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Author: Rodney Ackland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783192178 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 257
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Includes the plays The Dark River and After October Rodney Ackland is belatedly acknowledged as a master of the British stage, now captivating new audiences. In The Dark River, set in the late thirties, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater ignoring the turbulent events of a politically unstable Europe. After October introduces us to Clive, a young playwright struggling to make ends meet, find love and complete his masterpiece. Not easy whilst being hounded by bailiffs and a feckless family.
Author: Rodney Ackland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783192178 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Includes the plays The Dark River and After October Rodney Ackland is belatedly acknowledged as a master of the British stage, now captivating new audiences. In The Dark River, set in the late thirties, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater ignoring the turbulent events of a politically unstable Europe. After October introduces us to Clive, a young playwright struggling to make ends meet, find love and complete his masterpiece. Not easy whilst being hounded by bailiffs and a feckless family.
Author: Rodney Ackland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783192186 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 444
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Includes the plays Smithereens, Strange Orchestra, Before The Party and The Old Ladies With an Introduction by Michael Hastings. No other major British playwright of the last 50 years has undergone such a radical reappraisal as Rodney Ackland. Interest in his work renewed in the 1990s, starting at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, with further revivals at many theatres, including the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. In Plays Two, we are reminded once again of Ackland's unique and dangerous gift.
Author: Rodney Ackland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783192194 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 170
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Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was directed by Anthony Page.
Author: Rodney Ackland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786820552 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 156
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Hampstead, 1936. In a shabby basement flat, aspiring playwright Clive Monkhams dreams of a West End hit and winning Francie’s heart. With opening night approaching and finances fast running out, everything rides on the success of the play and, for Clive, the future looks all too glittering...
Author: Rodney Ackland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 178319216X Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 121
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Based on a short story by Somerset Maugham, Before The Party tells the story of a family attempting to return to normal in the wake of the Second World War. With daughter Laura returned from Africa, widowed but not alone, they prepare for the latest social gathering. Amidst the never-ending whirl of hats and dresses and below stairs skirmishes, Laura reveals a shocking secret that threatens to ruin more than one party on the climb to social success.
Author: Mary Luckhurst Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470751479 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 608
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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author: Rodney Ackland
Author: Rodney Ackland
Author: Rodney Ackland
Author: Rodney Ackland
Author: Rodney Ackland
Author: Rodney Ackland
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