Name: Barbarians von Barrie Keeffe (Playwright, UK)
SKU: 9781474282253
Price: 4.99 EUR
Availability: InStock

Barbarians Zusammenfassung

Barbarians Barrie Keeffe (Playwright, UK)

It's 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they've been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How will they cope? Cut off from society with no-where to turn, the play resonates with a modern audience who will no doubt recognize the disaffected youth of 1970s Britain. Barrie Keeffe's tragically dark play crackles with tension throughout, building to a twisted and dramatic end. This programme text edition was published to coincide with the revival of the play by Tooting Arts Club on 3rd October 2015, staged at the former Central St Martins School of Art on the Charing Cross Road, London.

Barbarians Bewertungen

Theatre at its most vital and alive * Time Out (on the 2012 production by Tooting Arts Club) *
Unforgettable show with unflaggingly brilliant dialogue . . . Keeffe's unflaggingly brilliant dialogue flies with the vernacular as a vehicle for a linguistic spree. . . . an unforgettable show that sensitises you to the comparable waste of young people's potential today. * Independent *
Keeffe gives his characters eloquence and fire * Observer *
Barrie Keefe's 1977 play about disaffected youth makes for a diliciously grim dessert. * Time Out London *
gut-punch ending * The Times *
Barrie Keeffe's late 70s depiction of a Britain as a scraphead of empty promises for the young strongly resonates today. Three linked plays explore a society that has closed its gates on mates Jan, Paul and Louis. [...] a blistering indictment of British society * Stage *
Barrie Keeffe's play could barely seem more urgent . . . Keeffe's fable of three young working-class men adrift . . . still has the capacity to sting. . . . a study of needling male aggression and anxiety, full of stifled poetry: A Clockwork Orange in a more desperate key; Waiting for Godot recomposed to a soundtrack of furious punk. * Guardian *
it brims with snotty energy, gallows humour and lashings of bile. * Daily Telegraph *

Über Barrie Keeffe (Playwright, UK)

Barrie Keeffe (b. 1945) is a well-known English dramatist and writer, whose plays include Only a Game (1973), A Sight of Glory (1975), Here Comes the Sun (1976), My Girl (1989), I Only Want to Be With You (1995), The Long Good Friday (1997), Shadows on the Sun (2001), Still Killing Time (2006) and two trilogies: Gimme Shelter and Barbarians. He has also been resident writer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Shaw Theatre and the Soho Poly Theatre and Associate Writer at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. He taught dramatic writing at City University in London and in 2010 he gained the title of Doctor of Letters by the University of Warwick.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR007257881

ISBN 13

9781474282253

ISBN 10

1474282253

Titel

Barbarians Barrie Keeffe (Playwright, UK)

Autor

Barrie Keeffe (Playwright, UK)

Serien

Modern Plays

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Datum

2015-10-03

Anzahl der Seiten

128

Preise

N/A

Begleitschreiben

Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.

Hinweis

Dies ist ein gebrauchtes Buch. Es wurde schon einmal gelesen und weist von der früheren Nutzung Gebrauchsspuren auf. Wir gehen davon aus, dass es im Großen und Ganzen in einem sehr guten Zustand ist. Sollten Sie jedoch nicht vollständig zufrieden sein, setzen Sie sich bitte mit uns in Verbindung.