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The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth

David Ian Rabey
The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth Book PDF

Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408184288

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The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth by David Ian Rabey Pdf

Jez Butterworth is the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful new British dramatist of the 21st century: his acclaimed play Jerusalem has had extended runs in the West End and on Broadway. This book is the first to examine Butterworth's writings for stage and film and to identify how and why his work appeals so widely and profoundly. It examines the way that he weaves suspenseful stories of eccentric outsiders, whose adventures echo widespread contemporary social anxieties, and involve surprising expressions of both violence and generosity. This book reveals how Butterworth unearths the strange forms of wildness and defiance lurking in the depths and at the edges of England: where unpredictable outbursts of humour highlight the intensity of life, and characters discover links between their haunting past and the uncertainties of the present, to create a meaningful future. Supplemented by essays from James D. Balestrieri and Elisabeth Angel-Perez, this is a clear and detailed source of reference for a new generation of theatre audiences, practitioners and directors who wish to explore the work of this seminal dramatist.

Mojo

Jez Butterworth
Mojo Book PDF

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0822216612

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Mojo by Jez Butterworth Pdf

THE STORY: Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to

Plays

Jez Butterworth
Plays Book PDF

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848422261

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Plays by Jez Butterworth Pdf

Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, ‘one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years’ (Time Out). This first volume of his Collected Plays contains that play plus the three that followed, as well as two short one-person pieces published here for the first time – everything in fact that precedes Jerusalem, ‘unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century’ (Guardian). Plays One includes: Mojo The Night Heron The Winterling Leavings (previously unpublished) Parlour Song The Naked Eye (previously unpublished) Introducing the plays is an interview with Jez Butterworth specially conducted for this volume.

Mojo and Other Plays

Jez Butterworth
Mojo and Other Plays Book PDF

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559364181

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Mojo and Other Plays by Jez Butterworth Pdf

First collection of plays by the author of Jerusalem and the award-winning Mojo.

Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

Sean McEvoy
Class Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth Book PDF

Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030627119

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Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth by Sean McEvoy Pdf

Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.

Jerusalem

Jez Butterworth
Jerusalem Book PDF

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848420501

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Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth Pdf

Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land. On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, local waster and Lord of Misrule, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants to be taken to the fair, a vengeful father wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alcohol. Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in July 2009 in a production directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mark Rylance. It transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in January 2010, and played on Broadway in 2011. Jez Butterworth's play won the Evening Standard Best Play Award and the Critics Circle and Whatsonstage.com awards for Best New Play.

Mojo

Jez Butterworth
Mojo Book PDF

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 1848423632

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Mojo by Jez Butterworth Pdf

An updated edition of the smash-hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem.

The River

Jez Butterworth
The River Book PDF

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559364882

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The River by Jez Butterworth Pdf

A bewitching new play from the award-winning author of Broadway hit Jerusalem.

Hauntology

Katy Shaw
Hauntology Book PDF

Author : Katy Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319749686

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Hauntology by Katy Shaw Pdf

Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology turns to the past in order to make sense of the present, to understand how we got to this place and how to build a better future. Since the Year 2000, popular culture has been inundated with representations of those who occupy a space between being and non-being and defy ontological criteria. This Pivot explores a range of contemporary English literatures - from the poetry of Simon Armitage and the drama of Jez Butterworth, to the fiction of Zadie Smith and the stories of David Peace - that collectively unite to represent a twenty-first century world full of specters, reminiscence and representations of spectral encounters. These specters become visible and significant as they interact with a range of social, political and economic discourses that continue to speak to the contemporary period. The enduring fascination with the spectral offers valuable insights into a contemporary English culture in which spectral manifestations signal towards larger social anxieties as well as to specific historical events and recurrent cultural preoccupations. The specter confronts the contemporary with the necessity of participation, encouraging the realisation that we must engage with it in order to create meaning. Narrative agency is the primary motivating force of its return, and the repetition of the specter functions to highlight new meanings and perspectives. Harnessing hauntology as a lens through which to consider the specters haunting twenty-first century English writings, this Pivot examines the emergence of a vein of hauntological literature that profiles the pervasive presence of the past in our new millennium.

Jerusalem

Christopher Norris
Jerusalem Book PDF

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1859955584

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Jerusalem by Christopher Norris Pdf

When the Jebusites built Jerusalem around 2000 BC, it seems improbable that they ever envisioned the impact this city would have on the history and destiny of the human race. Against its historic background, with ancient ramparts alongside souvenir boutiques, people of many races and ethnic origins all try to buy a few drops of water from the Jordan or an olive branch as a precious souvenir of this holy city. Bells toll from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, while muezzins call for prayer in the Mosque of Omar and the Jewish faithful cry out at the Wailing Wall, in a blend of religious expression found nowhere else in the world.

Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

JEZ. BUTTERWORTH
Jez Butterworth Plays Two Book PDF

Author : JEZ. BUTTERWORTH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848428677

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Jez Butterworth Plays: Two by JEZ. BUTTERWORTH Pdf

'Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!' When Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2009, it served notice of an astonishing development in the career of a writer whose debut, Mojo, had premiered on the same stage nearly fifteen years before. Unearthing the mythic roots of contemporary English life, and featuring Mark Rylance in an indelible central performance as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, the play transferred to the West End and then to Broadway, before returning to the West End in 2011. 'Storming... restores one's faith in the power of theatre' Independent. 'Unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century' Guardian. Jerusalem was followed by the bewitching chamber play The River (Royal Court, 2012), a 'magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama' Time Out. 'A delicately unfolding puzzle... all of it is wrapped in marvellous language... extraordinary' The Times. This volume concludes with the multi-award-winning The Ferryman (Royal Court and West End, 2017; Broadway, 2018), an excavation of lives shattered by violence, set in a farmhouse in Northern Ireland in 1981. 'A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play... an instant classic' Independent. 'A magnificent play that uses, brilliantly, the vitality of live theatre to express the deadly legacy of violence' Financial Times. Also included here is the screenplay for the short film The Clear Road Ahead (2011), published here for the first time, and an edited transcript of a conversation between Butterworth and the playwright Simon Stephens.

Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama

Graham Saunders
Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama Book PDF

Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137444530

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama by Graham Saunders Pdf

This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.

Contemporary Welsh Plays

Matthew Trevannion,Rachel Trezise
Contemporary Welsh Plays Book PDF

Author : Matthew Trevannion,Rachel Trezise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472576590

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Contemporary Welsh Plays by Matthew Trevannion,Rachel Trezise Pdf

Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Wales has famously celebrated its poets and novelists, but in the twenty-first century, it is the playwright asking the crucial questions. Never before have there been so many playwrights of all ages, from across Wales, finding the stage to be the home for their stories. This collection is the first to officially recognise this new wave of Welsh playwrights. It showcases a wide range of forms, themes and political concerns, as well as representing the most exciting voices at the forefront of Welsh drama, taking the temperature on what be considered to be the first golden age of Welsh playwriting. Tonypandemonium by Rachel Trezise The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated by Brad Birch Llwyth by Dafydd James (published in Welsh) Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler Bruised by Matthew Trevannion Featured in the volume are the following plays, along with a foreword by Professor David Ian Rabey of Aberystwyth University, and an introduction by the editors, Tim Price and Kate Wasserberg.

Contemporary Gothic Drama

Kelly Jones,Benjamin Poore,Robert Dean
Contemporary Gothic Drama Book PDF

Author : Kelly Jones,Benjamin Poore,Robert Dean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349953592

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Contemporary Gothic Drama by Kelly Jones,Benjamin Poore,Robert Dean Pdf

This ground-breaking volume is the first of its kind to examine the extraordinary prevalence and appeal of the Gothic in contemporary British theatre and performance. Chapters range from considerations of the Gothic in musical theatre and literary adaptation, to explorations of the Gothic’s power to haunt contemporary playwriting, macabre tourism and site-specific performance. By taking familiar Gothic motifs, such as the Gothic body, the monster and Gothic theatricality, and bringing them to a new contemporary stage, this collection provides a fresh and comprehensive take on a popular genre. Whilst the focus of the collection falls upon Gothic drama, the contents of the book will embrace an interdisciplinary appeal to scholars and students in the fields of theatre studies, literature studies, tourism studies, adaptation studies, cultural studies, and history.

Of Mud and Flame

Matthew Harle,James Machin
Of Mud and Flame Book PDF

Author : Matthew Harle,James Machin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781907222689

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Of Mud and Flame by Matthew Harle,James Machin Pdf

Exploring Penda's Fen, a 1974 BBC film that achieved mythic status. In 1974, the BBC broadcast the film Penda's Fen, leaving audiences mystified and spellbound. “Make no mistake. We had a major work of television last night,” The Times declared the next morning. Written by the playwright and classicist David Rudkin, the film follows Stephen, an 18-year-old boy, whose identity, sexuality, and suffocating nationalism unravels through a series of strange visions. After its original broadcast, Penda's Fen vanished into unseen mythic status, with only a single rebroadcast in 1990 sustaining its cult following. With a DVD release by the BFI in 2016, Penda's Fen has now become totemic for those interested in Britain's deep history, folklore, and landscape. Of Mud and Flame brings together writers, artists, and historians to excavate and explore this unique cornerstone of Britain's uncanny archive. Contributors include David Rudkin, Sukhdev Sandhu, Roger Luckhurst, Gareth Evan, Adam Scovell, Bethany Whalley, Carl Phelpstead, David Ian Rabey, David Rolinson, Craig Wallace, Daniel O'Donnell Smith, William Fowler, Yvonne Salmon, Andy W. Smith, Carolyne Larrington, John Harle, Timothy J. Jarvis, Tom White, Daniel Eltringham, Joseph Brooker, Gary Budden