LIBROS DEL AUTOR: olwen wymark

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  • Brezhnev’s Children
    Olwen Wymark
    It is International Women’s Day in Moscow, 1985. Isolated in a run-down maternity hospital ward seven women tell their own violent and disturbing stories of rape, abuse and oppression. Despite the depressing nature of these stories, however, the enormous strength, vitality and humour of the women comes through. Finally overcoming the patriarchal, authoritative hospital system, ...
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    17,06 €

  • Mothering Sunday
    Olwen Wymark
    Sidney visits her mother Geraldine, who lives with her new lover Doug. With Sidney comes Alex, a former lover of Geraldine’s, and a spark of passion rekindles between them. Alex is the loser, however, as Geraldine returns to Doug. All four have pretended to be other than they really are and the truth, when it emerges, hurts. A quirky, funny work from the author of Find Me.2 wom...
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    14,06 €

  • Strike Up The Banns - A Comedy
    Olwen Wymark
    Geraldine and Reg, ageing hippies now trapped in Green Belt respectability by Geraldine’s domineering mother, Mrs Carmichael, are giving a dinner-party. Geraldine decides to liven up the evening a bit by impersonating Reg’s imaginary brother Rollo, a cad and a bounder. When Reg retaliates by dressing up as Rollo’s eccentric wife, Lillian, chaos ensues. Olwen Wymark’s suburban c...
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    18,36 €

  • Find Me
    Olwen Wymark
    At the age of twenty, Verity was charged by the police with damaging a chair by fire in the mental hospital were she was a patient. Later, she was committed to Broadmoor 'from where she may not be discharged without permission of the Home Secretary.' Using a technique of multiple characterization, Find Me seeks to investigate in depth the personality of the young girl - to ’fin...
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    20,89 €

  • Loved - A Play
    Olwen Wymark
    Amy and Lawrence, whose marriage is on the brink of collapse, invite Cissy to live with them. Gabriel, a friend of Lawrence’s arrives, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Amy’s attempts to provoke an emotive reaction from those around her are ineffective. The breakdown in communication is half-resolved and the play ends with Cissy personifying Lawrence’s idea of hope as '... a...
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    18,34 €