The Plays Of David Storey
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The Plays Of David Storey
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Author : William Hutchings
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1988
The Plays Of David Storey written by William Hutchings and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first comprehensive play-by-play analysis of the drama of David Storey, one of the most acclaimed and innovative, sometimes controversial, writers in the British theatre since World War II. Grouping the plays according to theme, Hutchings demonstrates that the central focus in the drama of David Storey is the devaluation of traditional rituals in contemporary life and the disintegration of the family. A playwright attuned to the poetry in the ordinary, to the profundity, subtle eloquence, and dramatic tension in the mundane, Storey explores the ways people cope, or fail to cope, with complexity, with uncertainty, with constant, bewildering flux. He writes about groups—families (In Celebration, The Farm), rugby teams (The Changing Room), and construction crews (The Contractor). In his plays, individuals seek to overcome isolation and integrate themselves into a significant assemblage that transcends the self. Hutchings notes that Storey frequently deals with working-class parents who cannot "understand their grown children’s anxieties, their discontentedness with life, their unstable marriages, and their inability to enjoy the benefits of the education and advantages they labored so hard for so many years to provide." Storey understands and sympathizes with parents who have paid to educate their children out of their own spheres. He saw it happen in his own family, knew the disapproval of his father: "What else could my father think when, nearing sixty, he came home each day from the pit exhausted, shattered by fatigue, to find me—a young man ideally physically equipped to do the job which now left him totally prostrated—painting a picture of flowers, or writing a poem about a cloud. There was, and there is, no hope of reconciliation." Hutchings supplements his thematic analysis of Storey’s plays by interweaving into his text 90 percent of a major interview with the playwright, the only such comprehensive interview in existence. Storey, who believes that readers "ought to be chary of all interviews," discusses alleged literary influences on his work, the current state of British theatre, and his reactions to critics. He also provides insight into various productions and performances in his work.
The Plays Of David Storey
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Author : Charles L. O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Plays 3
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary Dramatists
Release Date : 1998
Plays 3 written by David Storey and has been published by Contemporary Dramatists this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
This third volume of David Storey's plays includes the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. The book comes with an introduction from Storey, explaining the meanings behind the plays.
Storey Plays 1
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Storey Plays 1 written by David Storey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Drama categories.
"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian) The Contractor: "A subtle and poetic parable about the nature and joy of skilled work, the meaning of community and the effect of its loss" (Observer); Home: "about the solitude and dislocation of madness and...the decline of Britain itself...part of the play's appeal is that Storey leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions...a play that contains within itself the still, sad music of humanity." (Guardian); Stages: "...an elegy for lost times and places, an obituary that has been free-associated by the corpse-to-be...Storey once said that a play 'lives almost in the measure that it escapes and refuses definition'. He has always been a writer who hints rather than states, let alone hectors." (The Times); Caring, a companion piece to Stages, reflects a reassessment and renegotiation of the conflict between life and art.
Storey Plays 3
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Storey Plays 3 written by David Storey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Drama categories.
The latest collection of David Storey's plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. Introduced by the author This third volume of David Storey's plays contains The Changing Room (Royal Court 1971): "If The Changing Room is Storey's most powerful drama, it is because he has found in sport his purest metaphor for the war of existence" (Time Magazine); Cromwell (Royal Court 1973): "An exploration of the vices and virtues of the English Puritan instinct using the historical associations of the Cromwellian period. On top of that it is also an impressive piece of poetic drama employing a spare, flinty, concrete language that seems to be hewn out of rock...a rich and complex play" (Guardian); Life Class: "a portrait of a man, dangerous, controlled, and wounded, who brings down his whole career in one enormous gesture signifying that all we hold of good from the past is now incapable of renewal and irrelevant to our present needs...Life Class is not merely a very good play. It is a blazing masterpiece...It is a tremendous experience and its glare lights up the sky." (Sunday Times) "David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)
Storey Plays 2
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Storey Plays 2 written by David Storey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Drama categories.
"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)
Home
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Home written by David Storey 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 2013-12-11 with Drama categories.
One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place . . . That is the nature of this little island. As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain. What they discuss is superficially anything that can pass the time. What is portrayed is the very essence of England, Englishness, class, unfulfilled ambition, loves lost and homes that no longer exist. Storey's timeless play is a beautiful, compassionate, tragic and darkly funny study of the human mind and a once-great nation coming to terms with its new place in the world.
The Farm
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Author : David Storey
language : en
Publisher: Samuel French , Limited
Release Date : 1974
The Farm written by David Storey and has been published by Samuel French , Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Drama categories.
The Plays Of David Storey
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Author : John Patrick Keane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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The Dramatic Art Of David Storey
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Author : Herbert Liebman
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1996-08-30
The Dramatic Art Of David Storey written by Herbert Liebman and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The only book to treat in detail all the plays of contemporary English playwright David Storey, this study focuses on the major themes found in his work: the worlds of madness, work, and the family. Storey's developing technique as a dramatist is closely examined and attention is given to his experimental concerns. In addition, Liebman identifies relationships between Storey's fiction and his drama, highlighting how similar themes and characters appear in both his novels and his plays. The study also includes discussion of contemporary thinking on Storey by scholars, critics, and theatre professionals.