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!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Hills of California - cover

The Hills of California

Jez Butterworth

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

'This house. It's called "Sea View". It's just I've looked out of every window, and you can't. You can't see the sea.'
Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are heaving. In the sweltering backstreets, far from the choc ices and donkey rides, the Webb Sisters are returning to their mother's run-down guest house, as she lies dying upstairs.
Jez Butterworth's play The Hills of California was first performed at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in 2024, directed by Sam Mendes, and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street.
Available since: 02/15/2024.
Print length: 128 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Divine Madness - A Dark Poetry Collection - cover

    Divine Madness - A Dark Poetry...

    Rena Aliston

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    I am divine, 
sitting upon my throne, 
time’s pedestal, 
waiting – baiting. 
My venomous tales 
tear at life’s seams, 
desecrating freedom. 
Your illusions awaken. 
Your eyes grace my design. 
I am madness. 
Journey into the shadows of the soul, where darkness and light intertwine in a dance of raw emotion and profound revelation. Divine Madness: A Dark Poetry Collection beckons you into the depths of the human psyche, inviting you to explore the turbulent landscapes of the mind and embrace the haunting allure of poetic madness.
    Show book
  • Elizabeth Browning: Poems - cover

    Elizabeth Browning: Poems

    Elizabeth Browning

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Among all female poets of the English-speaking world in the 19th century, none was held in higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her views than Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The many journals which reported Browning's untimely death all spoke of her as the greatest woman poet in English literature. The highly respected Edinburgh Review expressed the prevailing view when it said that she had no equal in the literary history of any country: "Such a combination of the finest genius and the choicest results of cultivation and wide-ranging studies has never been seen before in any woman", and the esteem in which she is held has never dimmed with her poetry still widely studied and admired today. Collected here are 16 of her most beautiful, haunting, and renowned poems.

- Goblin Market
- A Musical Instrument
- Aurora Leigh
- Sonnets From the Poruguese
- The Cry of the Children
- Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point
- To Flush My Dog
- Sonnet 1
- Sonnet 2
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each poem will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
    Show book
  • The Prayer Beads - Poems for the Seasons of Life - cover

    The Prayer Beads - Poems for the...

    Barry Hunt

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Prayer is universal. It is common to all cultures and all religions. It is the way we reach out to the Divine. 
I think of prayer as a clay urn we lower hand over hand into the well of our hearts, the well that opens to the unlimited water table of blessings. 
There are different reasons we go the well. There are dark times when we face doubt and loss. There are times when the fire of inspiration lifts our minds and hearts to a new possibility. And there are times when we celebrate the feeling of being at one with all around us. 
The Prayer Beads is divided into three sections: Poems for the Dark Night; Poems for Renewal; and Poems for the Harvest. 
I encourage you to linger on each poem as if it were a prayer bead, to linger on each poem until you feel it in your fingertips. 
    Show book
  • Where My Books Go - cover

    Where My Books Go

    William Butler Yeats

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)
    Show book
  • The Spanish Tragedy - cover

    The Spanish Tragedy

    Thomas Kyd

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.) (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Ghost of Andrea, a Spanish nobleman; Hangman: MARTIN GEESONRevenge: AvailleKING OF SPAIN: Lars Rolander CYPRIAN DUKE OF CASTILE, his brother; ALEXANDRO, Portuguese Nobleman; BAZARDO, a Painter; Watchman 1; Citizen 1: Algy PugLORENZO, the Duke's son: DublinGothicBELLIMPERIA, Lorenzo's sister; Isabella's Maid: JustineWalmsleyVICEROY OF PORTUGAL: Jason Mills Nigel BoydellBALTHAZAR, his son: Jeff SchwabHIERONIMO, Marshal of Spain: Amy GramourISABELLA, his wife; Boy: Bev J. StevensHORATIO, their son: Max KörlingeSpanish General; Deputy; Don Bazulto; Watchman 2; Citizen 2: Marty Kris Portuguese Ambassador: Lucy PerryVlLLUPPO, Portuguese Nobleman; Don Pedro; JACQUES, Hieronimo's servant; Watchman 3; Citizen 3: ToddHWPEDRINGANO, Bellimperia's servant: Liberty StumpCHRISTOPHIL, Bellimperia's custodian; Messenger: Carol BoxLorenzo's Page: ChyAnne DonnellSERBERINE, Balthazar's servant; Servant: Kristin GjerløwPEDRO, Hieronimo's servant: Peter MakusNobleman 1; Portingal 1: Ernst PattynamaNobleman 2; Portingal 2: JohnFrickerNarrator: Elizabeth Klett
    Show book
  • The Faerie Queene - cover

    The Faerie Queene

    Edmund Spenser

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A land of enchanted forests. Knights sworn to impossible quests. Virtues tested in a world where every shadow hides a symbol—and every triumph reveals a deeper truth.
In The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser weaves one of the greatest epic poems in English literature: a sweeping allegory of heroism, beauty, faith, and moral struggle. Through battles with sorcerers, dragons, temptresses, and shape-shifting foes, noble knights pursue not only victory but the virtues that define the human spirit.

Praised as "a masterpiece of imagination and moral vision," this epic blends chivalric romance, rich symbolism, and breathtaking fantasy. Readers treasure its lyrical beauty, mythic storytelling, and the timeless journey into a realm where courage and virtue guide the way.

If you love epic adventures, classical allegory, and poetry that opens new worlds with every stanza, this monumental work awaits you.

Begin your quest—step into Faerie Land and discover an epic unlike any other.
    Show book