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Playing with Canons
A collection of 18 plays.
Poor Fellas
THE STORIES: POOR FELLAS consists of six short tragicomedies. The PROLOGUE introduces Frank, a high-school sophomore who's just witnessed his first episode of humiliation at the local multiplex. In ROCKS, an aging minor-league baseball player has h
Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage
This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British scholars, as well as playwrights, adapters and stage directors, its scope is political, as it assesses the power of adaptations and history plays to offer a new perspective not only on the past and present, but also on the future. Along the way, burning contemporary social and political issues are explored, such as the place and role of women and ethnic minorities in today’s post-Brexit Britain. The volume builds into a dialogue between the ghosts of the past and their contemporary spectators. Starting with a focus on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, then concentrating on contemporary history plays set in the distant past, and ending with the contributions of famous playwrights sharing their experience, the book will be of interest to practitioners, as well as students and researchers in drama and performance studies.
The Dramatist
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Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher
This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel – who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin’s concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: “the history we haven’t had”. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.
The Contemporary History Play
Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics' familiar categories of historical drama. In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes. The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century. For theatre scholars, this book offers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play's recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.
The Best Plays of ..
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The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2007-2008
"Here in this 86th edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook are all of the many features that have long distinguished this indispensable reference work on the American theater. What makes the series unique is its unequaled depth and breadth of information on the season under review and its record of the key achievements in theater over a multitude of earlier seasons: detailed listings of all plays produced on and Off Broadway, and hundreds Off Off Broadway, between June 2004 and May 2005; essays by distinguished theater critics and commentators on all 10 of the chosen plays; listings of the longest-running plays and of the winners of the notable theater awards, in many cases ever since tho...
Horatio
Après la levée des corps de Hamlet, Laërte, Gertrude et Claudius, Fortinbras revient dans la grande salle d’Elseneur. Il nomme Horatio et un capitaine enquêteurs ; il ordonne l’arrestation du Maître d’armes. Lamord sort des rangs pour annoncer la fuite d’Osric et révèle la position suspecte de la Cour. Devant le tollé général, Fortinbras fait mettre Lamord aux arrêts. Puis il réunit la garde rapprochée du Roi Claudius qui évoque l’assassinat du conseiller Polonius, la mort de sa fille Ophélie, et la vengeance de Laërte. Lors des funérailles royales, Fortinbras reçoit les ambassadeurs anglais pour connaître la nature de leur mission. Puis la nourrice d’Ophélie ...
