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Bryony Lavery

    Bryony Lavery is a British dramatist recognized for her impactful theatrical works. Her writing often delves into complex moral quandaries and the intricacies of human nature, characterized by sharp dialogue and profound psychological insight. Lavery also contributes to television and radio, demonstrating a versatile command of narrative across different media.

    Stockholm
    A Doll's House
    Treasure Island
    Myth, Monster, Murderer
    Rewriting the Troubles
    Autobiography of a Disease
    • Myth, Monster, Murderer

      • 300 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Who were the victims of Jack the Ripper? And what was the impact of his killings on women at the time, and over the last 150 years?

      Myth, Monster, Murderer2022
      5.0
    • Stockholm

      • 72 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Meet the couple every couple wants to be. Attractive and immaculately turned out, they are the perfect team. Tomorrow they will be in Stockholm, a city where, in summer, the sun shines 24/7 and sometimes it's dark all day long. Today it's his birthday and she's going to give him all his presents and treats and surprises. Treading a fine line between tenderness and cruelty, Stockholm reveals a relationship unravelling. It's beautiful, but it's not pretty. Stockholm unites leading physical theatre company Frantic Assembly with award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery and designer Laura Hopkins (Black Watch, Mercury Fur) to deliver an extraordinary perspective on the nature of modern love. Stockholm opened at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in September 2007.

      Stockholm2021
      3.4
    • Autobiography of a Disease

      • 230 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Blending a history of the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacterium with auto-ethnographic writing, Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.

      Autobiography of a Disease2017
      4.4
    • Treasure Island

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Fifteen men on the dead man's chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Little do they know that among their crew is the dastardly pirate Long John Silver. Can brave Jim outwit the most infamous pirate ever to sail the high seas?

      Treasure Island2014
      3.9
    • A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," since it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint." Its ideas can also be seen as having a wider application: Michael Meyer argued that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather "the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person." In a speech given to the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he "must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement," since he wrote "without any conscious thought of making propaganda," his task having been "the description of humanity."

      A Doll's House2004
      3.7