Antony J Stowers

Plays

Five

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Horse With No Name - Iraq, the spring of 2003. The Battle of Baghdad rages. One retired Iraqi soldier - Ali - and one active American soldier - Rick - are trapped by rubble in a secret basement bar. Rick and Ali somehow make it through the two acts without killing each other but getting to know each other instead, finally ending up on the roof where they play a real-time game of Classic pool - not a staged game - which, depending on who wins the game - offers alternate endings to the play. . . . One Of The Lads - As NATO forces enter Iraq the media feeds a constant river of images of war into the daily lives of millions in Britain through TV. One such home is that of a young waster who has just died injecting heroin with two other lowlifes and one ambitious young woman determined to alter her destiny whatever the cost. Violence overseas or violence at home - what's the difference? . . . The Next Life - Blended as a hybrid theatre play/film from the book 'All this is mine' by Tony Stowers, this is the story of a young northern dealer drifting through London's post-Thatcherist underbelly in the early 90's. Rob Barlow is the key antagonist whose imagination and paranoia conflict in a seedy London of hustlers and thieves, pimps and backstabbers, corrupt journalists and nouveaux riche wasters, as he drifts inexorably to a disaster that offers a slim strand of redemption. . . . X - Saturday night beneath the plastic palm tree and two pairs of dissatisfied male friends who've never met before (one gay couple, the other straight) hit town. By Sunday, one will have been re-born, one will have won insight, one will have lost everything and one will still be bad at playing Dominoes. Originally entitled 'A Town Called X' and in part inspired by the title of the American film 'American History X' and the murder of Matthew Shepherd by homophobes in the late 90's in mid-west America, 'X' is performed over 60 minutes, promenade style in untypical spaces and with the music of David Bowie. 'X' is a challenging but important piece of work . It was translated into Czech and performed at Prague Pride in August 2015 and then toured in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780244158354
• ISBN-10: 0244158355
• Artikelnr.: 55731815

Autorenporträt

Darlington for Culture Review This is the story of an ordinary boy from an ordinary working-class family in an ordinary northern town. If that sounds ordinary, it's not!Jethro Anson Nowsty was born and brought up in Darlington and we follow his life from his very earliest memories up to his approaching adulthood. This mixed-up kid was born in the early 1960s and the author describes everyday life as it was then - warts 'n' all. The music, food, transport, housing and entertainment of the 1960s and 1970s are all brought into clear focus in a series of short stories. Instead of a strictly chronological order, the author goes back and forth through the years writing in a way that draws the reader back in time to when a computer filled a whole room and dialling a phone number took longer than the call itself. All of this is interwoven with national and international news and the background to all of these stories is Darlington. All the landmark buildings, roads and parks, shops and schools are mentioned and described. It's a history of a special time in a special town, told with humour and affection through the eyes of a special 'mixed-up kid'.'