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The Theatre of Anthony Neilson

Trish Reid
The Theatre of Anthony Neilson Book PDF

Author : Trish Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472570314

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The Theatre of Anthony Neilson by Trish Reid Pdf

Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For more than two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a formidable reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor, Stitching, Realism, Unreachable and his 2004 masterpiece The Wonderful World of Dissocia, arguably one of the finest Scottish plays of the new millennium. This volume provides the first full-length study of Neilson's plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and additional contributions from important scholars and commentators in the field. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of one of British theatre's most original artists.

Anthony Neilson Plays: 3

Anthony Neilson
Anthony Neilson Plays 3 Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350100817

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Anthony Neilson Plays: 3 by Anthony Neilson Pdf

Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with companies such as The Royal Court, The RSC and the National Theatre. This third play collection of his most recent major works brings together five plays in publication for the first time, offering an important documentary of his original work since 2008. Relocated (2008) originally premiered at the Royal Court, directed by the author, where it was described as a “sinister mystery” play and “not an experience for the faint-hearted...morally challenging and riveting...leaves an indelible stain on the memory” (The Times). Get Santa! (2010) is a magical, musical and mischievous Christmas show with a fresh moral featuring music by Nick Powell. It's Christmas Eve but Holly isn't happy. All she's ever wanted from Santa is to meet her real Dad for the first time. And every time, Santa's failed to deliver, bringing lots of useless presents instead. Well, Holly's had enough. This year she has a plan. She's going to wait up and trap Santa when he arrives and get from him the only present she's ever wanted. Narrative (2013) originally premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Devised throughout rehearsal with a seven-strong cast it's a play about storytelling and the narratives of our everyday lives. Unreachable (2016) was described as an “intoxicatingly chaotic comedy” (Time Out) which follows a film director on an obsessive quest to capture the perfect light. Originally running at the Royal Court Theatre in a production that starred Matt Smith, it broke boundaries by offering audiences a digital insight into the rehearsal process through online content which documented and shaped the devising process. The Prudes (2018) is a comedy about relationships in the current sexual climate; and a vicious satire on the male response to it. Jess and Jimmy haven't done it in a year. Fourteen months and four days to be exact. It's definitely not the seven year itch – they've been together nine. Now they're coming together in a last-ditch effort to re-boot their sex life and save their relationship. But a lot has changed in a year; for them and for the world. Described as a “smart, sketchy, amusing, awkward, stimulating two-hander” (The Times), it originally premiered at the Royal Court Upstairs. Published to coincide with his adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart at the National Theatre in December 2018, this play collection is an important and unique anthology of a major international voice of contemporary theatre.

Realism

Anthony Neilson
Realism Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408178058

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A lazy Saturday for Stuart? With interruptions from a radio panel show, a threesome, the Black and White Minstrels, a nagging mother and a mouthy cat - no chance. Luckily, none of them know what he's thinking . . . Realism is an exquisite, surreal trip inside the mind of one man during an ordinary day. However, it veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously comic trip inside his wayward imagination. Dreams and daydreams are brought to life to hilarious effect exposing the faultlines between everyday life and the world of the imagination in which fantasies ignore conventions of taste and political correctness. This is Anthony Neilson's follow-up to his multi award-winning The Wonderful World of Dissocia. The text was published to coincide with its English premiere at the Soho Theatre in June 2011.

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Anthony Neilson
The Wonderful World of Dissocia Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350200982

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The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson Pdf

'Anthony Neilson's 2004 play is half a lark, half deadly serious' TIME OUT 'A profane, madcap, Alice-in-Wonderland trip morphs into something much more profound in Anthony Neilson's weirdly compelling 2004 study of mental instability' EVENING STANDARD Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in – Dissocia – are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal. This Student Edition of Anthony Neilson's 2004 play, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, features a commentary and notes by anna six. It introduces students to debates surrounding mental health and situates Neilson within a British theatrical tradition, including through an interview with him.

The Wonderful World of Dissocia & Realism

Anthony Neilson
The Wonderful World of Dissocia Realism Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408141496

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The Wonderful World of Dissocia & Realism by Anthony Neilson Pdf

A two-play edition featuring Anthony Neilson's companion plays, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004) and Realism (2006), both produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. Produced originally for the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival, The Wonderful World of Dissocia wowed critics and audiences alike. This is a hugely original play, both magical and moving, that confirmed Anthony Neilson as one of major voices in contemporary British Theatre. The entire original cast and creative team have been reunited for this keenly anticipated revival. Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal. As Neilson himself put it, 'If you like Alice in Wonderland but there's not enough sex and violence in it, then Dissocia is the show for you'. Realism premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2006. It follows the life of one man during an ordinary day but veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously surreal trip inside his wayward imagination. It was described by the Guardian as a 'bold and utterly distinctive all-singing, all-dancing show, like nothing else you'll ever see'.

The Lying Kind

Anthony Neilson
The Lying Kind Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472517647

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The Lying Kind by Anthony Neilson Pdf

A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002 Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas eve shift; telling the old couple at No. 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Blunt and Gobbel didn't join up in order to ruin people's lives. Maybe they'd be happier not knowing. And maybe it would all be much easier if the two constables weren't also stuck in the middle of a full-scale village lynch-mob.

The Censor

Anthony Neilson
The Censor Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472538390

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"This is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare, forked basics" (Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard) The Censor is "a gripping brief encounter between a pornographic film actress and the man with the licensing scissors. A moving parable of the critic and artist as a healing and finally tragic, love story." (Michael Coveney, Daily Mail)

Neilson Plays:1

Anthony Neilson
Neilson Plays 1 Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106013924060

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Neilson Plays:1 by Anthony Neilson Pdf

Collected into one volume, this collection includes five plays by Anthony Neilson.

The Theatre of Anthony Neilson

Trish Reid
The Theatre of Anthony Neilson Book PDF

Author : Trish Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472570321

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The Theatre of Anthony Neilson by Trish Reid Pdf

Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For more than two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a formidable reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor, Stitching, Realism, Unreachable and his 2004 masterpiece The Wonderful World of Dissocia, arguably one of the finest Scottish plays of the new millennium. This volume provides the first full-length study of Neilson's plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and additional contributions from important scholars and commentators in the field. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of one of British theatre's most original artists.

Stitching

Anthony Neilson
Stitching Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472536471

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Stitching by Anthony Neilson Pdf

We will fix it. We will mend it... In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness. Stitching opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2002 and transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, on 12 September 2002."Explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy ... Neilson's writing has a terrible beauty" Sunday Times "Startlingly rich and challenging, Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust" Time Out "Shattering, shocking...a serious, persuasive account of the blind alleys love can lead us down" Daily Telegraph "A characteristically brave and brutal offering" Independent "A deeply mesmerising, if shocking, experience as a couple smashes through taboo after taboo in a harrowing sexual tug of war" Evening Standard

Neilson Plays: 2

Anthony Neilson
Neilson Plays 2 Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472517357

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Neilson Plays: 2 by Anthony Neilson Pdf

In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade. This second volume of plays showcases the comic, surreal and gloriously off-kilter side of his more recent work. Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness! (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 2002) mixes Victorian melodrama with a catalogue of grotesque comic tales; The Lying Kind (Royal Court, 2002), a black farce set at Christmas involving two hapless policeman who must break news of tragedy to an elderly couple, 'often reduced much of the audience to tears of laughter' (Financial Times). Produced originally for the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival, The Wonderful World of Dissocia wowed critics and audiences alike. A hugely original play inspired by Alice in Wonderland, it is both magical and moving and confirmed Neilson as one of the major voices in contemporary British Theatre. Realism premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2006. It follows the life of one man during an ordinary day but veers off to become a deliriously surreal trip inside his wayward imagination. It was described by the Guardian as a 'bold and utterly distinctive all-singing, all-dancing show, like nothing else you'll ever see'.

Contemporary Rehearsal Practice

Gary Cassidy
Contemporary Rehearsal Practice Book PDF

Author : Gary Cassidy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000216066

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Contemporary Rehearsal Practice by Gary Cassidy Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson’s unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson’s notably collaborative rehearsal process affords an unusual amount of creative input to the actors he works with and has garnered much interest from scholars and practitioners alike. This study analyses material edited from 100 hours of footage of the rehearsals of Neilson’s 2013 play Narrative at the Royal Court Theatre, as well as interviews with Neilson himself, the Narrative cast and actors from other Neilson productions. Replete with case studies, Gary Cassidy also considers the work of other relevant practitioners where appropriate, such as Katie Mitchell, Forced Entertainment, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook, Complicite’s Simon McBurney, Stanislavski and Sarah Kane. Contemporary Rehearsal Practice will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners of theatre and performance and those who have an interest in rehearsal studies.

Theatre and Scotland

Trish Reid
Theatre and Scotland Book PDF

Author : Trish Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316171

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Theatre and Scotland by Trish Reid Pdf

In this cutting-edge text, Trish Reid offers a concise overview of the shifting roles of theatre and theatricality in Scottish culture. She asks important questions about the relationship between Scottish theatre, history and identity, and celebrates the recent emergence of a generation of internationally successful Scottish playwrights.

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness

Anthony Neilson
Edward Gant s Amazing Feats of Loneliness Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408145784

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Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness by Anthony Neilson Pdf

'Ladies and gentlemen, as some of you may know, my name is Edward Gant: prodigy, soldier, traveller, poet - but always and ever a showman.' In 1881, the famed and enigmatic impresario Mr Edward Gant presented his renowned travelling show for the final time. The opiate-addicted actor manager showcased his troupe creating a spectacle of grotesquery, black comedy, mystery and magic realism. Over a century later, playwright Anthony Neilson has reconstructed this intriguing and fantastic historical event in a theatrical piece that combines the melodrama and extravagance with the painful loneliness that characterised a Victorian freak show. Neilson's play offers a strange and beautiful exploration of sadness and mortality, probing even the nature of theatre itself. 'Without further ado, I present for your astonishment the Extraordinary! The Terrible! The AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS.' Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness was first produced at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth, in 2002, and was revived by Headlong Theatre and the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, in February 2009.

The Night Before Christmas

Anthony Neilson
The Night Before Christmas Book PDF

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472573811

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The Night Before Christmas by Anthony Neilson Pdf

This bloke tells us he's an elf. He says elves live in Hartlepool, and that the Christmas feeling is a narcotic powder. Now he's telling us that he's addicted to it. It's Christmas Eve and an elf lands in Gary's warehouse. Gary who's not fully convinced it's an elf, calls Simon, who's not fully convinced Gary's sane anymore. They interrogate the intruder, who pleads with them to release him: if he can't get back to work, Christmas might be ruined for everyone. Revised and reimagined to incorporate music and songs, The Night Before Christmas is a magical, weird and wonderful anti-pantomime from the always entertaining Anthony Neilson.