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The Theatre of Anthony Neilson

Author : Trish Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472570324
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Anthony Neilson written by Trish Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For more than two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a formidable reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor, Stitching, Realism, Unreachable and his 2004 masterpiece The Wonderful World of Dissocia, arguably one of the finest Scottish plays of the new millennium. This volume provides the first full-length study of Neilson's plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and additional contributions from important scholars and commentators in the field. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of one of British theatre's most original artists.

Anthony Neilson Plays: 3

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350100811
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Anthony Neilson Plays: 3 written by Anthony Neilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with companies such as The Royal Court, The RSC and the National Theatre. This third play collection of his most recent major works brings together five plays in publication for the first time, offering an important documentary of his original work since 2008. Relocated (2008) originally premiered at the Royal Court, directed by the author, where it was described as a “sinister mystery” play and “not an experience for the faint-hearted...morally challenging and riveting...leaves an indelible stain on the memory” (The Times). Get Santa! (2010) is a magical, musical and mischievous Christmas show with a fresh moral featuring music by Nick Powell. It's Christmas Eve but Holly isn't happy. All she's ever wanted from Santa is to meet her real Dad for the first time. And every time, Santa's failed to deliver, bringing lots of useless presents instead. Well, Holly's had enough. This year she has a plan. She's going to wait up and trap Santa when he arrives and get from him the only present she's ever wanted. Narrative (2013) originally premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Devised throughout rehearsal with a seven-strong cast it's a play about storytelling and the narratives of our everyday lives. Unreachable (2016) was described as an “intoxicatingly chaotic comedy” (Time Out) which follows a film director on an obsessive quest to capture the perfect light. Originally running at the Royal Court Theatre in a production that starred Matt Smith, it broke boundaries by offering audiences a digital insight into the rehearsal process through online content which documented and shaped the devising process. The Prudes (2018) is a comedy about relationships in the current sexual climate; and a vicious satire on the male response to it. Jess and Jimmy haven't done it in a year. Fourteen months and four days to be exact. It's definitely not the seven year itch – they've been together nine. Now they're coming together in a last-ditch effort to re-boot their sex life and save their relationship. But a lot has changed in a year; for them and for the world. Described as a “smart, sketchy, amusing, awkward, stimulating two-hander” (The Times), it originally premiered at the Royal Court Upstairs. Published to coincide with his adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart at the National Theatre in December 2018, this play collection is an important and unique anthology of a major international voice of contemporary theatre.

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350200999
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Wonderful World of Dissocia written by Anthony Neilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Anthony Neilson's 2004 play is half a lark, half deadly serious' TIME OUT 'A profane, madcap, Alice-in-Wonderland trip morphs into something much more profound in Anthony Neilson's weirdly compelling 2004 study of mental instability' EVENING STANDARD Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in – Dissocia – are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal. This Student Edition of Anthony Neilson's 2004 play, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, features a commentary and notes by anna six. It introduces students to debates surrounding mental health and situates Neilson within a British theatrical tradition, including through an interview with him.

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408125706
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness written by Anthony Neilson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ladies and gentlemen, as some of you may know, my name is Edward Gant: prodigy, soldier, traveller, poet - but always and ever a showman.' In 1881, the famed and enigmatic impresario Mr Edward Gant presented his renowned travelling show for the final time. The opiate-addicted actor manager showcased his troupe creating a spectacle of grotesquery, black comedy, mystery and magic realism. Over a century later, playwright Anthony Neilson has reconstructed this intriguing and fantastic historical event in a theatrical piece that combines the melodrama and extravagance with the painful loneliness that characterised a Victorian freak show. Neilson's play offers a strange and beautiful exploration of sadness and mortality, probing even the nature of theatre itself. 'Without further ado, I present for your astonishment the Extraordinary! The Terrible! The AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS.' Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness was first produced at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth, in 2002, and was revived by Headlong Theatre and the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, in February 2009.

Wet Weather Cover

Author : Oliver Cotton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849438854
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Wet Weather Cover written by Oliver Cotton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Cotton is a British stage and screen actor, well known for his work on stage, TV and film. In this, his first published stage play, Cotton draws on his own experience as he presents two actors - one English, the other American - marooned on location miles from anywhere, confined in their tiny dressing space by the unrelenting rain. Growing increasingly frustrated, they engage in a magnificently sustained verbal duel, alove-hate clash of cultures, countries and personalities.

The Theatre of Anthony Neilson

Author : Trish Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472570308
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Anthony Neilson written by Trish Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor, Stitching, Realism and his 2004 masterpiece The Wonderful World of Dissocia, arguably one of the best Scottish plays of the new millennium. This volume provides the first full-length study of both Neilson's plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and with many of his key collaborators. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of one of British theatre's most original artists on stage and in the rehearsal room. "--

Stitching

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472536487
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Stitching written by Anthony Neilson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We will fix it. We will mend it... In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness. Stitching opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2002 and transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, on 12 September 2002."Explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy ... Neilson's writing has a terrible beauty" Sunday Times "Startlingly rich and challenging, Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust" Time Out "Shattering, shocking...a serious, persuasive account of the blind alleys love can lead us down" Daily Telegraph "A characteristically brave and brutal offering" Independent "A deeply mesmerising, if shocking, experience as a couple smashes through taboo after taboo in a harrowing sexual tug of war" Evening Standard

Realism

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408157195
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Realism written by Anthony Neilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lazy Saturday for Stuart? With interruptions from a radio panel show, a threesome, the Black and White Minstrels, a nagging mother and a mouthy cat - no chance. Luckily, none of them know what he's thinking . . . Realism is an exquisite, surreal trip inside the mind of one man during an ordinary day. However, it veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously comic trip inside his wayward imagination. Dreams and daydreams are brought to life to hilarious effect exposing the faultlines between everyday life and the world of the imagination in which fantasies ignore conventions of taste and political correctness. This is Anthony Neilson's follow-up to his multi award-winning The Wonderful World of Dissocia. The text was published to coincide with its English premiere at the Soho Theatre in June 2011.

The Lying Kind

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517644
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Lying Kind written by Anthony Neilson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002 Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas eve shift; telling the old couple at No. 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Blunt and Gobbel didn't join up in order to ruin people's lives. Maybe they'd be happier not knowing. And maybe it would all be much easier if the two constables weren't also stuck in the middle of a full-scale village lynch-mob.

Theatre of the Unimpressed

Author : Jordan Tannahill
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 177056411X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Theatre of the Unimpressed written by Jordan Tannahill and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form. Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination. ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)

In-Yer-Face Theatre

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book In-Yer-Face Theatre written by Aleks Sierz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Rehearsal Practice

Author : Gary Cassidy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000216063
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Rehearsal Practice written by Gary Cassidy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson’s unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson’s notably collaborative rehearsal process affords an unusual amount of creative input to the actors he works with and has garnered much interest from scholars and practitioners alike. This study analyses material edited from 100 hours of footage of the rehearsals of Neilson’s 2013 play Narrative at the Royal Court Theatre, as well as interviews with Neilson himself, the Narrative cast and actors from other Neilson productions. Replete with case studies, Gary Cassidy also considers the work of other relevant practitioners where appropriate, such as Katie Mitchell, Forced Entertainment, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook, Complicite’s Simon McBurney, Stanislavski and Sarah Kane. Contemporary Rehearsal Practice will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners of theatre and performance and those who have an interest in rehearsal studies.

Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre

Author : Mireia Aragay
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030584860
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre written by Mireia Aragay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various manifestations of affects in British theatre of the 21st century. The introduction gives a concise survey of existing and emerging theoretical and research trends and argues in favour of a capacious understanding of affects that mediates between more autonomous and more social approaches. The twelve chapters in the collection investigate major works in Britain by playwrights and theatre makers including Mojisola Adebayo, Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, Caryl Churchill, Tim Crouch and Andy Smith, Rachel De-lahay, Reginald Edmund, James Fritz, David Greig, Idris Goodwin, Zinnie Harris, Kieran Hurley, Lucy Kirkwood, Anders Lustgarten, Yolanda Mercy, Anthony Neilson, Lucy Prebble, Sh!t Theatre, Penelope Skinner, Stef Smith, Kae Tempest and debbie tucker green. The interpretations identify significant areas of tension as they relate affects to the fields of cognition, politics and hope. In this, the chapters uncover interrelations of thought, intention and empathy; they reveal the nexus between identities, institutions and ideology; and, finally, they explore how theatre can accomplish the transition from a sense of crisis to utopian visions.

Caledonia

Author : Alistair Beaton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408136279
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Caledonia written by Alistair Beaton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caledonia was first performed at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, on 21 August 2010, in a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and the Edinburgh International Festival.

The Night Before Christmas

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Night Before Christmas written by Anthony Neilson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Eve and an elf lands in a warehouse full of cheap and stolen toys. Gary, not fully convinced it is an elf, calls Simon, not fully convinced Gary is sane anymore. The intruder who pleads with them to release him. Kept away from his job and the steady supply of the almost-narcotic 'Christmas spirit' magical powder, he might just die, ruining his own Christmas, surely, and perhaps everyone else's. 'The Night Before Christmas' is a hilarious anti-pantomime, a funny but ultimately warm-hearted cri de coeur against the Christmas industry, first performed at The Red Room, London, in December 1995.

Anthony Neilson Plays: 3

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350100803
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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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.