The third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999. Together with A View from the Foothills and Decline & Fall, the complete trilogy covers the rise and fall of New Labour.
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Chris Mullin's bestselling A View From the Foothills provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. These new diaries run from his sacking by Blair as a minister after the 2005 elections to Election Day 2010 as he prepares to step down after 23 years as an MP.
Alan Clarke meets Yes Minister in this wry and self-deprecating diary about life in the New Labour Government from 1999 to 2007. Says Mullin, ‘It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.'
Sam is a professional medium who lives with Carla. He owes a lot of money to Freddie, a bigtime gangster who has recently buried his mother. Will Freddie overlook the debt if Sam can re-connect him with his mother in spirit? The play had its World Premiere at Live Theatre in February 2011.
Have you signed up to Live Theatre's new beaplaywright.com course? Then this is your chance to make a saving of £5 on the cost of purchasing the recommended set texts individually.
Recommended for the Interactive course.
Have you signed up to Live Theatre's new beaplaywright.com course? Then this is your chance to make a saving of £5 on the cost of purchasing the recommended set texts individually.
Recommended for the Solo course.
Inspired by William Feaver
Buy a copy of the award-winning play The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall, winner of the Evening Standard 'Best Play' Award in 2008.
Harry wants to leave inheritance for his sons. So, going against life-long political convictions, he joins the property owning class. Then the economic crisis hits. Inheritance, by Mike Packer, received its world premiere at Live Theatre in November 2010.
This book celebrates 30 years of the finest playwriting from the North. This selection of plays by Tom Hadaway, C.P. Taylor, Alan Plater, Lee Hall, Sean O'Brien and Julia Darling, dramatise the transformation of a region.
Buy a copy of Live Theatre's award-winning play, Motherland. A powerful and moving drama that shares the true stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Snippets of overheard conversations from across the length and breadth of the country. Laugh-out-loud funny, and sometimes heartbreakingly moving, these tiny plays, in which every one of us could have a starring role, are little windows into other people's lives.
Celia, a beautiful young English teacher has started a new life in Paris. But when she takes on a French-Congolese pupil, a relationship develops that starts to unravel dark truths from her past. The play by Craig Higginson had its English premiere at Live Theatre in September 2010.
Cullercoats, 1881. American artist Winslow Homer arrived in the North East fishing village for two weeks. But what made him stay?
A Northern Odyssey by Shelagh Stephenson opened at Live Theatre in April 2010.
In 2007 the newly refurbished Live Theatre re-opened with the world premiere of a new play, The Pitmen Painters. This programme from contains information on the Ashington group by Willian Feaver and a note from writer Lee Hall as well as cast and creative team biogs.
1975: the Sunday night shift in a Yorkshire bread plant. Seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It’s just another Sunday. Bean’s second play, performed at the Royal Court Theatre in February 1999.
When an amateur Elvis impersonator is paralysed in a car crash, his wife and daughter are forced to cope with the aftermath.
Disgracefully entertaining' Daily Telegraph
'So sharp it could cut itself as it piles on the humour' Guardian
Caryl Churchill turns her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloning - how might a son feel to discover that he is only one of a number of identical copies. And how would the father feel confronted by these reproachful clones...?
At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Three Sisters was written in 1900 and first produced in 1901.
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism.
Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know, through the detailed construction of the play, and on to the strategies you can use to get it on stage.
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