Ten Plagues And The Coronation Of Poppea
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Ten Plagues And The Coronation Of Poppea
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Author : Mark Ravenhill
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Ten Plagues And The Coronation Of Poppea written by Mark Ravenhill and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Drama categories.
In London Came the plague in sixteen sixty five One hundred thousand dead But I alive. London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eye-witness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten Plagues relates one man's journey through a city in crisis. Told entirely through a series of songs, Ten Plagues explores humanity's struggle with sickness and death and celebrates our capacity for survival. This volume also contains The Coronation of Poppea, a new version of Monteverdi's opera depicting the triumphant adultery between Poppea and Roman Emperor Nero. Tackling this tale of epic lives, Ravenhill updates Tacitus' scathing portrayal of decadence and imperial degeneracy with language which is contemporary, spare and brutally powerful. Taking opera librettos as a foundation, this volume presents two texts for modern music theatre by the seminally controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill. Mark Ravenhill's introduction to the volume explains the inspiration and writing process behind the two pieces.
Theatres Of Contagion
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Author : Fintan Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Theatres Of Contagion written by Fintan Walsh and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Performing Arts categories.
To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current political and cultural climate by exploring theatre's status as a contagious cultural force, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse range of practices from the early modern to contemporary period, the volume considers how this contagion is understood to happen and operate, its real and imagined effects, and how these have been a source of pleasure and fear for theatre makers, audiences and authorities. Drawing on perspectives from medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, law and affect theory, essays investigate some of the ways in which theatre can be viewed as a powerful agent of containment and transmission. Among the works analysed include a musical adaptation and an intercultural variation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; a contemporary queer take on Hamlet; Grand Guignol and theatres of horror; the writings and influence of Artaud; immersive theatre and the work of Punchdrunk, and computer gaming and smartphone apps
Performing The Queer Past
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Author : Fintan Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-24
Performing The Queer Past written by Fintan Walsh and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Drama categories.
'Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their hauntings, demands and manifestations in the present. This is a book about mourning as well as holding, a simultaneous act of exhumation and a laying to rest.' anna six, author of Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness 'This is an extraordinary book, in which queer theatre and performance become sites of celebration and resistance, as well as holding the potential for performers and audiences to work through painfully felt yet difficult to articulate experiences towards feelings of hope. Replete with rigorous, generous and creative readings, it is also a meditation on Walsh's own emotional engagement with queer theatre and performance, and how our cultural attachments can sustain, enliven and contain us.' Noreen Giffney, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis Why do contemporary queer theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the past? What aesthetic practices and dramaturgical devices reveal the occupation of the present by painful history? How might the experience of theatre and performance relieve the present of its most arduous burdens? Following recent legislation and cultural initiatives across many Western countries hailed as confirming the darkest days for LGBTQ+ people were over, this book turns our attention to artists fixed on history's enduring harm. Guiding us through an eclectic range of examples including theatre, performance, installation and digital practices, Fintan Walsh explores how this work reckons with complex cultural and personal histories. Among the issues confronted are the incarceration of Oscar Wilde, the Holocaust, racial and sexual objectification, the AIDS crisis and Covid-19, alongside more local and individual experiences of violence, trauma and grief. Walsh traces how the queer past is summoned and interrogated via what he elaborates as the aesthetics and dramaturgies of possession, which lend form to the still-stinging aches and generative potential of injury, injustice and loss. These strategies expose how the past continues to haunt and disturb the present, while calling on those of us who feel its force to respond to history's unresolved hurt.
Shopping And F Ing
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Author : Mark Ravenhill
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-16
Shopping And F Ing written by Mark Ravenhill and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-16 with Performing Arts categories.
It's summer. I'm in a supermarket. It's hot and I'm sweaty. Damp. And I'm watching this couple shopping. I'm watching you. And you're both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that I'm going to have you. With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink-wrapped world. A place where shopping is sexy and fucking is a job. Ravenhill's play is a prophetic vision of our twenty-first century world. It received its world premiere in 1996 in a production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre, and has been published in this edition to coincide with the 2016 revival of the play at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.
Ravenhill Plays 3
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Author : Mark Ravenhill
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-04
Ravenhill Plays 3 written by Mark Ravenhill and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-04 with Drama categories.
'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
Les Altres Guerres De Religi
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Author : Xavier Torres i Sans
language : ca
Publisher: Documenta Universitaria
Release Date : 2012-11-30
Les Altres Guerres De Religi written by Xavier Torres i Sans and has been published by Documenta Universitaria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with History categories.
La historiografia acostuma a reservar la denominació de guerres de religió per a un seguit de conflictes de llarga durada, inevitablement virulents, i que van esquinçar, dogmàticament i dramàticament, esglésies, governants i comunitats senceres. Tanmateix, a l’Europa moderna, els conflictes que involucraven la religió, directament o indirecta, per activa o per passiva, no eren únicament d’aquesta índole, sinó que també es van dirimir en l’àmbit del pensament en general, la creació artística i –no cal dir-ho- la política. Sobretot, perquè la religió –o allò que es presentava com a tal- era en realitat un llenguatge susceptible d’expressar i canalitzar antagonismes de tota mena. Hi hagueren, doncs, “guerres culturals”, en l’accepció sociològica i actual del mot, que no podien no ser, alhora, guerres de religió o una variant del gènere. I guerres convencionals, dinàstiques i territorials, que tampoc no amagaren mai la seva vessant confessional, interessada o genuïna. Aquest llibre col·lectiu tracta justament d’aquestes altres guerres de religió en una perspectiva comparada i interdisciplinar. \n\n
Sound Of The Crowd A Discography Of The 80s Fourth Edition
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Author : Steve Binnie
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Sound Of The Crowd A Discography Of The 80s Fourth Edition written by Steve Binnie and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Performing Arts categories.
SOUND OF THE CROWD: A DISCOGRAPHY OF THE '80s is the ultimate record collector's guide to the 1980s. In the era of multi-formatting, picture discs, coloured vinyl, multiple remixes, funny shaped records and tiny CDs you could lose down the back of the sofa, this book lists every format of every single, EP and album released in the UK in the 1980s by over 140 of the decade's biggest acts, from ABBA to Paul Young. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded to include even more acts than ever before, with additional sections to cover Band Aid-style charity congregations and compilation albums from the early '80s K-Tel efforts through to the Now That's What I Call Music series and its competitors. Compiled by Steve Binnie, editor of the '80s music website Sound of the Crowd and writer, producer and co-host of the unconventional '80s chart show Off The Chart, broadcast weekly on Mad Wasp Radio.
A Life Of Galileo
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Author : Bertolt Brecht
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-03-28
A Life Of Galileo written by Bertolt Brecht and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Drama categories.
A play that "charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun"--Amazon.com.
Sleeping Around
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Author : Mark Ravenhill
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-02-17
Sleeping Around written by Mark Ravenhill and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-17 with Drama categories.
Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan Sleeping Around is about love and sex in Britain as we approach the millennium. In a dozen scenes of likely and unlikely connections, two actors (Sophie Stanton and John Lloyd Fillingham) play a variety of couples whose ordinary lives erupt in extraordinary moments.
Ben And Imo
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Author : Mark Ravenhill
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Release Date : 2024-02-22
Ben And Imo written by Mark Ravenhill and has been published by Methuen Drama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-22 with Drama categories.
The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I.Into the world of the disheartened composer enters the exuberant and passionate Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav and an accomplished musician in her own right. Her candid and can-do attitude proves to be the perfect foil for the capricious and often maddening Britten, and what begins as an arrangement of practical support turns into a bond that not only sees Gloriana to its premiere but endures throughout the rest of their lives.This edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the Swan Theatre, Stratford, in February 2024.