Marcus Youssef

King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties are two plays with music by co-writers Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef, with songs by Veda Hille. McNeil is a professional actor whose life includes Down syndrome. Youssef is one of Canada's leading contemporary playwrights. In these plays, based on the iconic King Arthur and Peter Pan stories, entirely new worlds and languages are invented. McNeil's singular voice and imaginative landscape are at the centre of these works. Niall's genius as a writer is his ability to associate, and to create through dialogue and play, with a seemingly preternatural ability to riff and shift perspective, subverting expectations. The results of this are counterintuitive, absurd, disarming, confusing, hilarious, frightening and occasionally heart-stopping. In the worlds of King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties there is a permeable boundary, between the source material, pop culture and McNeil's own world. McNeil has a gift for imagining links between characters and situations that defy traditional categorizations like fictional and real. In this work, McNeil and Youssef challenge the classifications "neurotypicals" assume must be the only legitimate means available to perceive and name the world. They're not. There are worlds none of us can name or even imagine, within every one of us. That's why we have art: to offer ourselves a glimpse. Art-making, and theatre in particular, is a natural place for people to come together to define new, radically inclusive ways of working together across historical presumtpions about diifference that have shunned and isolated many of of our fellow human beings for millenia. An assumption at the heart of this collaboration: every single one of us is very good at some things and very bad at others. No exceptions. All of us. Every single one. King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties were commissioned and presented by Canada's most prestigious theatre festivals (Luminato, the National Arts Centre and PuSh). They are among the first plays by a writer with Down syndrome published in this country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781772014105
• Artikelnr.: 63457500

Autorenporträt

Marcus Youssef is based on unceded Coast Salish Territory, a.k.a. Vancouver, Canada. His fifteen or so plays have been produced in multiple languages in scores of theatres in twenty countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, from Seattle to New York to Reykjavik, London, Venice, Hong Kong, Vienna, Athens, Frankfurt, and Berlin. In 2017, Marcus received Canada's most prestigious theatre award, the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, for his body of work as a playwright. He is also the recipient of Berlin's Ikarus Theatre Prize, the Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award, the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, the Seattle Times Footlight Award, the Vancouver Critics' Innovation Award (three times), and the Canada Council Staunch-Lynton Award. Marcus co-founded the East Vancouver artist-run production hub Progress Lab 1422 and was the inaugural chair of the City of Vancouver's Arts and Culture Policy Council. Talon has published his Adrift, Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, Ali and Ali, Jabber, King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties, and Winners and Losers. He is currently International Artistic Associate at Farnham Maltings in the UK, Playwright in Residence at Tarragon Theatre, and Artistic Associate at Neworld Theatre in Vancouver. Marcus also sits on SCALE, a national arts roundtable formed in partnership with the Climate Emergency Unit of the David Suzuki Foundation, inspired by Seth Klein's remarkable book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.