Sheila Callaghan is one of the most distinctive playwrights working in the theater today. Fiercely political, unblinkingly experimental, yet emotionally true, her writing is a refreshing combination of the compelling and the controversial. This volume collects three of her most recent plays to date. It includes: Lascivious Something, a heart-rending and disturbing exploration of failed love and shattered idealism at the dawn of the Reagan era, it follows a lapsed activist’s attempt to start life anew on a vineyard in Greece and what happens when the woman he left behind tracks him down; Roadkill Confidential, a noir-ish meditation on brutality and the intersection between fear and art, focused on an artist who uses the corpses of dead animals found on the side of the road as the medium for her creations; and That Pretty Pretty; Or, the Rape Play, which imagines our girls gone wild culture spiraling out to its most extreme ends while exploring issues of beauty, objectification, perversity, and naturalism in current society.
Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Unit Set It's June 16, 2004. Samantha Blossom, a chipper woman in her 40s, wakes up one June morning in her Upper East Side apartment to find her life being narrated over the airwaves of public radio. She discovers in the mail an envelope addressed to her husband from his lover, which spins her raw and untethered into an odyssey through the city.... a day full of chance encounters, coincidences, a quick love affair, and a fixation on the mysterious Jewel Jupi
Comedy / 1m, 2f / Simple Set Ever since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet caf in the hopes o/ f one day being allowed in. They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing research in the caf . Leather is a self-proclaimed "freelance scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret. Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth... but what about Belly? This play explores the effects of rampant ca
What’s on the menu for Meredith, Tori, and Sandy, the three women in Guy’s life? Healthy lifestyles, upward mobility, meaningful sex? Or self-loathing and distorted priorities? Inspired by the strangely ubiquitous advertising trend of picturing attractive women blissfully eating salad, award-winning playwright Sheila Callaghan breaks all the rules of our image-obsessed culture in Women Laughing Alone With Salad. This raw comedy is served with a side of feminism and tossed with audacious imagery, biting social critique, and devastating humor.
One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of young writers, giving them the exposure of publication and representation. The festival resulting in this collection was held July 15th-20th, 2008 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on 42nd Street in New York City. From the initial submission pool, approximately 50 plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one week. A panel of judges comprised of New York area the
FEATURING: THE TRANSIT PLAYS (Plane, Boat, Car, Bicycle, Train) Five very short absurd plays Minimal set 2 M, 2-3 F Each play revolves around one form of transportation; ferry, train, bicycle, plane, and car. Strangers attempt to form connections with one another, attaining varying degrees of success. * With theatrical staging, elevated and challenging language, and non-realistic elements. HE ATE THE SUN Minimal set 2 M, 1F A series of quick vignettes navigating the experience of one cowardly man losing his attractive yet shallow wife to a young, hot internet tycoon. Look out, he's got a gun. AMERICAN JACK Minimal Set 1M, 1F A fragmented and theatrical portrait of a Greek survivor of Nazi occupation, who subsequently builds a life for himself in America in the 70's brick by brick. SOAK Minimal Set 1M, 2F Heidi and David come to this space everyday. Something tragic happened here, but all that remains is the ghost of a German chanteuse, an accordion player, an iPod, and a shrine to Bjork. And everyone is drunk.
Victor is a ruthless fashion designer in the 1970s at the top of his game. Esme, his glamorous protégé and muse, is pushed aside when an ordinary Midwestern woman inspired Victor to make his artistry accessible to the masses. A generation later, a woman grappling with a healthy dose of self-loathing must wrestle her own family demons to find her way through the world of fashion that won't give a woman her size a second look. Skipping back and forth in time, Everything You Touch is a viciously funny look at the struggle to find an identity that's more than skin deep.
Comedy Characters: 3 male, 3 female, flexible castingChained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO's penthouse-but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit "Enjoyably stylish [with an] antic pace and witty aesthetic" - Washington Post"Ambitious, often uproarious." - City Paper "A pizzazz-filled concoction that skewers corporatism with a generous supply side of laughs. [Callaghan] is without doubt the purveyor of top-shelf American wit." - Metro Weekly "[Callaghan has] a keen eye for the outlandish. Exudes the kind of infectious zaniness that occasionally attracts cult followings." - Variety "I can't remember the last time a play made me laugh so hard. Between the chuckles and belly laughs, the dialog is surprisingly layered, and gives the audience plenty to think about. Fever/Dream is about as funny as the sharpest Hollywood comedy, and far more rewarding." -BrightestYoungThings.com
On a secluded Greek island, August, an American expat, pursues his passions: winemaking and his breathtaking young wife. Then, on the eve of Reagan's inauguration, the first tasting of the new wine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of August's former lover. Inspired by Greek tragedy, Lascivious Something combines evocative language with sympathetic yet deeply flawed characters straight out of Euripides.--From publisher description.
A possibly rogue G-man stalks a stalled-out artist with a suspicious affinity for accident victims. Traps are set, traps are sprung, and everyone gets caught.
When Abbey is contacted by Irish lawyer Ryan Gilligan she learns in an instant everything she believed about her roots is a lie. She must travel to Dublin to find out more - but she's scarcely off the plane when she's plunged into a new crisis
It was love at first sight for Claire and Bill Hudson. They met at Claire's fifth birthday party and they were destined to be together for the rest of their lives. When baby Georgia came along, it was the icing on the cake. So when a tragic accident snatched Bill away, Claire felt like she'd lost everything - except Georgia. In the three years since, Claire has devoted her life to Georgia; she knows no man could ever replace Bill, and the child needs all her attention. Now Georgia's a teenager, though, and there's one thing Claire can't advise her on: dating. And so, purely to help her lovely young daughter in her journey through the teenage years, Claire sets out on some serial dating. And destiny is watching, again...
A short collection of recipes from cookbooks 'Calso Cooks: Real Food Made Easy' by Paul Callaghan, 'Gimme the Recipe' by Sheila Kiely and 'Like Mam Used to Bake' by Rosanne Hewitt-Cromwell. Recipes for Chocolate Spiced Cupcakes and Gingerbread Cookies to delight your Christmas visitors, tips for Christmas planning and the perfect Christmas dinner and recipes to help you to use up any leftover turkey. Plus recipes for Super Smoothies, Buckwheat Salad and Curried Quinoa and Vegetable Soup to help you with your New Year's resolutions. Reviews for 'Gimme the Recipe': '...the go-to-bible for easy to follow recipes.' -Irish Tatler. '[A] terrific cookbook- a repertoire of recipes that nourish and delight. I particularly loved the chapter on planning family gatherings and parties at home.' -Darina Allen. Irish Examiner. '...it inspires confidence and makes you feel you can certainly whip up anything you fancy.' -Lara Bradley. Sunday Independent. 'You might not be able to have it all but, with Kiely's recipes, I'd say you can certainly make a decent stab at cooking it all.' -Fiona Kiely, Sunday Business Post. Reviews for 'Like Mam Used to Bake': 'An ideal read' - Food and Wine Magazine 'Full of handy tips and mouth-watering imagery, Rosanne has Christmas baking in the bag..' - House and Home '...makes you want to take a big gooey slice and settle down for a cosy afternoon with friends and a big mug of tea.' - Sunday Business Post
A delicious new novel about families, friends and finding love from the ever-popular, bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan Romy Kilkenny loves her life in Australia - she has her dream job, an active lifestyle, and best friend Keith who understands her better than anyone. Best of all, she couldn't be further from her family. But when she gets word that she's needed back in Ireland at short notice, Romy's thrust back into the world of her mother and half-siblings again. Romy has never fitted in with the rest of them and now with Keith too far away to give comfort, she feels like more of an outsider than ever. She also worries that the accidental half-kiss with Keith at the airport may have lost her the greatest friend she ever had. Will she ever find someone special?
A short collection of recipes from cookbooks 'Good Mood Food' by Donal Skehan, 'Gimme the Recipe' by Sheila Kiely and 'Like Mam Used to Bake' by Rosanne Hewitt-Cromwell. Recipes to enjoy with friends and family during fine summer evenings and lazy weekends. Reviews for 'Gimme the Recipe': '...the go-to-bible for easy to follow recipes.' -Irish Tatler. '[A] terrific cookbook- a repertoire of recipes that nourish and delight. I particularly loved the chapter on planning family gatherings and parties at home.' -Darina Allen. Irish Examiner. '...it inspires confidence and makes you feel you can certainly whip up anything you fancy.' -Lara Bradley. Sunday Independent. 'You might not be able to have it all but, with Kiely's recipes, I'd say you can certainly make a decent stab at cooking it all.' -Fiona Kiely, Sunday Business Post. Reviews for 'Good Mood Food': "Good Mood Food is a new breed of cookbook that springs from the talent of a passionate home cook. A truly scrumptious read.", - Ross Golden-Bannon, Food & Wine magazine "At last... Simple, easy recipes that are healthy and interesting. Donal Skehan's book reclaims good food from the convenience of supermarket shelves and puts it back where it belongs – in the domestic kitchen." Paulo Tulio "Ireland's answer to Jamie Oliver" - RTÉ.ie 'Like Mam Used to Bake' is due to be released in September 2013.
Aisling O'Halloran is happy with her futon, her flat, her cat and her job as a party caterer. She doesn't do impulsive. She is absolutely, perfectly in control of her single woman's life. And if she can't have relationships without complications - then she's content to carry on as she is. Ms Self-Contained. But when she's employed to cook the supper over which Dan Morland plans to propose to his girlfriend, suddenly she becomes party to someone else's relationship - in all its tangled, heart-breaking complexity. And, as she watches Dan struggling to sort out the mess his emotions have got him into, Aisling starts to realise she's not Ms Invulnerable after all...
What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill. Nessa Riley, who believes that with her husband, her little girl, and the home she loves, she has it all, is suddenly faced with the hardest decision of her life. Can she ignore what Adam seems to be up to and hang on to the happiness they've enjoyed for the past ten years? Can they wipe the slate clean and start again? Or, as her sisters - themselves living proof that no relationship is without its flaws - appear to think, has he really got to go?
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