{"product_id":"9781783191574-midsummer-mischief","title":"Midsummer Mischief","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour Radical New Plays\u003cbr\u003eThis Summer 2014, the RSC are producing a festival of new plays, in a purpose-built temporary studio on the current Courtyard Theatre stage. The festival is led by Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman with four new short plays by leading female British playwrights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA volume of four new plays as part of the RSC’s Midsummer Mischief by Alice Birch, E. V. Crowe, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Abi Zakarian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writers had the famous quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Well-behaved women seldom make history” as an initial provocation and each writer has responded to this line in a unique and distinctive way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ant and the Cicada by Timberlake Wertenbaker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mysterious investor has set his sights on a prime piece of Greek real estate. Owned by two sisters whose lives and beliefs are at odds, and with debts rising all the time, the property's future is uncertain. In a Greek tragedy, everybody loses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the struggle between two very different sisters for control of their family home, Timberlake Wertenbaker's new play explores why we are willing to let the home of art and democracy crumble as the rest of Europe looks on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevolt. She said. Revolt again. by Alice Birch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are expected to behave… \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Use the right words \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                Act appropriately \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        Don't break the rules \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                Just behave \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis play is not well behaved\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can hear you by E.V. Crowe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTommy is dead. It's always tragic when they die young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople have posted loads of nice stuff on his Facebook page. His sister Ruth has returned for the funeral and wants to get it just right. Proper cutlery and a good spread. The send-off he deserved, and certainly better than they managed when mum died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe following Sunday Ruth's plans to leave again are interrupted as the doorbell rings and in walks a still very much dead, Tommy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE.V. Crowe's naturalistic supernatural play examines what the possibilities are for the women in Tommy's family, and questions if it's as easy for everyone to reveal what it is they want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not an exit by Abi Zakarian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou wake up, tied to a radiator. Your hands are bound and there is a bag over your head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou know you should fight, but you don't know how or against whom. But you can't have it all: where would you put it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbi Zakarian's new play is a funny and ferocious drama about the absurdity at the heart of modern womanhood, and what really stands in the way of fulfilment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55689102459254,"sku":"9781783191574","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35065112.jpg?v=1765273535","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781783191574-midsummer-mischief","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}