Divided City

Divided City
Author: Theresa Breslin
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408181576

Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker in a city divided by prejudice. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great acclaim at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. Graham and Joe just want to play football and be selected for the new city team, but a violent attack on Kyoul, an asylum seeker, changes everything when they find themselves drawn into a secret pact to help the victim and his girlfriend Leanne. Set in Glasgow at the time of the Orange Order walks, Divided City is a gripping tale about two boys and how they must find their own way forward in a world divided by difference. This educational edition has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Published in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series the book: - meets the curriculum requirements for English at KS3, GCSE and Scottish CfE. - features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis - places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities - will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 - will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Black Watch

Black Watch
Author: Gregory Burke
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0571275117

Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror and what it means to make the journey home again. This book contains Gregory Burke's award-winning text, with production notes by the director John Tiffany and colour photographs that capture the powerful and inventive use of movement in this visceral, complex and urgent piece of theatre. The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Black Watch opened at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006 where it won a Herald Angel, a Scotsman Fringe First, a Best Theatre Writing Award from The List, a Stage Award for Best Ensemble, the Critics' Circle Award and the South Bank Show Award for Theatre. In 2007 it began a world tour in Scotland. "Completely brilliant." Daily Telegraph "Black Watch is a glorious piece of theatre, raw, truthful, uncomfortable, political, funny, moving, graceful and dynamic." Scotland on Sunday "A brilliantly realised piece." Evening Standard "A magnificent piece of social and political theatre. A high point not just of the festival but of the theatrical year" Observer

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Author: John McGrath
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2014-02-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1472537327

Strathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The gentry leant out of their saddles and beat at the women's heads with their crops." (John McGrath)

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
Author: Tim Crouch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786828154

Jesus didn't die so we could be reborn, lady, the stars did. The writer leads his followers towards the end of this world and the start of a new one. The book he's written predicts it all – the equations, the black hole, all the words we'll speak till then. On this last day, at this last hour, a defector finds her voice and returns.

Theatre in Scotland

Theatre in Scotland
Author: Joyce McMillan
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781848422926

A fascinating personal overview of Scotland and its culture from one of the country's most acclaimed arts and political writers.

A History of Scottish Theatre

A History of Scottish Theatre
Author: Adrienne Scullion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

This is the first ever comprehensive, illustrated historical survey of Scottish theatre considered in its broadest sense to include the companies, buildings, theatre-going trends, and key plays, from the minstrels of the 15th & 16th centuries to today.

Theatre and Scotland

Theatre and Scotland
Author: Trish Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350316172

In this cutting-edge text, Trish Reid offers a concise overview of the shifting roles of theatre and theatricality in Scottish culture. She asks important questions about the relationship between Scottish theatre, history and identity, and celebrates the recent emergence of a generation of internationally successful Scottish playwrights.

The Tailor of Inverness

The Tailor of Inverness
Author: Matthew Zajac
Publisher: Sandstone PressLtd
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781908737458

A story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Poland came to be a tailor in Inverness, by way of Soviet prison camps east of the Urals, Tehran, and Egypt.