Moira Buffini Knihy

V dystopickém světě Brightland, kde vládnou muži a jakákoliv odlišnost je krutě trestána, se odehrává příběh mladé Elsy. Ta v sobě skrývá nebezpečné tajemství – je zpěvozářka, obdařená mocným darem, kvůli kterému ji společnost považuje za nelidskou bytost a usiluje o její život. Není v tom však sama. Jediný, kdo její tajemství zná a sdílí ho s ní, je její přítel Rye. Když se Elsin dosavadní svět začne rozpadat a ona neví, komu věřit, objeví se nečekaná naděje. Na dálku se s ní pomocí zpěvu spojí Slavík, dívka se stejným darem, která však žije ve zcela odlišných podmínkách – je dcerou vládního úředníka, jehož úkolem je právě pronásledování lidí, jako jsou ony. Navzdory vzdálenosti a nebezpečí, které jim hrozí, se mezi dívkami zrodí silné přátelství. Společně se ocitají uprostřed hrozivého konfliktu, který ohrožuje nejen je, ale i samotnou podstatu jejich existence. Zpěvozář je napínavým úvodem do fantasy trilogie o síle přátelství, odvaze postavit se útlaku a hledání svého místa ve světě, který vás zavrhl.

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I've spent a lifetime in the ebb and flow of power It brings its gifts But then it's an intoxicant One must beware lest one consumes too much The monarch. Her most powerful subject. Two women meet once a week for eleven years. One believes there is no such thing as society. The other has vowed to serve it. Moira Buffini's wickedly funny hit comedy imagines what the world's most powerful women, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, talked about behind closed palace doors. Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, Handbagged was first performed in September 2013 and returned to Kiln Theatre, London, in September 2022. 'A phenomenon.' Sunday Telegraph 'Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.' Guardian

He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again. Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation. Without the aid of Theseus, the leader of the vastly wealthy state of Athens, she doesn't stand a chance. But Theseus is arrogant, mercurial and motivated by profit. A swaggering opposition circles, impatient for insurrection. The body of the former dictator lies unburied. Set in the present day but inspired by ancient myth, Welcome to Thebes offers a passionate exploration of an encounter between the world's richest and the world's poorest countries in the aftermath of a brutal war. Moira Buffini's Welcome to Thebes premiered at the National Theatre, London, in June 2010.

This place is about to blow. A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and strangers begin to appear on their doorstep, seeking shelter from the floods. One of these unexpected arrivals is Ted Farrier, the charismatic leader of a right-wing organisation: he could be Diana’s saviour – or could pull the fragile household to pieces. Stranded together, this explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other. Manor by Moira Buffini premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2020.