Kops Plays Three

Author : Bernard Kops
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783194715
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kops: Plays Three written by Bernard Kops and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of Peter Mann was first produced at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 1960 and is a bold exploration of what it is to live in a world threatened by nuclear annihilation. In Enter Solly Gold, an irreverent and much lighter work, Kops’ protagonist fleeces a family of vulgar snobs, reducing them to penury but also introducing them to an enjoyment of life. Who Shall I Be Tomorrow? was a hit at the Greenwich Theatre in 1982 with Joanna Lumley as the frighteningly deluded woman trying to flee her own reality by building herself a world of daydreams.

Author : Bernard Kops
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840021776
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kops: Plays Three written by Bernard Kops and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of Peter Mann was first produced at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 1960 and is a bold exploration of what it is to live in a world threatened by nuclear annihilation. In Enter Solly Gold, an irreverent and much lighter work, Kops' protagonist fleeces a family of vulgar snobs, reducing them to penury but also introducing them to an enjoyment of life. Who Shall I Be Tomorrow? was a hit at the Greenwich Theatre in 1982 with Joanna Lumley as the frighteningly deluded woman trying to flee her own reality by building herself a world of daydreams.

Author : William Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611476577
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Kops written by William Baker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the work of contemporary writer Bernard Kops. Born on November 28, 1926 to Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops became famous after the production of his play The Hamlet of Stepney Green: A Sad Comedy with Some Songs in 1958. This play, like much of his work, focuses on the conflicts between young and old. Identified as an “angry young man,” Kops, like his contemporaries John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, and Harold Pinter, belonged to the so-called new wave of British drama that emerged in the mid-1950s. Kops went on to create important documentaries about the Blitz and living in London during the early 1940s. He has written two autobiographies, over ten novels, many journalistic pieces, and more than forty plays for TV, stage, and radio. A prolific poet, Kops has authored a long pamphlet poem and eight poetry collections. Now in his mid-80s, the prolific and versatile Kops still produces, his creativity undimmed by age.

Author : Bernard Kops
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kops: Plays One written by Bernard Kops and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bernard Kop's world, escape is always an escape from the inescapable, from one trap to another.

Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135984
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s written by Jeanette R. Malkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical development of British-Jewish theatre from the 1950s onwards, beginning with an analysis of the first generation of writers that now forms the core of post-war British drama (including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker) and moving on to significant thematic force-fields and faultlines such as the Holocaust, antisemitism and Israel/Palestine. The book also covers the new generation of British-Jewish playwrights, with a special emphasis on the contribution of women writers and the role of particular theatres in the development of British-Jewish theatre, as well as TV drama. Included in the book are fascinating interviews with a set of significant theatre practitioners working today, including Ryan Craig, Patrick Marber, John Nathan, Julia Pascal and Nicholas Hytner. The companion addresses, not only aesthetic and ideological concerns, but also recent transformations with regard to institutional contexts and frameworks of cultural policies.

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507433
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Playwrights, 1956-1995 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.

Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878707
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays For and By the Contemporary Stage written by Michael Dobson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeare’s plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dramatist or another over the last half century? Among other key figures, Edward Bond, Heiner Müller, Carmelo Bene, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard, Howard Barker, Botho Strauss, Tim Crouch, Bernard Marie Koltès, and Normand Chaurette have all put their radical originality into the service of adapting four-century-old classics. The resulting works provide food for thought on issues such as Shakespearean role-playing, narrative and structural re-shuffling. Across the world, new writers have questioned the political implications and cultural stakes of repeating Shakespeare with and without a difference, finding inspiration in their own national experiences and in the different ordeals they have undergone. How have our contemporaries carried out their rewritings, and with what aims? Can we still play Hamlet, for instance, as Dieter Lesage asks in his book bearing this title, or do we have to “kill Shakespeare” as Normand Chaurette implies in a work where his own creative process is detailed? What do these rewritings really share with their sources? Are they meaningful only because of Shakespeare’s shadow haunting them? Where do we draw the lines between “interpretation,” “adaptation” and “rewriting”? The contributors to this collection of essays examine modern rewritings of Shakespeare from both theoretical and pragmatic standpoints. Key questions include: can a rewriting be meaningful without the reader’s or spectator’s already knowing Shakespeare? Do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare’s texts or curate them? Does the survival of Shakespeare in the theatrical repertory actually depend on the continued dramatization of our difficult encounters with these potentially obsolete scripts represented by rewriting?

Author : Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Survey of Drama: Victor Hugo - John Marston written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Jane Miller
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774843217
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Up the Contrast written by Mary Jane Miller and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and a survey history of how Canadians have used the medium to tell themselves their own stories. As a part of her research, Mary Jane Miller watched thousands of hours of television, sampling series and viewing in their entirety shorter programs such as movies and mini-series. Asking a variety of questions, she selected a number of programs for detailed analysis, and devotees of The Beachcombers, King of Kensington, Seeing Things, Cariboo Country, Wojeck or A Gift to Last will be pleased to find their favourites among those discussed at length. A University of British Columbia Press / CBC Enterprises Co-Publication.