Godber Plays: 4

Godber Plays: 4
Author: John Godber
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2009-03-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408112051

A fourth volume of plays by John Godber, all of which were produced by Hull Truck Theatre in 2007 and 2008 and featuring Our House, Crown Prince, Sold and Christmas Crackers.

Godber Plays: 1

Godber Plays: 1
Author: John Godber
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408169886

"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Bouncers, a play about nightlife: "A show that's worth braving any front of house, however formidable ... simply spellbinding" Guardian Happy Families: "The inseparable contradictions of family love and oppression are carefully held in this fine comedy ... superb characterisation ... the rhythms of Godber's dialogue are freshly funny, the pace precise" Independent Shakers, a play about party-goers: "This is one of those slices of life that everyone can recognise and laugh at" Liverpool Daily Post

Godber Plays: 4

Godber Plays: 4
Author: John Godber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2009-03-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408125714

Godber Plays: 4 brings together four recent plays by one of Britain's most prolific, popular playwrights. The author is the artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre and the publication is timed to coincide with the opening of Hull Truck's new theatre building in the heart of Hull. In Our House May, a widow, mother and grandmother, is packing up her home of 45 years and heads for a life in the sun. However, trading neighbourhood hell for the Costa del Calm is no easy task as memories are harder to let go than possessions. First produced in 2007, the play was revived and toured the UK in 2008. In Crown Prince (2007) Godber finds comedy in a bowls club, and against the backdrop of the advancing years of its members, issues of redundancy, bereavement and guilt emerge. Sold is the author's most politically charged play to date, exposing the misery of people-trafficking and women sold into the sex-trade in Britain. Christmas Crackers follows overworked A&E nurses Holly and Kath on a shopping and booze trip to Prague where things take an unexpected turn. 'John Godber's work is unique; he is able to speak to a very broad audience in a way that is thought-provoking, exciting and always very funny.' Hilary Strong, Executive Director of Greenwich Theatre

Bouncers

Bouncers
Author: John Godber
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1987
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822201380

THE STORY: Staged with extreme simplicity, the play takes place in a provincial discotheque--the Saturday night haunt of England's disaffected youth. Using the device of four tuxedoed male bouncers (who also become a variety of other characters) t

April in Paris

April in Paris
Author: John Godber
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573017148

Bet and Al lead a quiet, humdrum life in their small Yorkshire home until Bet wins a 'Romantic Breaks' competition in a magazine. The prize, a holiday in Paris, represen's their first experience abroad and has profound effects on the way they look at the world around them once they return home.-1 woman, 1 man

Shakers

Shakers
Author: John Godber
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN: 9780822213161

THE STORY: In a not-so-chic London bar called Shakers, we meet Carol, Adele, Nicky and Mel, four friends who have taken to waitressing in desperation but who also have wit and resilience enough to never let any of the colorful characters they come

Godber Plays: 3

Godber Plays: 3
Author: John Godber
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2013-11-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1472536754

A third collection of plays by one of Britain's most popular and widely performed playwrights Up 'n' Under (winner of the Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year Award 1984): Five unfit lads strive for sporting glory against the local pub-rugby champions, Men Behaving Badly meets The Full Monty. Perfect Pitch: Ron & Yvonne are seasoned caravan holidaymakers. Every weekend they head for the coast to get away from it all. Snug in a prized four-berth, theirs is the perfect pitch, until Grant and Steph set up camp beside them... April in Paris (nominated for Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year 1994): Al is a builder - well he was until he got laid off. Bet sells trainers. Al spends hours in his shed painting while Beth is addicted to entering competitions in magazines. Neither has any faith in the other. Until one day, Beth win "a romantic break in Paris for two"... "John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian

Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth
Author: John Godber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 1989
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780573016899

Spanning three generations, from 1947 to the present, this compelling saga vividly captures the dreams, ambitions, joys, fears, heartaches and disappointmen's of the Parker sisters, Annie and May, whose hopes centre on May's son, Paul, and his academic success.

Dracula

Dracula
Author: Jane Thornton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1998
Genre: Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780856762161

Written in 1897, Stoker's novel introduces the iconic character of the vampire Count Dracula. Through a series of letters and diary entries, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form as we know it today.

Porterhouse Blue

Porterhouse Blue
Author: Tom Sharpe
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446474658

______________________________ The 'endlessly funny' novel widely regarded as a classic of comic English literature Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.