A tie-in edition of Fallada's best-selling WW2 novel, to accompany the major
new film starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson. Berlin, 1940, and the
city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive
the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are
shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance.
A deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious
Gestapo inspector Escherich in Fallada's desperately tense and heartbreaking
exploration of resistance in impossible circumstances.
Caledonia is a story of greed, euphoria and mass delusion. It is the story of a small, poor country mistaking itself for a place that is both big and rich. It is an ancient story for modern times.William Paterson was a financial adventurer who in 1698 devised one of the most daring and disastrous speculations of all time. His plan: to found a Scottish colony in Darien on the isthmus of Panama in Central America and turn Scotland, one of the poorest nations in Europe, into a prosperous colonial power. He invited the public to invest. And they did - in a big way. Within weeks a vast proportion of the nation's wealth had been subscribed.What went wrong? Distance, disease, corruption and culpability all played a part in this ruinous episode. Within a few years, the Scots - demoralized and impoverished - gave up their nation's independent status and signed the 1707 Treaty of Union with England. Inspired by documents, journals, letters, songs and poems of the period, celebrated playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton has created a work that is both a tribute to heroic ambition and a darkly witty take on the deceptions and self-deceptions of rich and poor alike.Caledonia headlined the Edinburgh International Festival, in a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland and directed by Anthony Neilson in 2010.
This is a much needed parody of all those kitschy little books like THE LITTLE
BOOK OF CALM that promise that peace of mind, success, happiness, terrific
orgasms, good health and longevity are all available in an icklewickle package
costing not more than a few quid.
It is 31st December 1999. For the staff of Globelink News it's an uncertain and terrifying world. The civil war in Switzerland is intensifying, and Prime Minister David Mellor is stressing family values. And the editor of Globelink News, George Dent, has just found a dead body in the lift.
