Автор: Reed Bill Название: Little She ISBN: 0994630123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994630124 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: He hadn't told his son he was adopted, nor that his son had a twin sister who hadn't been handed over with him when they travelled from Melbourne to India all that time ago to pick up both infants. Part of his silence was the guilt of being on the end of what was then undoubtedly a child-racketeering scam. Charged by his estranged wife to go back to India to find out more about the recent brutal murder of their son - and, consequentially, what had happened to the infant girl child, Smith found himself having to fight his way through the bland face of locals' attitudes to death, religious extreme rituals and behaviour, and especially towards female infanticide. In order to get relatable explanations, he has to confront the fiercest of Tantric rites through the most grotesque, whack-job so-called wise man, Nandi Baba, through police dismissal, through the ignominy of caste prejudice, and through the motiveless violence of local crime.Smith was never going to succeed in learning much. But, for all the little grace he has left in him, he does find his Little She.And to explain it all to his wife, he could only illuminate it all through himself as third-party - and only a sort of son et lumiere projection could illuminate what is going in even his own mind.But whether he succeeds or not, nothing can stop their damnable karmic wheel from a'turning, a'turning.---------------------Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas, and has won national competitions for drama and for long and short fiction. He now divides his time between his native Australia and his wife's Sri Lanka.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Cass Butcher Bunting ISBN: 0994322720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994322722 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 'Cass Butcher Bunting' begins with an explosion and a cave in down a mine shaft. Three miners are trapped there; Cass, the local golden boy, Butcher, the mentally-heavy, stay-at-home product of a small mining community, and Bunting, the old-timer, the 'humpy'. The setting of the action deep in the bowels of the earth places so-called civilised man back in a primordial situation, in a closed-off cave, his only mental and moral buffer lying in having to fall back on his ownself, his own primitiveness -- and where he can only play out his own tragedy as death becomes increasingly inevitable. Man's fundamental inhumanity to man is a major theme explored in this play. The exchanges between Cass and Butcher and their varying reactions to each other can be seen as subtle revelations of aspects of this inhumanity in a situation as extreme as imaginable. Bunting's ravings are reminders that in the modern world this selfsame inhumanity is most often expressed in cruelty. Unarguably it is in the face of this impending end that man, with nothing more to lose, can step out from behind his everyday mask and reveal his needs and his weaknesses, acknowledge and accept his failures. Between the simple social comment suggested by one reviewer as a 'powerful expos of a small community' and the consideration of death ('it's simply about dying') put forward by the playwright lie a number of layers of meaning which the individual member of the audience or reader will find for himself. (Mary Lord, convener, Alexander Playwriting Competition, Monash University) -------------- Bill Reed is an award-winning novelist, playwright and short-story writer who lived within the Australian literary and publishing worlds. He now lives outside its gates, mainly in Sri Lanka
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Passing Strange: Short Stories ISBN: 0994239920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994239921 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Tasker Tusker Tasker ISBN: 0994239904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994239907 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "This secretive load I have shuffled around with..."----------John Tasker is a divided, but enjoined, man. Physically he is running from the law while hunting down his own father, just as his father used to track down the wild tuskers in Sri Lanka. At the same time, mentally, he is tracking down his murderous brother's enemies, imaginably or not, with a deadly efficiency.Adding to his confusion is how his indolent lawyer's job in the Attorney-General's Department has itself suddenly become fraught with danger for his own personal safety. The resultant clash that erupts between his fervently-adopted Australia and his fervently-rejected Sri Lanka isn't helping the mental chaos he is thrown into on an otherwise perfectly-acceptable day.One trouble is his state of being so enjoined. Through his own mind's-eye he sees how his own milieu has been drawing him inevitably towards the cliff's edge. Also through his-and-his-brother's mind's-eye he sees too much of the terrorizing worldwide Tamil organizations, and from a close-up much too gory. And through his-and-his-father's mind's-eye he sees no good nurture purpose to his existence, except the sighing and dying and the leavings from him.He can see how it's all so willfully like his father's wild snared tuskers endeavouring to escape, trying to drag the lines dragging the antler'd sambhur's skulls through the hopelessly impossible bush. On top of all this, he has the living scaffold of the Sri Lankan Inspector Ekanayake now-and-ever looming over him. The Inspector doesn't care a hoot about any mind's-eye or mind's-eyes, 'bloody ****ing hell sorry'. He only cares for the hunt's conclusion, and how John Tasker should know it.What is the Inspector doing in Canberra and asking so many pointed questions? What might he know about the shadowy and murderous Tasker twin brother with, apparently, the justified alias of Tusker? All John Tasker can now see is how his world and the manic world of his fearsome brother are being forced to converge so suddenly and so bizarrely.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Shorts: The Short and One-Act Plays by Bill Reed ISBN: 0994630166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994630162 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: You Want It, Don`t You, Billy? ISBN: 099463014X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994630148 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15980.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bill and Billy are having marital problems but these pall when compared to the problems they have to face from their next door neighbour. If that wasn't enough, there is the general alarm put out to be on the alert for a serial murderer thought to be in the district. In the heavy night of the Mornington countryside, their weekender cottage offers scant protection from what is determined to befall them from the outside and what is determined to torment them from the inside. It is not as if they find themselves living in some scripted fiction where the fear comes driving at them intermittently but can be pulled back from with a flick of a light switch. No, this night they find themselves within the clutches of an evil that is constant, unharboured and unanchored. This night the pretend-fear becomes the real fear... the production gallops towards reality. It is difficult to tell who is who, or what is what. The only thing Bill and Billy - and anyone else - know is that all becomes very real dead mad. --------------------Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas, and has won national competitions for drama and for long and short fiction. He now spends his time between Australia and Sri Lanka.
Автор: Reed Bill, Rose Murray Название: Water Workout: Water Exercises for Everyone: Swimmers and Non-Swimmers ISBN: 0994280580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994280589 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 21780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: THE POOL IS A GREAT GYM... FOR ALL AGES You don't have to be a swimmer or sprightly to experience the joys of water and the benefits of water exercising. In your own or the local pool, you have the best fitness medium imaginable. The pool is not just for kids to play around in, or for competitive swimmers only. Even if you can't swim, it's for you -- a fitness center that comes without embarrassment because you are doing something sensible that looks sensible Use the pool as a gym for: -general day-by-day fitness -body building -- using even only old socks on your hands or feet -sports training and injury recovery -pregnancy - gentle yet great-flexibility help -aches and pains relief -- no matter what your age Water exercising is also great fun: Do it to music. Do it in pairs or groups, or just indulge yourself. Get strong or get as slim as possible with it. If you push against water, you will meet a smooth resistance that gives back what you put in. You feel that special 'soft' resistance that only water gives so soothingly and relaxingly. So use it to benefit yourself or your loved ones or friends. Water is the only fitness 'apparatus' you need have. Be your own coach in your own pool.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Burke`s Company ISBN: 0994280564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994280565 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: '... the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Cruelty are even more pervasively embodied in the plays of Alexander Buzo, Thomas Keneally and Bill Reed. In Buzo's case it is Absurdism which is especially apparent; in Keneally and Reed, Artaudian 'myth' and language-in-space...'It was Reed in Burke's Company who pioneered Artaudian techniques in a play of stature. If the play is given imaginative production, it powerfully exemplifies one of Artaud's most famous metaphors. The figures on stage will suggest universal human victims burning at the stake, signaling through the flames.'Professor Dennis CarrollContemporary Australian Theatre, Currency Press-----------------This is a reprint of one of the most successful award-winning plays of Bill Reed. Over the years it has been performed both on the professional and amateur stages around Australia and overseas, and published by Heinemann Educational and also in Currency Press's 'Plays of the 60s'. Bill Reed has been involved in drama and publishing most of his existence in Australia, Britain, Canada and the Subcontinent. He has written nine professionally-produced plays and thirteen novels, including '1001 Lankan Nights, book 1 and 2'. He has won national awards for drama, short stories and novels. He now lives mostly in Sri Lanka.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Living in Black Holes: Five Plays ISBN: 0994531109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994531100 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 21240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: LIVING IN BLACK HOLES is a first-time collection of five of Bill Reed's most popular and/or performed plays. The works collected here are: Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and PaperBurke's CompanyTruganinniBullsh (including More Bullsh)Cass Butcher BuntingEach play has been 'modernised', in that the playwright has changed the plots as necessary to bring them up-to-date and brought the colloquialisms to be more familiar to the modern ear. Here and there, staging, too, has been altered to reflect modern-theatre's economies of scale. Settings and characterisations, though, have not been changed.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Daddy the 8th ISBN: 0994531125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994531124 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An ensemble of actors who are about to start rehearsing a play about the Moree race riots visit Endeavour Lane in Moree to get a feel of the lie of the land. This is where the young Aboriginal 'Cheeky' McIntosh was shot and killed during the infamous 1982 rumble between local whites and blacks. The leader/director/writer of the ensemble has a more intimate knowledge of the site. Back in 1982 he remembers playing cricket with his school chums using, as a lark, a wicket made up of a piece of the makeshift 'stockade' Cheeky and his mates tried to hole up behind.Now, while the actors mill around Endeavour Lane, an old man appears in their midst, sits down and declares he is waiting for a bus (Endeavour Lane is a dead end) to take him to the murder trial of the three Whites charged with Cheeky's death. The old man is Daddy, a local Moree elder.Is he out of his time? Is he trying to interfere with the ensemble's thinking about putting on a play about that night back in 1982? Is he really waiting for a bus to take him to some trial about the riot? They might be the wiser if they could concentrate on what Daddy is saying rather than arguing amongst themselves. They do understand, though, that dabbling with the theatre is dabbling with an illusion that can be more real than reality, and just as killing.Still, they cannot understand why that full-scale riot at Myall Creek Massacre - even further back in 1838 -- should keep cropping up in what should have otherwise been their lazy'n'hazy Sunday morning, especially since not a line of script has been written yet.It begs the question about which Daddy down the millennia are they dealing with here?---------------------------Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas, and has won national competitions for drama and for long and short fiction.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Mirror, Mirror ISBN: 0994531184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994531186 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Stranded in his Sydney flat, the journalist John Rinner tries to explain his Dad-dud existence to his daughter by telephone. This is not easy since he hasn't seen her in 18 years and she is on the other side of the world working in an Amsterdam hotel with little time to listen to an excuse for a Dad.Just as his working life in the field with the UN Childrens Fund now seems only smoke-and-mirrors, so does Rinner's own life seem as it flashes past him in delusion and illusion, and with more bottoms than tops. This seems especially relevant to his real-or-imagined North Queensland aboriginal roots... almost as much as the witnessing the world's abuse of its children has scarred him. But, more and more, the cross connections of telephone torment continue, escalating in him into looking down into a sump rather than getting any sort of expiation from reconnecting with his beloved daughter.At least it is a mirror on the wall there, and not the sad sack that is himself.At least, too, the mirror gives back to him a more intelligent conversation than he can get from other human beings these end of days. He is still, though barely, intuitive enough to be able to appreciate being able to tell it: 'You heard the one about the guy going up to a mirror on the wall and spouting, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the....?"'--------------Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas, and has won national competitions for drama and for long and short fiction. He now divides his time between his native Australia and his wife's Sri Lanka.
Автор: Reed Bill Название: Truganinni Inside Out ISBN: 0994531141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994531148 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Seven years after King Billy's death, Truganinni stood alone, arguably the most important living relic of her Tasmanian race. She would walk the streets of Hobart Town, resembling Queen Victoria in her voluminous skirts and headdress. She quite enjoyed the curiosity and finger pointing wherever she went. And she could go anywhere.Towards the end, she appeared to bear no malice towards her race's persecutors. Growing stoutish, she smoked a pipe and enjoyed a daily jug of beer. But she began to grow ill and as her death loomed, so did the memories of what happened to King Billy's body.On 8 May 1876, at the approximate age of 73, Truganinni died. She is said to have cried out, 'Don't let them cut me up. Bury me behind the mountains.'Only hours after the news, body-snatchers in the Royal Society of Tasmania started to bark for her body, as they had successfully done regarding King Billy. The government fought toe and nail politically to fight them off. Did it matter to the old girl?No, she was off regally floating across the Dreamtime skies of Australia, raising hell with her beloved Nanna, on their Shag Magnet anyway. By then the mission on Flinders Island of Act 1, and McKay's house in Hobart Town in Act 3, were the least she wanted to put a bomb under...-------------------------Bill Reed is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer. He has worked as editor and journalist both in Australia and overseas, and has won national competitions for drama and for long and short fiction.
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