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A Life of Galileo

Written by

Bertolt Brecht

and

Mark Ravenhill

Translated by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Bertolt Brecht , Mark Ravenhill ~playauthor~Translated by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

Playtext

Acts: 1, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (40), Female (7), Male (32), Unassigned (1)

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Summary
... spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of authority, Life of Galileo has few equals. This version is translated by Mark Ravenhill....

The Cane

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

Playtext

Acts: 2, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

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... to mark his retirement.But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students have gathered. A brick has been thrown through the window, he and his wife haven't left the house for six days, and now his estranged daughter has arrived with her own...

Ten Plagues

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

Playtext

Scenes: 16

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...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...

pool (no water)

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

Playtext

Roles: Total (4), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

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...Hypnotic and razor-sharp, pool (no water) tears up the ideals of friendship and art, exposing a deep vein of envy. The lines of the script are not assigned to particular characters or parts, but reveal a seething collective experience...

Citizenship

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

Playtext

Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (13), Female (7), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

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... people on the internet. Citizenship captures adolescent confusion with a witty and sensitive charm, crackling with humorous and authentic dialogue. Ravenhill’s play was developed as part of the National Theatre Connections 2005 Programme and premiered in the Cottesloe at the National Theatre, London....

Some Explicit Polaroids

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 1999

Modern Plays

Playtext

Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

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...Some Explicit Polaroids is a searing and disturbing examination of the gulf between the leftist non-conformism of the eighties, and the pleasure-hungry culture of the late nineties. Nick has been in prison since 1984...

Handbag

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

Playtext

Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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... is born, fear and infidelity creep into their familial fantasy. Ravenhill introduces Lorraine, whose consumer habits are being intimately studied by Suzanne, and Phil, a young man whom David pays for sex. Running alongside...

Faust is Dead

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

Playtext

Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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...Faust is Dead is about existence: virtual, metaphorical, philosophical and suddenly real. It is a dark, shocking and often brutally funny meditation on our world of virtual reality. The world’s most famous philosopher...

Scenes from Family Life

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2010

Play Anthologies

Playtext

Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (6), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

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...Scenes from Family Life is a charged and punchy play about relationships and the last two people left on earth. Lisa and Jack are teenagers, but they are about to become adults; Lisa is pregnant, and neither of them can...

The Coronation of Poppea

Written by

Mark Ravenhill

~playauthor~Written by~ Mark Ravenhill

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

Playtext

Acts: 1, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

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...The Coronation of Poppea, freely adapted from the libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello for L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, depicts the triumphant adultery between Poppea and the Roman emperor Nero. Ravenhill updates...