Download or read book Penhall Plays 2 written by Joe Penhall and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterized by a taut mood, a grappling with moral dilemmas, and tough, eloquent dialogue punctuated by outrageously comic moments, the plays in this volume are Blue/Orange, Dumb Show, and Wild Turkey.
Download or read book Blue Orange written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expertly annotated edition of Joe Penhall's compelling drama: a dark, exhilarating tale of race, madness and power in the midst of a struggling National Health Service.
Download or read book Pale Horse written by Joe Penhall and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: PALE HORSE is the story of Charles, who, disillusioned by the sudden death of his wife, propels himself into a world of urban alienation and self-destruction in an attempt to assuage the private demons that haunt him. Along the way he en
Download or read book The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall written by William C. Boles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many dynamic, young playwrights to be associated with the "In-Yer-Face" burst of creative talent on the British stage in the mid-1990s, Joe Penhall has challenged Britain's status quo the most. Penhall believes his plays should constantly provoke and enrage not only the institutions he targets, but also his audience. This critical book discusses the argumentative nature of Penhall's plays, while also placing them within the context of contemporary British society and the modern dramatic tradition. His eight plays are discussed in detail, and particular attention is paid to male identity, the nature of grief, the variety of females, domestic drama, and the role of autobiography in his work.
Download or read book Birthday written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of their daughter should be one of the happiest days of Ed and Lisa's life. An NHS maternity ward and their somewhat unusual circumstances make for an unsettling and satisfyingly comic sequence of events that tests their relationship to the core, and raises intrinsic questions about the nature of birth and renewal, fear and isolation. Subverting the received gender roles to darkly comic and disturbing effect, the play charts Ed and Lisa's personally fraught experience at the behest of an NHS labour ward. Penhall expertly weaves an acutely funny and emotionally charged sequence of events: he pitches wryly observed gender perceptions of a quite literal life and death situation against an indictment of the NHS system. The beautifully observed writing is at once vicious and searingly tender. Birthday achieves an intensely comic counterpoint to teh visceral domestic drama sutured to bigger issues of aspiration, sacrifice, who we are, how we communicate, the triumph of tolerance, nature and ultimately love.
Download or read book Love and Understanding written by Joe Penhall and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Live-in lovers Neal and Rachel are overworked doctors. They rarely see each other, and their relationship suffers for it. Enter Neal's old good-for-nothing friend, Richie, for a surprise visit, straight from South America--or somewhere. H
Download or read book Mood Music written by Joe Penhall and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music is medication. The elixir of life. It's for injecting into the blood stream to take away the pain - to promote euphoria - to adrenalise us and give us courage and fortitude' In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit song. Amidst a gathering storm of bitter complaints and brutal recriminations Cat and Bernard inflict a devastating toll on each other in a war that only one of them can win. 'The music industry isn't about healing heartbreak and vulnerability. It's about selling it' A sly, wry exploration of the dark side of the music industry by the multi-Olivier Award-winning writer of Sunny Afternoon and Blue/Orange, Joe Penhall. This edition was published alongside the world premiere at The Old Vic, London in April 2018, directed by Roger Michell."--
Download or read book Harvey Plays 2 written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme "JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous" Sunday Times GUIDING STAR: "Dry, funny, truthful, the writing buzzes with graceful perception and Scouse sarcasm...one of the best new plays of the year" Daily Mail HUSHABYE MOUNTAIN: "You would have to have a heart hewn from granite not to respond warmly to Jonathan Harvey's latest play" Guardian OUT IN THE OPEN: "A touching exploration of grief, the secrets and lies that evolve in friendships and the difficulty of telling the truth to those we love" The Times
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of 21st Century British Plays written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection showcases the five best new plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century and perfectly reflects why British theatre is regarded as the epicenter of vitality, relevance and innovation in drama and the performing arts. Blue/Orange, Elmina's Kitchen, Neilson's Realism, Gone Too Far! and Pornography.
Download or read book Haunted Child written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have the tools to enlighten and yet our world is darkening. We live in an era of pessimism and worry; we are hollowed out, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no faith that anything will improve, and no great hopes to sustain us. So what's the answer? A small boy is driving his mother to distraction - waking at night, hearing phantom noises and fixating on his absent father. Douglas attends an innocuous motivational course involving esoteric philosophy and mysteriously abandons his wife and child to "live in a specific, pre-ordained way according to the tenets of a spiritual leader." Is it a predatory cult or the solution to all their problems? And how can a small child be expected to understand adult thinking at its most complex and self-destructive? His first dramatic work since 2007, Haunted Child marks the return to the stage of multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter Joe Penhall. With his trademark dark humour and sly observation, he poignantly explores the gulf between childhood and adulthood and asks disturbing questions about the lure of spiritual release in increasingly difficult times.
Download or read book Dumb Show written by Joe Penhall and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Courted at the end of his show by bankers John and Jane, TV star Barry believes he is to get the five-star treatment that he deserves. However, urged to provide a candid account of his offstage life and views, the Barry that emerges is t
Download or read book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian vision. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series: meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature.
Download or read book Joe Penhall Plays written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Yer Face Theatre written by Aleks Sierz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics and audiences with their heady mix of sex, violence and street-poetry. In-Yer-Face Theatre is the first book to study this exciting outburst of creative self-expression by what in other contexts has been called Generation X, or Thatcher's Children, the 'yoof' who grew up during the last Conservative Government. The book argues that, for example, Trainspotting, Blasted, Mojo and Shopping and F**king are much more than a collection of shock tactics - taken together, they represent a consistent critique of modern life, one which focuses on the problem of violence, the crisis of masculinity and the futility of consumerism. The book contains extensive interviews with playwrights, including Sarah Kane ( Blasted), Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and F**king), Philip Ridley (The Pitchfork Disney), Patrick Marber (Closer) and Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane).
Download or read book The Glow written by Alistair McDowall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People find me. When it's dark. 1863. An asylum. A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect candidate. But as the woman's past begins to reveal itself, so do new powers neither are prepared for. Alistair McDowall's haunting new play The Glow was the 2018 Pinter Commission, an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser to support a new commission at the Royal Court Theatre. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre in January 2022.
Download or read book British Theatre of the 1990s written by M. Aragay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a particular focus on 'in-yer-face theatre', this volume will be essential reading for all students and scholars of contemporary British theatre.
Download or read book The Road written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You think I come from another world, don't you? Filled with all these strange things you've never seen...Well I do, I guess." Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. Released shortly after his No Country for Old Men was turned into an Oscar-winning film, The Road's cinema version of the novel is directed by John Hillcoat, stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron and is an official selection for the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009. Joe Penhall's adaptation is a faithful, careful crafting of the book for the screen, fully evoking the atmosphere of menace and desperation. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth poisoned, barren and hostile. While ash blocks out the sun and the earth no longer fosters plant or animal life, men either starve or join the maruading gangs of cannibals. The plot follows an unnamed father and son on a bleak epic across the wasteland and features a series of horrifc encounters in a merciless world starved of life and hope. This edition includes a full list of cast and crew credits.
