winning book and film Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia Nervosa. Catherine Dunbar died in 1984, after a seven-year battle against anorexia nervosa. She was just twenty-two. Mark Wheeller's potent documentary play uses the words from Catherine's diaries and also of those most closely involved and affected.Â&nbsp; This 2020 edition includes a foreword by the late Maureen Dunbar, unseen extra scenes and a reflection by Mark, on the astonishing journey of this widely studied play since its first performances, including one by OYT on the Olivier Stage of the Royal National Theatre. Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, BTEC, GCSE Duration:Â&nbsp;75 minutes approximatelyâe¨ Cast:Â&nbsp;6 female, 3 male, 22 female/male, or 3 female and 2 male with doubling. "This play reaches moments of almost unbearable intensity... naturalistic scenes flow seamlessly into sequences of highlyÂ&nbsp;stylisedÂ&nbsp;theatre... such potent theatre!"âe¨ Vera Lustig, The Independent "Elegantly structured, highly informative, and imaginativelyÂ&nbsp;theatrical. There wasn't a dry eye in the house."âe¨ Anne McFerran, Stage and Television Today

Hard to Swallow: New edition with bonus features

Wheeller, Mark

Game OverÂ&nbsp;tells the harrowing true story of teenager Breck Bednar, who was groomed over the internet and brutally murdered on 17 February 2014 by a supposed 'friend' that he met online. Breck's story is told in Mark's potent verbatim style, using the words of his family, friends and the killer. It's a shocking but deeply powerful play, with a unique 21st-century message. The play is particularly suitable for 'socially distanced' or online performances in students' own homes and can be easily adapted to suit this medium. Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, GCSE, BTEC, A-Level to adult Duration:Â&nbsp;75Â&nbsp;minutes approximatelyâe¨ Cast:Â&nbsp;24 characters total. 8 male, 9 female and 7 male or female. The play is suitable for a large cast and multi-roling is also possible. "[A] chilling and harrowing tale, skilfully written using the words of Breck's family, friends and his killer. It deals with the potentially disastrous effects of social media and how to keep safe online by recognising the signs of grooming and exploitation." Vivienne Lafferty, Trustee National Drama

Game Over

Parenting & Relationships

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