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Guns and Rain
"This book makes us understand an historical event of world importance, the liberation of Zimbabwe, from the point of view of ordinary people...It is not only a specific study of great brilliance but also a model which shows how anthropology can contribute to politics and history."—Maurice Bloch, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics, in his preface to this book
A Mouthful of Birds
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Ghetto
The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto. Winner of the 1989 Evening Standard Award for Best Play
Lan Plays: 1
The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan Painting a Wall: 'an essential theatrical image of the human condition' - Plays and Players Red Earth: 'Mature skill...in the course of a lunchtime, 70 years of South African history are played out with power and poignancy' - The Times Flight: 'a play that gives you faith in new writing' - City Limits Desire: 'a ballad and an act of faith' - Sunday Times The Ends of the Earth: 'The work of a genuine theatrical poet . . . we should be so lucky to have ambitious, hypnotic writing in our theatre' - Observer 'These plays are unique in contemporary theatre; wonderful immersions into foreign worlds that touch our own' (John Lahr)
Blackta
'Get, I'm getting outta here, man, I'm getting outta here, the lines getting blurred - it's blurred - that line between normality and madness is muffled... and rah, I'm getting urges, brov.' Welcome to the world's most unusual talent contest. Behind the scenes, competitors are laughing and brawling, parading their hopes and fears in front of each other, their loves and losses. But there's a bigger fight to be had on stage: who's going to win? The black, the yellow or the brown guy? This hilariously biting satire by Nathaniel Martello-White, directed by Young Vic Artistic Director, David Lan, exposes the highs and lows of making it as a black actor - a 'blackta'.
Things to Make and Break
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 'Quite dazzling.' TLS 'Plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic' Guardian Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction. A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend's desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelgänger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms. 'Mind-blowingly good' PANK 'A visceral collection ' AnOther Magazine
Money and the Morality of Exchange
This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which e...
Technology of the Oppressed
How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don’t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences wi...
Architecture, Actor and Audience
Explores the contribution the design of a theatre can make to the theatrical experience. It also examines the failure of many modern theatres to appeal to audiences and theatre people.
