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Deleuze and Beckett
by S. E. Wilmer Audronė ŽukauskaitėDeleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, and stage, film and television work.
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative
by Vernon W. CisneyExamines independent documentary film production in India within a political context
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative
by Vernon W. CisneyA reassessment of the film musical post-2000
Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities
by Janet GibsonFocusing mainly on case studies from Australia and the United States of America, this book considers how people with dementia represent themselves and are represented in ‘theatre of the real’ productions and care home interventions, assessing the extent to which the ‘right kind’ of dementia story is being affirmed or challenged. It argues that this type of story — one of tragedy, loss of personhood, biomedical deficit, and socio-economic ‘crisis — produces dementia and the people living with it, as much as biology does. It proposes two novel ideas. One is that the ‘gaze’ of theatre and performance offers a reframing of some of the behaviours and actions of people with dementia, through which deficit views can be changed to ones of possibility. The other is that, conversely, dementia offers productive perspectives on ’theatre of the real’. Scanning contemporary critical studies about and practices of ‘theatre of the real’ performances and applied theatre interventions, the book probes what it means when certain ‘theatre of the real’ practices (specifically verbatim and autobiographical) interact with storytellers considered, culturally, to be ‘unreliable narrators’. It also explores whether autobiographical theatre is useful in reinforcing a sense of ‘self’ for those deemed no longer to have one. With a focus on the relationship between stories and selves, the book investigates how selves might be rethought so that they are not contingent on the production of lucid self-narratives, consistent language, and truthful memories.
Democracy (Modern Plays)
by Michael FraynThree political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else's face. All trying to guess which way everyone else will jump. All out for themselves and all totally dependent on everyone else. Not one Germany. Sixty million separate Germanies. The tower of Babel!Set in West Germany in 1969, DEMOCRACY follows Willy Brandt as he begins his brief but remarkable career as the first left-of-centre Chancellor for nearly forty years. Always present but rarely noticed is Günter Guillaume, Brandt's devoted personal assistant - and no less devoted in his other role, spying on Brandt for the Stasi.Published to tie in with major new production at the Royal National Theatre directed by Michael Blakemore starring Roger Allam, Conleth Hill, Nicholas Blane, Jonathan Coy, Christopher Ettridge, Paul Gregory, Glyn Grain, Steven Pacey and David Ryall.
Democracy: A Play (Modern Plays)
by Michael FraynThree political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else's face. All trying to guess which way everyone else will jump. All out for themselves and all totally dependent on everyone else. Not one Germany. Sixty million separate Germanies. The tower of Babel!Set in West Germany in 1969, DEMOCRACY follows Willy Brandt as he begins his brief but remarkable career as the first left-of-centre Chancellor for nearly forty years. Always present but rarely noticed is Günter Guillaume, Brandt's devoted personal assistant - and no less devoted in his other role, spying on Brandt for the Stasi.Published to tie in with major new production at the Royal National Theatre directed by Michael Blakemore starring Roger Allam, Conleth Hill, Nicholas Blane, Jonathan Coy, Christopher Ettridge, Paul Gregory, Glyn Grain, Steven Pacey and David Ryall.
Democracy at Home in South Africa: Family Fictions and Transitional Culture (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)
by Kerry BystromFocusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be overlooked by a focus on structural concerns in South Africa.
Democracy in America -- Volume 2
by Alexis De TocquevilleThis anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.
Democratic Swarms: Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the People
by Page duBoisConsiders how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. Moving beyond the popular readings of ancient Greece through the lens of tragedy, she calls for a revitalized look at Greek comedy. Rather than revisiting the sufferings of Oedipus and his family or tragedy’s relationship to questions of sovereignty, this book calls for comedy—its laughter, its free speech, its wild swarming animal choruses, and its rebellious women—to inform another model of democracy. Ancient comedy has been underplayed in the study of Greek drama. Yet, with the irrepressible energy of the comic swarm, it provides a unique perspective on everyday life, gender and sexuality, and the utopian politics of the classical period of Athenian democracy. Using the concepts of swarm intelligence and nomadic theory, duBois augments tragic thought with the resistant, utopian, libidinous, and often joyous communal legacy of comedy, and she connects the lively anti-authoritarianism of the ancient comic chorus with the social justice movements of today.
Democratic Swarms: Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the People
by Page duBoisConsiders how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. Moving beyond the popular readings of ancient Greece through the lens of tragedy, she calls for a revitalized look at Greek comedy. Rather than revisiting the sufferings of Oedipus and his family or tragedy’s relationship to questions of sovereignty, this book calls for comedy—its laughter, its free speech, its wild swarming animal choruses, and its rebellious women—to inform another model of democracy. Ancient comedy has been underplayed in the study of Greek drama. Yet, with the irrepressible energy of the comic swarm, it provides a unique perspective on everyday life, gender and sexuality, and the utopian politics of the classical period of Athenian democracy. Using the concepts of swarm intelligence and nomadic theory, duBois augments tragic thought with the resistant, utopian, libidinous, and often joyous communal legacy of comedy, and she connects the lively anti-authoritarianism of the ancient comic chorus with the social justice movements of today.
The Demon Headmaster (Playscript)
by Adrian Flynn Gillian CrossA group of friends take a stand against the actions of their Headmaster, who wants to take over the world.Strange things happen at Lloyd and Harvey Hunter's school. When their new foster sister Dinah arrives she wants to find out why...but can she escape the Demon Headmaster?New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.
Dennis Kelly: Plays Two (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
by Dennis Kelly‘Without doubt, Kelly is one of the most multi-talented British playwrights to emerge in the past decade.’ Aleks Sierz‘A taut, compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies, exploring group behaviour and moral equivocation.’ Financial Times (on DNA)‘A cast-iron understanding of the morally bankrupt way we live now.’ Daily Telegraph (on Orphans)‘A celebration of naughtiness and questioning, it's a raucous, skin-crawling treat.’ Guardian (on Our Teacher's a Troll)
Dennis Kelly: Love and Money, Osama the Hero, Debris, After the End (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
by Dennis KellyFeatures the plays Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End and Love and Money. These four plays are linked by their characters' desperate need to believe that there is more to life than the often brutal worlds in which they find themselves. Kelly's remarkable debut Debris finds humour and pathos in a spectacularly dysfunctional family unit. The harrowing Osama the Hero shows a group of neighbours taking ill-defined revenge on an odd-ball teenager in a climate of fear. In After the End a woman discovers she has been rescued from Armageddon by a paranoid ex-colleague with a nuclear bunker in his garden. And in a fractured narrative Love and Money portrays a marriage driven to brutal destruction by financial pressures.
Dennis Kelly (Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists)
by Aloysia RousseauDennis Kelly explores Kelly’s unusual career path and sheds light on his eclectic approach to the arts, characterised by a refusal to write texts that people can fit within neat categories. This is the first monograph on Kelly’s work for stage and screen and brings to light his essential contribution to contemporary British drama and his huge range of work including his rise to international fame with Matilda the Musical.Drawing on Kelly’s published and unpublished texts, his work in production, reviews, original interviews with directors, actors and with Kelly himself as well as critical theory, Dennis Kelly examines and reappraises key motifs in his work such as his preoccupation with violence, the complex relationship between the individual and the community or his emphasis on storytelling. It also offers new insights into overlooked aspects of Kelly’s work by setting out to explore his traumatic narratives and his post-romanticism. In keeping with Kelly’s wish never to repeat himself, this study offers multiple critical entries into his plays, television series and films, drawing on moral and political philosophy, trauma studies, studies in humour, feminist theory and film studies.Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Dennis Kelly is addressed to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance as well as theatre practitioners and offers in-depth analysis of one of the most unique and challenging voices in contemporary British playwriting and screenwriting.
Dennis Kelly (Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists)
by Aloysia RousseauDennis Kelly explores Kelly’s unusual career path and sheds light on his eclectic approach to the arts, characterised by a refusal to write texts that people can fit within neat categories. This is the first monograph on Kelly’s work for stage and screen and brings to light his essential contribution to contemporary British drama and his huge range of work including his rise to international fame with Matilda the Musical.Drawing on Kelly’s published and unpublished texts, his work in production, reviews, original interviews with directors, actors and with Kelly himself as well as critical theory, Dennis Kelly examines and reappraises key motifs in his work such as his preoccupation with violence, the complex relationship between the individual and the community or his emphasis on storytelling. It also offers new insights into overlooked aspects of Kelly’s work by setting out to explore his traumatic narratives and his post-romanticism. In keeping with Kelly’s wish never to repeat himself, this study offers multiple critical entries into his plays, television series and films, drawing on moral and political philosophy, trauma studies, studies in humour, feminist theory and film studies.Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Dennis Kelly is addressed to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance as well as theatre practitioners and offers in-depth analysis of one of the most unique and challenging voices in contemporary British playwriting and screenwriting.
Dennis of Penge (Oberon Modern Plays)
by Annie SiddonsWendy is downtrodden. She is one of the outcasts, the underclass, the meek and the bleakly prospected. She didn’t stand a chance of succeeding. Washed up and heartbroken, the highlight of her existence is her daily shuffle to the chicken shop.On one particularly hard day she re-encounters her old friend Dennis, whom she hasn’t seen since a tragedy occurred when she was ten – twenty-five years previously. Newly returned to Penge, and now a chicken shop boss, Dennis promises to change her existence forever. But will Wendy have the courage to follow him? And what are the consequences of letting the god of madness, ecstasy, and wildness loose in SE20?Touching on themes of addiction, survival, poverty, joy and ecstasy in the city, and a homage to her childhood ends of SE20, Dennis of Penge, loosely based on Euripides’ The Bacchae, combines Annie Siddons’ raw poetry with music and performance to create an urgent, vital and uplifting new show.
Denzil Quarrier
by George GissingThe novel Denzil Quarrier finds Gissing stretching beyond this well-trod comfort zone, telling the story of an heir to a Norwegian timber fortune in a gripping character study that is heavily influenced by the work of playwright Henrik Ibsen.
The Department of Distractions (Oberon Modern Plays)
by Third AngelThe Department of Distractions, an organisation so clandestine youwon’t have heard of them. Until now. They say their job is to plant stories in the world ‘to make life moreinteresting.’ Others would argue that their job is as much to stop uslooking in certain directions. But a story they started has got out ofhand, they’ve lost control of it and now they’re in danger of beingexposed. How far will they go to maintain their anonymity? Third Angel brings you a conspiracy theory documentary-exposédetective story for the 21st century that asks: What aren’t youlooking at? #TheDepartmentOfDistractions
Der Anti-Stress-Trainer für Assistenzen: Mit Souveränität und Gelassenheit das Sekretariat meistern (Anti-Stress-Trainer)
by Marit Zenk Peter BuchenauDieses Buch aus der Anti-Stress-Trainer Reihe ist die Erlösung für gestresste Assistenzen, die im Drehkreuz Sekretariat mit zig Bällen jonglieren. Spüren Sie den Druck, dem Sie unterliegen? Sei perfekt, sei stark, sei nett, sei schnell oder streng dich an - welcher Antreiber steckt in Ihnen? Zu Zeiten von 4.0 braucht selbst die modernste und versierteste Assistenz eine gute Strategie, um in der digital-verrückten Welt zu bestehen. Und zwar gesund! Lassen Sie sich Ihrer Illusionen „Jemals fertig zu werden“ und „Alles muss perfekt sein“ berauben. Neben dem erklärten Dilemma der Assistenz gibt es viele wertvolle Tipps zum Umgang mit Stress. Gepaart mit amüsanten Bildern, Sprüchen und Weisheiten bringt die Autorin Sie sicher zum Schmunzeln! Lassen Sie sich von Marit Zenk mit auf die Reise in Ihre Welt nehmen.
Der Erste Weltkrieg in der Dramatik – deutsche und australische Perspektiven / The First World War in Drama – German and Australian Perspectives
by Christian Klein Franz-Josef DeitersZentraler Bestandteil der Erinnerungsdiskurse zum Ersten Weltkrieg sind jene Romane, Gedichte oder – historisch besonders wirkmächtig – Theaterstücke, die sich mit dem Kriegsgeschehen und dessen Auswirkungen auseinandersetzen. Der Band konzentriert sich auf die Verarbeitung des Kriegsgeschehens im deutschsprachigen und australischen Drama, weil dem Ersten Weltkrieg eine vergleichbar große Relevanz im jeweiligen Identitätsdiskurs zukommt, er aber gleichzeitig eine ganz unterschiedliche Akzentuierung erfährt. Die Weltkriegsdramatik erscheint vor diesem Hintergrund als idealer Gegenstand transnationaler komparatistischer Studien.
Der Joker im Schauspiel: Zur Reproduktion und Transgression von Typen im deutschen Ensembletheater am Beispiel des Theaterduos Vontobel/Schulz (Theater #107)
by Ellen KobanDer Joker im Schauspiel birgt das Potential zur Überschreitung von Kategorien wie Geschlecht, Alter und Behinderung - weit über die Grenzen des Theaters hinaus. Welche ästhetische und soziale Kraft der Joker-Figur innewohnt, zeigt Ellen Koban in ihrer ethnografischen Feldstudie, indem sie dem ›Herz‹ des deutschen Stadttheaters auf den Grund geht. Im Nachvollzug seiner historischen Genese und anhand von qualitativen Interviews mit Theaterpraktiker_innen beleuchtet sie die institutionalisierten Voraussetzungen des Ensemblesystems am Beispiel der 2016 mit dem Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring ausgezeichneten Schauspielerin Jana Schulz, die gemeinsam mit Regisseur Roger Vontobel seit Jahren mit und an diesen - teils auch gegen diese - strukturellen Bedingungen des Ensembletheaters arbeitet.
Der Operettenlibrettist Victor Léon: Eine Werkbiografie (Theater #103)
by Barbara DenscherAls einer der produktivsten Schriftsteller seiner Zeit schrieb Victor Léon (1858-1940) die Libretti zu einigen der weltweit erfolgreichsten Operetten - darunter Lehárs »Lustige Witwe« und »Wiener Blut« von Johann Strauss - sowie über hundert weitere Bühnenwerke. Dennoch ist er weitgehend vergessen - und selbst in der Fachwelt ist der Wissensstand über ihn vielfach lückenhaft. Da Victor Léon jüdischer Abstammung war, wurden seine Werke in der NS-Zeit zwar gespielt, sein Name aber ›totgeschwiegen‹, was die Rezeption bis heute beeinflusst. Barbara Denscher beschreibt in dieser ersten umfassenden Werkbiografie den Weg Victor Léons vom Wiener Musiktheater zur globalen Unterhaltungskultur.
Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage
by John Schad Fred DalmassoWithin the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or BenjaminCue Derrida| Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways – above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is displaced, or not quite where or when we would expect to find them. In Derrida’s case, it is Oxford in 1968; in Benjamin’s case, it is somewhere (or nowhere) near London in 1948. These, then, are plays in which the philosopher is exiled, or elsewhere – not quite himself. This a volume for anyone with an eye or ear for where theatre or performance meets philosophy – students, scholars, readers, actors.
Deryn Mewn Llaw (Dramâu'r Drain)
by Gwyneth GlynDrama fywiog yng nghyfres Dramâu'r Drain; delfrydol i ysgolion, ac ar gyfer myfyrwyr yn eu harddegau. Pedwar cymeriad 15 mlwydd oed sy'n y ddrama hon - Becky, Gwawr, Elis a Deiniol, a chawn hanes eu hynt a'u helynt yn ystod gwyliau'r haf. [A lively drama in the Dramâu'r Drain series; ideal for schools, and for teenagers. Four fifteen-year-olds are the characters of this drama - Becky, Gwawr, Elis and Deiniol, and it portrays their time together during a summer school holiday.] *Datganiad hawlfraint Gwneir y copi hwn dan dermau Rheoliadau (Anabledd) Hawlfraint a Hawliau mewn Perfformiadau 2014 i'w ddefnyddio gan berson sy'n anabl o ran print yn unig. Oni chaniateir gan gyfraith, ni ellir ei gopïo ymhellach, na'i roi i unrhyw berson arall, heb ganiatâd.