West ; Lunch ; Harry's Christmas

Steven Berkoff

Literature & Fiction

Faber&Faber

<p>A new edition of the first volume of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. It includes "East", "West", "Greek", "Sink the Belgrano!", "Massage", "Lunch", "The Bow of Ulysses" and "Sturm und Drang" (or "Confessions of a Cad!").</p>

Steven Berkoff: Plays One

Dramas & Plays

Hamlet and Ophelia express the infinite variety of their passion in a work which takes the form of an epistolary play in verse. Steven Berkoff's startlingly original drama charts the lovers' story beneath the surface of Shakespeare's play. With a muscularity of language tempered with tenderness, Berkoff's play is shot through with images of courtly love, sexual desire and intimations of future tragedy. The chill of the ending perfectly offsets the preceding violent heat in what is another unique piece of work from the individual talent that is Steven Berkoff. The Secret Love Life of Ophelia was first performed at the King's Head Theatre, London, on 25 June 2001.

The Secret Love Life of Ophelia

How a certain Jewish family mourns a dead patriarch. The term is 'sitting Shiva' (mourning for seven days), when friends and relatives commiserate, usually in the home of the deceased. As children, we always understood this to be 'sit and shiver', which also seemed most appropriate. While death has claimed the old man and triggered the usual inflated eulogies - 'how important a man becomes when they die' - it has also brought to the surface hidden anxieties and grievances, only exacerbated when a visitor shows up bearing strange news that threatens to tear the family apart.A Jewish black comedy in the Berkoff tradition.Sit and Shiver was first presented at the Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles, in March 2004. The European premiere was held at the New End Theatre, London, in association with Saw Productions, in May 2006.

Sit and Shiver

<p>Steven Berkoff's name is associated with a particular vision of the world he navigates: always bizarre; often hilarious; frequently poignant; sometimes ugly but never mundane. He has been at the cutting age of the British stage for 25 years but in this book turns his talents to the world stage. Nothing escapes Berkoff's basilisk vision. Something as apparently normal as shopping in the Santa Monica Mall becomes a Kafkaesque vision of hell. And the sheer variety of experiences is dizzying: from a savage picture of a Jewish deli in Miami, to an afternoon with the toffs at Glyndbourne; then revealing the hedonistic delights of a luxury hotel in Madeira after plunging into an explosion on a film set with one of America's most volatile producers. In the air, at sea, in Chicago, New York, France, Sao Paolo, the Bahamas, Australia and Rio, this is a journey round the world at Steven Berkoff's side. Brace yourself.</p>

Shopping in the Santa Monica Mall: The Journals of a Strolling Player

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Robson Books

Agamemnon

Amber Lane Press

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