NEW DRAMA
BERTOLT BRECHT
translated and edited by Marc Silberman
This authoritative study presents for the first
time Brecht's essays, articles and commentaries on
film and radio, as well as selections from the many
scripts he wrote for both media. A great
experimenter, Brecht was fascinated by these
technologies and the new approaches to a mass
audience which they offered. Brecht on Film and
Radio records his encounters with and theories
about cinema and radio broadcasting, including the
story of the famous 'Threepenny lawsuit'. A full
editorial commentary also looks throughout at
Brecht's ideas and writings on film and radio in
the context of the works for which he is better
known.
Marc Silberman is the former editor of the Brecht Yearbook and Professor at the
University of Wisconsin, where he teaches German
literature, culture and film studies.
216 x 138mm hb | 304pp + 16pp b/w
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THE SPECULATOR & THE MEETING - Two plays
THE SPECULATOR David Greig
THE MEETING Luisa Cunillé translated
by John London
Two dramas of cultural and historical identity
- 'David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation' The Scotsman
- 'Frequently compared to Harold Pinter... Cunillé has discovered a special style.' ABC Madrid
198 x 129 mm pb | 148pp
MOONSHINE
Snoo Wilson
Snoo Wilson's new play finds Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- author, spiritualist and creator of the
archrationalist Sherlock Holmes - in search of
fairies in an English village, and transports him
into a bizarre alternative world of supreme gods,
malevolent media magnates and the impending
catastrophe of a meteorite strike. A weird and
wonderful theatrical fantasy from this celebrated
British playwright and novelist.
'Snoo Wilson's mind is rather like a fantastic
toyshop whose timeless contraptions - genuine
luxury goods from all the ages whirr, fizz and
explode in their collisions as if by magic' Guardian
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
Mark Ravenhill
A PLAY FROM THE AUTHOR OF SHOPPING AND
F***ING
In prison since 1984, Nick finds himself released
into a world he doesn't recognise: 'Eat The Rich'
has given way to 'Things Can Only Get Better'. The
'gay plague' has a happy ending thanks to new
drugs, Russian go-go dancers can be downloaded from
the internet, and optimistic psychobabble has
replaced the language of anger and hurt. But as the
characters are drawn in to the settling of an old
score, they realise how much they miss the old
certainties of the past.
'Bright, sharp and funny' Michael Billington
198 x 129 mm job | 112pp
REMEMBER THIS
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff's provocative new play for the
Royal National Theatre is the story of the intense
rivalry between the generations in a world which
seems to record everything and remember nothing as
it hurtles into the next century. Rick, a
middle-aged man at a crossroads in his life,
stumbles on a disturbing technological mystery
which threatens to replace his reality with an
imagined, recorded version of his life on
videotape.
'The foreign country to which [Poliakoff's]
imagination travels is the past, a secret
hinterland common to us all' Evening
Standard
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
MNEMONIC
Theatre de Complicité
EDITED BY SIMON MCBURNEY
Mnemonic is the new production from the
ground-breaking Théâtre de
Complicité, an exciting and original play
about shared memory and discordant recollection.
Stories originating from our discoveries of our
ancestors' origins form a theatrical event
exploring and questioning concepts of time and
history.
Théâtre de Complicité was
founded in 1983 and has created more than 27
productions ranging from adaptations and
reinterpretations of classic texts to major devised
pieces such as Mnemonic.
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
A LITTLE LOVE, A LITTLE KISS
TOM MURPHY
'A writer with a penetrating vision of the factors
that divide modern Ireland.' The Guardian
People are on the move. Emigrant workers are
returning home for their traditional two-week
sojourn. They have money, vigour, dash and
resentment. They are dangerous. The de Burca family
is on the move too. Their estate is up for sale -
'a veritable little Ireland'. There is tension. Tom
Murphy's new play premieres at Dublin's Abbey
Theatre in April 2000.
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
PEGGY FOR YOU
Alan Plater
A NEW STAGE COMEDY FROM ALAN PLATER STARRING
MAUREEN LIPMAN
Peggy For You, Alan Plater's new play, is a
witty and poignant portrait of Peggy Ramsay, the
larger-than-life play agent who nurtured several
generations of England's best dramatists and became
one of the most influential behind-the-scenes
figures in postwar British theatre. Focusing on one
fateful day in Ramsay's life, when old clients are
exiting and new ones entering, Plater's play
premiered at London's Hampstead Theatre in December
1999.
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
HARD FRUIT
From the author of Road and The Rise
and Fall of Little Voice comes a new play
about life in the North. Sump and Choke are friends
who have bonded through martial arts. What happens
to their relationship surprises them both. Hard
Fruit premiered at The Royal Court Theatre in
April 2000.
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
THE FREE STATE
Janet Suzman
This powerful adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The
Cherry Orchard is set in South Africa after
the restoration of democracy in 1994. Located in an
African landscape of harsh beauty, Chekhov's drama
of class conflict takes on a stark political
reality. The Free State tours Britain in
spring 2000.
198 x 129 mm ph | 124pp
4.48 PSYCHOSIS
Sarah Kane
The death of Sarah Kane in 1999 robbed theatre of
one of its brightest talents, whose plays have
changed the shape of British drama. Like all Sarah
Kane's work, 4.48 Psychosis, the play she
had just completed at the time of her death, is a
penetrating, uncompromising vision of contemporary
life.
198 x 129 mm pb | 96pp
MODERN CATALAN PLAYS
EDITED BY JOHN LONDON AND DAVID GEORGE
Four powerful new plays from Catalonia: The
Quarrelsome Party by Joan Brossa, The
Audition by Rodolf Sirera, Desire by
Josep Maria Benet i Jornet and Fourplay by
Sergi Belbel.
198 x 129 mm | 272pp