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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: 144
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

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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 . . .