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View book details for Reinventing Order in the Congo
How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa's second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, …
View book details for Virgin Envy
The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen
Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something …
View book details for Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes
Stories from a Silver Age
The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth …
Wesker On Theatre is a collection of essays by one of Britain's most well-known, prolific and controversial writers, which explores his thoughts on drama and the theatre gained from a writing career that spans fifty years.Wesker brings together for the …
Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power.A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's …
A powerful yet comic tale of explosive family secrets and the dead hand of a corrupt patriarchy. Inspired by Chekhov but set in contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, Chief (Mrs) Adeyemi is engulfed in burial arrangements for her recently deceased husband, an …
View book details for Sound Theatre
Thoughts on the Radio Play
"Sound theatre is a performance art of special purity, cousin to music."A meditation on the nature of sound how it shapes and colours our daily experiences. Sound Theatre is a series of short missives, both whimsical and profound, that collectively …
View book details for The Folktales of Palestine
Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling
Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural and political identity. For Palestinians, the threat of losing their heritage has …
Keith just wants to say hes sorry. A lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse has given him a lot to apologise for particularly to the two people who raised from a child. But as the memories of violence, betrayal, lies …
View book details for Marivaux: Two Plays
The Triumph of Love; The Game of Love and Chance
Two tales of multiple misunderstanding by the eighteenth-century master of complex, witty comedies.In the tightly-structured, erotically-charged fable The Triumph of Love, a young princess, conscious that her claim to the throne is less than honourable, disguises herself as a man …
Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, …
The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners. Suitable for ages 14+Fragile Land was performed at the …
View book details for Life and Love in Nazi Prague
Letters from an Occupied City
Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst the chaos …
View book details for Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt
Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency and the Media, 1955-59
During the EOKA period of Greek Cypriot revolt against British colonial rule, the Greek Cypriots and the British deployed propaganda as a means of swaying allegiances, both within Cyprus and on the international scene. Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt places …
View book details for Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer
Handling Consumer Disputes in Contemporary China
This book offers a socio-legal exploration of localised consumer complaint processing and dispute resolution in the People's Republic of China now the second largest consumer market in the world and the experiences of both ordinary and 'professional' consumers.Drawing on detailed …
This book provides an authoritative account of the evolution and application of private international law principles in India in civil commercial and family matters. Through a structured evaluation of the legislative and judicial decisions, the authors examine the private international …
A relationship rotting. Purgatory. Is having no reason to stay a reason to leave? At what point does the abuser become the abused? And why aren't we more afraid of women?Two actors, one couple, swapping roles. A savage new play …
Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film 'Shoah' tells the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors of the extermination camps, bystanders who watched or participated in mass murder, and some of the perpetrators of genocide. Sue Vice addresses Lanzmann's central …
View book details for Man Across the Way/Magpie Park
Two Plays by Oliver Emanuel
Fraser and Dougie are watching a suspect.Sal is learning a new dance.An explosion rips through the city.But you're just getting on with your own life.Aren't you?First performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2007, Man Across the Way is a dazzling, anarchic …
When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so irresistible that he …
Inspired by a real-life Amnesty International report, Fanta Orange is a colourful and unexpected tale that gets under the skin of modern Africa. Regina is a Kenyan house servant. Roger is her white farmer boss. The two share a curious …
View book details for Neoliberal Africa
The Impact of Global Social Engineering
Neoliberalism has shaped African development for nearly thirty years. As such, it is not an economic 'shock' or a 'structural adjustment', but rather a historic shift in Africa's development politics and policy. This book explores the ways in which African …
View book details for Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
Their Role as Expert Witnesses
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation's leading …
'Nothing I do has changed. I'm doing what's always been done on this piece of land.'The farm is running at a loss, but Vic is determined to keep working. He'll do everything he can, work day and night, but he …
Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Harvest, In the Club, The English Game and Up on Roof.'Funny, poignant with a heart as big as a house, this is a rich Harvest indeed.' The Daily …
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