Conrad Murray, David Bonnick Jr, Paul Cree, Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens

Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy (eBook, PDF)

No Milk for the Foxes; DenMarked; High Rise eState of Mind
Redaktion: Beswick, Katie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. The three plays use hip hop to highlight the inequalities produced by the UK's class system, and weave lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer authentic accounts of inner-city life written by working-class Londoners.

The plays are accompanied by two introductory essays: The first gives a specific social and historical context that helps readers make sense of the plays, the second positions hip hop as a contemporary literary form and offers some ways to read hip hop texts as literature. The collection also includes a foreword by leading hip hop theatre practitioner Jonzi D, interviews with the Beats & Elements company, and a glossary of words for students and international readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350270619
• Artikelnr.: 63311464

Autorenporträt

Conrad Murray is an artist, performer, beatboxer and rapper from Mitcham, South West London. He is a qualified and experienced secondary school teacher, the artistic director of the Battersea Arts Centre's Beatbox Academy, co-artistic director of the hip hop theatre company Beats and Elements and associate artist at BAC. His shows include No Milk for the Foxes (Camden People's Theatre 2015); DenMarked (BAC 2016); Frankenstein (BAC 2018); High Rise eState of Mind (BAC/CPT 2019). He is currently musical director and composer on Crongton Knights (Pilot Theatre), director on Pied Piper: Silent City (BAC), and composer and musical director for Mrs Noah (Headlong); he is also working with the BBC on a screen adaptation of Frankenstein to be screened on BBC4 in March 2020. He was awarded the Off Westend and Total Theatre Awards for Frankenstein. Conrad is also author of Methuen Drama books Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy and Making Hip Hop Theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Class and UK Hip Hop (essay)
Hip hop lyricism (essay) The Plays:
No Milk for the Foxes by Paul Cree and Conrad Murray
Weaving hip hop lyricism with comic naturalism, this play tells the story of two security guards on zero
hours contracts working the night
shift at a washing machine components factory.
DenMarked by Conrad Murray
This solo performance is an autobiographical story that weaves hip hop with Shakespeare's Hamlet. It narrates Conrad's account of growing up in a violent family in South London, as an abused mixed
race child in the social care system, trying to make his way in the world and seek reconciliation with his absent father.
High Rise e(S)tate of Mind by David Bonnik Junior, Paul Cree, Conrad Murray and Lakeisha Lynch
Stevens
Inspired by JG Ballard's novel High Rise, this is the dystopian tale of a high rise tower block in London, interwoven with the performers' personal autobiographical stories about the housing they have lived in.
Reflections (interviews with Beats & Elements)
Glossary