A Politic Theatre The Drama Of David Hare
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A Politic Theatre The Drama Of David Hare
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Author : Scott Fraser
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-06-08
A Politic Theatre The Drama Of David Hare written by Scott Fraser and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This analysis of twenty published texts by David Hare employs definitions from contemporary semiotic literary theory as a means of describing typologies of political drama. By tracing the incorporation of stylistic devices from agitational propaganda (caricature, self-referentiality, the frisson between oral and visual signification) throughout the typologies, the study illustrates how each text subverts audience expectation based on established dramatic genres. The collection of texts is seen as inherently self-referential and politically subversive. At the centre of each typology is a protagonist who functions as a martyr to or parodic emblem of contemporary society. Consistently, the hermeticism of public institutions which represent the political status quo makes them immune from any form of individual protest from the Left or Right. In the satirical anatomy, the emblem of political dissent is coopted by involvement within the institution, or the stage is dominated by a conservative who controls the action. In the demythology, private individuals are seen as incapable of altering the public frame of history; but here private suffering subverts the collective mythology of the historical construct. In the martyrology, the emblem of dissent is associated with a moral virtue which is inimical to contemporary society, the audience's expectation of the triumph of the individual being subverted when he/she is expelled from the onstage world on the grounds of political ideology. It is only in the final typology, the conversion, that a conservative emblem is seen as directly influenced by such martyrdom, and the audience is provided with an actual example of political change. Thus, the study describes how each typology builds on the construction of the previous, and all generate from agitational propaganda.
David Hare
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Author : Judy Lee Oliva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
David Hare written by Judy Lee Oliva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A comprehensive examination of British playwright/director David Hare's work in the past decades. Included are textual analyses of over twenty plays, television scripts, and feature films, addressing both literary and performance issues. The texts are explored in relation to content, form, and style, and how each of these components work together or alone to produce Hare's sociopolitical critique. Illustrated with photographs from productions directed by Hare. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Gethsemane
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Author : David Hare
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-04-18
Gethsemane written by David Hare and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody's advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane. Gethsemane, David Hare's fourteenth original play for the National Theatre, London, premiered in November 2008.
Obedience Struggle Revolt
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Author : David Hare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-04
Obedience Struggle Revolt written by David Hare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-04 with Drama categories.
What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as his work has taken him from the travelling fringe to the National Theatre, from seasons on Broadway to performances in prisons, church halls and on bare floors.Since 1978, Hare has sought uniquely to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad. Now, for the first time, these lectures are collected together with some of his more recent prose pieces about God, Iraq, Israel/Palestine and the privatisation of the railways.Bringing to the lectern the same wit, insight and gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare presents the distilled result of a lifetime's sustained thinking about art and politics.
Obedience Struggle And Revolt
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Author : David Hare
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-02-20
Obedience Struggle And Revolt written by David Hare and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Performing Arts categories.
What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as his work has taken him from the travelling fringe to the National Theatre, from seasons on Broadway to performances in prisons, church halls and on bare floors. Since 1978, Hare has sought uniquely to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad. Now, for the first time, these lectures are collected together with some of his more recent prose pieces about God, Iraq, Israel/Palestine and the privatisation of the railways. Bringing to the lectern the same wit, insight and gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare presents the distilled result of a lifetime's sustained thinking about art and politics. 'The foremost theatrical chronicler of contemporary British life.' New York Times 'Our best writer of contemporary drama.' Sunday Times
The Absence Of War
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Author : David Hare
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-03-21
The Absence Of War written by David Hare and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with Performing Arts categories.
The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays ( Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions. Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn between past principles and future prosperity, and of a deeply sympathetic leader doomed to failure, made the play hugely controversial and prophetic when it was first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993.
The Plays Of David Hare
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Author : Carol Homden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-03-09
The Plays Of David Hare written by Carol Homden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-09 with Drama categories.
This 1995 book examines the work of David Hare including screenplays and the plays he has written for the Royal National Theatre.
New British Political Dramatists
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Author : John Bull
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
New British Political Dramatists written by John Bull and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bespreking van een hedendaagse stroming bij het Engelse toneel, gezien tegen de politieke achtergrond van de jaren 1968-1983, met speciale aandacht voor het werk van een viertal auteurs.
I M Not Running
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Author : David Hare
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2018-10-11
I M Not Running written by David Hare and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Drama categories.
Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, Jack Gould, who has made his way in Labour party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.What's involved in sacrificing your private life and your peace of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as 'the premiere political dramatist writing in English.' His explosive new play portrays the history of a twenty year intimate friendship and its public repercussions.David Hare's new play I'm not Running, premieres at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018.
Performance And Politics In Popular Drama
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Author : David Bradby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1980
Performance And Politics In Popular Drama written by David Bradby and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Drama categories.
Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.