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Simon Stephens Plays 5: Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song from Far Away; Heisenberg
by Stephens, Simon
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Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal acts of violence. - Financial Times
A fifth collection of plays by one of Britain's most prolific contemporary playwrights, Simon Stephens, charting his work from 2011-2016, ranging from London's Royal Court Theatre, Manchester's Royal Exchange and Broadway. Wastwater (2011) Metaphoric, allusive, and thoroughly disturbing in its evocation of suspicion and uncertainty, Wastwater is a thought-provoking play whose quiet intensity stays with you for days - its effect is like that of a ugly stone dropped into a pool, which results in constant ripples of dirty water lapping at your subconscious (Aleks Sierz) Birdland (2014) Mega-fame and limitless cash can turn a man into a monster, and Simon Stephens's new play excellently evokes its hero's spiritually shrunken world (Michael Billington, Guardian) Blindsided (2014) "the dialogue has a rare quality of moment-by-moment intensity (Telegraph) Song From Far Away (2015) a meditative monologue - a searching study of impotently self-aware emotional insufficiency (Independent) Heisenberg (2016) Mr. Stephens ... is an uncannily subtle dramatist who never wears his depths on the surface ... he probes clich s until they fall apart, before reassembling them into solid but transformed shapes, reminding us why such clich s have become enduring elements of our collective mythology. (Ben Brantley, New York Times)- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Stephens, Simon
- ISBN: 9781350235670
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 408
- Publication Year: 2021
Language:
English