Sad single teachers get together. Drink tequila, get very pissed and reveal secrets and then stagger home at four in the morning, with some dim light in your brain saying "Shit. Year seven first lesson."'David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky premiered at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, in September 2000.Methuen's Royal Court Writers Series was launched in 1981 to celebrate 25 years of the English Stage Company and 21 years since the publication of the first Methuen Modern Play. Published to coincide with specific productions in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs and the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, the series fulfils the dual role of programme and playscript.

Under The Blue Sky (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Eldridge, David

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Helge, the patriarch of a chain of restaurants, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday and everyone is coming home from the party including Helge's sons, Christian, Michael and his daughter Helene. Missing from the roster of invitees is Christian's twin sister, Linda, who recently committed suicide. The reason for her action and the repercussions from it, form the basis of the shocking and painful events that transpire during a twenty-four hour period. In the midst of dinner, Christian makes a startling accusation and, even as the disbelieving guests are choosing sides, the play slowly unwraps the truth.
David Eldridge powerful new play is adapted from Thomas Vinterborg's screenplay of the very successful film, Dogme.Published to tie in with Almeida Theatre production in March 2004 directed by Rufus Norris

Festen (Modern Plays)

Set in a time of political and social unrest the play focuses on one family and the destructive conflict within their home.

M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Destruction (Modern Plays)

Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness moves between dream story and real lives to tell an intricate, complex story of a young man dealing with the break up of his family and the legacy of race responsibility. Joey's an ordinary man but everywhere he looks people are slipping away. A notice at work catches his eye. He doesn't know where to go next - his Dad, the community or Marvin Gaye. In a world he can't connect with, is there someone out there who can connect with Joey?The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2005.

Incomplete and Random Acts of Kin (Modern Plays)

Gloriously raucous rites-of-passage drama set in Romford Market 'You've got to talk to them son. Listen to them. Look for a way in. You're a handsome bloke - they'll love you. Give me a year and I'll teach you everything I know.' There's an art to selling stilettos and you'd better grasp it. Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless world of Essex traders. Romford Market, 1985. This boy has everything to learn. A spectacular, savage, gorgeous yarn which brings a market jungle to the vast Olivier stage; a tale about the time Mrs Thatcher said we should embrace the marketplace; a story about losing your innocence. And your cherry. Following the critical success of his new version of Ibsen's The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse 2005), David Eldridge's Market Boy premieres on the National Theatre's Olivier stage on 25 May 2006.

Market Boy (Modern Plays)

American Culture in the 1930s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)

This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.

History

Americas

Edinburgh University Press

This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.

Introduces the characteristics of prehistoric reptiles that lived in water.

Sea monsters: Ancient reptiles that ruled the sea

Troll Associates

Flying Dragons: Ancient Reptiles That Ruled the Air

Portrays the various kinds of pterosaurs, or flying dinosaurs, that existed in prehistoric times, and shows how they lived and how scientists learned about them

Children's Books

Troll Communications Llc

Depicts how the dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, and suggests several possible explanations for why they disappeared

Last of the Dinosaurs: The End of an Age

Animals

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Under The Blue Sky (Modern Plays)

Festen (Modern Plays)

M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Destruction (Modern Plays)

Incomplete and Random Acts of Kin (Modern Plays)

Market Boy (Modern Plays)

American Culture in the 1930s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)

American Culture in the 1930s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)

Sea monsters: Ancient reptiles that ruled the sea

Flying Dragons: Ancient Reptiles That Ruled the Air

Last of the Dinosaurs: The End of an Age