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Book Synopsis The Steward of Christendom by : Sebastian Barry
Download or read book The Steward of Christendom written by Sebastian Barry and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The fifth play in a cycle of plays about the author's Irish family, THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM is a freely imagined portrait of the author's great-grandfather, Thomas Dunne, the last Chief Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
Book Synopsis Once Before I Go by : Phillip McMahon
Download or read book Once Before I Go written by Phillip McMahon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can paint your placards 'til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it is to truly be a faggot on the front line. Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go charts the close friendship of Lynn, Daithí, and the luminous Bernard, and sits on the exhilarating edge between comedy, tragedy and melodrama. Exploring the fragile yet resilient bonds of Irish queer lives across three decades in Dublin, London and Paris, the play steps between the early days of the AIDS crisis and today's LGBTQ+ community, living in an era of marriage equality, gender self-determination, and untransmittable HIV. At once political, joyous and heart-breaking, Once Before I Go honours the fabulous people we lost along the way, and celebrates those who fight on. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Dublin's Gate Theatre in October 2021.
Download or read book Beginning written by David Eldridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wry, funny and touching meditation on loneliness, that private shame of the singleton in the era of the dating app and of fraudulent boasting on social media ... written with a real depth of insight, humour, compassion and a keen sense of the ridiculous...” The Independent It's the early hours of the morning in the aftermath of Laura's housewarming party. Danny, 42, divorced and living with his mother, is the last remaining guest. The flat is in a mess and so are they. One more drink? This sharp and astute two-hander takes an intimate look in real-time at the first fragile moments of risking your heart and taking a chance. Both comedic and tender, it asks questions about mutual loneliness and human connections. Beginning premiered at the National Theatre, London in October 2017. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Sarah Grochala.
Book Synopsis Chekhov's First Play by : Dead Centre
Download or read book Chekhov's First Play written by Dead Centre and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell.’ – Anton Chekhov During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton’s sister, placed many of her late brother’s manuscripts and papers in a safety deposit box in Moscow. In 1921 Soviet scholars opened the box, and discovered a play. The title page was missing. The play they found has too many characters, too many themes, too much action. All in all, it’s generally dismissed as unstageable. Like life. A new play by Dead Centre, creators of the OBIE / Fringe First winning LIPPY.
Book Synopsis The Visiting Hour by : Frank McGuinness
Download or read book The Visiting Hour written by Frank McGuinness and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You used to swing me on our garden gate. In and out, in and out - out and in, me, on top of the gate, safe because I was in your arms, my father's big strong arms. Recalling events that may or may not have happened, people he may or may not have known, an elderly father weaves his life, funny, angry, poignant, as if in a dream.His daughter, perched outside his window, as close as the pandemic allows, responds with conflicting memories. They sing and argue, they broach dangerous ground, their profound love apparent despite themselves, until the visiting hour is up. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, Frank McGuinness's The Visiting Hour premiered in April 2021 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the first online Gate At Home production.
Book Synopsis Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940 by : Ruud van den Beuken
Download or read book Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940 written by Ruud van den Beuken and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which quickly became renowned for producing stylistically and dramaturgically innovative plays in a uniquely avant-garde setting. While the Gate’s lasting importance to the history of Irish theater is generally its introduction of experimental foreign drama to Ireland, Van den Beuken shines a light on the Gate’s productions of several new Irish playwrights, such as Denis Johnston, Mary Manning, David Sears, Robert Collis, and their patrons Edward and Christine Longford. Having grown up during an era of political turmoil and bloodshed that included the creation of an independent yet—in many ways—bitterly divided Ireland, these dramatists chose to align themselves with an avant-garde theater that explicitly sought to establish Dublin as a modern European capital. In examining an extensive corpus of archival resources, Van den Beuken reveals how the Gate Theatre became a site of avant-garde nationalism in the Ireland’s tumultuous first post-independence decades.
Download or read book Tribes written by Nina Raine and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: "The Royal Court Theatre presents."
Book Synopsis Cultural Convergence by : Ondřej Pilný
Download or read book Cultural Convergence written by Ondřej Pilný and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider the output of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence the dynamics of exchange, interaction, and acculturation that reveal the workings of transnational infrastructures.
Book Synopsis The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay by : Brian Friel
Download or read book The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay written by Brian Friel and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE YALTA GAME. Developed from a theme in Chekhov’s 1899 story “The Lady with the Dog.” Two strangers meet on holiday and almost manage to convince one another that disappointments are “merely the postponement of the complete happiness to come…” (1 man, 1 woman.) THE BEAR. Elena Popova, a young and attractive widow, has immersed herself in the role of mourning for her philandering but now dead husband. Luka, her frail and ancient manservant, tries in vain to snap her out of it. Then Gregory Smirnov barges in… (2 men, 1 woman.) AFTERPLAY. 1920s Moscow, a small, run-down café. Uncle Vanya’s niece, Sonya Serebriakova, now in her forties, is the only customer. Until the arrival of the Three Sisters’ put-upon brother Andrey Prozorov. (1 man, 1 woman.)
Download or read book Port Authority written by Conor McPherson and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play about three men. Kevin is in his twenties and has just left home. Dermot, in his thirties, is essentially a loser. And Joe, in his seventies, is at the end of a good life. Each has a story to tell - and each story is really about love. Sort of.
Download or read book The Beacon written by Nancy Harris and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Beacon, Beiv, a celebrated artist, has moved from suburban Dublin to her holiday cottage on an island off the coast of West Cork. But a dark shadow from the past hangs over her.
Download or read book Our New Girl written by Nancy Harris and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... A serious study of a well-heeled but harassed contemporary woman trying to keep her marriage and family from fraying. At the same time, Ms. Harris stocks her play with the classic elements of a thriller: a sullen child who may harbor violent impulses, a comely nanny who may not be as innocent as she appears"--New York Times.
Book Synopsis A Stage of Emancipation by : Marguérite Corporaal
Download or read book A Stage of Emancipation written by Marguérite Corporaal and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library on publication. As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate's founders, Hilton Edwards and Michéal mac Liammóir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell's current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate's agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R. Walsh, Feargal Whelan
Download or read book Suzy Storck written by Magali Mougel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another unbearably hot evening. 8:54pm. Suzy Storck sits by the window on this hot and airless night, waiting for her husband to come home. Upstairs she can hear her children, yelling and clamouring at their bedroom door. She's locked them in. Suzy realises she never chose any of this. She wonders how she ended up here. After tonight, she might never find her way out. This stark play, written in disrupted, non-chronological verse, reflects the lonely, monotonous, and exhausting life of a mother of three. As the minutes of the hot night pass, the action flicks back to when she worked in a chicken packing factory, met her Hans Vassily Kreuz, and how she never really wanted children. Her life now resembles a production line, as she keeps everyone and everything serviced, a life commented on throughout by a Chorus. With a chilling ending, Suzy Storck is a stark comment of society's expectations of motherhood and family. It was performed in this English translation to critical acclaim, at the Gate Theatre, London, in 2017.
Download or read book The Convert written by Danai Gurira and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Shona girl escapes an arranged marriage by converting to Christianity, becoming a servant and student to an African Evangelical. As anti-European sentiments spread throughout the native population, she is forced to choose between her family's traditions and her newfound faith.
Download or read book Grounded written by George Brant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2013. Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2013. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Grounded tells the story of a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in the Middle East from an air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, the Pilot struggles through surreal twelve-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. A tour de force play for one actress, Grounded flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family, and the power of storytelling. Grounded was the winner of the 2012 Smith Prize.
Download or read book The Weir written by Conor McPherson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In a bar in rural Ireland, the local men swap spooky stories in an attempt to impress a young woman from Dublin who recently moved into a nearby haunted house. However, the tables are soon turned when she spins a yarn of her own.
