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Author : Mustapha Matura
Publisher : Broadway Play Pub
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : West Indian drama (English)
ISBN : 088145060X
Author : Canadian Stage Theatre Archives (University of Guelph),Damir Andrei,Mustapha Matura,We Are One Theatre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:626878185
Author : Mustapha Matura
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786826466
Based on J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. Playboy of the West Indies opened at the Oxford Playhouse in 1984 and subsequently toured the UK finishing at the Tricycle Theatre in London. It has also enjoyed huge success in the United States, most notably at The Court Theatre, Chicago; Arena Stage, Washington; New Jersey and Yale Rep. The Court Theatre Chicago's production was nominated for four Jefferson Awards. There was an extremely successful revival of the play at the Lincoln Center, New York in 1993. Mustapha also wrote the television adaptation, screened on BBC2 in 1985. The play was recently revived at the Tricycle Theatre and the Nottingham Playhouse.
Author : Mustapha Mathura,San Fernando Theatre Workshop (Trinidad and Tobago)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Theater
ISBN : OCLC:363396954
Author : Mustapha Matura,Linda Alper,Beatrice Basso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:51333082
Author : John Millington Synge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408145067
Synge, who came from a middle-class Protestant family near Dublin, created a huge scandal at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where The Playboy was staged in 1907, because its audience did not take kindly to a comedy that seemed to portray the Irish as violent, superstitious sots and swaggerers. Synge relied on and at the same time mocked the Irish dramatic movement and its ambition to create realistic drama that was also poetically beautiful. The play is set 'near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo'. On the first day, a stranger arrives and declares that he is on the run because he has killed his father - for this, the villagers turn him into a hero. On the second day, however, his father arrives walking wounded, and although Christy knocks him down with a spade, his father seems impossible to kill. The set off together, still quarrelling, and the villagers are bereft of their excitement.
Author : Bisi Adigun,Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780815657057
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2008. The new version is set in a contemporary Dublin pub and features the character of a Nigerian asylum-seeker in the lead role. Under the coauthorship of Bisi Adigun, artistic director of Arambe Productions—Ireland’s first African theater company—and best-selling, Booker Prize–winning novelist Roddy Doyle, the play engages with issues of race and immigration in modern Ireland and, when first released, aimed to be a model for intercultural collaboration. This critical edition features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the play’s themes, cultural significance, critical reception, and the legal case that cut short its successful production run. Though the play was first produced over a decade ago, the topic of migration has only increased in its global importance over that time, and this adaptation of Playboy remains a popular touchstone among scholars of Irish theater and immigration.
Author : Maria McGarrity
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 087413028X
This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.
Author : Loredana Salis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443824415
Ireland, north and south of the border, has witnessed volatile patterns of immigration in the past decade, and stage representations of these fluctuations have begun to emerge. In the Republic, immigration has coincided with, and it has been encouraged by the economic boom known as Celtic Tiger. In the North, the peace process and the easing off of the political tension has contributed to making the region more appealing and hospitable for newcomers. The media have played a significant role in this respect as they have helped re-launch the local tourist industry on the international scene, and consequently to attract both short- and long-term visitors. That Ireland has become the land of opportunities for thousands of people is a phenomenon which scholars from different academic backgrounds have been trying to explain given that mass immigration has had, and continues to have, a big impact on the local economy, social welfare and culture. This volume is dedicated to this final aspect. It investigates how migration has shaped and is reflected in Irish culture today; more specifically, it focuses on the representation of outsiders in Irish theatre and to the way in which theatre practitioners have dealt and engaged with debates of national and cultural identities, hybridity, multiculturalism and racism in post-nationalist Ireland up to 2008 – that is prior to the economic crisis that has swept the whole continent of Europe and the US over the past two years. Although multiculturalism has become an almost jaded theme in academia, much of the material presented here is fresh, original and highly relevant. Some plays are relatively unknown, and many of the texts remain unpublished. They have been staged on a small number of occasions, yet the topics they explore are central, not just to Irish society, but to any community in a global context that hosts immigrants.
Author : J. Douglas Clayton,Yana Meerzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136252914
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama, theatre, and film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the new millennium, highlighting our epoch’s need to engage with the history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative standards, pioneering the creation of new traditions and expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination, adaptation can build upon and drive the audience’s horizons of expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence, this volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhov’s drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to theatre practitioners worldwide.
Author : John Millington Synge
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840221518
Collects all of Synge's published plays, including The Playboy of The Western World, along with his Poetry and Translations, and the prose works that detail his travels in The Aran Islands, In Wicklow, In Kerry and In Connemara.
Author : Adrian Fraser
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505066
Essays on the production and performances of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World including a study of the acclaimed Druid production directed by Garry Hynes.
Author : Terry Stoller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472536297
Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published with the Society for Theatre Research, the book draws extensively on archival research and interviews with actors, playwrights, directors, designers and board members to document and celebrate the work of one of London's most artistically exciting and politically engaged theatres. Terry Stoller presents the Tricycle's story, giving you a front-row view of the theatre's productions, including: - the work of generations of black British writers, from Mustapha Matura and Alfred Fagon to Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola Agbaje - Irish plays ranging from Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island to Brendan Behan's The Hostage - its critically lauded political play cycles The Bomb – A Partial History and The Great Game: Afghanistan, the latter performed at the Pentagon in 2011 “[The Tricycle Theatre] has been both defiantly local and proudly international, it has held a mirror up to British society, and, above all, it has proved that political engagement is not incompatible with the highest artistic standards. It has helped make my life as a critic worthwhile . . .” Michael Billington, Foreword
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Caribbean literature (English)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017950366
Author : P. J. Mathews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139824835
John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.