Gerald Durrell

My Family and Other Animals (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

stage version

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The sky turns the colour of a jay's eye. The sea turns a deep royal purple. The mist lifts in quick, lithe ribbons, like a conjuring trick. Before us lies the island...'

It's 1935, and an eccentric English family - four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog - arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life.

For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, the extraordinary landscape provides the perfect playground. Its exotic fauna inspires a life-long fascination with the animal kingdom - and his much-loved memoir My Family and Other Animals.

Janys Chambers' acclaimed stage adaptation was first seen at York Theatre Royal, and invites other theatre companies to make ingenious and inventive decisions, bringing to life all the inhabitants of Durrell's cherished island - whether they walk and talk, fly and squawk, crawl or swim or slither.

'Simply a delight... The play's triumph is in the way it captures the exuberance of youth and the strangeness of the new culture that Gerald and his family find themselves in... it's there in Janys Chambers' adaptation, which keeps chunks of Durrell's evocative prose while adding some wonderfully funny embellishments' - The Stage

'Durrell gets the revival he deserves... it fairly fizzes with life' - Daily Mail

'Weaves the poetic, wide-eyed prose of Gerald Durrell's childhood memoir into a really charming and fun play' - Whatsonstage

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788504867
• Artikelnr.: 63205525

Autorenporträt

Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. His published work includes the autobiographical My Family and Other Animals (1956), a memoir of his family's years living in Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: The Speech for the Defence Unit
1: Part One Chapter
0: The Migration Chapter
1: The Unsuspected Isle Chapter
2: The Strawberry
Pink Villa Chapter
3: The Rose
Beetle Man Chapter
4: A Bushel of Learning Chapter
5: A Treasure of Spiders Chapter
6: The Sweet Spring Chapter
0: Conversation Unit
2: Part Two Chapter
7: The Daffodil
Yellow Villa Chapter
8: The Tortoise Hills Chapter
9: The World in a Wall Chapter
10: The Pageant of Fireflies Chapter
11: The Enchanted Archipelago Chapter
12: The Woodcock Winter Chapter
0: Conversation Unit
3: Part Three Chapter
13: The Snow
White Villa Chapter
14: The Talking Flowers Chapter
15: The Cyclamen Woods Chapter
16: The Lake of Lilies Chapter
17: The Chessboard Fields Chapter
18: An Entertainment with Animals Chapter
0: The Return Acknowledgements
ii: A Message from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Acknowledgements
iii: Afterword

Rezensionen

I do assure you, the world needs Durrell. Sir David Attenborough