Scandaltown

Author : David Gram
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040014356
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage written by David Gram and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce has evolved in the 21st century. Often dismissed as frivolous, farce speaks a universal language, with the power to incisively interrogate our world through laughter. Unlike farces of the past, where a successful resolution was a given and we could laugh uproariously at adulterous behaviour, farce no longer guarantees an audience a happy ending where everything works out. Contemporary farce is no longer ‘diverting us’ with laughter. It is reflecting the fractured world around us. With a foreword by award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, the book introduces readers to the Mechanics of Farce, and the ‘Four Ps,’ which are key elements for understanding, appreciating, and exploring the form. The Five Doors to Contemporary Farce identify five major categories into which farces fall. Behind each door are a wide selection of plays, modern and contemporary examples from all over the world, written by a diverse group of playwrights who traverse gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Supplementing each section are comments, observations, and reflections from award-winning playwrights, directors, actors, designers, dramaturgs, and scholars. Designed specifically to give theatre-makers a rounded understanding that will underpin their own productions, this book will also be of use to theatre and performance studies students.

Author : Mike Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784607081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandaltown written by Mike Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When noble heroine Miss Phoebe Virtue receives worrisome news on Instagram that her twin brother Jack may be endangering his reputation in London Town, she decides she must visit herself, and investigate... Set in contemporary, post-pandemic London, full of illicit sex, political hypocrisy and the machinations of a fame-hungry elite, Scandaltown is a comedy for the new Restoration of the theatres. Mike Bartlett's play was first produced by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, in association with Fictional Company, at the Lyric in April 2022, directed by Artistic Director Rachel O'Riordan.

Author : William C. Boles
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040035698
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Bartlett written by William C. Boles and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the most talented playwrights to have emerged in the late 2000s, Mike Bartlett's diverse range of plays strike at the heart of the various crises predominant in the early twenty-first century. Offering the first extensive examination of the plays and television series written by award winning playwright Mike Bartlett, this volume not only provides analysis of some of Bartlett’s best-known works (Cock, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, and Albion), but also includes new interviews with Bartlett and some of his closest and oft relied upon collaborators. In this book, Bartlett’s plays and television series are grouped together thematically, allowing the reader to observe the cross-pollination between his works on the stage and screen. The book also includes an introductory biographical chapter that discusses early influences on his writing (Harold Pinter, Mark Ravenhill, Tony Kushner, and Quentin Tarantino), his time in the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court, and his work with the Apathists. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists is a series of innovative and exciting critical introductions to the work of internationally pioneering playwrights, giving undergraduate students an ideal point of entry into these key figures in modern drama.

Author : William Thomas Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales and Allegories written by William Thomas Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 185? with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitchell Peebles
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039194311
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United Sentry written by Mitchell Peebles and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a nuclear war that drove the survivors to seek refuge underground for 100 years, humanity is finally making a comeback—or so it appears. As people work together to rebuild their communities, both big and small, little do they realize they’re facing an even bigger threat than the one that nearly doomed their civilization. And this time the danger isn’t from Earth. Fleeing a deadly global conflict on their own planet, a steady stream of refugees from Venus is showing up on our planet, wreaking havoc wherever they go. An elite group known as Sentry is charged with fighting the aliens and keeping their existence a secret from the general public. While Sentry has been successful so far, the Venusians are about to raise the stakes. Foremost amongst the Sentry agents is Ryland Ambrose, an elite warrior with exceptional abilities who was recruited into the program as a young child. As he battles against the increasingly dire alien menace, Ryland is also wrestling with a host of internal demons. If he fails to overcome them, not only could his own life be in peril, he could also jeopardize the entire mission, plunging Earth once more into a fiery maelstrom of chaos and death.

Author : Mike Bartlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350336718
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cock written by Mike Bartlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact is that some of us like women and some like men and that's fine that's good in fact that's good, a good thing, but it seems to me that you've become confused. John is happy in himself, and with his boyfriend, until one day he meets the woman of his dreams. In a world full of endless possibilities why must we still limit ourselves with labels? Mike Bartlett's razor sharp play about love and identity redefines the battle of the sexes as we know it. Cock premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 13 November 2009. This new and revised edition was published to coincide with the West End production in 2022, starring Jonathan Bailey, Taron Egerton and Jade Anouka.

Author : Margaret Truman
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449213323
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Georgetown written by Margaret Truman and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After one of journalism professor George Albert Brown's senior students is murdered, the others, determined to find the killer themselves, turn up clues of their own--including a tie to the South African government." --

Author : Mike Bartlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350138827
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthquakes in London written by Mike Bartlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone.... You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out. Earthquakes in London is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe. The play deals, through amplified theatricality, with a range of contemporary issues from population growth to climate change. An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again. Earthquakes in London first published in 2010 and has subsequently become a much-produced and widely studied drama text. It is published here as a Student Edition alongside commentary and notes by Bridget Escolme. The ancillary material is geared at students and includes: - an introduction outlining the play's plot, character, themes context and performance history - the full text of the play - a chronology of the playwright's life and work - extensive textual notes - questions for further study - an interview with the playwright

Author : Emma Cole
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031430670
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punchdrunk on the Classics written by Emma Cole and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbie J Pilato
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149685280X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Tough Dame written by Herbie J Pilato and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work — from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award–winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem Game of Thrones. This eclectic volume traces Rigg’s career as a renowned star of television, film, and the stage. The author includes insights from rare, archived interviews, encompassing both video dialogues conducted by the University of Kent and Oxford Union. The meticulously curated archival material is further complemented by equally rare photos and retrospections drawn from diverse media sources and hitherto unpublished accounts from the people who knew Rigg best, affording readers an unprecedented, all-encompassing glimpse into her private world. With exclusive commentary from Rupert Macnee (son of Riggs’s Avengers costar and dear friend Patrick Macnee); the show’s stunt coordinator/director Ray Austin; actors Samuel West, Bernie Kopell, Barbara Barrie, Juliet Mills, John Schuck, and Damon Evans; director Bruce Beresford; and documentarian David Naylor, among others, One Tough Dame delivers an in-depth perspective of a beloved, brave, brilliant, and trailblazing actor.