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Simon Stephens: A Working Diary

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474251439
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Simon Stephens: A Working Diary written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 was a spectacular year for playwright Simon Stephens, who has been described by the Independent as 'a brilliant writer of immense imagination' and by the Financial Times as having 'emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright'. 2014 was a year for Simon Stephens which featured a high number of world premiere plays including one for the theatre of his birthplace, Manchester's Royal Exchange, a major new play for the Downstairs space at London's Royal Court, and a Chekhov translation for London's Young Vic; a transfer of his West End hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time to Broadway; and projects in Germany, a country which has seen Stephens lauded, in which he has worked extensively, and which has shaped much of his dramaturgy. In addition to these major projects, Stephens continued his role as a mentor of young writers, actors and directors, and continued to be one of the most frequent, outspoken and fiercely intelligent voices of the playwriting scene. In an exceptionally honest account, Simon Stephens opens up to us, through daily diary entries, his working practices, his inner-most thoughts, his philosophy on theatre, the arts and politics, and his feelings and reactions to specific projects he has worked on. Through this, we are given unprecedented access to the mind of one of the most important playwrights of the twenty-first century.

Motortown

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517687
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Motortown written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front. 'I don't blame the war. The war was alright. I miss it. It's just you come back to this.' Written during the London bombings of 2005, Motortown is a fierce, violent and controversial response to the anti-war movement - and to the war itself. Chaotic and complex, powerful and provocative, Simon Stephen's new play portrays a volatile and morally insecure world. Motortown premieres at the Royal Court Theatre on 21 April 2006. It follows the critically acclaimed On the Shore of the Wide World (Manchester Royal Exchange/National Theatre), winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2005).

Birdland

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472587693
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Birdland written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything can be quantified. All worth can be quantified. Artistic worth. Human worth. Material worth. Everything. Some food is simply better than other food. Isn't it? Some clothes are better than other clothes. Aren't they? The last week of a massive international tour and rock star Paul is at the height of his fame. Everybody knows his name. Whatever he wants he can have. He can screw anybody he wants to. He can buy anything he desires. He can eat anything. Drink anything. Smoke anything. Go anywhere. As the inevitability of the end of the road looms closer and a return home becomes a reality, for Paul the music is starting to jar. Birdland received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs on 3 April 2014.

The Theatre of Simon Stephens

Author : Jacqueline Bolton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474238645
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Simon Stephens written by Jacqueline Bolton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Stephens is one of Britain's and arguably Europe's pre-eminent playwrights. He has garnered numerous awards for both his original works and his adaptations, with his adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time winning 7 Olivier Awards including Best Play and enjoying acclaim on Broadway. In the first book to provide a critical account of the full variety of Stephens's work, Jacqueline Bolton gives a detailed analysis of his plays and their production, reviews current discourses around his work and offers a framework for future enquiry. Essays from Basil Chiasson (University of Calgary), James Hudson (University of Lincoln) and Cristina Delgado-Garcia (Manchester Metropolitan University) provide additional international perspectives, while contributions from theatre practitioners Sean Holmes, Marianne Elliot, Sarah Frankcom and Sebastian Nuebling illuminate the work from a director's viewpoint. Since the beginning of his professional career in 1998, Stephens's award-winning plays have been translated into over a dozen languages, been produced on four continents, and feature prominently in the repertoires of theatres across Europe. His collaborations with actors, directors, dramaturgs, designers, novelists, musicians and choreographers have produced a dramaturgically diverse body of plays, musicals, adaptations, texts and monologues. As Bolton demonstrates, this extensive oeuvre has been animated by a search for optimism within chaos and violence. In its coverage of work from 1998's Bluebird to Carmen Disruption in 2015, the Companion contextualizes Stephens's ouevre through his embrace of aesthetics and processes encountered in European theatre and, in particular, the impact this has had upon attitudes towards the function of writing and the role of the audience in live performance. The Companion serves as an engaging study of one of the most restlessly creative and important dramatists of our generation.

Port

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472520602
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Port written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I see you in the morning, on the first morning I stayed over at your house. Waking up. Watching you lying asleep next to me. You looked, you looked. It was like. I think about that more than you probably think I do. Stockport 1988-2002. Racheal Keats is growing up in a town she doesn't like with a family in tatters and a future she cannot picture. As those she loves begin to let her down or leave her behind, can Rachel find the strength to make her own way in the world? Port premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in November 2002. It was later staged in the Lyttelton at the National Theatre, opening in January 2013. Both productions were by Marianne Elliott.

Punk Rock

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408126362
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Punk Rock written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Carlisle has the world at his feet but its weight on his shoulders. He is intelligent, articulate and f***ed. In the library of a grammar school, William and his fellow Sixth-Formers are preparing for their mock A-Levels while navigating the pressures of teenage life. They are educated and aspirational young people but step-by-step, the dislocation, disjunction and latent aggression is revealed. Punk Rock premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith on 3 September 2009 in a co-production between the Lyric Hammersmith and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Sea Wall

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350114669
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Sea Wall written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful. Alex's story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles, as he speaks about his wife, visiting her father in the South of France, having a daughter, photography, and the bottom of the sea. His tone is natural, happy and engaging, with flickers of questions about belief and religion glimpsed under the surface. But his contentment falls away into deep and heart-breaking grief, crumbling to pieces with a vividness that is incredibly moving.

Bluebird

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822225744
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Bluebird written by Simon Stephens and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: BLUEBIRD charts a night in the life of London mini-cab driver Jimmy McNeill. We share with him a night of his fares--the despondent and delirious, the inspired, inspiring and insane. Jimmy is a surprising cabbie: a writer fallen from grac

Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350064874
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is this the strangest thing that two people have ever done in the history of the world? In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings people together? When two strangers meet by chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, their lives are changed forever. Multi-award-winning British playwright Simon Stephens brings his hit Broadway play to London for the first time. Brimming with blazing theatrical life it explores the uncertain and often comical sparring match that is human connection. Having received its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York in 2015 Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle makes its UK premiere in the West End in a thrilling production starring Kenneth Cranham and Anne Marie Duff, directed by Marianne Elliot.

Harper Regan

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472574680
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Harper Regan written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you go, I don't think you should come back. On a startlingly bright autumn night in 2006, Harper Regan walked away from her home, her husband and daughter, and kept walking. She told nobody that she was going. She told nobody where she was going. She put everything she ever built at risk. For two lost days and nights, until it looked as though her entire life might unravel, she didn't turn back. From Uxbridge to Stockport to Manchester and back again, Harper Regan navigates the UK, exploring family, love and delusion. It received its world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2008.

Light Falls

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350154024
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Light Falls written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE ME. A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts with two younger women. And far away, one devastating event is about to change all their lives forever. Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom says goodbye to the Royal Exchange with an extraordinary new play by Simon Stephens, with original music by Jarvis Cocker. Connecting five relatives in five disparate English towns, from Blackpool to Durham, LIGHT FALLS is a richly layered play about life in the face of death, about how our love survives us after we've gone – and about how family, community and kindness help the North survive.

Morning

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408173417
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Morning written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I missed first time. I could feel his skull caving in. It was like a shell.' Morning - a play for young people - is the latest offering from acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens, written after a workshop involving actors from the Young Company at the Lyric, Hammersmith and the Theater, Basel, Switzerland. It's the end of summer in a small, claustrophobic town and two friends are about to go their separate ways: one to university; the other will be staying local. But no matter what separates them, they will always share one moment: a moment that changed them forever. This dark coming-of-age play, to be performed by the Lyric Young Company, is a disturbing look at the cruel acts we are capable of committing; our society's numbness to physical pain; and the consequences of our actions. This programme text will coincide with the Lyric's production of the play at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh as part of the Festival (2 - 22nd September) followed by a brief run at the Lyric Hammersmith, London in September.

Pornography

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408179873
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Pornography written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pornography looks at the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist. The play can be performed by any number of actors with the scenes presented in any order. This flexibility means that it is ideal for student groups: containing four monologues, two duologues and fifty-two self-contained anecdotal speeches. This Student Edition offers a study of the meaning, context and performance choices available in this subtle and political play. The in-depth commentary explores the play's themes, its kaleidoscopic structure and the play's production history, looking at both the German and UK premieres. The editor, Jacqueline Bolton, incorporates previously unpublished interviews with Simon Stephens and the directors and dramaturgs associated with the early productions. The commentary reveals the play's performance possibilities, as well as discussing its accomplished form, innovative structure and compassionate impetus. It also includes a chronology of the playwright's life and work, an introduction giving the background to the play, commentary on themes, characters, language and style, notes on individual words and phrases in the text, questions for further study and bibliography and further reading.

Herons

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517571
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Herons written by Simon Stephens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major new voice in British theatre" (Scotsman) Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, Herons is the disturbing and moving story of fourteen-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers that surround him on the estate step up their campaign of bullying, the play escalates to a violent climax.Commissioned by the Royal Court, Herons premiered there on 18 May 2001.

Morning Sun

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135031868X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Morning Sun written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago, the city is alive. Joni Mitchell sings, friends and lovers come and go, and the regulars change at the White Horse Tavern. As 50 years pass, one woman's life is revealed in all its complexity, mystery and possibility in this enthralling world premiere about mothers and daughters, beginnings and endings in New York City. Simon Stephens's new play, commissioned by MTC, premiered off-Broadway in November 2021 starring Blair Brown, Edie Falco and Marin Ireland.

Road

Author : Jim Cartwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Road written by Jim Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street.

The Funfair

Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474265863
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Funfair written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter. I had all these ideas in my head. Thing is, I had to go down so low just to try to lift my life up a little bit higher. Simon Stephens's exciting new adaptation of the twentieth-century classic Kasimir and Karoline is a dark, political and hilarious play that sets two young lovers in the throes of a break-up against the hypnotic whirl and bright lights of a funfair. The Funfair takes us on a ride through the loops, dips and highs of one night at a fairground, exploring a crisis of capitalism set to the soundtrack of a rock and roll love song. The play received its world premiere at Manchester's Home Theatre on 14 May 2015 and was the theatre's first-ever production.