Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Anthony Neilson, Kieran Hurley

Contemporary Scottish Plays (eBook, PDF)

Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin
Redaktion: Reid, Trish

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?'

Scotland is entering a crucial period in its history, where its identity is being debated daily, from everyday conversation to the national and international press. At the same time, its theatre is resurgent, with key Scottish playwrights, theatres and theatre companies expanding their performance vocabularies while coming to prominence in national and international contexts.

Caledonia is a tale of hubris and delusion, portraying a crucial slice of Scotland's history and its foray into imperial colonialism told with dark humour and creative flair, by award-winning playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton.

Bullet Catch, by Rob Drummond, is a unique theatrical experience exploring the world of magic, featuring mind-reading, levitation, and the most notorious finale in show business.

Morna Pearson's The Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, deceptively simple, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship.

Rantin', by Kieran Hurley draws on storytelling, live music and an unapologetically haphazard take on Scottish folk tradition, in an attempt to stitch together fragmented stories to reveal a botched patchwork of a nation.

First performed at the Royal Court in 2013, Narrative by Anthony Neilson is a theatrical exploration of the the boundaries and possibilities of storytelling.

Featuring plays from Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Kieran Hurley and Anthony Neilson, this collection is edited by Dr. Trish Reid, a leading critical voice on Scottish theatre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472574442
• Artikelnr.: 41107623

Autorenporträt

Alistair Beaton's plays include Feelgood (West End) and Follow My Leader (Birmingham). He translated and dramatised Gogol's The Nose for Martin Duncan at Nottingham Playhouse. He has recently published a novel, A Planet for the President.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology: plays and events Caledonia, by Alistair Beaton
Bullet Catch, by Rob Drummond
The Artist Man and Mother Woman, by Morna Pearson
Narrative, by Anthony Neilson
Rantin, by Kieran Hurley