Academic literature on the topic 'Plymouth Fury'

Philip Ridley is one of the most imaginative and sensational playwrights working in Britain today. Born in 1964, he began by studying painting at St Martin's School of Art in London and wrote the highly acclaimed screenplay for The Krays (1990). He made his theatre debut at the Bush Theatre in 1991 with The Pitchfork Disney. Since then, other plays have included The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Hampstead, 1992), Ghost from a Perfect Place (Hampstead, 1994), Vincent River (Hampstead, 2000; Trafalgar Studios, 2007), and the highly controversial Mercury Fur (Paines Plough/Plymouth, 2005). This was followed by Leaves of Glass (Soho, 2007) and Piranah Heights (Soho, 2008). He's also written five plays for young people and many books for children, as well as directing two films from his own screenplays, The Reflecting Skin (1990) and The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995). Ridley continues to divide opinion: depending on your point of view, he's either Britain's sickest playwright or a singular, prolific, and amazingly visionary genius. What follows is an edited transcript of Aleks Sierz talking to Philip Ridley in one of the ‘Theatre Conversations’ series at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London, on 25 October 2007. Aleks Sierz, a Contributing Editor of NTQ, is theatre critic of Tribune and author of the seminal study In-Yer-Face Theatre (Faber, 2001).

The aim of the study was to compare the content of selected metals in raw chicken and goose liver. The study was carried out on three chicken breeds (New Hampshire, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island) obtained from National Research Institute of Animal Production in Balice and Zatory Landrace goose breed obtained from Department of Poultry, Fur Animal Breeding and Animal Hygiene-Experimental Station in Rzaska. The analysis of Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn and Cd were performed in 24 samples by atomic absorption spectrometry (using Varian AA240Z and AA240FS spectrometer) after microwave digestion (MARS Xpress, CEM). The concentrations of investigated minerals in chicken liver samples were found to be in the range of 63.09-146.47 mg/kg for iron, 3.46-5.34 mg/kg for copper, 2.99-4.99 mg/kg for manganese, 40.19 and 59.42 mg/kg for zinc and 0.03- 0.06 mg/kg for cadmium. The minerals content of goose liver was found to be much higher as compared to chicken liver. Minerals content in goose liver samples were to be in the range of 52.93-659.84 mg/kg for iron, 39.32-64.45 mg/kg for copper, 3.43-5.32 mg/kg for manganese, 50.87-67.20 mg/kg for zinc and 1.10-4.12 mg/kg for cadmium. The concentration of cadmium found in chicken liver in most instances is lower than the limits established by European Union legislation, in contrast to goose liver, where the concentration of cadmium highly exceeds the limits.