Bøger af Alexander Zeldin

An intimate portrait of a lifeAustralia 1943 to London 2021, and everything in between.Alice is learning to be herself against the times. But how do the times shape who we are?Playing out over a tumultuous eight decades, Alice's complex relationships become a common thread in her personal journey, in this intimate portrait of a life.Alexander Zeldin (LOVE, Faith, Hope and Charity) returns to the National Theatre with this international collaboration. Following hours of interviews he brings a real life to stage, featuring music composed by Yannis Philippakis. The Confessions premiered in Vienna before touring to Athens, Barcelona and Paris as well as a run at the Avignon Festival 2023. This edition was published to coincide with the run at London's National Theatre in October 2023.

Welcome to your chance to answer the hard questions of life, such as "If aliens took over and humans were put into zoos, what would you want in your own personal zoo cage?" To Learn is to Love is an interactive workbook which invites you and your plus one (whether a friend, lover, sibling, or even that one guy from that one place) to share your thoughts and ideas on a whole slew of interesting hypotheticals. With each flip of a page, you will be challenged to think outside of the box, learning more about one another as you discover who you could have been in another life.

"Written through devising with the company."

I'm a hard worker. I don't push him to the . . . You know I don't go out for breaks when I'm not supposed to. I don't stay in the loo when I'm not supposed to. If I was that kind of person I could have him done for discrimination . . . I just get on with things you know.Four people arrive to work the night shift in a meat factory. They meet for the first time. They are employed as cleaners by a temp agency. They are all on zero-hours contracts.Every shift, they clean. Every four hours, they take a break. They drink tea or coffee together. They read magazines. They chat. As it gets light, they go home or to another job. The cycle goes on. And on. Strangers. Until something stirs, until isolated people get too close to one another, too fast.Alexander Zeldin's brutally honest and darkly humorous play, written through devising with the ensemble of the premiere production, exposes stories of an invisible class. It received its world premiere at The Yard on 1 July 2014 and transferred to the National Theatre's Temporary Theatre on 28 April 2015.