Лучшие книги Марка Равенхилла

Исполненный коммерческого азарта голливудский продюсер пытается навязать известной актрисе сценарий нового фильма об английской девушке, которая похоронила любимого под обломками Всемирного торгового центра, а затем полюбила исламского террориста.

A collection of three plays for young actors written by Mark Ravenhill―Citizenship, Scenes from Family Life, and Totally Over You―each with an introduction by the author. Originally commissioned as part of the National Theatre's Connections program, these three plays were specifically written for teenagers and are ideal for young performers aged thirteen to twenty-five years old.

Written with greater warmth and humanity than you might expect from the author of notably controversial works, Ravenhill's plays for teenagers are compassionate, intelligent, and not at all patronizing.

With themes of particular interest to teenagers―self-perception, relationships, sexual identity, and obsession with fame―the plays explore the search for identity during the transition to adulthood.

Citizenship, a bittersweet comedy about growing up, follows schoolboy Tom in his frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity: he dreams of being kissed, but is unsure whether it is by a man or woman.

Scenes from Family Life is set in a world where everyone starts to dematerialize. After six months, Jack and Stacy are the only boy and girl on the planet. For Jack it's a dream, for Stacy a nightmare. And when the vanished start to return, Jack has to learn how complex adult relationships are.

Totally Over You is an exploration of celebrity-obsession in which four girls break up with their boyfriends when they decide they only want to see celebrities. The boys decide to trick the girls into thinking that they are on the brink of fame and fortune as a boy band. The girls decide to win the boys back, but what will happen when they discover the truth?

Breaking Bubbles by LM Myles

The Doctor and Peri find themselves in the palatial gardens of the deposed Empress Safira Valtris where nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Of Chaos Time The by Mark Ravenhill

Cast adrift in his own chronology, the Doctor must avert the consequences of a catastrophic experiment in using time as a weapon of war.

An Eye For Murder by Una McCormack

The year is 1939, and a case of poison pen letters at St Ursula’s College threatens to change the course of the Second World War. Fortunately thriller writer Miss Sarah Perry is on hand to investigate...

The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time by Nev Fountain

Michael is a young boy who likes to solve mysteries, such as the mystery of the extra gnome, the mystery of the absent father, and the mystery of the strange man in yellow trousers at the bottom of the garden.

Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman ("His Dark Materials"), Jamila Gavin ("Coram Boy") and Michael Morpurgo ("War Horse"), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe's fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.

В 2016 году обыкновенный житель Луганска Александр Бел прислал в «Театр.doc» свой дневник. Бел всегда его вел, а потом в город пришла война. Так дневник стал документом о том, как война, которую никто не ждал, разрушает все, что ты любил, а на двери подъезда, после того, как начинаются бомбежки, соседи оставляют записку: «Пожалуйста, не хлопайте дверью — страшно». Этот текст стал частью спектакля «Война близко» Елены Греминой. В него также вошли пьеса «Помолвка» — о деле Олега Сенцова — и текст английского драматурга Марка Равенхилла о пропаганде в Сирии.