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Stories under Occupation and Other Plays from Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9780857427472, Seagull Books, June 2020
288 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Palestinian theater today is drawing increasing interest throughout the Arab world and beyond, as theaters and universities in the English-speaking world are becoming familiar with companies like the Freedom Theatre, Al-Kasaba Theatre, Ashtar, Al-Row...
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£35,00
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Citizens of Tokyo Six Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857425515, Seagull Books, September 2019
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
"Citizens of Tokyo" is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," pr...
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£25,00
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Everything and Other Performance Texts from Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780857426123, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
In "Everything: And Other Performance Texts from Germany", Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theater collectives working today: andcompany&Co., Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop, and Showcase Beat...
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£30,00
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"Intricate Art of Actually Caring", and Other New Zealand Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857423405, Seagull Books, November 2018
450 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Theater in New Zealand began as a tool of the British Empire, imported along with Christianity, seeds, and other commodities as a way of acculturating the indigenous Maori population. In the decades since, it has been turned to different ends, and is...
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£34,00
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"I Love XXX" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857423849, Seagull Books, August 2017
320 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Since premiering his pioneering linguistic experiment "I Love XXX" in Beijing nearly twenty-five years ago, Meng Jinghui has been credited with revitalizing Chinese theater by popularizing the avant-garde. Mixing high culture with mass culture, his p...
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£34,00
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"Unofficial Roxelana" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857423856, Seagull Books, August 2017
328 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
At a time when Turkey is struggling for its secular identity, resisting the influence of ISIS, and finding itself at the heart of the European refugee crisis, accomplished Turkish playwright Ozen Yula offers a deep, artistic portrait of the country a...
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£34,00
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Tahrir Tales Plays from the Egyptian Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780857423412, Seagull Books, August 2016
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfo...
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£34,00
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Rechnitz, and The Merchant's Contracts
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857422255, Seagull Books, February 2015
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...
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£34,00
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"How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857422200, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 halftones
Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesse...
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£34,00
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"Loose Screws" and Other Polish Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857421777, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm
An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, "Loose Screws" brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individ...
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£30,00
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