LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gillian plowman

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  • David’s Birthday
    Gillian Plowman
    Conflicting emotions of love, hate, jealousy and guilt are unleashed as the party progresses. The sisters recall their childhood and reflect on the impact David has had on their lives.  As the party draws to a close, the relationships between everyone present will never be the same.|2 women, 3 men ...
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    13,87 €

  • Cecily
    Gillian Plowman
    Cecily, destined to spend her life in a wheelchair following an accident, is the centre of the universe for Sheila (her mother) and Ellen (Sheila’s sister). A gripping, masterfully written play that will haunt you.|3 women ...
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    13,94 €

  • Tonight...Charlie Chaplin
    Gillian Plowman
    'Even in the orphanage, I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in myself. Without it, you go down to defeat' ...
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    18,42 €

  • Plays for Today by Women
    Adah Kay / Gillian Plowman / Sonja Linden
    An anthology of six new and award-winning plays by female playwrights. Includes: ’Yours Abundantly, From Zimbabwe’ by Gillian Plowman ’From the Mouths of Mothers’ by Amanda Stuart-Fisher ’Welcome to Ramallah’ by Sonja Linden and Adah Kay ’For a Button’ by Rachel Barnett ’The Awkward Squad’ by Karin Young ’Sweet Cider’ by Emteaz Hussain. ...
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    20,43 €

  • The Window Cleaner
    Gillian Plowman
    Jill has served time for killing her husband who abused her. Making a new start as a window cleaner, she disturbs Daryl, who is burgling an apartment. Panicking, Daryl holds Jill captive but she gets him talking about his life of crime and the wife and young daughter who left him. In turn, Jill relates her tragic history and it gradually becomes apparent they have much in commo...
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    14,15 €

  • The Allotment - A Play
    Gillian Plowman
    Five women are serving community punishment orders and are growing the vegetables for soup kitchens on an allotment. Marcie is convicted of dangerous driving; Norah, a serial shoplifter; Belle has blackmailed her boss and Lorna, an actress, is convicted of criminal damage. It is the first morning for Daisy, the new probation officer, and the tables are cleverly turned when a tr...
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    14,02 €

  • Touching Tomorrow
    Gillian Plowman
    Dorcas looks after her middle-aged brother Vincent who has learning difficulties. She has brought home Gemma, a homeless girl who says she has been raped, but is Gemma telling the truth? Surprisingly, it is Vincent who provides the possible way ahead for Gemma. A powerful one-act play which boldly tackles the subjects of homelessness, rape and disability with humour, honesty an...
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    12,98 €

  • Two Fat Men
    Gillian Plowman
    Duncan and George feel far from comfortable attending a Weight Busters meeting, surrounded as they are by women. Waiting for the meeting to start, they meet an old flame of George’s - who bore him a child many years earlier - and Duncan strikes up an affecting romance with a sign language teacher. Line dancing and snatches of Gilbert and Sullivan enhance the jolly mood of this ...
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    14,06 €

  • There’s None So Blind
    Gillian Plowman
    A letter to Geoffrey, a reflexologist who is blind, informs him that his wife is having an affair with a work colleague. His trip to the leisure centre where Alice works changes both their lives as he confronts the other man. Geoffrey’s friend Anton also has an illuminating experience at the leisure centre where he meets Amaryllis, his longed-for ideal woman.-3 women, 4 men ...
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    14,09 €

  • Philip and Rowena - A Play
    Gillian Plowman
    Philip and Rowena are terminally ill. Philip seeks a divorce from his bitter wife, Lilian. Rowena longs for the unity of her family. Together they find friendship, romance, consolation and an amazing capacity for fun. In their hospice, they share an imaginary holiday in Florence. An acceptance of death is coupled with an extraordinary devotion to life.4 women, 3 men ...
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    14,09 €

  • Close to Croydon
    Gillian Plowman
    Hugo, a PR consultant on his way to an important meeting, and Martha, a Museum Education Officer with a case full of liberty bodices, are trapped in an overturned railway carriage following a rail crash, waiting tensely to be rescued. A touching relationship begins to develop between them, but they are torn apart by tragedy.1 woman, 1 man ...
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    13,94 €

  • Umjana Land
    Gillian Plowman
    Leah discovers her author husband Gordon is having an affair with Ursula. Meanwhile, Gordon remembers Umjana Land, the childhood dream world he inhabited with his sister Agnes, and determines to write. When Agnes appears, having written a Booker Prize-nominated book about Umjana Land, Gordon is left strangely alone as his daughter Leah, Ursula and Agnes find a common bond.-4 wo...
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    14,12 €

  • Beata Beatrix
    Gillian Plowman
    Touring an art gallery, Beatrice notices a lone man, Jon, crying before a painting created out of remorse for a tragedy in the artist’s life. Intrigued, Beatrice offers help, and it transpires that for Jon, whose wife had died of leukemia while he was with another woman, the painting tells his own story. Beatrice, also, has her own haunting secret...4 women, 3 men ...
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    13,97 €

  • A Kind of Vesuvius
    Gillian Plowman
    A sensitive treatment of the devastating effects of unemployment, both on individuals and their families. David, Derek and Ian attempt to preserve their everyday lives, warding off depression and the feelings of rejection, anger and aggression, their efforts ranging from the touching to moments of manic humour.3 men ...
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    14,09 €

  • The Janna Years - A Play
    Gillian Plowman
    Ruby’s boarding house is home to an odd mix of characters in this moving and well-observed play about four lonely people: Abe, the middle-aged divorcee, Chas, the Northerner forced to find work in the South, Fleur, put there by her social worker and Holly, struggling to save enough money to move out.3 women, 2 men ...
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    14,06 €

  • Me and My Friend- A Play
    Gillian Plowman
    A black comedy, the play explores the relationships between two 'odd' couples thrown prematurely out of hospital care. Firstly, we see two men conduct fantasy interviews for jobs they will never get, then two women trying to 'make plans' as urged to do by the hospital. They all meet when Oz throws a disastrous party with the four desperately attempting the niceties of social in...
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    18,34 €

  • Tippers - A Play
    Gillian Plowman
    In this grim world of poverty there is little room for finer feelings. The tippers mistrust one another and each sex blames the other for the mess they are all in. The only escape from unendurable reality is football. Maybe with the birth of Annette’s baby, trust and affection will be born amongst them...2 women, 3 men ...
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    13,97 €

  • Two Summers
    Gillian Plowman
    Stifled by army life, the Colonel’s wife falls in love with the Sergeant sent to play the piano at her dinner parties. Towards the end of the play we realize that the Old Man and Old Woman on stage are the Sergeant and the Colonel’s wife forty years...-2 women, 4 men ...
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    13,94 €