Among all of history’s greatest musicians, few have been as admired or influential as ludwig van beethoven, whose name remains synonymous with composing. Works like his fifth and ninth symphonies remain instantly recognizable over 200 years after they were composed, and their sweeping and grandiose nature are made all the more amazing by the fact that their author was gradually going deaf and couldn’t hear music very well by the time he was composing them. Similarly, the “moonlight sonata”...

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his contemporaries one of the most significant directors of interwar Hollywood, Sternberg made seven films with Dietrich that helped establish her as a style icon and star and entrenched his own reputation for extravagance and ae...

Cuba was run as an American protectorate by The US President and The US Mafia was there ever a connection? The ruling families of Cuba, The Batista's traditionally ruled the island of Cuba as their private fiefdom. There was no law and order for poor Cubans, just daily exploitation, murder, rape and slavery whilst the stars and stripes flew from the American embassy in Havana.The poor of Cuba banded together as freedom fighters and were led by Fidel Castro And Che Guevara to fight ...

Camelot: The Shining City is a modern re-telling of the myth of King Arthur, by award-winning playwright James Phillips.Developed in collaboration with Slung Low, specialists in spectacular theatrical experiences, and Sheffield People's Theatre, Camelot: The Shining City is written for a company of over 150 actors, bringing the medieval story to breathtaking life.An epic story told in three parts, this edition was published to coincide with the world premi...

A poor boy from the Projects poor housing estate does well at grammar-high school and is selected to join the air force as an office-gentleman- jet pilot.There is a big reduction in defence budgets and pilot training is severely hit; so he is transferred into the Police.He is very concerned at joining this allegedly endemic corrupt to core non performing organisation; and soon discovers it is a minefield of corruption black-holes, where some policemen disappeared from the p...

A remarkable new play about Cold-War betrayal and the quest for justiceIn McCarthy's America, Jakob and Esther Rubenstein are betrayed and punished for an act of industrial espionage. Could this be the greatest miscarriage of justice of the twentieth century?New York. Matthew Maddison meets Anna Levi in front of an art gallery photograph of Jakob and Esther sharing one final kiss before they part. Young, radical and falling in love, togethe...

What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life?What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever?What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour?City Stories 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...

Wolley is a bookworm who loves reading at his local library with his best friend Wilma the bookworm. When a young bookworm visits the library for the first time, Wolley learns to help him find the perfect book.

You remember when we started to hunt whales again?We fought monsters and we killed them and wrestled the oil from their dead bodies and we sold it.In the future we hunt whales for the oil in their bodies. Just like they did in centuries past. The oil of a single whale can run an army for a week. This is new science. This is our future. So we send gangs of men out onto the dark, cold sea to bring back the things we need.The crew of the Pequod are going to sea...

You look otherworldly. Like all my girls. This will make you a queen. Like years ago and people wore clothes like weapons, like weapons against poor people, because even is you were hungry how could you raise your fist against what looked like a god? But I can make things that are weapons against day to day stuff.A girl has watched McQueen's Mayfair house for eleven consecutive days. Tonight, she climbs down from her watching tree and breaks into his house, to steal a dres...

A young boy the son of a poor builder in Bremen has to join the Wermacht (Army) to gain an education. He becomes an artillery officer and is transferred into the new Luftwaffe. In Spain he gains an Iron cross with The Condors and meets The Fuhrer.As war starts he is transferred by The Fuhrer to a Field Marshall as his aide-de-camp, and helps his boss fight the war to great victories for The Third Reich. He produces an escape plan for senior people as a personal folly exercise....

What if Roswell was actually a cover up not for aliens but for a government plan to enter an alternate dimension? Furthermore, what if this dimension was technologically superior to our own and the government was planning to try again? This is the information that a mysterious businessman has just learned and seeks to obtain an item from within that dimension. Meanwhile, several friends are about to be roped into an adventure that explores the alternate dimension where their very lives are...