This book of contemporary monologues for women

Includes:: pieces from the best of the last three decades of

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This book of contemporary monologues for women

Includes:: pieces from the best of the last three decades of

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Selected by Anne Harvey an experienced actress director writer & adjudicator these dramatic monologues are suitable for performance at auditions solo acting classes festivals & examinations. Ranging from early Elizabethan to contemporary literature the pieces are varied in content tone & style & are equipped with an introduction setting the context. Writers include: Alan Ayckbourn Enid Bagnold David Campton William Congreve Sarah Daniels Charles Dickens Athol Fugard Lucy Gannon Graham Greene John Godber David Hare Stanley Houghton Henrik Ibsen Shaman Macdonald David Mercer Iris Murdoch Dennis Potter Tom Stoppard CP Taylor Hugh Whitemore & many more. ...

The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple & often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education. This anthology of six of the most commonly studied & revived Naturalist plays from the European repertoire offers a unique compendium that will serve as required reading for drama courses & is ideal for theatre practitioners & fans. The selected plays perfectly reflect the formal & geographical diversity of Naturalist theatre as well as its major philosophical political & theatrical preoccupations. A critical introduction by Dr Chris Megson contextualises the emergence of Naturalist theatre in the late nineteenth century identifying its principal aims & methods; provides an analysis of the selected plays mapping their key preoccupations & ends by considering Naturalisms enduring legacy & resonance today. ...

This is the latest edition of this on-going & unique collaboration between professional cyclist Michael Barry & photographer Camille J. Mc Millan. It's an honest thoughtful & sometimes touching look into the life trials tribulations & triumphs of a cycling domestique
- they are the servants to the team's success ---above any individual glory. In the third edition which will also include new photographs from Mc Millan from the 2012 season Barry incorporates a new epilogue on the changes in cycling during his 14-year career. This period has been one of significant transition. As Barry has ridden on a number of teams with different national backgrounds different management styles different budgets & different approaches to racing he has a unique & complete perspective. His latest reflections capture the evolution in the peloton the changing etiquette & respect within the group & the increasingly diverse cultural structure.
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Since the first edition was published in 1980 Metric Pattern Cutting for Menswear has become established as the standard work on this subject & has proved invaluable as both a textbook for students & a reference source for the practising designer. In this fifth edition the chapter on computer aided design now has full colour illustrations & reflects the growing importance of CAD to the industry & as a part of fashion & design courses. The rest of the book has been updated where necessary: in particular new blocks for tailored shirts new details on how to adapt mens blocks for womens wear & a revision of sizing & labelling information. Colour is now used to differentiate the main groups of patterns & with its tried & tested layout with clear text & diagrams Metric Pattern Cutting for Menswear is an essential purchase for students of fashion & design. ...

Metric Pattern Cutting for Womens Wear was first published in 1975 to provide a straightforward introductory book for students beginning courses in flat pattern cutting. The fifth edition continues to offer an introduction to the principles of pattern cutting with a range of good basic blocks & examples of their application to garments. However the great expansion of casual wear cut in jersey or stretch fabrics has led to the growth of flat cutting with no darting to create the shape & this edition devotes a whole section to this type of cutting. The sections on computer-aided design & grading have been updated. The size charts of body measurements have been revised reflecting the changing shape of womens bodies. ...

The Metro pupil books offer a lively communicative approach underpinned by a clear grammatical foundation. The books develop pupils' use & understanding of French by providing straightforward explanations of the way the language works alongside motivating stepped activities. ...

The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries they say lie endless burned-out deserts & the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory the stuff of myth & legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void & the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo New York Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over. A few score thousand survivors live on not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro
- the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets their people uniting around ideas religions water-filters
- or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow with no room for dreams plans hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct
- the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations & still remains secure. But now a new & terrible threat has appeared. Artyom a young man living in VDNKh is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro to the legendary Polis to alert everyone to the awful danger & to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands the whole Metro
- & maybe the whole of humanity.



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Christopher & Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs & the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness Third Division (North) football teams God commuters & girls & the inhabitants of Metroland the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. Longing for real life to begin we follow Christopher to Paris in time for les evenements of 1968 only to miss it all in a haze of sex French theatre & first love leading to Tonis disappointment back to Metrol&. ...