Welcome Home, Captain Fox!
Title | Welcome Home, Captain Fox! PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Weigh |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0571331424 |
It's the legendary hot summer of 1959 and while the Cold War rages and America tunes into I Love Lucy, Captain Jack Fox - believed missing in action in the fields of France fifteen years before - is about to be reunited with his family in the Hamptons. But is this really Jack Fox? And if it isn't, who is this man? And why are there twenty-two other families so intent on claiming him as their own? A sparkling comedy of identity, lost and found, based on Jean Anouilh's hit 1937 play, Le Voyageur sans bagage, Anthony Weigh's Welcome Home, Captain Fox! premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2016.
'Welcome Home, Captain Fox!'
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It's the legendary hot summer of 1959 and while the Cold War rages and America tunes into 'I Love Lucy', Captain Jack Fox - believed missing in action in the fields of France 15 years before - is about to be reunited with his family in the Hamptons. But is this really Jack Fox? And if it isn't, who is this man? And why are there 22 other families so intent on claiming him as their own?
Mates in Chelsea
Title | Mates in Chelsea PDF eBook |
Author | Rory Mullarkey |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2023-11-17 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1350448370 |
But I do have a job. I'm a professional viscount. Things aren't looking good for Theodore 'Tug' Bungay. His mother, Lady Agrippina, has a plan to cut off his funds. His fed-up fiancée wants to drag him up the aisle. An oligarch is eyeing up his beloved Northumberland castle. Is Tug's dissolute life about to change completely? Or will he get to carry on doing exactly as he pleases without ever facing any consequences? Rory Mullarkey's riotous new play takes inspiration from Wilde and Wodehouse to create a contemporary comedy of manners set among the dwellers of south-west London who – somehow – remain our country's ruling class. This edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre, in November 2023.
Super High Resolution
Title | Super High Resolution PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Ellis |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2022-11-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1350377201 |
I like being a doctor but I'm slowly growing to hate the sight of sick people. Being a doctor is a really good job and you get to save lives and help people, so Anna is determined not to quit. But when her patient runs out on her, and her personal life starts to spiral, she's not sure how much more she can take. Super High Resolution is a play about being a doctor in the modern NHS and the limits of anyone's ability to care for other people. Nathan Ellis' fast-paced and darkly funny play was published to coincide with the premiere at Soho Theatre, in October 2022.
Idle, They Yammer
Title | Idle, They Yammer PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Trevannion |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2023-05-23 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1350424005 |
Today's the day, right? That's what you said. What you prophesized. Today's the day we finish the job? We're all in the business of telling stories. Building narratives. Constructing meaning. To keep ourselves safe, to make sense of the senseless, to explain the unexplainable, or simply just to pass the time. But what happens when the stories we inhabit begin to crumble? How can we still manufacture hope in a world that's falling apart? Idle, They Yammer is an ode to hard graft, a metaphysical conversation between people trapped by the very thing they've spent their entire lives building. This edition was published to coincide with the premiere at The Other Room, Cardiff, in May 2023.
Silver Lining
Title | Silver Lining PDF eBook |
Author | Sandi Toksvig |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2017-04-14 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1350038261 |
How unbelievably dull my life was. I did everything I was supposed to. I was such a good girl. I lived in the house he chose and cleaned a dead woman's furniture. I bought hats, who the hell wears a hat? And all the time I wanted to scream because I was so bored. On one dark and stormy night in the upper day room of the Silver Retirement Home, five elderly women are trading stories of their remarkable (or sometimes unremarkable) lives. With the storm floods rising and no rescue team in sight, the ladies are faced with the sudden realisation that in order to survive they are going to have to do what they have done for their entire lives – do it themselves! Silver Lining is a hilarious comedy by Sandi Toksvig. It tells the tale of a group of extraordinary yet forgotten women, who come together one treacherous night to recreate The Great Escape – senior-citizen style. It received its world premiere at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, on 3 February 2017 in a production by English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre, Kingston.
The Pope
Title | The Pope PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony McCarten |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2019-06-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1786827859 |
Six years ago Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world by resigning, the first Pope in 700 years to do so. What drove this arch-conservative to break with sacred tradition and cede the way for Cardinal Bergoglio – a one-time tango club bouncer, football-loving reformer with the common touch – to become Pope Francis, one of most powerful men on earth? In this fascinating, gripping and often funny story of two very different men, Pope Benedict and Cardinal Bergoglio grapple with their complex pasts and uncertain futures. From coming of age under dictatorships in Germany and Argentina, to the scandal of sexual abuse by the clergy, The Pope shines a light into one of the world's most secretive institutions. At its heart lies a timeless question: in moments of crisis, should we follow the rules or our conscience?