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  • Zürau Aphorisms
    Franz Kafka / Howard Colyer
    ’The leopards break into the temple and lick clean the sacrificial bowls; this happens again and again; eventually it can be foreseen and becomes part of the ritual.’ Aphorism No. 20. This edition includes all of the aphorisms Kafka wrote in Zürau in 1917/18, all of the aphorisms recorded in his diary in January and February, 1920, and four longer fragments written abou...
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    17,41 €

  • Hunger Artist
    Franz Kafka / Howard Colyer
    Franz Kafka’s story, A Hunger Artist, adapted as a stage monologue. It was first performed by Larry Cedar, directed by Pamela Cedar, and produced by The Porters of Hellsgate, as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2021. 'Mesmerizing, absolutely brilliant.' - Joel Zwick, Director 'My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding' ...
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    11,44 €

  • Letter to my Father
    Franz Kafka / Howard Colyer
    This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father’s opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered. ’In his preface he [the translator Howard Colyer] states that he was most concerned to reproduce the raw 'venting of feelings' in the letter as wel...
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    12,32 €

  • Haiku Diary 2020
    Howard Colyer
    A diary in haiku - three short lines per day - an autobiography in fragments. ...
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    14,16 €

  • Haiku Diary 2019
    Howard Colyer
    A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day. ...
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    11,76 €

  • The Man with a Flower in his Mouth
    Howard Colyer / Luigi Pirandello
    He wears a mask - he pretends to be an idling, strolling observer of others: an amused spectator. He watches people on the street, in shops, in cafes: wherever he finds them he notes their peculiarities and imagines their lives. Like a naturalist with a bone of an unknown creature, he extrapolates and forms an entire animal in his mind’s eye. It is his joy; it is his defence...
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    10,24 €

  • Haiku Diary 2018
    Howard Colyer
    A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day. ...
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    11,73 €

  • Haiku Diary 2017
    Howard Colyer
    A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day. ...
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    11,38 €

  • Haiku Diary 2016
    Howard Colyer
    A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day. ...
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    11,68 €

  • The Trial - a dramatic monologue
    Franz Kafka / Howard Colyer
    Somebody must have maligned Joseph K. because he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.Franz Kafka’s novel translated and adapted for the stage for solo performance. ''Colyer strips back the novel to get to the heart of the story but maintains the dreamlike - or perhaps nightmarish - quality for which Kafka was famous.''Siân Rowland ...
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    11,42 €

  • Millwall Haiku
    Howard Colyer
    Thirteen seasons in three lines, 2003/4 - 2015/16, short and sharp match reports from the Den. ...
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    15,20 €

  • The Government Inspector
    Howard Colyer / Nikolái Gógol
    Gogol’s greatest play - indeed one of the best comedies ever written - freely adapted for studio productions. ...
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    14,60 €

  • Woyzeck
    Georg Büchner / Howard Colyer
    A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form. ...
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    11,93 €

  • 1938
    Howard Colyer
    Late in the evening on 11 March, 1938, a man sits in a Jewish bar in Vienna as the German army invades Austria. The other guests flee, as does the owner, but he remains to contemplate his past and his future - bleak though that may be. ''With this dramatic monologue, Colyer has continued to do what he does so skilfully-to take a noteworthy piece of writing and adapt it freel...
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    6,91 €

  • Three Monologues
    Howard Colyer
    You Take The 321, Again, Without Reluctance and Without Relief : Three dramatic monologues about strange and enigmatic lives staged together at the Jack Studio in South-east London in February 2015. ''Howard Colyer paints lyrical landscapes of failed relationships, loneliness and desperation without ever giving in to sentimentality.'' Carolin Kopplin UK Theatre Network ...
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    8,85 €

  • All for the Best
    Howard Colyer / Luigi Pirandello
    A man is convinced his daughter is a genius and he drives her on and on until she has no choice but to reveal herself for what she is. 'It is not a tragedy in the sense of confrontation and collision, but in the sense of a man overwhelmed by his fate. It is a classical tragedy in the guise of a middle class drama.' Roberto Alonge ...
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    11,81 €

  • Diary of a Madman
    Howard Colyer
    Gogol's short story, Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage. ''This is a play about an individual's descent into madness, brought to life by a brilliant trio of actor David Bromley, director Scott Le Crass, and author Howard Colyer. But what makes the play interesting is that Gogol's protagonist defies the literary mould: he has a condition usually reserved for tormented king...
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    7,09 €

  • Flight
    Howard Colyer / Mikhail Bulgakov
    The Civil War is drawing to an end in Russia. The White Army is disintegrating and a wave of refugees is about to descend on Turkey, and then spread across Europe. Bulgakov's play follows the fate of a small group of Russians from the Crimea to Constantinople to Paris. It is a tragic comedy that was never staged during the life of its author due to the opposition of Stalin. ...
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    14,67 €

  • Agamemnon
    Howard Colyer / Seneca
    The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet the problems he left behind have remained. They have lain dormant. But his return revives them. ...
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    13,92 €

  • Marriage
    Howard Colyer / Nikolái Gógol
    He wants to get married; and he doesn’t want to get married - he doesn’t know what to do. But he has a friend who knows what’s best for everyone. Marriage is Gogol’s farce about desire, matchmakers, Imperial Russian speed dating and much else besides. 'Howard Colyer’s adaptation of Gogol’s intriguing, funny and slightly unsettling play brings out the piece’s absurdities. It’s a...
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    13,92 €

  • Boris Godunov
    Alexander Pushkin / Howard Colyer
    An epic drama set in the early seventeenth century as Russia descends into civil war. 'Howard Colyer’s extremely effective and pared-down style constantly adds energy to this adaptation of Pushkin’s greatest play even as it cuts.' Jon Wainwright, The Public Reviews. ...
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    16,27 €

  • Mandrake
    Howard Colyer / Niccola Machiavelli / Niccolò Machiavelli
    A play about marriage, lust, adultery, corruption and deceit - all aided by the Mandrake Infusion. It is Machiavelli’s greatest sex farce, and a landmark of the Italian Renaissance. This adaptation opened at the Jack Studio Theatre in London on 28 May 2013. 'I’m not sure what liberties were applied in bringing a hit from the 1520s to the 21st century stage, but Mandrake had a...
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    14,03 €

  • Naked
    Howard Colyer / Luigi Pirandello
    A young woman attempts suicide - but she's found before the poison can kill her. A journalist becomes interested in her life, then a novelist - stories circulate, more people are drawn in, and even the Foreign Office tries to intervene. An adaptatio 3 ...
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    13,57 €

  • Kafka v Kafka
    Howard Colyer
    Franz Kafka’s Letter to my Father adapted for the stage. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on Tuesday, 17 January, 2012. ’The tortured life of Franz Kafka provides the material for this fascinating play.’ William Russell, Reviews Gate. ’An exceptionally well-tailored piece.’ Amelia Forsbrook, Remotegoat. ’The play circles the two men locked in a trial of strengt...
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    13,59 €

  • Homework
    Howard Colyer
    What is an individual but a collection of memories on legs? Take away the memories and what’s left? Legs. And even they aren’t working well any more. Homework is a one act play with two characters and thirty phone calls. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on 8 November, 2011. ’Howard Colyer’s Homework is not only reminiscent of Waiting for Godot’s literal and act...
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    11,14 €

  • Conference Call
    Howard Colyer
    A one act play with four characters. An interrogation and a ghost story. A man’s wife has vanished. He can’t remember when or why; nor can he remember his own name. 'The relentlessness of this nightmarish scenario transfixes us to the last.' What’s On London. 'This play of mysterious circumstances is created from an all too familiar hollow conference centre with sinister, sou...
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    11,50 €

  • Oldshaw
    Howard Colyer
    Dennis Oldshaw finally managed to escape his office job and devote himself to painting, yet now he fears for his life; and he reflects about his past, in particular about the day which he feels tested and defined him. ...
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    16,14 €

  • Letter to my Father
    Franz Kafka / Howard Colyer
    This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father’s opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.’In his preface he [the translator Howard Colyer] states that he was most concerned to reproduce the raw 'venting of feelings' in the letter as well...
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    12,68 €

  • Albania
    Howard Colyer
    The fifty stories in this collection were written over sixteen years. This book contains nearly all of the stories published in three earlier volumes, Gregory Gun, Loneliness on Shooters Hill, and The Gallery. Some of the shorter tales have appeared in Smoke: a London Peculiar. ...
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    20,14 €

  • Almost a Fast Bowler
    Howard Colyer
    This novel is about an Englishman who kills someone ambiguously. He may, or may not, have intended to do so. But he is not prosecuted by the police. Though he does suffer remorse. He resigns from his job, sells his flat and leaves his fiancée. And he leaves England. He travels through Italy in search of a former girlfriend; and he only comes to a halt when he reaches the ...
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    25,16 €


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