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The theatre of Simon Stephens

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The theatre of Simon StephensJacqueline Bolton.
Author:	Bolton, Jacqueline.
Published:	London :Methuen,2021.
Description:	1 online resource (272 p.).
Subject:	English dramaHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474238670?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ISBN:	9781474238670 (electronic bk.)

The theatre of Simon Stephens
Bolton, Jacqueline.

The theatre of Simon Stephens[electronic resource] /Jacqueline Bolton. - 1st ed. - London :Methuen,2021. - 1 online resource (272 p.). - Critical Companions. - Critical Companions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Tension: Bluebird (1998), Herons (2001), Christmas (2003/4), Port (2002), Country music (2004), On the shore of the wide world (2005) -- 2. Transgression: Motortown (2006), Pornography (2007/8), One minute (2003), Harper Regan (2008), Sea wall (2008), Punk rock (2009) -- 3. Juxtaposition: Wastwater (2011), The trial of Ubu (2010/11), Three kingdoms (2012) 4. Contradiction: morning (2012), Secret theatre (2013-2015), The curious incident of the dog in the night-time(2012) -- 5. Can't help falling in love: Simon Stephens's Late plays (2014-2019) / by Caridad Svich -- 6. Critical perspectives: pornography's European directions: Germany and France / by Mireia Aragay ; Percussive texts in the work of Simon Stephens: Motortown, Birdland, Punk rock / by James Hudson ; The directors / by Andrew Haydon.

"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 aestheticsand 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."--

ISBN: 9781474238670 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Stephens, Simon,
1971---Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English drama
--History and criticism.--20th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR6119.T455 / Z74 2021eb

Dewey Class. No.: 822.914

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