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  • The Vespers
    Philip Ridley
    Have you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue?Do you want to lose yourself in an unforgettable story?Do you want to be...transported?Philip Ridley’s The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original, self-contained monologues for actors (and readers) of all genders, all ages, and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure - from the surre...
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    34,93 €

  • Leaves of Glass
    Philip Ridley
    ’That’s the way it works in this family. Believewhat you wanna believe. Twist this. Ignorethe other. That’s how we survive.’Steven has always tried to be a good person. He works hard. He looks after his family. But, suddenly, everyone starts accusing him of things. His wife accuses him of being unfaithful. His mother accuses him of being coercive. And his brother, Barry, accuse...
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    19,05 €

  • Crocodilia
    Philip Ridley
    When eighteen-year-old Dominic meets his new neighbour, the sexy, green-haired, tattooed punk Billy Crow, it’s lust at first sight. And judging from their smouldering first encounter, Billy seems to feel the same way. But when Billy mentions a previous lover, Dominic demands to know all about him. And so a story starts to be told. A strange, fantastic story that begins to obses...
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    24,98 €

  • Tarantula
    Philip Ridley
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    19,59 €

  • The Poltergeist
    Philip Ridley
    ’Art’s my hobby too.’ Hobby?!Sasha was destined to take the art world by storm. At the age of fifteen pop stars wanted his paintings, and a new exhibition was going to make him a rich man.But now he serves in a stationers, and no one’s even heard of him... what went wrong?Philip Ridley’s darkly comic new play is about art, family, memory, and being haunted by the life we never ...
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    19,59 €

  • Flamingoes in Orbit
    Philip Ridley
    A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wild animal. A whale sings a song to end loneliness.Philip Ridley’s collection of short stories – like his two adult novels, Crocodilia and In the Eyes of Mr Fury – became an instant cult classic when first published in 1990. Magical, poetic, heartbreaking and humorous, the sequence...
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    25,04 €

  • Krindlekrax
    Philip Ridley
    'Now listen to me, my boy. I saved Lizard Street once. And now... now it’s your turn. Be the hero you know yourself to be' It is the day for choosing a hero! Ruskin Splinter wants to be that hero! Unfortunately, the very idea he could defeat the Dragon in the school play makes everyone laugh. But in the vast sewers of Lizard Street something is stirring. Something called Krindl...
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    19,04 €

  • Daffodil Scissors
    Philip Ridley
    'My name is Daffodil Scissors. I haven’t got any friends. Not one!' Daffodil lives alone with Dad. Dad makes extraordinary hats. The extraordinary hats go on Daffodil’s head. Wearing Dad’s hats makes everyone at school laugh at Daffodil. How is Daffodil ever going to make friends? Perhaps the mysterious Bag Lady has the answer. ...
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    19,38 €

  • In the Eyes of Mr Fury
    Philip Ridley
    On the day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the Devil died. The Devil’s real name was Judge Martin, but Concord’s mother called him the Devil. She said he boiled babies for dinner and made lampshades out of human skin. So why did she, who hated him so venomously, have a key to his house? The key will unlock more than just Judge’s front door. It will also unlock a multitude of s...
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    29,81 €

  • Tonight With Donny Stixx
    Philip Ridley
    It’s at times like this I’m inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not for the fact that during his most famous trick - sword swallowing - he accidentally punctured a lung and died on the spot. He became a legend. Donny has committed an act that shocked...
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    19,56 €

  • Karagula
    Philip Ridley
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    25,24 €

  • The Storyteller Sequence
    Philip Ridley
    This collection brings together Philip Ridley’s one-act plays for young people, known as The Storyteller Sequence, ideal for teenagers to either watch or perform.Karamazoois a fifteen-minute monologue about one of the coolest, most popular kids in the school, whose recent increase in popularity is the direct result of a character make-over following the death of a parent. A wit...
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    31,17 €

  • Piranha Heights
    Philip Ridley
    ’Look - they’re fading. Those liars. Dissolving . . . It’s the end of their world . . . The birth of a new one . . . Our one . . . Our world.’ It’s Mother’s Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her home to argue about the truth of their childhood. But a storm is approaching . . . with a violent new truth all of its own. Piranha Heights is non-stop, filthily poe...
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    20,31 €

  • Ghost From A Perfect Place
    Philip Ridley
    If you think I’m threatened by you, you’re wrong. I’m Travis Flood. I was threatening people before you were born.Back in the sixties, Travis Flood and his gang terrorised Bethnal Green. Now, after an absence of 25 years, Travis returns and meets Rio, whose haunting beauty leads him to confront a story that bears no relation to his own distorted memory. And then there’s the Che...
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    20,36 €

  • Dark Vanilla Jungle and Other Monologues
    Philip Ridley
    It was a very hot day - dazzling sunshine! - and Mum - she was wiping sweat from her neck. No, not wiping. Dabbing . . . Dab . . . Dab. Mum was a beauty. Not like me. And don’t tell me I am because you’ll be lying and I won’t thank you for it. Not today. Not when this whole thing - us, here - is about me telling the truth. The latest from Philip Ridley is a beautiful, breath...
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    19,87 €

  • Feathers in the Snow
    Phillip Ridley / Ridley Philip
    Beneath a sky full of stars a decision is made. This decision sets off an astonishing chain of events. And a journey involving a talking leopard, a greedy King, a magical bird, a tidal wave, a Sea Witch, a lost soldier, a devious dolphin, a war - and a trail of feathers in the snow . . . Feathers in the Snow, a family show by acclaimed playwright and children’s author Philip R...
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    20,22 €

  • Ridley Plays 1
    Philip Ridley
    This volume contains Ridley’s first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. They are seminal works in the development of the ’in yer face’ theatre that emerged in Britain during the mid-1990s.The three plays here all manifest Ridley’s vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook. They r...
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    40,68 €

  • Tender Napalm
    Philip Ridley
    I could squeeze a bullet between those lips. Point first. Press it between those rosebud lips. Prise it between your pearly whites. Gently. I wouldn’t break a single tooth. Philip Ridley’s first new play since 2008 marks a change of direction for the acclaimed, ever-restless and maverick writer. Tender Napalm is a high-impact, high-concept two-handed play which explores the lan...
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    19,84 €

  • Moonfleece
    Philip Ridley
    Moonfleece is an intense and thrilling exploration of memory and identity, with themes of contemporary resonance: racism, homophobia, and how those in authority distort both the truth and the past. This play is Philip Ridley’s most direct representation yet of his hopes and fears for disadvantaged, diverse communities of today’s society, as two groups of teenagers are forced to...
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    20,33 €

  • FASTEST CLOCK IN THE UNIVERSE
    Philip Ridley
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    20,36 €

  • Ridley Plays
    Philip Ridley
    This second volume of Ridley’s stage plays confirms him as one of themost imaginative, daring and unique voices currently working intheatre. All four plays collected here resonant with Ridley’s trademarkthemes - East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence,memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix ofthe barbaric and the beautiful he has made ...
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    37,13 €

  • Piranha Heights
    Philip Ridley
    Philip Ridley’s latest play for Soho Theatre brings his unique blend of story-telling mixed with an apocalyptic vision of a society at conflict with itself to the stage.’Look - they’re fading. Those liars. Dissolving . . . It’s the end of their world . . . The birth of a new one . . . Our one . . . Our world.’It’s Mother’s Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her ...
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    20,21 €

  • Leaves of Glass
    Philip Ridley
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    20,34 €

  • Mercury Fur
    Philip Ridley
    Challenging new play by the enfant terrible of dark, disturbing dramaElliot is panicking. The party that he and his brother Darren have been planning has been brought forward - to tonight.In a lawless, ravaged city, where memories of the past have been brutally erased, the boys and their team survive by realising their clients’ darkest fantasies. But just how far are they prepa...
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    20,16 €

  • Dakota of the White Flats
    Philip Ridley
    When Dakota Pink decides to find out the truth about Medusa’s baby monster it is the beginning of a quest that will lead Dakota and her best friend Treacle away from the White Flats to Dog Island and the Fortress. Will they manage to excape the mutant killer eels to discover what lies behind the barbed wire of the Fortress and who the mysterious Lassitter Peach is? ...
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    14,82 €

  • Sparkleshark
    Philip Ridley
    Fourteen-year-old Jake, the classroom ’dweeb’, takes refuge on the roof of a tower block in order to write his stories. Before long other young people join him and the taunting begins. Although at first he endeavours to hide he learns to fight back in the only way he knows how - storytelling. Soon the whole group is enmeshed in the story, enacting a fantastic tale whichresonate...
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    20,80 €

  • The American Dreams
    Philip Ridley
    "Philip Ridley is a singular writer, a prolific polymath, probably a genius, and the creator of some of the most peculiar, grotesque and compelling British plays (and films) of the last several years" (Time Out)Ridley’s film debut The Reflecting Skin caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win eleven international awards. Set in the Idaho farmlands of...
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    19,95 €