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The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth

Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408184281
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth written by David Ian Rabey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jez Butterworth is the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful new British dramatist of the 21st century: his acclaimed play Jerusalem has had extended runs in the West End and on Broadway. This book is the first to examine Butterworth's writings for stage and film and to identify how and why his work appeals so widely and profoundly. It examines the way that he weaves suspenseful stories of eccentric outsiders, whose adventures echo widespread contemporary social anxieties, and involve surprising expressions of both violence and generosity. This book reveals how Butterworth unearths the strange forms of wildness and defiance lurking in the depths and at the edges of England: where unpredictable outbursts of humour highlight the intensity of life, and characters discover links between their haunting past and the uncertainties of the present, to create a meaningful future. Supplemented by essays from James D. Balestrieri and Elisabeth Angel-Perez, this is a clear and detailed source of reference for a new generation of theatre audiences, practitioners and directors who wish to explore the work of this seminal dramatist.

Plays

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848422261
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Plays written by Jez Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, ‘one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years’ (Time Out). This first volume of his Collected Plays contains that play plus the three that followed, as well as two short one-person pieces published here for the first time – everything in fact that precedes Jerusalem, ‘unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century’ (Guardian). Plays One includes: Mojo The Night Heron The Winterling Leavings (previously unpublished) Parlour Song The Naked Eye (previously unpublished) Introducing the plays is an interview with Jez Butterworth specially conducted for this volume.

Mojo and Other Plays

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559364188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Mojo and Other Plays written by Jez Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First collection of plays by the author of Jerusalem and the award-winning Mojo.

Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303062711X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth written by Sean McEvoy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.

Mojo

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848423633
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Mojo written by Jez Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the smash-hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 : 9781848420502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by Jez Butterworth and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land. On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, local waster and Lord of Misrule, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants to be taken to the fair, a vengeful father wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alcohol. Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in July 2009 in a production directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mark Rylance. It transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in January 2010, and played on Broadway in 2011. Jez Butterworth's play won the Evening Standard Best Play Award and the Critics Circle and Whatsonstage.com awards for Best New Play.

Hauntology

Author : Katy Shaw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319749684
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Hauntology written by Katy Shaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology turns to the past in order to make sense of the present, to understand how we got to this place and how to build a better future. Since the Year 2000, popular culture has been inundated with representations of those who occupy a space between being and non-being and defy ontological criteria. This Pivot explores a range of contemporary English literatures - from the poetry of Simon Armitage and the drama of Jez Butterworth, to the fiction of Zadie Smith and the stories of David Peace - that collectively unite to represent a twenty-first century world full of specters, reminiscence and representations of spectral encounters. These specters become visible and significant as they interact with a range of social, political and economic discourses that continue to speak to the contemporary period. The enduring fascination with the spectral offers valuable insights into a contemporary English culture in which spectral manifestations signal towards larger social anxieties as well as to specific historical events and recurrent cultural preoccupations. The specter confronts the contemporary with the necessity of participation, encouraging the realisation that we must engage with it in order to create meaning. Narrative agency is the primary motivating force of its return, and the repetition of the specter functions to highlight new meanings and perspectives. Harnessing hauntology as a lens through which to consider the specters haunting twenty-first century English writings, this Pivot examines the emergence of a vein of hauntological literature that profiles the pervasive presence of the past in our new millennium.

Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

Author : JEZ. BUTTERWORTH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848428676
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Jez Butterworth Plays: Two written by JEZ. BUTTERWORTH and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!' When Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2009, it served notice of an astonishing development in the career of a writer whose debut, Mojo, had premiered on the same stage nearly fifteen years before. Unearthing the mythic roots of contemporary English life, and featuring Mark Rylance in an indelible central performance as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, the play transferred to the West End and then to Broadway, before returning to the West End in 2011. 'Storming... restores one's faith in the power of theatre' Independent. 'Unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century' Guardian. Jerusalem was followed by the bewitching chamber play The River (Royal Court, 2012), a 'magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama' Time Out. 'A delicately unfolding puzzle... all of it is wrapped in marvellous language... extraordinary' The Times. This volume concludes with the multi-award-winning The Ferryman (Royal Court and West End, 2017; Broadway, 2018), an excavation of lives shattered by violence, set in a farmhouse in Northern Ireland in 1981. 'A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play... an instant classic' Independent. 'A magnificent play that uses, brilliantly, the vitality of live theatre to express the deadly legacy of violence' Financial Times. Also included here is the screenplay for the short film The Clear Road Ahead (2011), published here for the first time, and an edited transcript of a conversation between Butterworth and the playwright Simon Stephens.

Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama

Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137444533
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama written by Graham Saunders and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.

The River

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559364881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The River written by Jez Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitching new play from the award-winning author of Broadway hit Jerusalem.

Contemporary Welsh Plays

Author : Matthew Trevannion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472576594
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Welsh Plays written by Matthew Trevannion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Wales has famously celebrated its poets and novelists, but in the twenty-first century, it is the playwright asking the crucial questions. Never before have there been so many playwrights of all ages, from across Wales, finding the stage to be the home for their stories. This collection is the first to officially recognise this new wave of Welsh playwrights. It showcases a wide range of forms, themes and political concerns, as well as representing the most exciting voices at the forefront of Welsh drama, taking the temperature on what be considered to be the first golden age of Welsh playwriting. Tonypandemonium by Rachel Trezise The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated by Brad Birch Llwyth by Dafydd James (published in Welsh) Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler Bruised by Matthew Trevannion Featured in the volume are the following plays, along with a foreword by Professor David Ian Rabey of Aberystwyth University, and an introduction by the editors, Tim Price and Kate Wasserberg.

Contemporary Gothic Drama

Author : Kelly Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349953598
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Gothic Drama written by Kelly Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume is the first of its kind to examine the extraordinary prevalence and appeal of the Gothic in contemporary British theatre and performance. Chapters range from considerations of the Gothic in musical theatre and literary adaptation, to explorations of the Gothic’s power to haunt contemporary playwriting, macabre tourism and site-specific performance. By taking familiar Gothic motifs, such as the Gothic body, the monster and Gothic theatricality, and bringing them to a new contemporary stage, this collection provides a fresh and comprehensive take on a popular genre. Whilst the focus of the collection falls upon Gothic drama, the contents of the book will embrace an interdisciplinary appeal to scholars and students in the fields of theatre studies, literature studies, tourism studies, adaptation studies, cultural studies, and history.

Of Mud and Flame

Author : Matthew Harle
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1907222685
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Of Mud and Flame written by Matthew Harle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Penda's Fen, a 1974 BBC film that achieved mythic status. In 1974, the BBC broadcast the film Penda's Fen, leaving audiences mystified and spellbound. “Make no mistake. We had a major work of television last night,” The Times declared the next morning. Written by the playwright and classicist David Rudkin, the film follows Stephen, an 18-year-old boy, whose identity, sexuality, and suffocating nationalism unravels through a series of strange visions. After its original broadcast, Penda's Fen vanished into unseen mythic status, with only a single rebroadcast in 1990 sustaining its cult following. With a DVD release by the BFI in 2016, Penda's Fen has now become totemic for those interested in Britain's deep history, folklore, and landscape. Of Mud and Flame brings together writers, artists, and historians to excavate and explore this unique cornerstone of Britain's uncanny archive. Contributors include David Rudkin, Sukhdev Sandhu, Roger Luckhurst, Gareth Evan, Adam Scovell, Bethany Whalley, Carl Phelpstead, David Ian Rabey, David Rolinson, Craig Wallace, Daniel O'Donnell Smith, William Fowler, Yvonne Salmon, Andy W. Smith, Carolyne Larrington, John Harle, Timothy J. Jarvis, Tom White, Daniel Eltringham, Joseph Brooker, Gary Budden

debbie tucker green

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030345815
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book debbie tucker green written by Siân Adiseshiah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green. Covering the period from 2000 (Two Women) to 2017 (a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)), it offers scholars and students the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge critical debate engendered by tucker green’s innovative dramatic works for stage, television, and radio. This groundbreaking book includes contributions by a range of outstanding scholars, including black playwriting specialists, world-leading contemporary theatre scholars and some of the very best emerging researchers in the field. While always focused on the precision and detail of tucker green’s work, this book simultaneously reframes broader debates around contemporary drama and its politics, poses new questions of theatre, and provokes scholarly thinking in ways that, however obliquely, contribute to the change for which the plays agitate.

After In-Yer-Face Theatre

Author : William C. Boles
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030394271
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book After In-Yer-Face Theatre written by William C. Boles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits In-Yer-Face theatre, an explosive, energetic theatrical movement from the 1990s that introduced the world to playwrights Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Mark Ravenhill, Jez Butterworth, and many others. Split into three sections the book re-examines the era, considers the movement’s influence on international theatre, and considers its lasting effects on contemporary British theatre. The first section offers new readings on works from that time period (Antony Neilson and Mark Ravenhill) as well as challenges myths created by the Royal Court Theatre about the its involvement with In-Yer-Face theatre. The second section discusses the influence of In-Yer-Face on Portuguese, Russian and Australian theater, while the final section discusses the legacy of In-Yer-Face writers as well as their influences on more recent playwrights, including chapters on Philip Ridley, Sarah Kane, Joe Penhall, Martin Crimp, Dennis Kelly, and Verbatim Drama.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408123347
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights written by Aleks Sierz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material

Mojo and a Film-maker's Diary

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571192182
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Mojo and a Film-maker's Diary written by Jez Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The screenplay of a film set in sleazy 1950s Soho. It involves the kidnapping of a rising pop star and the murder and dismemberment of his manager. The book also contains an extensive diary by Jez Butterworth, who directed as well as wrote the film, recounting its evolution from a stage play.