Rory Mullarkey (Author)

Three Plays for Young Performers

On The Threshing Floor; The Grandfathers; Flood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Through a collection of vignettes, On The Threshing Floor captures the speed, strangeness, and confusion of living through pivotal moments of history"--

Produktdetails

• Plays for Young People
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9781350293632
• ISBN-10: 1350293636
• Artikelnr.: 63429559

Autorenporträt

Rory Mullarkey's original plays include Pity, The Wolf from the Door(Royal Court Theatre), Saint George and the Dragon(Royal National Theatre), Each Slow Dusk(Pentabus Theatre/UK Tour), Cannibals, Single Sex(Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Grandfathers(National Theatre Connections, then Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre) and On the Threshing Floor(Heat & Light Company, Hampstead Theatre). His adaptations/translations include The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Bristol Old Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange), The Oresteia by Aeschylus (Shakespeare's Globe) and Remembrance Dayby Aleksey Scherbak (Royal Court). He has written the libretti for The Skating Rinkby David Sawer (Garsington Opera), Coralineby Mark-Anthony Turnage (Royal Opera House) and The Way Back Homeby Joanna Lee (ENO/Young Vic). He has won the Abraham Woursell Prize (co-winner 2017), the James Tait Black Prize for Drama (2014), the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright (co-winner, 2014), the Harold Pinter Commission for the Royal Court (2014) and the Pearson Bursary for the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction by Rory Mullarkey
2. Flood
3. The Grandfathers
4. On the Threshing Floor