Sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect housewife; Laura Wade explores the idealisation of gender norms in this incisive play, republished in Methuen Dramas Modern Classics series. “A scalpel-wielding dissection of the fetishisa...Loe edasi...
In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally chatueaued. Members of The Riot Club, an elite stu...Loe edasi...
I walked in and shes sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and shes - shes watching telly and laughingNobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, c...Loe edasi...
How happily married are the happily married?Home, Im Darling is a dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.Judy has Johnnys slippers waiting for him when he arrives home from work, the ki...Loe edasi...
The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat wont stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life thats less than perfect.In thi...Loe edasi...
Ive got a new law for you mate, its called survival of the fittest, its called fuck you were the Riot Club. In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their...Loe edasi...
If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade…proved that you could radically change both form and content… Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this col...Loe edasi...
Amys found another body in a hotel bedroom.Theres a funny smell coming from one of Jims storage units.And Kates losing it after spending all day with the police.Theres no going back after what theyve seen.Breathing Corpse...Loe edasi...
What happens when the writer loses the plot?Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. Shes been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or...Loe edasi...
Francesca Wade, Can Xue, Kristin Omarsdottir, Laura Grace Ford, Jessica Yu, Sofia Samatar, Marie NDiaye, Lydia Davis, Toyin Ojih Odutola
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The White Review, ISBN-13: 9781916035133)
The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by fo...Loe edasi...
The second collection of work by Olivier award-winning British playwright Laura Wade, bursting with her trademark satirical humour and her sharp, witty insight into gender and privilege. Posh (2010): the cult sensation which propell...Loe edasi...
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A new play by Laura Wade adapted from the unfinished novel by Jane Austen. This sparklingly witty play looks under the bonnet and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?...Loe edasi...
DeeDees Christmas becomes a downsizing nightmare when her parents move into a tiny house. Added to this, comes the taunting trickery of a horrible classmate, but all is not lost. When DeeDee has to move to a new town, she discovers that the...Loe edasi...
La série JOCK, tome 1 Il est facile de devenir cynique quand la vie ne va pas comme on veut. Cole Reid mène une vie de reclus depuis ses quinze ans, âge auquel son homosexualité a été révélée au grand jour par son équipe de bas...Loe edasi...
Neil M R Cartlidge, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, David Ashurst, Gareth Griffith, James Wade, Judith Weiss, Kate McClune, Laura Ashe, Margaret Lamont...
Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how moral...Loe edasi...
