When life comes apart, love puts it back together.
The story itself is unusual and that made it a somewhat novel experience. The acting is amazing - esp. by Marcia Gay Harden (the ill wife). It's definitely a show worth watching if you're looking for a well-done drama.
Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to examine how performance practices intersect with and develop an understanding of post-colonial theories. Addressing the specific ways that performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism, this study considers how post-colonial theatre can be seen as a reaction against colonial enterprises.
The Architecture of Drama outlines a basic framework for how drama functions both onstage and in film. The authors, David Letwin, Joe Stockdale, and Robin Stockdale, define architecture in the prologue as "any created form," and assert that their use of the word implies "that drama has method and that there is a design to its creation" (xiii, emphasis in original). The writers intend their text for both professors and practitioners. While the book offers little that may be considered groundbreaking for script analysis, the authors...
The Language of Drama explores key linguistic topics in a wide range of scripts, including plays, soap operas, and screenplays. Works discussed include Miller's A View from the Bridge and Death of a Salesman, Shepard's Action, Angel City and True West, and Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold.
From the very first pages, Wilbur Smith spins a colourful and exciting tale, crackling with tension and drama, that builds to a stunning climax.
Packed with vivid descriptive passages of the open seas, and an extraordinary cast of characters, Birds of Prey is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.
