Hilary Fannin, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Shane Mac an Bhaird, Morna Regan, Ellen Cranitch

Rough Magic Theatre Company (eBook, PDF)

New Irish Plays and Adaptations, 2010-2018
Redaktion: Lonergan, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Celebrating the work of one of Ireland's most daring theatre companies, this anthology gathers five plays by established and emerging playwrights. They include vibrant new adaptations of the world classics Peer Gynt and Phaedra alongside vital new dramas that explore issues of urgent contemporary concern, such as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change. With contributions from Hilary Fannin and Ellen Cranitch, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Morna Regan, and Shane Mac an Bhaird - as well as a foreword from Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright - this book is an exciting snapshot of contemporary Irish playwriting.

The book operates as a showcase of outstanding new Irish playwriting, blending work by established and emerging playwrights, and also acts as a celebration of one of Ireland's most important theatre companies. And it includes new plays that demonstrate Rough Magic's consistent willingness to push the boundaries of Irish theatre, both formally and thematically, in plays that cover such topics as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change.

This edition contains a foreword by Anne Enright, Booker prize winner and Laureate of Irish Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350119802
• Artikelnr.: 58391926

Autorenporträt

Hilary Fannin (b. 1962) worked for many years as an actress both on stage and in television. A founder member of Wet Paint Arts theatre company, her first play, Mackerel Sky, was performed at the Bush Theatre (1997). She has written two radio plays: Red Feathers, and Dear Exile, both broadcast by BBC Radio 4. Sleeping Around, co-written with Stephen Greenhorn, Abi Morgan and Mark Ravenhill, was produced by Paines Plough, London in 1998, while Red Ball, which was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre's Education and Outreach Department, was performed by the National Association of Youth Drama in 2004. Fannin was joint Writer-in-Association at the Abbey Theatre for the centenary year.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Patrick Lonergan,
Preface by Lynne Parker from Rough Magic Theatre Company
Foreword by Anne Enright
Each play is prefaced by an introductory essay by each of the playwrights.
Phaedra by Hilary Fannin and Ellen Cranitch
Peer Gynt by Arthur Riordan
The House Keeper by Morna Regan
How to Keep an Alien by Sonya Kelly
Melt by Shane Mac an Bhaird