Ravenhill Plays 1

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472518683
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 1 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism." - Financial Times Shopping and Fucking: "is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ... a real coup de theatre" - Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard Faust: "...an intelligent and witty reappropriation of the legend ... alive, pertinent and disturbing" - Michael Coveney, Observer Handbag: "...combines urban grit with sly wit, and reveals Mark Ravenhill as a writer of real daring" - Daily Telegraph Some Explicit Polaroids: "laudably ambitious, pulsates with energy ... very funny" - Financial Times

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Ravenhill Plays: 1 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collected-colume of plays from the most important playwright of the last decade.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350108820
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cane written by Mark Ravenhill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration to mark his retirement. But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students have gathered. A brick has been thrown through the window, he and his wife haven't left the house for six days, and now his estranged daughter has arrived with her own questions. Why would they attack the most popular teacher in the school? The Cane explores power, control, identity and gender as well as considering the major failure of the echo-chamber of liberalism.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408110040
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life. The plays that make up Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat began life at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Ravenhill for Breakfast (produced by Paines Plough), winning a Fringe First award, and the Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe award. They form a collage of very different scenes, with each taking its title from a classic work. The plays were presented in April 2008 in various venues across London, from Notting Hill to a Victorian warehouse in Shoreditch, via Sloane Square and the South Bank. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat was originally developed in association with the National Theatre Studio and Paines Plough, and was first produced as Ravenhill for Breakfast at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August 2007 by Paines Plough, with the support of David Johnson.

Author : Voltaire,
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472526813
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the world's an Xbox and you're a player Candide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. But that belief is about to be tested as Candide's comfortable life is overtaken by an endless barrage of misfortune. First published in 1759, the story traces the journey of a young man who leads a sheltered life, believing that mankind lives in the best of all possible worlds and that everything happens for the best. But Candide's happiness comes to a sharp end when he is unfairly evicted from his uncle's castle for kissing his cousin and true love, Lady Cunégonde. Cast out into the big wide world, Candide is forced to confront reality. As his world collapses around him, we are transported across the centuries to new locations and parallel universes. How will Candide's optimism fare when it collides with life in the twenty-first century?

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472512995
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 3 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation' Time Out Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: 'A dramatic cycle that is, in its way, epic, but is splintered into many small shards... touches deftly on the impact of war on everyone involved' Financial Times Over There:'Ravenhill explores postwar Germany's division and unification through the power battles between twin brothers. The result is fantastically clever and ingenious' Guardian A Life in Three Acts: 'By turns charming, funny, informative and, in its final segment, lump-in-the-throat moving as Bourne charts the loss of friends and lovers to Aids, and contemplates old age' Guardian Ten Plagues: 'A remarkable song-cycle... it's the portrait of grief beyond measure that's so affecting and which this moving hour of solitudinous lamentation, confusion and defiance brings beautifully to the fore.' Telegraph Ghost Story: 'both a satire and a moving story about illness' Guardian The Experiment: 'Mark Ravenhill keeps things creepy in his monologue, The Experiment, in which he plays the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator... The story, and the narrator's level of complicity, keeps shifting. Ravenhill asks us to consider which version, if any, might be acceptable, and how much we might be willing to avert our eyes from for the greater good.' Independent

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472515471
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 2 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times. This second volume of plays brings together five plays from 2001-07. It includes Mother Clap's Molly House, a black comedy and celebration of human sexuality that premiered at the National Theatre in 2001; Citizenship, a bitter-sweet comedy about growing up that was developed by the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme in 2005; The Cut, a disturbing political fable that opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006; Product, Ravenhill's one man satire on the media industry that since its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005, has been produced around the world, and Pool (no water), a shocking examination of the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. The volume features an introduction by the author and a chronology of his work.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472518616
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenhill Plays: 2 written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times. This second volume of plays brings together five plays from 2001-07. It includes Mother Clap's Molly House, a black comedy and celebration of human sexuality that premiered at the National Theatre in 2001; Citizenship, a bitter-sweet comedy about growing up that was developed by the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme in 2005; The Cut, a disturbing political fable that opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006; Product, Ravenhill's one man satire on the media industry that since its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005, has been produced around the world, and Pool (no water), a shocking examination of the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. The volume features an introduction by the author and a chronology of his work.

Author : Robert Stock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350097861
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrity Translation in British Theatre written by Robert Stock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact that high-profile and well-known translators have on audience reception of translated theatre. Using Relevance Theory as a framework, the book demonstrates how prior knowledge of a celebrity translator's contextual background can affect the spectator's cognitive state and influence their interpretation of the play. Three canonical plays adapted for the British stage are analysed: Mark Ravenhill's translation of Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, Roger McGough's translation of Tartuffe by Molière and Simon Stephens' translation of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on interviews, audience feedback, reviews, blogs and social media posts, Stock examines the extent to which audiences infer the celebrity translator's own voice from their translations. In doing so, he adds new perspectives to the long-standing debate on the visibility of the translator in both the process of translating and the reception of the translation. Celebrity Translation in British Theatre offers an original approach to theatre translation that sheds light on the culture of celebrity and its capacity to attract new audiences to plays in translation.

Author : Mark Ravenhill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408148919
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faust is Dead written by Mark Ravenhill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Ravenhill's Faust (Faust is Dead) is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star. In a round of chat show appearances, he announces the Death of Man and the End of History. When he meets up with a young man who is on the run from his father, a leading software magnate, they embark on a hedonistic voyage across America. But in the play's bloody conclusion, they discover that not all events are virtual. "In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he's put videos and Net-surfing in FAUST. And it's no less stunning." (The Guardian)