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City Stories - (Modern Plays) by James Phillips (Paperback)

City Stories - (Modern Plays) by  James Phillips (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Composed of six distinct yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, [these are] tales of love, magic and loss filtered through the experiences of a range of people living in the UK's capital"--Page 4 of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life?<br/> What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever?<br/> What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour?</i><br/><br/> <i>City Stories</i> is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a love-letter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, <i>City Stories</i> looks at a variety of experiences of love and loss via a range of people living in the UK's capital.<br/> <br/>Elegantly written and beautifully constructed, these pieces look at the varieties of love and how it might save us, showing James Phillips's writing at his very best. <br/> <br/> <i>City Stories</i> received its world premiere at St James's Theatre, London, in 2013 and has since gone on to establish a year-long residency at the theatre.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>James Phillips</b> is a British playwright and director. Educated at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, Phillips's first play, <i>The Rubenstein Kiss</i> (2005), won both the John Whiting Award and the TMA Award for Best Play. He was also a recipient of the National Arts Endowment Award for his first professional production as a director, <i>Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme</i> (Pleasance, London). He is a selector for the NSDF and wrote a new adaptation of <i>The Wind in the Willows </i>for the NSDF Ensemble, performed at Latitude Festival. Other plays include<i> The Little Fir Tree</i> (2004) and <i>Hidden in the Sand </i>(2013). <i>The White Whale, </i>a site-specific piece adaption of <i>Moby Dick</i> staged in Leeds Dock, played to huge audiences throughout its 2014 production by Slung Low.

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