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Birdland de Simon Stephens

Birdland: Modern Plays

Autor Simon Stephens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2014
Everything can be quantified. All worth can be quantified. Artistic worth. Human worth. Material worth. Everything. Some food is simply better than other food. Isn't it? Some clothes are better than other clothes. Aren't they?

The last week of a massive international tour and rock star Paul is at the height of his fame. Everybody knows his name. Whatever he wants he can have. He can screw anybody he wants to. He can buy anything he desires. He can eat anything. Drink anything. Smoke anything. Go anywhere. As the inevitability of the end of the road looms closer and a return home becomes a reality, for Paul the music is starting to jar.

Birdland received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs on 3 April 2014.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472587671
ISBN-10: 1472587677
Pagini: 138
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Stark, dream-like play
The apparent slickness of the play carries a strong poetic resonance, too, and stands alongside the very best of Stephens' output to date
Stephens narrates the story with a light touch
the themes of the play come at you with their flies undone
Stephens has written a Continental play for an English stage
The mercurial playwright is back in avant-garde mode after hitting West End gold with 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' . . . 'Birdland isn't really about rock stars or even rich people - like much of Stephens' work, it's a tragedy about a man incapable of empathising with other people . . . a portrait of one man's Icarus-like mental plummet, so far and so fast and so flashy as to be as exhilarating as it is sad.
Stephens nails the mix of lascivious bully and childlike innocent in a man living beyond boundaries . . . Stephens can certainly craft a line . . .
One of Simon Stephens' strength as a playwright is his ability to create amoral ogres who are charismatic and compelling but not remotely likeable.
. . . even if the message is familiar, the writing takes you inside the scrabbled brain of Birdland's damaged hero . . . his play's strength lies in its ambivalence towards its main character: Paul may behave like a latter-day Nero, but he shows signs of a redemptive intelligence and is acutely aware of the loss of identity that comes from being constantly in the public gaze. Without exculpating Paul, Stephens shows the invasive pressures that come with stardom.
. . . the extraordinary quality of his sharp writing . . . nails Paul's near schizophrenic contradictions, his tactlessness, his intelligence . . .

Notă biografică

For more than twenty-five years Simon Stephens' work has been widely translated and produced throughout the world. He has won many Awards including Olivier and Tony Awards for new plays. His 2026 play An Ark staged by Tim Drum Collective at the Shed in New York was one of the first plays ever written for Mixed Reality . His radical adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Vanya, starring Andrew Scott ran in London's West End and at the Lucille Lortel, New York between Autumn 23 and Spring 25 and was screened to phenomenal success on NT Live and NT Home. His adaptation of Jose Saramago's Blindness was made into a light and sound installation that was produced internationally during the Covid 19 pandemic. His most famous play is his adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He has had thirty five original plays produced professionally.

He has written new English language versions of masterpieces by Chekhov, Ibsen and Brecht, collaborated with the world's leading theatre practitioners (Patrice Chereau, Ivo Van Hove, Marianne Elliott, Katie Mitchell) and produced original work throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

He has been Artistic Associate at the Lyric, Hammersmith and Associate Playwright at the Royal Court Theatre. He has taught playwriting workshops in five continents. He has presented four series of the celebrated Playwright's Podcast from the Royal Court Theatre. He is a Professor at the Writing School of Manchester Metropolitan University. His book A Working Diary was published by Methuen Bloomsbury in 2016. He lives in East London with his wife, three children, their snake, two cats and two dogs.