Howard Brenton
Autore di Pravda
Sull'Autore
Howard Brenton trained in the fringe theaters of the late 1960s, which was known for its radical experiments in political consciousness-raising and an absence of theatrical scenery, stage venues, and formally constructed, full-length plays. After leaving Cambridge, he worked with a group in mostra altro Brighton until the London production of Revenge in 1969 brought him a commission from Portable Theatre, an important touring company founded by two other Cambridge graduates, David Hare and Tony Bicat. For them, Brenton wrote Christie in Love, a stylistically disorienting confrontation of the Rillington Place murderer and the police. Brenton also participated in a seminal collaboration of the early 1970s, Lay-By, and joined Hare in writing a chronicle of British profiteers, Brassneck 1973. In the same year, Magnificence (1973), with its famous nihilistic conclusion-an accidental detonation that kills both a radical terrorist and his innocent victim-found its way to the stage of the Royal Court. Eventually Brenton left the fringe behind and found new scope for his ideas on the stages of the establishment. The National Theatre produced his study of an industrial strike, Weapons of Happiness (1974), and, most notoriously, The Romans in Britain (1980). Violent scenes in this epic of colonialism, which parallels the Roman occupation of Britain to the English presence in Northern Ireland, drew the wrath of citizens' groups, and a lawsuit. More recent subjects include nuclear arms in The Genius (1983), ironically challenging the optimism of Bertolt Brecht in Galileo, which Brenton translated, and the relationship of power and journalism in Pravda (1985), a collaboration with Hare. One of Brenton's more recent works is Diving for Pearls (1989), a political thriller. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Howard Brenton
Brenton Plays 2 : The Romans in Britain + Thirteenth night + The genius + Bloody poetry + Greenland (1990) 27 copie
Brenton Plays 1 : Christie in love + Magnificence + the Churchill play + Weapons of happiness + Epsom Downs + Sore… (1986) 22 copie
The Churchill play : as it will be performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of Churchill Camp somewhere in… (1974) 18 copie
Plays for the Poor Theatre: Saliva Milkshake, Christie in Love, Heads, Skinny Spew, Gum and Goo (1980) 10 copie
National Theatre Connections 2013: The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm… (2013) 5 copie
Anne Boleyn. Theatre program. 1 copia
Moscow Gold 1 copia
Iranian Nights 1 copia
Howard Brenton: Plays 2 1 copia
Sore Throats (in Plays One) 1 copia
Faust 1 copia
Opere correlate
Howard Brenton: #aiww: The arrest of Ai Weiwei [theatre programme] — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Brenton, Howard John
- Data di nascita
- 1942-12-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Organizzazioni
- Royal Society of Literature
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 52
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 490
- Popolarità
- #50,416
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 103
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1