Burning Everest

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This book contains two winners of the W.H. Smith Plays for Children Awards.

"A major new voice in British theatre" (Scotsman) Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, Herons is the disturbing and moving story of fourteen-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers that surround him on the estate step up their campaign of bullying, the play escalates to a violent climax.Commissioned by the Royal Court, Herons premiered there on 18 May 2001.

Diese dreisprachige Gedichtsammlung beruht auf dem neuesten Werk "Lampedusa, nos désirs et silences" des Autors Chardin Fresnel Dzama-Omeko. Durch seine Feder erfahren wir die immensen Sehnsüchte, Sorgen und Leiden der Menschen aus der Sicht der Afrikaner. In seinen anspruchsvollen Gedichten lamentiert er, klagt an, schildert bildhaft und drastisch, drückt seine Abscheu gegen Krieg und das Sterben von Unschuldigen aus und setzt seine ganze Hoffnung in den Glauben an Gott und die Liebe. Die Übersetzung einer repräsentativen Auswahl von über vierzig Gedichten aus seinem aktuellen Gedichtband ins Englische und Deutsche war dem Autor Hannes Stiegler ein großes Anliegen, um einen Beitrag, zum globalen Verständnis der Migrationsproblematik aus der Sicht der Betroffenen zu leisten.

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.

Charlie has stopped sleeping. His neighbour’s cat has been dismembered. And worse, he’s being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy. A wild hallucinogenic mystery, Run The Beast Down is an exhilarating monologue play, combining elements of storytelling, dark comedy and magical realism.