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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philip osment”
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  • Inside

    by Philip Osment ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Looking for relief from boredom and a chance to get off the wing, seven young fathers in prison sign-up for an education programme. They try to use the workshops to settle scores and to rise up the prison pecking order. But they're confronted with more than they'd bargained for, as they face up to their relationships with their children and their own fathers. Self-deceptions, vulnerabilities, and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Class Acts

    New Plays for Children to Act

    by Oladipo Agboluaje, Lin Coghlan, Philip Osment ...
    Series series Oberon Plays for Young People
    The Wish Collector by Oladipo AgbolaujeA magical epic whirling from a playground in Britain to a village in Sierra LeoneThe Acme Thunderer by Lin CoghlanA funny, moving family drama of pigeons and siblings, set amid the Blitz.Of the Terrifying Events on the Hamelin Estate by Philip OsmentA high-spirited contemporary satire bringing the Pied Piper legend up-to-date.Three 30 minute plays by leadin.. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Hearing Things

    by Philip Osment ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Hearing Things explores the dilemmas of psychiatry from the points of view of patients, relatives and staff. Based on experiences of psychiatrists and patients, the 'healthy' and the 'ill', the play examines how and if people heal and recover inside institutions. As part of the research process, staff and patients at Homerton University Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital in south London took part ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • This Island's Mine

    by Philip Osment ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    THATCHER'S BRITAIN.Seventeen-year-old Luke runs away to London – away from homophobic playground slurs, headlines that scream 'Don't Teach Our Children To Be Gay' and a family who wouldn't understand him – to Uncle Martin, who he once saw with his arms around another man at a march. In the capital, Mark is sacked because of fears about colleagues working with 'someone like him'. His boyfriend, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Can I Help You?

    by Philip Osment ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    One night, an off-duty police officer and a woman carrying a cat box meet on Beachy Head. Two disparate souls collide, and learn what it truly means to be touched by the magic of hope.Philip Osment's final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Flesh And Blood

    by Philip Osment ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "A dramatist of exceptional and distinctive promise" (Daily Telegraph)The early 1950s. Two brothers and a sister are marooned on a remote farm after their father's death. They are thrown into a state of panic when one of them makes a bid for freedom. Long-suppressed jealousies and resentments begin to seethe and fester. Thirty years later an unexpected visitor brings their feud to a climax.Flesh ... Read more

    $15.29 USD

  • Pedro, the Great Pretender

    by Miguel de Cervantes ...
    Translated by Philip Osment ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    The plot of this play revolves around a lovable trickster who aims to be helpful in order to be liked. His journey to find his identity ends with him finding his true vocation on the stage.Pedro, The Great Pretender opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2004. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...
    Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ...
    Translated by Tom Lathrop ...
    Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Love Poems

    by Jaime Sabines ...
    Translated by Colin Carberry ...
    Series Book 7 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    the first english edition of Sabines' love poems to appear in englishwill appeal to a general poetry readership as well as academics, Spanish studies programsone of the most celebrated Mexican & Spanish-language poets of the 20th century ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Lorca: Three Plays

    Full Texts and Introductions (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Federico García Lorca ...
    Translated by Jo Clifford ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    Three of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume, translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.'There's fire burning in my head.There's an ocean drowning my heart.'Lorca's passionate, lyrical tales of longing and revenge put the spotlight on the rural poor of 1930s Spain and are considered masterpieces of twentieth-century ... Read more

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  • The Abencerraje: A New Translation

    by Anonymous, Jessica Knauss ...
    A heartwarming tale of love and friendship in a time when no one could imagine anything but war. This is a classic story of the exotic landscape of medieval Spain, written about 1551, in a new, easy to read English translation. Abindarráez is so in love with beautiful Jarifa that when he is taken prisoner by Rodrigo de Narváez, he asks to be freed for only two days so that he can marry her. What ... Read more

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