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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 photographs

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

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