Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
How We Begin - cover

How We Begin

Elisabeth Lewerenz

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Helen and Diana are perfect for each other: they've both got good degrees, busy jobs and nice flats. There's just one small problem – Diana's got a boyfriend.
Elisabeth Lewerenz's play How We Begin is a tender exploration of love, queerness and identity. It was staged at VAULT Festival, London, in 2023, and won the VAULT Festival Award at the OffFest Theatre Festival Awards in 2024. An earlier version was staged at the King's Head Theatre, Islington, in 2019.
Available since: 02/02/2023.
Print length: 68 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • David Copperfield - cover

    David Copperfield

    Charles Dickens

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    From a difficult childhood to an uncertain future, one young man must find his own way in a changing world.
    
    Charles Dickens's David Copperfield is a richly emotional coming-of-age classic that follows one of literature's most memorable journeys from childhood to adulthood.
    
    David Copperfield's early life is marked by loss, hardship, and difficult relationships. Forced to face circumstances far beyond his years, he gradually discovers the world around him—encountering teachers, friends, rivals, mentors, and unforgettable characters who shape his understanding of love, loyalty, ambition, and human nature.
    
    As David grows older, his journey takes him through moments of struggle, friendship, romance, disappointment, and triumph. Each experience helps shape the person he ultimately becomes, making the novel both an engaging story and a deeply personal exploration of growth and identity.
    
    Filled with memorable characters, emotional drama, humor, romance, social observation, and Victorian atmosphere, David Copperfield showcases Dickens at his most vivid and imaginative. The novel explores themes of childhood, resilience, family, friendship, ambition, love, and self-discovery while offering a fascinating portrait of nineteenth-century English society.
    
    For readers who enjoy classic literature, Victorian fiction, coming-of-age stories, historical novels, family drama, and timeless character-driven storytelling, David Copperfield remains an unforgettable reading experience.
    
    Step into David Copperfield's extraordinary journey and discover why this beloved Dickens classic continues to captivate generations of readers. Add it to your collection today.
    Show book
  • My Choice Your Voice - cover

    My Choice Your Voice

    N. Gillespie

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Embark on a journey from rock bottom, narrated by a woman in her thirties whose unwavering confidence and resilience drive her forward. When her wings were clipped and her dreams caged, she made a bold choice – one that would change everything.
    
    Take her hand and step through the fires of hell on a path toward healing. As the temperature rises, prepare for a flood of emotions born from the darkest moments of her life. From deep pain to the relief of finding safety, her story unfolds in raw and unfiltered honesty, offering a powerful testament to survival and self-discovery.
    
    With every step, she unravels the ripple effects of her choices, revealing the sacrifices made to protect those she loves. Her journey is one of vulnerability and strength, told through the window of her soul, where pain and solace intertwine beneath the moonlit sky.
    
    This book is an invitation to reflect on your own lived experiences, to find connection in shared struggles, and to know that no one should have to walk this path alone. Stay with her until the end. No one needs to be this alone.
    Show book
  • Gentle Chaos - Poems Tales and Magic - cover

    Gentle Chaos - Poems Tales and...

    Tyler Gaca

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler’s unique story, and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different. In this raw yet enchanting collection of poems and essays, Tyler Gaca dreamily navigates themes of magic and queerness, offering readers an intimate look inside his mind and his worlds, real and imagined. The writings in Gentle Chaos reflect on growing up queer and in love with magic, discovering yourself and your place in the world, and daring to seek out love and hope. The result is a whimsical, vulnerable, and transporting journey into the gentle chaos within us all.
    Show book
  • Cassie and the Lights - cover

    Cassie and the Lights

    Alex Howarth

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    'I needed to be better... and summat needed to change – to keep them safe. To fix my family.'
    When her mother disappears, teenager Cassie wants to care for her sisters on her own. But can kids be parents? Or should Cassie let foster parents adopt her sisters and create a new family?
    Alex Howarth's play Cassie and the Lights is a tender and playful examination of what makes a family and what holds it together. Based on real-life events and interviews with children in care, it celebrates the resilience of young people and the power of sisterhood.
    The play has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, VAULT Festival in London, 59E59 in New York City and Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. It toured the UK in 2024, produced by Patch of Blue and 3 hearts canvas, in association with Southwark Playhouse and Verse Unbound.
    Show book
  • The Rose Tattoo - cover

    The Rose Tattoo

    Tennessee Williams

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In the wake of World War II, a poor widow named Serafina lives with her only daughter Rosa in a Sicilian community on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. As Rosa grows to maturity, Serafina is forced to reconcile the values of the New World with the deeply-held pain of her past. 
     
    
     
    This L.A. Theatre Works recording reunites Mercedes Ruehl and Anthony LaPaglia, who starred in the 1995 Broadway production that earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, and Drama Desk Awards for both actors.
     
    
     
    Recorded at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 1999.
     
    
     
    Directed by Richard Masur
     
    Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
     
    
     
    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
     
    
     
    Emily Bergl as Rosa
     
    Marieclare Costello as Peppina and Bessie
     
    Tim DeKay as Jack
     
    Brent Hinkley as a Doctor and Salesman
     
    Anthony LaPaglia as Alvaro
     
    Carol Locatell as Guiseppina
     
    Kate Mulligan as Estelle, Miss Yorke
     
    Antonia Ray as Assunta
     
    Peggy Roeder as The Strega 
     
    Mercedes Ruehl as Serafina
     
    Vincent Schiavelli as Father DeLeo
     
    Claudette Sutherland as Violetta and Flora
     
    
     
    Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Jane Slater
     
    Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson
     
    Radio production by Raymond Guarna
    Show book
  • Treasure - cover

    Treasure

    Jemima Foxtrot

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    "religion's been cruel to people like usthe darkwood sluts      the good time girlsbut god as my witnesssome of us           we're just trying to wrangle our powerback from the species that took it"
    Jemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh and playful perspective. Foxtrot investigates shimmering sexualities, the economies of desire, the theft of childhood and pathways towards reclaiming it. Her language is lush: intimate, intricate, full of fertile earth's possibility. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is—the joy—how to feed it into the soil of our lives.
    "Treasure is an aptly chosen title for this collection, both as a noun (that quantity of precious ore dug from the stuff of experience) and as a verb (the imperative to seek out, sing, and cherish joy through the sharing of it). Foxtrot is a savvy, sometimes savage, sensualist; her poetic speakers alert to injustice, but alive to pleasure in every way that counts. These are superbly tactile poems, poems of being-in-the-body, and being-in-the-world; they are full of wit, vigour and feminist jouissance. These are also formally exciting poems, poems that showcase a beautifully bold and oddly tender lyric defiance." Fran Lock, Hyena, T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist
    Show book