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A Life of Galileo
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose heretical discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one of Brechts more... more...
Some Explicit Polaroids
A&C Black 1999; US$ 12.99From the celebrated and controversial writer of Shopping and Fucking. Some Explicit Polaroids premiered at the New Ambassadors Theatre, London in October 1999 in a production directed by Max Stafford-Clark for Out of Joint, prior to a national tour. "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill . . . He is - it is... more...
Over There
A&C Black 2010; US$ 12.99A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 25 February 2009 "I found you. Youre here. And I was over there. But now Im over here. Im here. Youre my brother. I love you" When Franzs mother escaped to the West with one of her identical twin boys,... more...
Ten Plagues' and 'The Coronation of Poppea'
A&C Black 2011; US$ 12.99In London. Came the plague in sixteen sixty five. One hundred thousand dead. But I alive. London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eye-witness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten... more...
Ravenhill Plays
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair... more...
Ravenhill Plays
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times. This second volume of plays brings together five plays from 2001-07. It includes Mother Clap's Molly House , a black comedy and celebration... more...
Nation: The Play
Transworld 2012; US$ 13.34Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman ( His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin ( Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo ( War Horse ), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major... more...
A Life in Three Acts
A&C Black 2010; US$ 12.99With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, actor Bette Bourne reminisces and replays scenes from his life from a postwar childhood,a stint as a classical actor in the late 60s, to living... more...
Globalization and State Transformation in China
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 33.00Zheng explores how China's leaders have embraced globalization and market-oriented modernization. While they have been open to Western ideas in rebuilding the economic system, they have been reluctant to import Western concepts of democracy. The author argues that this selectivity will impede China's progress in becoming a modern nation state. more...
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